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Faced with the possibility of losing their position due to domestic opposition, political leaders may sometimes consider initiating a foreign conflict as a means to redirect attention away from domestic issues. In such instances, which states are most likely to become diversionary targets? This...
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This article presents a model of development, civil war and climate change. There are multiple interactions. Economic … growth reduces the probability of civil war and the vulnerability to climate change. Climate change increases the probability … of civil war. The impacts of climate change, civil war and civil war in the neighbouring countries reduce economic growth …
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Previous research on environment and security has contested the existence, nature and significance of a climate driver of conflict. In this study, we have focused on small-scale conflict over East Africa where the link between resource availability and conflict is assumed to be more immediate...
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introduces the dataset on mediation in civil wars - termed the Civil War Mediation (CWM) dataset. This is the first dataset to … focus solely on civil war mediation. These data contribute to the present state of quantitative research on mediation in … war episode, and provide detailed information about mediation incidences. The article first presents a few variables …
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Why and when do states take the burden upon themselves to send peacekeepers into a civil war, rather than relying on …
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with both a civil war dummy variable and an events dataset. The correlation between openness and conflict in the data is …
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differently is anocracy, which we find to matter only for onset. Civil war is more likely if it occurred two years previously, as … except a pre-1991 dummy and a dummy for civil war two years previously. …
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Multilateral and diplomatic resolutions to intrastate conflicts are the preferred method of termination. However, mediated settlements tend toward failure and conflict recurrence. A significant factor in this failure is that government and groups are heterogeneous. While the demands, goals,...
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Contributions to the quantitative civil war literature increasingly rely on geo-referenced data and disaggregated … are completely exogenous to likely features of interest, such as civil war outbreak, ethnic settlement patterns, extreme …
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While the study of the causes of civil war is a well-established subdiscipline in international relations, the effects … of civil war on society remain less understood. Yet, such effects could have crucial implications for long-term stability … the prevalence of ethno-nationalism is higher after than before the war, and second, that individuals who have been …
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