Glassmyer, Katherine; Sambanis, Nicholas - In: Journal of Peace Research 45 (2008) 3, pp. 365-384
Civil wars are far less likely to end in peace agreements than are international wars, and more than a third of civil wars restart within a few years. This may be due to the time-inconsistency of peace settlements in civil wars: once the rebels demobilize, they lose bargaining power and the...