Andrew J. Enterline

TL;DR: Mansfield and Snyder as mentioned in this paper argue that the acceleration of democratic transformations is more likely to mitigate international conflicts, and instead of using their influence for pushing authoritarian states towards liberalization, Western governments should focus on devising strategies for managing democratic transitions in ways that minimize the risk of war involvement.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of third parties and geopolitical factors on civil war duration is investigated. But the authors focus on the interdependent nature of third party interventions as they are distributed across the set of civil war combatants.

TL;DR: Mansfield and Snyder's article "Democratization and War" (Foreign Affairs 74 [May/June 1995]: 79−97) arrived in 1995 like a thunderclap, riveting me to questions about domestic political changes and their implications for peace and conflict between states.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined empirically the effect of third-party intervention into civil wars during the period 1816-1997, using the event history framework of competing risks, concluding that intervention by third parties is central to the civil war process, a process characterized by the duration of hostilities and the type of outcome.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the systemic relationships between democracy, democratization, and interstate conflict using time-series techniques with data for the period 1816-1992, using Granger causality and vector auto-regression (VAR) techniques to test their hypotheses.