conflict resolution. Of tantamount importance in assessing these effects of federalism is whether particular types of … strong ethno-federal arrangements to be particularly conflict-prone. …

Many scholars have examined terrorism as a conflict between a state and a nonstate actor. However, during terrorist … transforms the conflict from a purely domestic contest into an international issue. This paper explores why terrorist …

for the nexus between ethnic fractionalization and conflict remains inconclusive. Some authors conclude that ethnically … salience-based fractionalization indices are associated with a higher risk of ethnic conflict onset; second, it finds evidence …Thus far, researchers working on ethnicity and resources as determinants of civil conflict have operated largely …

While many recommend electoral democracy as a way to avoid or resolve civil conflict, the empirical record of electoral … democracy as an alternative to civil conflict is decidedly mixed. We apply recent work from new organizational economics on the …

Why do combatants engaged in civil conflict sign peace agreements when they do? Does a commitment by the United Nations … mission to the conflict; or (b) the UN’s decision to send a peacekeeping mission to a conflict causes an increase in the … probability that combatants will sign a peace agreement. I contend that the UN’s decision to send peacekeepers to a conflict and …

This article addresses the effect of political instability and domestic conflict on the probability of militarized … political instability on international disputes is conditional on states’ involvement in civil conflict. More specifically, I … opportunities for initiating conflict abroad. A directed-dyad analysis of international rivals for the 1816–2000 time period shows …

Using an agent-based computational framework designed to explore the incidence of conflict between two nominally rival … demonstrates that: (i) when ethnicity is assumed to be salient for all individuals, conflict onset increases with size of the …) fiscal policy—the spending and investment decisions of the minority EGIP—moderates conflict; conflict decreases when …

Most quantitative assessments of civil conflict draw on annual country-level data to determine a baseline hazard of … conflict onset. The first problem with such analyses is that they ignore factors associated with the precipitation of violence … quantitative analyses of conflict is that they assume that civil conflicts are distributed uniformly throughout the country. This …

can best explain the link between poverty and conflict. We find per capita income to belong to a wealth/poverty dimension …