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Government-Sponsored Mass Killing and Civil War Reoccurrence
Gary Uzonyi,Richard Hanania +1 more
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This article is published in International Studies Quarterly.The article was published on 2017-09-01. It has received 13 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Government & Spanish Civil War.read more
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Civilian Victimization and Ethnic Civil War
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide insights into the causes of wartime civilian victimization, but they know little about how the targeting of particular segments of the civilian population affects the onset and...
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The legacy of war: The effect of militias on postwar repression
TL;DR: The authors argue that if this link continues after the war, respect for human rights will not be maintained after the conflict ends, and they argue that the war legacies affect political repression after war ends.
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Excluded Ethnic Groups, Conflict Contagion, and the Onset of Genocide and Politicide during Civil War
Gary Uzonyi,Burak Demir +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a statistical analysis of all civil wars since 1946 reveals that governments fighting against the backdrop of additional excluded ethnic groups are more likely to commit genocide or politicide than other regimes.
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State repression and post-conflict peace failure
Eric Keels,Angela D. Nichols +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide evidence that state repression is a strong predictor of war failure following civil war, and they examine the possibility that more repressive states could be a predictor of peace failure.
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Ineffective, Immoral, Politically Convenient: America’s Overreliance on Economic Sanctions and What to Do about It
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the popularity of economic sanctions owes more to domestic interests of politicians than their ability to achieve geopolitical goals, and that sanctions can reduce the economic performance of the targeted state, degrade public health and cause tens of thousands of deaths per year under the most crushing sanctions regimes.
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Sample Selection Bias as a Specification Error
TL;DR: In this article, the bias that results from using non-randomly selected samples to estimate behavioral relationships as an ordinary specification error or "omitted variables" bias is discussed, and the asymptotic distribution of the estimator is derived.
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Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
James D. Fearon,David D. Laitin +1 more
TL;DR: This article showed that the current prevalence of internal war is mainly the result of a steady accumulation of protracted conflicts since the 1950s and 1960s rather than a sudden change associated with a new, post-Cold War international system.
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Greed and Grievance in Civil War
Paul Collier,Anke Hoeffler +1 more
TL;DR: Collier and Hoeffler as discussed by the authors compare two contrasting motivations for rebellion: greed and grievance, and show that many rebellions are linked to the capture of resources (such as diamonds in Angola and Sierra Leone, drugs in Colombia, and timber in Cambodia).
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Greed and grievance in civil war
Paul Collier,Anke Hoeffler +1 more
TL;DR: The authors investigated the causes of civil war, using a new data set of wars during 1960-99 and found that economic viability appears to be the predominant systematic explanation of rebellion, while atypically severe grievances such as high inequality, a lack of political rights, or ethnic and religious divisions in society.
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Armed Conflict 1946-2001: A New Dataset
TL;DR: In the period 1946-2001, there were 225 armed conflicts and 34 of them were active in all of or part of 2001 as mentioned in this paper, and this dataset has now been backdated to the end of World War II.