Jason K Stearns
Biographic Data
| ID | 3981004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason K Stearns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason K |
| FAMILY NAME | Stearns |
| SIGNATURE | STEARNS J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Subnational ethnic conflict
Debates over the links between ethnicity and conflict often focus on the national level and take an ahistorical approach. This approach hides cases of ethnic conflict that arise at the subnational level and leaves unanswered questions over how ethnicity became a driver of conflict. This article explores these blind spots, using three cases in the African Great Lakes region. The cases reviewed here are the bipolar situations of Hema v. Lendu in It…
Violent orders and coup-proofing
Conflicts on the African continent present a paradox: the number of conflicts and casualties are increasing while at the same time becoming more peripheral and less threatening to governments. This article argues that the rise of a new kind of conflict helps explain this trend: violent political orders in which warfare is used by governments as a means of doling out patronage and managing dissent rather than defeating opponents on the battlefield…
The New Makers of Modern Strategy
The War That Doesn't Say Its Name
War That Doesn't Say Its Name
Kivu’s intractable security conundrum, revisited
‘The Security Problems of the Democratic Republic of Congo continue to puzzle international peace and policy makers’.1 This is how, in 2009, Koen Vlassenroot and Timothy Raeymaekers set out to explain conflict dynamics in the Kivu in this journal. They argued that while the peace process successfully unified the Congo and produced new, democratic institutions, it also led to the privatization of governance and the entrenching of conflicts. Within…
The trouble with the Congo
African Conflicts, Western Activism
For much of Africa’s post—cold war history, the question has not been whether humanitarian intervention is a cover-up for big power interests, but why outsiders have been so reluctant to act
Congo's Peace
Impunity has been to some extent the glue of the peace process. This fact could undermine the country's fragile stability
Economía Exterior
Kivu’s intractable security conundrum, revisited
‘The Security Problems of the Democratic Republic of Congo continue to puzzle international peace and policy makers’.1 This is how, in 2009, Koen Vlassenroot and Timothy Raeymaekers set out to explain conflict dynamics in the Kivu in this journal. They argued that while the peace process successfully unified the Congo and produced new, democratic institutions, it also led to the privatization of governance and the entrenching of conflicts. Within…
The New Makers of Modern Strategy
Violent orders and coup-proofing
Conflicts on the African continent present a paradox: the number of conflicts and casualties are increasing while at the same time becoming more peripheral and less threatening to governments. This article argues that the rise of a new kind of conflict helps explain this trend: violent political orders in which warfare is used by governments as a means of doling out patronage and managing dissent rather than defeating opponents on the battlefield…
The trouble with the Congo
Economía Exterior
Congo's Peace
Impunity has been to some extent the glue of the peace process. This fact could undermine the country's fragile stability
African Conflicts, Western Activism
For much of Africa’s post—cold war history, the question has not been whether humanitarian intervention is a cover-up for big power interests, but why outsiders have been so reluctant to act
The trouble with the Congo
Kivu’s intractable security conundrum, revisited
‘The Security Problems of the Democratic Republic of Congo continue to puzzle international peace and policy makers’.1 This is how, in 2009, Koen Vlassenroot and Timothy Raeymaekers set out to explain conflict dynamics in the Kivu in this journal. They argued that while the peace process successfully unified the Congo and produced new, democratic institutions, it also led to the privatization of governance and the entrenching of conflicts. Within…
War That Doesn't Say Its Name
The War That Doesn't Say Its Name
The New Makers of Modern Strategy
Violent orders and coup-proofing
Conflicts on the African continent present a paradox: the number of conflicts and casualties are increasing while at the same time becoming more peripheral and less threatening to governments. This article argues that the rise of a new kind of conflict helps explain this trend: violent political orders in which warfare is used by governments as a means of doling out patronage and managing dissent rather than defeating opponents on the battlefield…
Subnational ethnic conflict
Debates over the links between ethnicity and conflict often focus on the national level and take an ahistorical approach. This approach hides cases of ethnic conflict that arise at the subnational level and leaves unanswered questions over how ethnicity became a driver of conflict. This article explores these blind spots, using three cases in the African Great Lakes region. The cases reviewed here are the bipolar situations of Hema v. Lendu in It…
Political science (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (2 works) · Human rights (2 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (2 works)