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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"civil war onset"”.
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Sparks on kindling : terrorism's role in civil war onset, recurrence, and escalation
… between terrorism and three major aspects of civil wars. By examining the rate of attacks and the targets of terrorism, this study explains how terrorism can serve as a macro-level indicator of instability and as a predictor of the different stages of civil wars. The rate of terrorism predicts …
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An Empirical Analysis of the Association Between Types of Interventions and Civil War Onset
… freedoms as being elemental factors for civil war onset. However, these studies have neglected the possibility of a civil war being an unintended consequence of international military intervention. I conduct an empirical analysis of the association between military intervention and civil …
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Weak states, human rights violations, and the outbreak of civil war.
… recent years, explanations for the occurrence of civil war have mainly emphasized state weakness as providing an opportunity for greed-based rebellions. Yet, this explanation leaves many questions open, as it cannot distinguish between weak states that do and those that do not experience civil …
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MACROECONOMIC ASPECTS OF CONFLICT
… in a GDP per worker growth model, in a civil war onset model and a model for civil war’s severity. The first chapter theoretically and empirically analyzes economic growth with conflict in the context of the Mankiw et al. (1992) adaptation of the Solow growth model and the natural resource …
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Pathways To Civil War
… dissertation is about conflict escalation to civil war, and examines why some political confrontations escalate and why principal conflict actors continue fighting rather than reaching a number of political arrangements at various points of the course of conflict. Unlike previous studies, this …
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Can we forecast conflict? A framework for forecasting global human societal behavior using latent narrative indicators
… has funded research on “conflict early warning” and conflict forecasting for more than 40 years and current unclassified approaches incorporate nearly every imaginable type of data from telephone call records to traffic signals, tribal and cultural linkages to satellite imagery. Yet, …