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Colaresi, Michael; Carey, Sabine C. - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 52 (2008) 1, pp. 39-67

Contemporary studies of genocide have found military capabilities to be inconsistent predictors of state …. We hypothesize that unconstrained leaders are more likely to use their putative security forces to initiate genocide and … remain in power. An analysis of state failures that lead to genocide robustly supports the idea that the effect of increased …

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Shared Human Rights Norms and Military Conflict

Peterson, Timothy M.; Graham, Leah - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 55 (2011) 2, pp. 248-273

The normative transfer thesis posits that systematic discrimination, inequality, and repression are indicative of violent norms within states, which extend to the realm of foreign policy. In this article, the authors contend that the pacifying influence of similarity conditions the impact of...

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Policy Disputes, Political Survival, and the Onset and Severity of State Repression

Ritter, Emily Hencken - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 58 (2014) 1, pp. 143-168

Under what conditions will a state repress its citizens? The literature examining human rights violations lacks consensus over exactly how repression and dissent are interrelated. I argue that contradictions have arisen because scholars have not derived expectations consistent with modeling...

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Measuring Mutual Dependence between State Repressive Actions

Fariss, Christopher J.; Schnakenberg, Keith E. - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 58 (2014) 6, pp. 1003-1032

This study explores the relationships between state violations of different human rights. Though most quantitative studies in international relations treat different types of repressive behaviors as either independent or arising from the same underlying process, significant insights are gained...

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Divergent Incentives for Dictators

Conrad, Courtenay R. - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 58 (2014) 1, pp. 34-67

Although they are arguably the worst violators of human rights, dictators sometimes commit to international human rights treaties like the United Nations Convention Against Torture (CAT) to appease their domestic opposition. Importantly, however, executives facing effective judiciaries must...

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Delegating Death

DeMeritt, Jacqueline H. R. - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 59 (2015) 3, pp. 428-454

Does military intervention affect civilian death tolls? Existing research has focused on international actorsâ€™ ability to limit ongoing slaughter but has not examined their ability to prevent the emergence or escalation of such killing. I develop a theory of government killing that...

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