Horowitz
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 142238 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Horowitz |
| SOBRENOME | Horowitz |
| ASSINATURA | HOROWITZ |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5953-0987 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 101 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Do ethno-territorial rebels tolerate political competition? Power- and preference-based explanations
During ethno-territorial wars, do rebels try to impose exclusive political control over their own ethnic group or do they tolerate political pluralism? First, rebel groups in conditions making them more capable of imposing political monopolies may more commonly make the attempt. Second, rebel leaders with more extreme nationalist preferences may more commonly try to do so. The paper presents a new, binary measure of whether ethno-territorial rebe…
The Death of ‘Strategic Ambiguity’
President Nixon realigned US Cold War policies by withdrawing formal support for the Taiwan government’s sovereignty, without endorsing China’s position that Taiwan was rightfully a Chinese province. Then, after Carter withdrew the US promise to intervene militarily to defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion, Congress and subsequent presidents continued to support Taiwan’s de facto independence—thus adopting a posture of ‘strategic ambiguity’. F…
China in 2024
In 2024, China continued to grapple with slowing economic growth at home and hardening confrontation with the US-led coalition abroad. Xi Jinping initially responded to the real estate crisis and the associated weakness in private-sector investment and consumption primarily with accelerated, state-led investment in high-technology industries and supply chains. When this failed to stabilize the economy and achieve the 5% GDP growth target, Xi was …
Why are ethno-territorial wars shorter under authoritarian regimes? War-fighting, cost-tolerance and negotiation mechanisms
The civil war (CW) duration literature sometimes finds that authoritarianism leads to shorter wars, and sometimes that regime type has no significant impact. Most commonly, authoritarian regimes (ARs) are expected to fight wars more effectively, thus ending wars earlier by military victory; but also to be more tolerant of war costs, and thus less likely to negotiate ends to wars. We also investigate whether ARs’ willingness to make substantive co…
Seeing what you want
In conflict bargaining models, variation in initial conditions is expected to have a significant impact. Better initial conditions should make the status quo more acceptable and likely to persist, and worse initial conditions should make crisis and conflict more likely. At the same time, players' preferences over the different possible bargaining outcomes are expected to influence perceptions of initial conditions. We use conflict bargaining expe…
The War on Israel
The paroxysm of anti-Israel and antisemitic sentiment on college campuses after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel drew national attention to the torpid response of officials at several elite campuses, including Columbia and Stanford Universities. But Shale Horowitz tells us the failure to enforce laws and university rules on harassment may have been even more egregious at the state University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Leadership Preferences, Minimum Acceptable Nationalist Demands, and Duration of Ethno-territorial Civil Wars
Western Self-Hatred
Rather than move away from its Marxist faith the Western left seeks to “conserve and justify it through a more uncompromising hatred” of the West
Sources of Conventional and Guerrilla Strategies in Ethno-Territorial Civil Wars
In ethno-territorial civil wars, which factors influence whether rebels choose and retain conventional warfare as their primary military strategy throughout the conflict, or whether they use guerrilla warfare as a primary strategy during periods judged to be less advantageous to conventional warfare? The existing literature almost exclusively emphasizes relative power as the determining factor: rebels use guerrilla warfare because they typically …
Explaining Minimum Acceptable Demands of States and Rebels in Ethno-Territorial Civil Wars
Direct, large-sample measures of leadership preferences on both sides of ethno-territorial civil wars have not hitherto been available. As a result, statistical research diverges from case study research in omitting analysis of causes and consequences of leadership preferences. We present a new database that directly measures variation in the nationalist ideological preferences of state and ethnic rebel group leaders for post-World War II, ethno-…
International Territorial Dispute Preferences in China and the United States
Within international relations theory, there is significant disagreement on the nature and significance of leaders’ dispute outcome preferences. While many variants of realism assume that such preferences are relatively fixed and homogeneous, both the liberal and the constructivist schools view them as significant variables. This debate remains unresolved because, for the standard large-sample conflict data sets, there are no direct measures of l…
International Norms in Ethno-Territorial Disputes
Ethno-national territorial disputes typically involve conflicting homeland claims between states and minority ethnic groups. Where such minority ethnic groups have cross-border ethnic kin who themselves constitute a dominant or influential ethnic group in a neighbouring state, separatist goals may take the form of either irredentism or independence. We conjecture that external sympathy for irredentism and independence may vary significantly, and …
Tatanga Ishtima hinkna Įyá Waká
Tatanga Ishtima hinkna Įyá Waká:Sleeping Buffalo and Medicine Rock and Assiniboine Dislocation and Persistence Joshua Horowitz (bio) On the crest of a ridge near Cree Crossing of the Milk River is a group of glacial boulders which from a distance resemble a herd of sleeping buffalo. They were held sacred by the Indians and one in particular was thought to be the leader. It is now part of this monument. ... The tribeshave legends of the herds' ori…
Leadership Preferences in Ethno-Territorial Disputes
In the conflict bargaining literature, three variables have a primary explanatory role: relative power, status quo conditions, and leadership preferences. While leadership preferences loom large in case study research, they are either absent or poorly proxied in large-N statistical studies. Using a series of three experiments, we test for the effects of relative power, status quo conditions, and leadership preferences on decisions to apply variou…
South Korea and Japan since World War II
Since the end of World War II, relations between South Korea and Japan have gone through significant changes – from distant and hostile in the 1950s, to cooperative and increasingly close through about 2005, to the last decade of serious deterioration. Three frameworks are used to understand change and continuity in South Korea–Japan relations: a realist perspective emphasizing either structural military power relations or “revealed” patterns of …
Brotherly Love
Freemasonry, with its arcane rituals and insistence on secrecy, has long held the imagination of the public. Historians have also been drawn to Freemasonry as a way to study questions about civil society and associational life and have thus explored its public and political significance. Kenneth Loiselle’s book adds to the literature on Masonry by examining the relatively neglected topic of the private and emotional dimensions of this phenomenon.…
Why C hina's Leaders Benefit from a Nuclear, Threatening N orth K orea
Since the S oviet U nion's collapse and N orth K orea's subsequent deep economic crisis, C hina's economic and diplomatic support has been vital to the N orthern regime's survival. Why has C hina provided this support? In foreign policy‐making, C hina's post‐ D eng leaders have increasingly prioritized domestic politics over national interests. This implies that C hina's leaders are likely to view the N orth's nuclearization, proliferation effort…
When are similar regimes more likely to form alliances? Institutions and ideologies in the post-communist world
Following the collapse of the old communist regimes, 28 post-communist countries chose from among three main foreign security arrangements: commonwealth of independent states (CIS)/collective security treaty organization (CSTO) membership, north atlantic treaty organization (NATO) membership, or neutrality. What explains these choices? We are most interested theoretically in the role played by regime type. The alliances literature typically uses …
Holding China’s West
Bibliographie / Bibliography
Policing and the problem of privacy in Restoration-era France, 1815-30
This article examines how the police state of the Bourbon Restoration reshaped elite social relations and notions of privacy. As the state invaded the private lives of its citizens in order to track elite opinion and oppositional activity, it was charged with spreading distrust throughout high society. In order to restore their privacy in the face of such surveillance, elites turned to strategies that erected sharp barriers between intimates and …
Nationalist and Power-Seeking Leadership Preferences in Ethno-Territorial Conflicts
(2013). Nationalist and Power-Seeking Leadership Preferences in Ethno-Territorial Conflicts: Theory, a Measurement Framework, and Applications to the Breakup of Yugoslavia. Civil Wars: Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 508-530
Targeting Civilians in Ethno-Territorial Wars
In internal ethno-territorial conflicts, what explains why state or rebel group leaderships use civilian-targeting strategies—expulsion or mass killing strategies designed to punish enemy civilians or to decimate the enemy civilian presence on contested territory? One argument is that those living under the worst initial conditions—defined in terms of collective goods such as weak collective autonomy, policy outcomes, and material conditions—are …
Government turnover
While government turnover is often thought of as an adverse source of instability, it may also be viewed as a favourable source of competition and institution‐building. To articulate and test such hypotheses, this article describes two main concepts of government turnover: leadership turnover, or change in rulers, and ideological turnover, or change in the rulers' ideology. Refinements involve the mode, outcome and timing of turnover. The article…
Mapping Pathways of Ethnic Conflict Onset
Recent quantitative studies of ethnic conflict tend to have characteristic strengths and weaknesses. Strengths are typical of sophisticated statistical work: the influence of many explanatory variables is examined across large datasets. Weaknesses are largely traceable to shortcomings of theory and measurement. Territorial and other ethnic conflicts are sometimes pooled with other types of internal conflict, which seem likely to have a different …
Government turnover
While government turnover is often thought of as an adverse source of instability, it may also be viewed as a favourable source of competition and institution‐building. To articulate and test such hypotheses, this article describes two main concepts of government turnover: leadership turnover, or change in rulers, and ideological turnover, or change in the rulers' ideology. Refinements involve the mode, outcome and timing of turnover. The article…
Sources of Post-Communist Party System Consolidation
What are the causes of party system consolidation in the postcommunist democracies? It is frequently hypothesized that differences in electoral systems and presidential powers help to explain variation in party system consolidation. In addition, it can be argued that the numbers and support levels of political parties should be affected by the ideological peculiarities of different countries' voting publics. Population size might also be expected…
The Jewish Exodus from the New South Africa
In the 1990s, the Jewish population of South Africa declined at an unprecedented rate in marked contrast to Jewish populations in other English‐speaking countries. Possible explanations include fear of political instability and political violence, deteriorating economic conditions and prospects, fear of directly discriminatory government policies, rising violent crime rates, and more permissive immigration policies in desirable destination countr…
China's Grand Strategy, the Korean Nuclear Crisis, and the Six‐Party Talks
North Korea has pursued a nuclear weapons capability for about two decades. Many diplomatic efforts have been made to convince or cajole the Northern regime to give up this quest – and all have so far failed. Since 2003, a new multilateral approach – the Six‐Party Talks involving the Koreas, China, Japan, Russia, and the United States – has raised hopes anew. These hopes are based largely on China playing an active role. China has the potential b…
Structural Sources of Post-Communist Market Reform
Why did some post-communist countries implement more thorough market reforms than others? Four different structural explanations are considered: (1) relative size of economic interest group coalitions hurt by market reform; (2) predominant religious traditions, which may incorporate norms and institutions more or less favorable to market reform; (3) variation in historically based national economic and political expectations, in which greater pre…
War After Communism
How did war affect political and economic reform efforts across the post-communist world? War is hypothesized to have a negative political impact through three main mechanisms: distraction from any peacetime political and economic reform agenda; military defeat and disruption, and associated weakening or militarization of state authority; and postwar economic isolation. After controlling for cultural, economic, and institutional factors, statisti…
Party Systems and Economic Policy Change in Postcommunist Democracies Ideological Consensus and Institutional Competition
Much attention has been devoted to the development of party systems in postcommunist democracies. Most of this work has focused on the maturation or institutionalization of the party systems, that is, on the process of generating a more institutionally fixed and well-organized set of parties with more stable support bases.' This article looks at policy consequences of party system development. Although case studies of policy consequences examine …
Why C hina's Leaders Benefit from a Nuclear, Threatening N orth K orea
Since the S oviet U nion's collapse and N orth K orea's subsequent deep economic crisis, C hina's economic and diplomatic support has been vital to the N orthern regime's survival. Why has C hina provided this support? In foreign policy‐making, C hina's post‐ D eng leaders have increasingly prioritized domestic politics over national interests. This implies that C hina's leaders are likely to view the N orth's nuclearization, proliferation effort…
Holding China’s West
International Norms in Ethno-Territorial Disputes
Ethno-national territorial disputes typically involve conflicting homeland claims between states and minority ethnic groups. Where such minority ethnic groups have cross-border ethnic kin who themselves constitute a dominant or influential ethnic group in a neighbouring state, separatist goals may take the form of either irredentism or independence. We conjecture that external sympathy for irredentism and independence may vary significantly, and …
Democracies Fighting Ethnic Insurgencies
Ethnic insurgencies have received less scholarly attention than colonial or ideological insurgencies—even as they have become the predominant form of insurgency following the decolonization process and then the end of the Cold War. In the face of ethnic insurgencies, what determines the effectiveness of the various counterinsurgency strategies adopted by host states? Are democracies more likely to succeed by pursuing some kinds of counterinsurgen…
Explaining regional economic policies in China
What explains variation in investment climates across China's provinces and urban autonomous regions? Three main explanations are considered: variation in the character and size of economic interest groups, in central government policies, and in pre-communist provincial identities and traditions. There is statistical and anecdotal support for the interest group and provincial identity factors. On the other hand, there is little evidence that vari…
Explaining Minimum Acceptable Demands of States and Rebels in Ethno-Territorial Civil Wars
Direct, large-sample measures of leadership preferences on both sides of ethno-territorial civil wars have not hitherto been available. As a result, statistical research diverges from case study research in omitting analysis of causes and consequences of leadership preferences. We present a new database that directly measures variation in the nationalist ideological preferences of state and ethnic rebel group leaders for post-World War II, ethno-…
Mapping Pathways of Ethnic Conflict Onset
Recent quantitative studies of ethnic conflict tend to have characteristic strengths and weaknesses. Strengths are typical of sophisticated statistical work: the influence of many explanatory variables is examined across large datasets. Weaknesses are largely traceable to shortcomings of theory and measurement. Territorial and other ethnic conflicts are sometimes pooled with other types of internal conflict, which seem likely to have a different …
Debate
In the post-communist world, war appears to set back democracy. But pre-transition, prewar levels of democracy may predict both war and post-communist levels of democracy. After controlling for initial levels of democracy, it might emerge that war has no significant impact on later levels of democracy. These conjectures are supported if the years of regime change are used to measure pre-transition, prewar democracy. However, this measure is inapp…
Public Interest `Blackballing' in South Korea's Elections
South Korea's April 2000 congressional elections saw large numbers of incumbent candidates defeated. The South Korean mass media attributed considerable importance to the activities of a public interest umbrella organization, the Citizens' Alliance (CA) for the 2000 General Elections. CA `blackballed' 86 candidates of all parties as corrupt, unqualified or otherwise unsuited for office, and 59 of these candidates lost. After controlling for a var…
Explaining Peasant-Farmer Hegemony in Redistributive Politics
What are the most important cleavages created by political struggles over redistributive economic policies? What are the likely policy outcomes of these struggles? The classic answer to the first question is that the most important cleavage is that of class, dividing rich and poor. The class-based model is usually not taken to yield clear predictions about outcomes, because rich and poor would be expected to engage in an inconclusive bidding war …
South Korea and Japan since World War II
Since the end of World War II, relations between South Korea and Japan have gone through significant changes – from distant and hostile in the 1950s, to cooperative and increasingly close through about 2005, to the last decade of serious deterioration. Three frameworks are used to understand change and continuity in South Korea–Japan relations: a realist perspective emphasizing either structural military power relations or “revealed” patterns of …
Nationalist and Power-Seeking Leadership Preferences in Ethno-Territorial Conflicts
(2013). Nationalist and Power-Seeking Leadership Preferences in Ethno-Territorial Conflicts: Theory, a Measurement Framework, and Applications to the Breakup of Yugoslavia. Civil Wars: Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 508-530
Anti-Americanism in Electoral Politics
Since September 11, 2001, anti-Americanism has emerged as an important issue in international politics. In democratic election campaigns, anti-Americanism should be an attractive issue where it is expected to have a favorable impact on key swing vote constituencies. Anti-Americanism has certain inherent ideological appeals and more varied historically-based attractions. Anti-Americanism should be least attractive where countries continue to rely …
Islam and Ethnic Conflict
The end of the Cold War drew increasing attention to ongoing and new ethnic conflicts—particularly because many of the high-profile new conflicts broke out amid the ruins of communism. Since 11 September 2001 there has been even more discussion about whether and how Islam contributes to international and civilizational conflict. However, there has been little work attempting to understand whether Islam plays any distinctive role in ethnic conflic…
Pride and Prejudice in Prague
Failed banking sector policies and weak regulatory policies are the keys to the collapse of the Czech economic “miracle.” Why were these policy errors made? Why has it taken so long to correct them? We examine the roles of economic interest groups, political institutions, technocratic economic ideology, and political leadership. Initially, economic interest group support provided broad liberal constraints on economic policy making. Within this co…
Sources of Post-communist Democratization
The fall of communist regimes and the breakup of the multinational Soviet and Yugoslav states produced a remarkable experiment in regime change. Twenty-eight old, new and revived states emerged. While most adopted democratic institutions, many others evolved new variants of authoritarian rule. Some new democracies maintained much higher standards in upholding formal democratic rules and complementary freedoms of the press and political organizati…
Explaining Post-Soviet Ethnic Conflicts
The collapse of the Soviet Union unleashed a number of violent, usually secessionist ethnic conflicts. These conflicts were typically intensified (or “escalated”) by foreign intervention. Although there is a great deal of consensus about the fundamental forces driving these conflicts and their escalation, there remain considerable theoretical differences about how to understand these factors and assess their relative importance. These differences…
The Balance of Power
A game-theoretic model is used to show that the balance-of-power mechanism has much greater formal power than hitherto understood. Under the strong assumption that all threatened countries must be able to function as crucial coalition partners in deterring any threat, all members of minimum winning coalitions are guaranteed not to lose any resources. Under the traditional, weaker assumption that some coalition must be available to deter any threa…
Reconstructing Conflict in East Asia
Explaining Post-Soviet Ethnic Conflicts
The collapse of the Soviet Union unleashed a number of violent, usually secessionist ethnic conflicts. These conflicts were typically intensified (or “escalated”) by foreign intervention. Although there is a great deal of consensus about the fundamental forces driving these conflicts and their escalation, there remain considerable theoretical differences about how to understand these factors and assess their relative importance. These differences…
The Jewish Exodus from the New South Africa
In the 1990s, the Jewish population of South Africa declined at an unprecedented rate in marked contrast to Jewish populations in other English‐speaking countries. Possible explanations include fear of political instability and political violence, deteriorating economic conditions and prospects, fear of directly discriminatory government policies, rising violent crime rates, and more permissive immigration policies in desirable destination countr…
The Balance of Power
A game-theoretic model is used to show that the balance-of-power mechanism has much greater formal power than hitherto understood. Under the strong assumption that all threatened countries must be able to function as crucial coalition partners in deterring any threat, all members of minimum winning coalitions are guaranteed not to lose any resources. Under the traditional, weaker assumption that some coalition must be available to deter any threa…
Democratization, dispersed interest groups, and economic reform in South Korea
Public Interest `Blackballing' in South Korea's Elections
South Korea's April 2000 congressional elections saw large numbers of incumbent candidates defeated. The South Korean mass media attributed considerable importance to the activities of a public interest umbrella organization, the Citizens' Alliance (CA) for the 2000 General Elections. CA `blackballed' 86 candidates of all parties as corrupt, unqualified or otherwise unsuited for office, and 59 of these candidates lost. After controlling for a var…
Explaining regional economic policies in China
What explains variation in investment climates across China's provinces and urban autonomous regions? Three main explanations are considered: variation in the character and size of economic interest groups, in central government policies, and in pre-communist provincial identities and traditions. There is statistical and anecdotal support for the interest group and provincial identity factors. On the other hand, there is little evidence that vari…
Explaining Peasant-Farmer Hegemony in Redistributive Politics
What are the most important cleavages created by political struggles over redistributive economic policies? What are the likely policy outcomes of these struggles? The classic answer to the first question is that the most important cleavage is that of class, dividing rich and poor. The class-based model is usually not taken to yield clear predictions about outcomes, because rich and poor would be expected to engage in an inconclusive bidding war …
Pride and Prejudice in Prague
Failed banking sector policies and weak regulatory policies are the keys to the collapse of the Czech economic “miracle.” Why were these policy errors made? Why has it taken so long to correct them? We examine the roles of economic interest groups, political institutions, technocratic economic ideology, and political leadership. Initially, economic interest group support provided broad liberal constraints on economic policy making. Within this co…
Sources of Post-communist Democratization
The fall of communist regimes and the breakup of the multinational Soviet and Yugoslav states produced a remarkable experiment in regime change. Twenty-eight old, new and revived states emerged. While most adopted democratic institutions, many others evolved new variants of authoritarian rule. Some new democracies maintained much higher standards in upholding formal democratic rules and complementary freedoms of the press and political organizati…
War After Communism
How did war affect political and economic reform efforts across the post-communist world? War is hypothesized to have a negative political impact through three main mechanisms: distraction from any peacetime political and economic reform agenda; military defeat and disruption, and associated weakening or militarization of state authority; and postwar economic isolation. After controlling for cultural, economic, and institutional factors, statisti…
Human rights in the post-communist world
What are the most important causes of variation in human rights practices in the post-communist world? It is hypothesised that political institutions, cultures and national identities, economic development, and ethnic conflict should have significant impacts. These hypotheses are tested statistically for the 28 post-communist countries, at three different time intervals following the collapse of the old regimes. Economic development has a relativ…
Electoral Response to International Financial Crisis
In 1997, South Korea was hit by international financial crisis. In the ensuing presidential election, the primary issue was whether the crisis was best addressed by making structural changes to the old economic regime. Over the past several decades, South Korea's economy has been dominated by chaebol (large business conglomerates). Structural change involved cutting back chaebol financial privileges, changing their centralized system of corporate…
Structural Sources of Post-Communist Market Reform
Why did some post-communist countries implement more thorough market reforms than others? Four different structural explanations are considered: (1) relative size of economic interest group coalitions hurt by market reform; (2) predominant religious traditions, which may incorporate norms and institutions more or less favorable to market reform; (3) variation in historically based national economic and political expectations, in which greater pre…
Restarting Globalization after World War II
The present period of economic globalization originated following World War II. Given the strongly protectionist tendencies prevailing at the time, how did this happen? Structural economic and military causes, along with intervening coalitional and institutional factors, are considered. Trade policy change is examined in the five largest trading economies—Britain, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Japan, and the United States. Structural e…
Reversing Globalization
How did World War I reverse decades of apparently irresistible economic globalization? Why, in particular, did World War I produce a worldwide surge in international trade protection? Three mechanisms are investigated: (1) The War diverted production and international trade in a way that strengthened protectionist coalitions of industries relative to free-trading coalitions. (2) The War reduced financial interdependence and altered exchange rates…
Domestic Bank-Centered’ Financial Liberalization
Existing explanations of international financial liberalization tend to understate the economic and political importance of related policies governing domestic financial markets. Further, these approaches often fail to specify fully the links between the international economy and domestic politics. Initial financial liberalization is often ‘domestic bank-centered’, i.e. it preserves a privileged position for weakly regulated domestic banks as the…
Sources of Post-Communist Party System Consolidation
What are the causes of party system consolidation in the postcommunist democracies? It is frequently hypothesized that differences in electoral systems and presidential powers help to explain variation in party system consolidation. In addition, it can be argued that the numbers and support levels of political parties should be affected by the ideological peculiarities of different countries' voting publics. Population size might also be expected…
China's Grand Strategy, the Korean Nuclear Crisis, and the Six‐Party Talks
North Korea has pursued a nuclear weapons capability for about two decades. Many diplomatic efforts have been made to convince or cajole the Northern regime to give up this quest – and all have so far failed. Since 2003, a new multilateral approach – the Six‐Party Talks involving the Koreas, China, Japan, Russia, and the United States – has raised hopes anew. These hopes are based largely on China playing an active role. China has the potential b…
Debate
In the post-communist world, war appears to set back democracy. But pre-transition, prewar levels of democracy may predict both war and post-communist levels of democracy. After controlling for initial levels of democracy, it might emerge that war has no significant impact on later levels of democracy. These conjectures are supported if the years of regime change are used to measure pre-transition, prewar democracy. However, this measure is inapp…
Identity and Change in East Asian Conflicts
This book examines the changing national identities that are transforming East Asia - pushing China and Taiwan apart and toward a showdown, while propping up a weakened North Korea. Accomplished contr
Islam and Ethnic Conflict
The end of the Cold War drew increasing attention to ongoing and new ethnic conflicts—particularly because many of the high-profile new conflicts broke out amid the ruins of communism. Since 11 September 2001 there has been even more discussion about whether and how Islam contributes to international and civilizational conflict. However, there has been little work attempting to understand whether Islam plays any distinctive role in ethnic conflic…
Mapping Pathways of Ethnic Conflict Onset
Recent quantitative studies of ethnic conflict tend to have characteristic strengths and weaknesses. Strengths are typical of sophisticated statistical work: the influence of many explanatory variables is examined across large datasets. Weaknesses are largely traceable to shortcomings of theory and measurement. Territorial and other ethnic conflicts are sometimes pooled with other types of internal conflict, which seem likely to have a different …
Refining Research on Ethno-territorial War Onset
Democracies Fighting Ethnic Insurgencies
Ethnic insurgencies have received less scholarly attention than colonial or ideological insurgencies—even as they have become the predominant form of insurgency following the decolonization process and then the end of the Cold War. In the face of ethnic insurgencies, what determines the effectiveness of the various counterinsurgency strategies adopted by host states? Are democracies more likely to succeed by pursuing some kinds of counterinsurgen…
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