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H-Diplo | ISSF Roundtable 14-6 on Stewart, Governing for Revolution: Social Transformation in Civil War

December 16, 2022December 1, 2022 By Jakana Thomas, Megan Stewart, Melissa M. Lee, Katherine Sawyer, Paul Staniland

In Governing for Revolution, Megan A. Stewart examines variation in rebel governance, asking why some rebel movements undertake expansive and costly governance initiatives during war, while others refrain from doing so until the conflicts end. According to Stewart, governance can be both extensive and intensive. Intensive governance refers to intrusive projects that have the potential…

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Roundtable 11-3 on Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa: The Logic of the Coup–Civil War Trap

October 7, 2019October 3, 2019 By Elizabeth Schmidt, Jason Lyall, Hilary Matfess, Kai M. Thaler, Philip Roessler

Since the periods of decolonization and the Cold War, Africa has been the site of numerous protracted conflicts. Some countries have experienced repeated cycles of violence and civil war, while other countries have headed off major conflict and maintained relative peace. What factors account for these differences? In a clear, compelling, theoretically innovative study, Philip…

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Article Review 98 on “How Civil Wars End: The International System, Norms, and the Role of External Actors.”

May 31, 2018May 27, 2018 By Roy Licklider

This is a significant article which attempts to document something that many political scientists have suspected[1]—that negotiated settlements of civil wars increased greatly after the Cold War and have declined since 9/11. This finding is significant because it implies that 1990-2001 may be an atypical period in conflict resolution and that generalizations based on behavior…

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Article Review 95 on “The Extremist’s Advantage in Civil Wars.”

March 27, 2018March 24, 2018 By H-Diplo

Why is the number of rebel groups espousing extremist ideology—Salafi jihadism in particular—on the rise? And why have these extremist groups seemingly thrived while their moderate counterparts have struggled? Or, to reframe this question in the context of Syria’s civil war, why was the extremist Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) far more effective…

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Roundtable 6-2 on Alliance Formation in Civil Wars

October 11, 2013November 20, 2019 By H-Diplo

Over the last decade much of the best work in comparative politics and international relations has focused on explaining the onset and termination of civil wars. In her new book, Alliance Formation in Civil Wars, Fotini Christia seeks to explain the constant shifts in alliances that characterize these conflicts. With a combination of theoretical richness,…

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