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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Interstate Conflict"”.
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Foreign policy issue ownership, interstate conflict, and U.S. vote intention
… issues. The audience costs literature shows that interstate conflict can significantly affect voter behavior. Due to these topics being studied in isolation from one another, it is unclear how foreign policy issue ownership interacts with interstate conflict to affect voter behavior. Using a …
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International trade and interstate conflict: The influence of domestic political institutions
… pacifying or exacerbating effects on militarized interstate conflict? Previous scholars have asserted that rational, aggregate welfare-maximizing leaders will promote free trade and refrain from actions, such as militarized interstate conflict, harmful to international trade. Assuming, however, …
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Truth-telling and mythmaking in post-Soviet Russia : pernicious historical ideas, mass education, and interstate conflict
Can pernicious views about history exacerbate conflict among states, and if so, how? How can we prevent such ideas from emerging, or dampen their more malevolent effects? Despite a long history of scholarly writing on nationalism that assumes that distorted, mythologized history can be dangerous, …
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On death ground : why weak states resist great powers explaining coercion failure in asymmetric interstate conflict
… able to overcome commitment issues in asymmetric conflicts by forming coalitions, by involving third party Great Powers in negotiations, making incremental tit-for-tat concessions, and taking diplomatic measures to reduce the target's audience costs. Finally, externalities such as international …
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The Role of Women in High Leadership Positions in Minimizing or Preventing Interstate Conflict and War
… previous decade. Does the occurrence of violent conflict change when women become leaders or when their participation in parliament increases? There is a varied range of explanations that supports or contradicts the assertion that women in leadership positions lead to less conflict and war. This …
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The evolution of interstate rivalry
In this dissertation I study the evolution of interstate rivalry, seeking to identify situations or behaviors that lead to rivalry. Past research suggests that most interstate conflict occurs between long-time rival countries, and that crises occurring in the context of enduring rivalry tend to be …
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The push and pull of war: the political geography of rebel behavior during wartime
The bulk of work on civil conflict seeks to explain variation across civil wars rather than within them. This has led to a better understanding as to why civil wars erupt in some countries, whereas others remain relatively peaceful over a prolonged period of time. What is lacking, however, is a …
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Network Structure and Conflict
… highlight the importance of the system regarding interstate conflict, though they argue for two different constructions of the system, with Neorealists focusing on power and Neoliberals the web of relations between states. This paper tests the arguments of these two paradigms using a social …
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Between Kurdistan and Damascus: Kurdish Nationalism and Arab State Formation in Syria
… as the regional Kurdish nationalist movement and interstate dynamics. In order to carry this out, this paper employs a methodological framework largely informed by the work of Hamit Bozarslan.</p> <p>This theoretical underpinning conceptualizes Kurdish nationalist actors as existing within a …
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Welcome to the Club: IGO Socialization and Dyadic Arms Transfers
… mechanisms by which IGO memberships might reduce interstate conflict. This thesis argues that the institutional socialization hypothesis (ISH), which asserts that shared IGO memberships will lead to interest convergence between member states, uses an invalid conceptualization and measurement of …
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Rebel leaders and conflict processes: An individual level analysis
Civil conflict is a complex and ambiguous phenomenon that requires a multi-dimensional investigation. A concentration on rebel leaders in the study of conflict promises a good amount of potential for obtaining interesting findings. This dissertation examines rebel leader survival and rebel leaders’ …
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The internal politics of external threat
… I seek to answer why states choose escalate conflicts over some issues and not others, against rivals at certain times and not others, and choose to abuse human rights during some conflicts, but not others. I focus specifically on the interaction between the external threats of territorial …
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Responsibility To Protect: The Use and The Abuse
… to those civilians who get caught in armed conflicts, and held those responsible for such crimes accountable for it regardless of any impunity they might have. Despite it’s new emerging the norm have been agreed on anonymously by the United Nations member states on World Summit of<br />2005, …
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WATER SCARCITY, CONFLICT AND NEGOTIATION: FOUR ESSAYS
… rivers, the overall impact of water scarcity on conflict remained inconsistent. Divergent findings often resulted from variations in data, methodologies, and analytical approaches, leaving the relationship between water scarcity and conflict unresolved. Climate change further complicates this …
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The Fugitive Slave Law, Antislavery and the Emergence of the Republican Party in Indiana
… the law. Instead of ameliorating sectional conflict, the new fugitive bill became a source of constant interstate conflict and was a factor in bringing about the Civil War.</p> <p>Historians have written extensively about the Fugitive Slave Law - specific cases arising under the law, how …