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The Spanish Civil War
In: Cassell military paperbacks
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Civil War as State-Making: Strategic Governance in Civil War
In: International organization, Band 72, Heft 1, S. 205-226
ISSN: 1531-5088
AbstractWhy do some rebel groups provide governance inclusively while most others do not? Some insurgencies divert critical financial and personnel resources to provide benefits to anyone, including nonsupporters (Karen National Union, Eritrean People's Liberation Front). Other groups offer no services or limit their service provision to only those people who support, or are likely to support, the insurgency. The existing literature examines how insurgencies incentivize recruitment by offering selective social services, yet no research addresses why insurgencies provide goods inclusively. I argue that inclusive provision of services legitimates insurgents' claim of sovereignty to domestic and international audiences, and thus is a strategic tool secessionist rebels use to achieve their long-term goal of independence. With new and original data, I use a large-Nanalysis to test this hypothesis. The results of the analysis support the hypothesis, underscoring the importance insurgent nonviolent behavior and addressing key issues such as sovereignty and governance.
Civil War Termination
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
"Civil War Termination" published on by Oxford University Press.
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On the Civil-ness of Civil War: A Comment on David Armitage's Civil War Time
In: Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting, Band 111, S. 14-19
ISSN: 2169-1118
It is a pleasure and an honor to comment on the work of David Armitage, a historian of unparalleled reach and impact. His topic could not be more important. "Civil war has gradually become the most widespread, the most destructive, and the most characteristic form of organized human violence," he writes in his elegant and masterful recent book Civil Wars: A History in Ideas. Examining the history of the idea of "civil war" is not simply an academic enterprise. Understanding its history, he explains, "reveals the contingency of the phenomenon, contradicting those who claim its permanence and durability." Armitage's purpose is "to show that what humans have invented, they may yet dismantle … what intellectual will has enshrined, an equal effort of imaginative determination can dethrone."
The Aftermath of Civil War
Using an event-study methodology, the article analyzes the aftermath of civil war in a cross-section of countries. It focuses on cases where the end of conflict marks the beginning of relatively lasting peace. The analysis considers 41 countries involved in internal wars over the period 1960–2003. To provide a comprehensive evaluation of the aftermath of war, a range of social areas is considered: basic indicators of economic performance, health and education, political development, demographic trends, and conflict and security issues. For each indicator the post- and pre-war situations are compared and their dynamic trends during the post-conflict period are examined. The analysis is conducted in both absolute terms and relative to control groups of countries that are similar except for conflict. The findings indicate that even though war has devastating effects and its aftermath can be immensely difficult, when the end of war marks the beginning of lasting peace, recovery and improvement are achieved.
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Decolonizing civil war
This essay argues that there is a need to decolonize the genealogy of civil war. David Armitage's new book brilliantly reveals civil war's generative power in shaping European and North American conceptions of politics, revolution, and the laws of war. But to make sense of the discourse of civil war we also need to account for the constitutive exclusions of those whose struggles elite Europeans refused to recognize as "civil," those not recognized as part of a common brotherhood or as co-belligerents. The absence/ presence of women, slaves, and barbarous armies is vital to the historical conception of civil war.
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Democratization and Civil War
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THE CIVIL WAR IN LEBANON
In: The world today, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 8-17
ISSN: 0043-9134
NOT LONG AGO LEBANON'S HIGHLY SECTARIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM APPEARED AS A MODEL FOR OTHER STATES; NOW THE ECONOMY IS PARALYZED AND THE SOCIETY DISINTEGRATING. THE LEBANESE GOVERNMENT HAD BEEN STRUCTURED SO AS TO SYMBOLITE FAIR ALLOCATION RATWER THAN TO ACT, AND WAS THUS IMMOBILIZED. A MORE POWERFUL IRRITANT HAS BEEN THE PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE.
How Ethnic Civil War Transforms into Religious Civil War: Evidence from Chechnya
In: CEU Political Science Journal 8 (1): 55-79
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