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La memoria de la guerrilla antifranquista como conflicto
Peinado Gil, Pedro - In: Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar (2008) 7, pp. 197-216
This paper seeks to highlight the experiences the work by Gavilla Verde and the activities organized in Santa Cruz de Moya (Cuenca) in connection with the "guerrilla antifranquista"; and explain why we analyze the memory of the guerrillas as conflict. The main reazon is by the social and...
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Using System Dynamics to Model and Better Understand State Stability
Choucri, Nazli; Goldsmith, Daniel; Madnick, Stuart E.; … - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of … - 2007
dynamics of the €جoads€٠generated by insurgency activities, on the one hand, and the core features of state resilience and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005574710
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A Review of Recent Advances and Future Directions in the Quantitative Literature on Civil War
Sambanis, Nicholas - In: Defence and Peace Economics 13 (2002) 3, pp. 215-243
This paper reviews the booming literature on civil war. It presents the major theoretical perspectives and key empirical results on the determinants of civil war. The paper identifies controversies in the field and suggests ways to improve and organize our research. The conclusion outlines...
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Weather, terrain and warfare: Coalition fatalities in Afghanistan
Carter, Timothy Allen; Veale, Daniel Jay - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 30 (2013) 3, pp. 220-239
The study of conflict increasingly focuses on events and relationships within wars. Among these is the relationship between physical geography and violence. Careful examinations of the relationship between physical geography, especially weather, and events within wars are, however, still few....
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Tectonic Boundaries and Strongholds: The Religious Geography of Violence in Northern Ireland
Mueller, Hannes; Rohner, Dominic; Schoenholzer, David - Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique … - 2013
The conflict in Northern Ireland was an example of "complex warfare" with both insurgency and sectarian violence. We …
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Do Foreign Occupations Cause Suicide Attacks?
Collard-Wexler, Simon; Pischedda, Costantino; Smith, … - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 58 (2014) 4, pp. 625-657
The phenomenon of suicide attacks has dramatically expanded over the last twenty years, rising from no events in 1980 to a total of 1,398 events by 2008. A prominent theory has argued that suicide attacks are a coercive strategy aimed at ending foreign military occupation by democracies. Yet...
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La información y el rumor en zonas de conflicto
Fernando, Estrada - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Information sources, creation of informant networks and labors of local intelligence have become very important goals in political power calculations of the paramilitary and insurgents. Phenomena of information and rumor can disclose central aspects to understand the direction of events yet to...
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Vicious Circle of Insurgency and Underdevelopment in North East India
Nayak, Purusottam; Bhattacharjee, P.R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The present paper is an attempt to assess the nexus between insurgency and underdevelopment in North East India. To … region are narrated. The impact of insurgency on infrastructure, industry including petroleum and tea, and environment are … then analyzed. The origin and persistent existence of ethnic separatism in the form of insurgency is explained through the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112526
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Vicious Circle of Insurgency and Underdevelopment in North East India
Bhattacharjee, PR; Nayak, Purusottam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The present paper is an attempt to assess the nexus between insurgency and underdevelopment in North East India. To … region are narrated. The impact of insurgency on infrastructure, industry including petroleum and tea, and environment are … then analyzed. The origin and persistent existence of ethnic separatism in the form of insurgency is explained through the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113817
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The (in)effectiveness of torture for combating insurgency
Sullivan, Christopher Michael - In: Journal of Peace Research 51 (2014) 3, pp. 388-404
It is commonly believed that torture is an effective tool for combating an insurgent threat. Yet while torture is practiced in nearly all counterinsurgency campaigns, the evidence documenting torture’s effects remains severely limited. This study provides the first micro-level statistical...
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