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Intervention in Civil Wars: Intervention and Consent
In modern international law, it is a near consensus that no state can use force against another - the main exceptions being self-defense and actions mandated by a U.N. Security Council resolution. However, one more potential exception exists: forcible intervention undertaken upon the invitation or …
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Competitive intervention and its consequences for civil wars
… in the average duration and global prevalence of civil wars. A central finding that emerges concerns the critical role of competitive intervention-two sided, simultaneous military assistance from different third party states to both government and rebel combatants-in the dynamics and …
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How Civil Wars End: The Influence of Rebel Groups
Outcomes of civil wars differ greatly across countries, even among states with comparable risks to conflict, such as poverty, ethnic cleavages, political instability, and state weakness. Understanding why some civil conflicts terminate through peace agreements and military victories while others …
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How Civil Wars End: The Influence of Rebel Groups
Outcomes of civil wars differ greatly across countries, even among states with comparable risks to conflict, such as poverty, ethnic cleavages, political instability, and state weakness. Understanding why some civil conflicts terminate through peace agreements and military victories while others …
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Dangerous neighborhoods: Threats and opportunities from nearby civil wars
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2019-11-26 without embargo terms
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Human Rights Signaling and Foreign Direct Investments After Civil Wars
… the role of human rights policies in the wake of civil wars and how they serve as a signaling mechanism to Foreign Direct Investors (FDIs) about a country’s internal stability and environment for investments. I argue that signals are particularly salient in the information-poor environment that …
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Legitimacy, state-building, and civilian targeting in separatist civil wars
… of violence and employ fewer economic forms of civilian targeting, such as civilian killing, use of child soldiers, sexual violence, kidnapping, theft, and seizure of humanitarian aid. I also find that separatists are more likely to engage in practices that are intended to demonstrate the …
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The Interactions Between The Irish Rebellion and The English Civil Wars
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Policy Bargaining and Incompatibilities in Civil Wars: Intervention, Power-Sharing, and Preferences
Civil wars in which conflict parties claim a regime lead to crisis at both domestic and international levels. Such claims for new regime have been a part of the democratization process throughout history. Thus, for both domestic and international participants in civil conflicts, bargaining is often …
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The Legal Limits of Intervention by Invitation of Government in Civil Wars
… as a legal justification for intervening in a civil war, allowing allies of ineffective governments to help suppress genuine popular revolts. Thus, many 20th century writers argued that intervention by invitation in civil wars was not lawful, on the basis that it would necessarily breach the …
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WHY FIGHT WHEN YOU CAN RULE TOGETHER? REBEL POWER-SHARING DURING CIVIL WARS
… operating in multi-ethnic societies during civil wars face complex challenges in consolidating territorial control and establishing governance structures that are inclusive of diverse ethnic constituencies. While existing literature has extensively studied the violent dynamics between rebel …
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Culture, Conflict, and Northern English Fortification in the British Civil Wars, Circa 1638–1652
… garrisons of Northern England during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It combines cultural and administrative methodologies to explore the subject, linking it to as many different areas of Civil War historiography as possible to demonstrate the centrality of fortification to the conflict. …
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Rethinking Civil Wars: An Overview of Literature and the Syrian Conflict Towards a Structural Definition of Civil War
<p><em>Civil War</em> is a term often used to classify a type of conflict which arises within states. This being so, the exact criteria upon which such a classification of conflict is arrived remains unclear. Additionally, political, dispensational and ideological currents have influenced the …
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The Committee for Compounding With Delinquents, 1643-1654: A Study of Parliamentary Finance During the English Civil Wars
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THE STRUCTURE OF POLITICAL CONFLICT: KINSHIP NETWORKS AND POLITICAL ALIGNMENTS IN THE CIVIL WARS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY CHILE
… to infer the alignment of families during the civil wars of 1829, 1851, 1859 and 1891. Using social network analysis techniques, kinship clusters were identified, and the resulting groups were then contrasted against the electoral data. If a family cluster was well represented in Congresses …
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A critical evaluation of the 'greed versus grievance' theory in the analysis of civil wars - - the case of Angola
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-75)
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