Andrew Shaver
Biographic Data
| ID | 325982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Shaver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaver |
| SIGNATURE | SHAVER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Merced |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4445-9273 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Civilian Harm, Wartime Informing, and Counterinsurgent Operations
A rich body of theory in political economy suggests that civilian support is central to the success of counterinsurgent campaigns. Civilian collaboration can significantly improve military operations, enhance soldier efficiency, and avoid disruption of costly security infrastructure. Yet there have been few direct tests of the claim that harm to civilians, and who harms them, influences when and with whom noncombatants collaborate. We provide suc…
The Causes and Consequences of Refugee Flows: A Contemporary Reanalysis
The world faces a forced displacement crisis. Tens of millions of individuals have been forced across international boundaries worldwide. Therefore, the causes and consequences of refugee flows are the subjects of significant social science inquiry. Unfortunately, the historical lack of reliable data on actual refugee flows, country-specific data reporting timelines, and more general pre-2000 data quality issues have significantly limited empiric…
Expanding the Coverage of Conflict Event Datasets: Three Proofs of Concept
Author(s): Shaver, Andrew; Kazis-Taylor, Hannah; Loomis, Claudia; Bartschi, Mia; Patterson, Paul; Vera, Adrian; Abad, Kevin; Alqarwani, Saher; Bell, Clay; Bock, Sebastian; Cabezas, Kieran; Felix, Heidi; Gonzalez, Jennifer; Hoeft, Christopher; Martinez, Aileen Ibarra; Keltner, Kai; Moroyoqui, Jessica; Paman, Kieko; Ramirez, Ethan; Reis, Priscilla; Rodriguez, Juan Jose; Santos-Perez, Jazmin; Sikka, Katha Komal; Singh, Arjan; Tao, Cassidy; Tirado, R…
Disorganized Political Violence: A Demonstration Case of Temperature and Insurgency
Any act of battlefield violence results from a combination of organizational strategy and a combatant's personal motives. To measure the relative contribution of each, our research design leverages the predictable effect of ambient temperature on human aggression. Using fine-grained data collected by US forces during the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts, we test whether temperature and violence are linked for attacks that can be initiated by indivi…
The Effect of Civilian Casualties on Wartime Informing: Evidence from the Iraq War
Scholars of civil war and insurgency have long posited that insurgent organizations and their state enemies incur costs for the collateral damage they cause. We provide the first direct quantitative evidence that wartime informing to counterinsurgent forces is affected by civilian victimization. Using newly declassified data on tip flow to Coalition forces in Iraq we find that information flow goes down after government forces inadvertently kill …
Reexamining the Effect of Refugees on Civil Conflict: A Global Subnational Analysis
A large literature suggests that the presence of refugees is associated with greater risk of conflict. We argue that the positive effects of hosting refugees on local conditions have been overlooked. Using global data from 1990 to 2018 on locations of refugee communities and civil conflict at the subnational level, we find no evidence that hosting refugees increases the likelihood of new conflict, prolongs existing conflict, or raises the number …
Places to Hide: Terrain, Ethnicity, and Civil Conflict
Terrain is central to understanding why some countries experience contentious ethnic divisions and civil war. While existing research specifies a direct effect of rugged terrain on civil war (i.e., it impedes state efforts to counter rebellion), we argue that terrain has an overlooked indirect effect on civil war via its historical influence on the distribution and political status of ethnic groups. We argue that access to variable rugged terrain…
Terrain ruggedness and land cover: Improved data for most research designs
Existing arguments about the effect of terrain on intrastate and interstate violence are more varied than the data sources widely used to test such relationships. We introduce precise geo-referenced data on terrain ruggedness and land cover globally at the national, provincial, and 1×1 km grid-square levels. Accordingly, the data are readily applicable to a wide range of research designs, including cross-national, sub-national and single-country …
The Emergence of Global Systemic Risk
In this article, we discuss the increasing interdependence of societies, focusing specifically on issues of systemic instability and fragility generated by the new and unprecedented level of connectedness and complexity resulting from globalization. We define the global system as a set of tightly coupled interactions that allow for the continued flow of information, capital, goods, services, and people. Using the general concepts of globality, co…
The Emergence of Global Systemic Risk
In this article, we discuss the increasing interdependence of societies, focusing specifically on issues of systemic instability and fragility generated by the new and unprecedented level of connectedness and complexity resulting from globalization. We define the global system as a set of tightly coupled interactions that allow for the continued flow of information, capital, goods, services, and people. Using the general concepts of globality, co…
Reexamining the Effect of Refugees on Civil Conflict: A Global Subnational Analysis
A large literature suggests that the presence of refugees is associated with greater risk of conflict. We argue that the positive effects of hosting refugees on local conditions have been overlooked. Using global data from 1990 to 2018 on locations of refugee communities and civil conflict at the subnational level, we find no evidence that hosting refugees increases the likelihood of new conflict, prolongs existing conflict, or raises the number …
Terrain ruggedness and land cover: Improved data for most research designs
Existing arguments about the effect of terrain on intrastate and interstate violence are more varied than the data sources widely used to test such relationships. We introduce precise geo-referenced data on terrain ruggedness and land cover globally at the national, provincial, and 1×1 km grid-square levels. Accordingly, the data are readily applicable to a wide range of research designs, including cross-national, sub-national and single-country …
Places to Hide: Terrain, Ethnicity, and Civil Conflict
Terrain is central to understanding why some countries experience contentious ethnic divisions and civil war. While existing research specifies a direct effect of rugged terrain on civil war (i.e., it impedes state efforts to counter rebellion), we argue that terrain has an overlooked indirect effect on civil war via its historical influence on the distribution and political status of ethnic groups. We argue that access to variable rugged terrain…
The Effect of Civilian Casualties on Wartime Informing: Evidence from the Iraq War
Scholars of civil war and insurgency have long posited that insurgent organizations and their state enemies incur costs for the collateral damage they cause. We provide the first direct quantitative evidence that wartime informing to counterinsurgent forces is affected by civilian victimization. Using newly declassified data on tip flow to Coalition forces in Iraq we find that information flow goes down after government forces inadvertently kill …
The Causes and Consequences of Refugee Flows: A Contemporary Reanalysis
The world faces a forced displacement crisis. Tens of millions of individuals have been forced across international boundaries worldwide. Therefore, the causes and consequences of refugee flows are the subjects of significant social science inquiry. Unfortunately, the historical lack of reliable data on actual refugee flows, country-specific data reporting timelines, and more general pre-2000 data quality issues have significantly limited empiric…
Disorganized Political Violence: A Demonstration Case of Temperature and Insurgency
Any act of battlefield violence results from a combination of organizational strategy and a combatant's personal motives. To measure the relative contribution of each, our research design leverages the predictable effect of ambient temperature on human aggression. Using fine-grained data collected by US forces during the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts, we test whether temperature and violence are linked for attacks that can be initiated by indivi…
Expanding the Coverage of Conflict Event Datasets: Three Proofs of Concept
Author(s): Shaver, Andrew; Kazis-Taylor, Hannah; Loomis, Claudia; Bartschi, Mia; Patterson, Paul; Vera, Adrian; Abad, Kevin; Alqarwani, Saher; Bell, Clay; Bock, Sebastian; Cabezas, Kieran; Felix, Heidi; Gonzalez, Jennifer; Hoeft, Christopher; Martinez, Aileen Ibarra; Keltner, Kai; Moroyoqui, Jessica; Paman, Kieko; Ramirez, Ethan; Reis, Priscilla; Rodriguez, Juan Jose; Santos-Perez, Jazmin; Sikka, Katha Komal; Singh, Arjan; Tao, Cassidy; Tirado, R…
The Emergence of Global Systemic Risk
In this article, we discuss the increasing interdependence of societies, focusing specifically on issues of systemic instability and fragility generated by the new and unprecedented level of connectedness and complexity resulting from globalization. We define the global system as a set of tightly coupled interactions that allow for the continued flow of information, capital, goods, services, and people. Using the general concepts of globality, co…
Terrain ruggedness and land cover: Improved data for most research designs
Existing arguments about the effect of terrain on intrastate and interstate violence are more varied than the data sources widely used to test such relationships. We introduce precise geo-referenced data on terrain ruggedness and land cover globally at the national, provincial, and 1×1 km grid-square levels. Accordingly, the data are readily applicable to a wide range of research designs, including cross-national, sub-national and single-country …
Places to Hide: Terrain, Ethnicity, and Civil Conflict
Terrain is central to understanding why some countries experience contentious ethnic divisions and civil war. While existing research specifies a direct effect of rugged terrain on civil war (i.e., it impedes state efforts to counter rebellion), we argue that terrain has an overlooked indirect effect on civil war via its historical influence on the distribution and political status of ethnic groups. We argue that access to variable rugged terrain…
The Effect of Civilian Casualties on Wartime Informing: Evidence from the Iraq War
Scholars of civil war and insurgency have long posited that insurgent organizations and their state enemies incur costs for the collateral damage they cause. We provide the first direct quantitative evidence that wartime informing to counterinsurgent forces is affected by civilian victimization. Using newly declassified data on tip flow to Coalition forces in Iraq we find that information flow goes down after government forces inadvertently kill …
Reexamining the Effect of Refugees on Civil Conflict: A Global Subnational Analysis
A large literature suggests that the presence of refugees is associated with greater risk of conflict. We argue that the positive effects of hosting refugees on local conditions have been overlooked. Using global data from 1990 to 2018 on locations of refugee communities and civil conflict at the subnational level, we find no evidence that hosting refugees increases the likelihood of new conflict, prolongs existing conflict, or raises the number …
Expanding the Coverage of Conflict Event Datasets: Three Proofs of Concept
Author(s): Shaver, Andrew; Kazis-Taylor, Hannah; Loomis, Claudia; Bartschi, Mia; Patterson, Paul; Vera, Adrian; Abad, Kevin; Alqarwani, Saher; Bell, Clay; Bock, Sebastian; Cabezas, Kieran; Felix, Heidi; Gonzalez, Jennifer; Hoeft, Christopher; Martinez, Aileen Ibarra; Keltner, Kai; Moroyoqui, Jessica; Paman, Kieko; Ramirez, Ethan; Reis, Priscilla; Rodriguez, Juan Jose; Santos-Perez, Jazmin; Sikka, Katha Komal; Singh, Arjan; Tao, Cassidy; Tirado, R…
Disorganized Political Violence: A Demonstration Case of Temperature and Insurgency
Any act of battlefield violence results from a combination of organizational strategy and a combatant's personal motives. To measure the relative contribution of each, our research design leverages the predictable effect of ambient temperature on human aggression. Using fine-grained data collected by US forces during the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts, we test whether temperature and violence are linked for attacks that can be initiated by indivi…
Civilian Harm, Wartime Informing, and Counterinsurgent Operations
A rich body of theory in political economy suggests that civilian support is central to the success of counterinsurgent campaigns. Civilian collaboration can significantly improve military operations, enhance soldier efficiency, and avoid disruption of costly security infrastructure. Yet there have been few direct tests of the claim that harm to civilians, and who harms them, influences when and with whom noncombatants collaborate. We provide suc…
The Causes and Consequences of Refugee Flows: A Contemporary Reanalysis
The world faces a forced displacement crisis. Tens of millions of individuals have been forced across international boundaries worldwide. Therefore, the causes and consequences of refugee flows are the subjects of significant social science inquiry. Unfortunately, the historical lack of reliable data on actual refugee flows, country-specific data reporting timelines, and more general pre-2000 data quality issues have significantly limited empiric…
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Spanish Civil War (3 works) · Cartography (2 works)