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Humanitarian Intervention and Communal Civil Wars
Daniel Byman,Taylor B. Seybolt +1 more
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This paper showed that military intervention to bring about lasting peace in a violent communal conflict fails or even backfires far more often than it succeeds, and that policymakers and military officials commonly ignore the ch...Abstract:
Military intervention to bring about lasting peace in a violent communal conflict fails or even backfires far more often than it succeeds. Policymakers and military officials commonly ignore the ch...read more
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Self-Determination, Secession, and Civil War
TL;DR: The authors assesses the state of the academic literature as it relates to the links between self-determination, secession, and civil wars, from onset to termination of associated violence and wars.
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Exploring the utility of armed force in peace operations: German and British approaches in northern Afghanistan
TL;DR: The robust approach of the American forces in for example Afghanistan and Iraq is often criticised and compared to the more soft approach of British forces as discussed by the authors, however, there are surprisingly few...
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Interstate Relations, Perceptions, and Power Balance: Explaining China’s Policies Toward Ethnic Groups, 1949–1965
Enze Han,Harris Mylonas +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that ethnic groups' response to a host state's policies depends on the perceptions about the relative strength of the external patron vis-a-vis the host state and whether the support is originating from an enemy or an ally of the host states.
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Spoiler Problems in Peace Processes
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors point out that the greatest source of risk comes from spoilers-leaders and parties who believe that peace emerging from negotiations threatens their power, worldview, and interests, and use violence to undermine attempts to achieve it.
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Peacebuilding and the Limits of Liberal Internationalism
TL;DR: In the post-cold war era, the problem of determining what to do once the fighting stops has been a topic of considerable debate among policymakers and students of conflict management as mentioned in this paper.
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Designing Transitions from Civil War: Demobilization, Democratization, and Commitments to Peace
TL;DR: This article found that combatants were almost as likely to resume hostilities once they initiated negotiations as they were to sign and implement a settlement, despite all the impediments to cooperation, combatants involved in almost half of all peace negotiations did succeed in ending their conoict off the battle field.
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Spiraling to Ethnic War: Elites, Masses, and Moscow in Moldova's Civil War
TL;DR: The authors argue that ethnic war can happen anywhere, an impression reinforced by the wide range of places where such wars have recently occurred, from Chiapas to Croatia, Iraqi Kurdistan to Sri Lanka.
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Military Responses to Refugee Disasters
TL;DR: This article reviewed the political and military causes of refugee flows and developed alternative military remedies to these causes, and their general strengths and weaknesses are outlined, and concluded that the application of military power to this set of problems will often prove politically and militarily difficult.