No peace, no war’ proponents? How pro-regime militias affect civil war termination and outcomes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8912366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Huseyn Aliyev (0000-0002-3305-5433, University of Glasgow, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 64-82 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cooperation and Conflict (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-8367 • E-ISSN: 1460-3691 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0010836718766380 |
| OpenAlex | W2804614321 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 58 |
Previous research on non-state actors involved in civil wars has tended to disregard the role of extra-dyad agents in influencing conflict outcomes. Little is known as to whether the presence of such extra-dyadic actors as pro-regime militias affects conflict termination and outcomes. This article develops and tests a number of hypotheses on the pro-government militias’ effect upon civil war outcomes. It proposes that pro-regime militias involved in intrastate conflicts tend to act as proponents of ‘no peace, no war’, favouring low-activity violence and ceasefires over other conflict outcomes. These hypotheses are examined using an expanded dataset on pro-government militias and armed conflict in a statistical analysis of 229 civil war episodes from 1991 to 2015. These findings shed new light on the role of extra-state actors in civil wars
Affect (linguistics · Armed conflict · Civil Conflict · Dyad · Government (linguistics · Peacebuilding · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Psychology · Social Psychology
Negotiating Peace with Pro-Government Militias
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From Control to Conflict
Peace Processes and the Integration of Pro-Government Militias
Varieties of post-civil war violence
The legacy of war
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Ethnicity and conflict severity
Spoiling the Broth? The Impact of Militia Violence on Peace Negotiations
Why Are Some Civil Wars More Lethal Than Others? The Effect of Pro-Regime Proxies on Conflict Lethality
The Ties That Bind
The credible commitment problem and multiple armed groups
No Other Way Out
Warlords and Coalition Politics in Post-Soviet States
Proxy Warriors
States, the security sector, and the monopoly of violence
State of Siege
Death Squads or Self-Defense Forces
The Individual Disengagement of Avengers, Nationalists, and Jihadists
Human Trafficking, Human Security, and the Balkans
The Logic of Violence in Civil War
The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend … The Dynamics of Self-Defense Forces in Irregular War
The terror that underpins the ‘peace’
Transitional Subjects
Arming civilians as a counterterror strategy
Terrorist Factions
No war, no peace
When and How Do Militias Disband? Global Patterns of Pro-Government Militia Demobilization in Civil Wars
Civilian Defense Forces, State Capacity, and Government Victory in Counterinsurgency Wars
Pro-Government Militias and the Repertoires of Illicit State Violence
Strong militias, weak states and armed violence
Anatomy of a surrogate
The Impact of Pro-Government Militias on Human Rights Violations
Precipitating state failure
Ethnicity, the State, and the Duration of Civil War
A Plague of Initials
Militias in Civil Wars
How Civil Wars Help Explain Organized Crime—and How They Do Not
Governments, Informal Links to Militias, and Accountability
It Takes Two
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Geography, Rebel Capability, and the Duration of Civil Conflict
Militias, Ideology, and the State
Introduction to Special Issue on “Disaggregating Civil War
Regulating Militias
Explaining the Severity of Civil Wars
Risk Mitigation, Regime Security, and Militias
Rage Against the Machines
Explaining External Support for Insurgent Groups
Disaggregating Ethno-Nationalist Civil Wars
Veto Players and Civil War Duration
Bureaucratic façade and political realities of disarmament and demobilisation in Afghanistan
Evaluating the efficacy of indigenous forces in counterinsurgency
The Dynamics of Violence in Vietnam
Partial Peace
Pro-regime Militias and Civil War Duration
Ethnic Politics and Armed Conflict
Defected and loyal? A case study of counter-defection mechanisms inside Chechen paramilitaries
Relative Capability and Rebel Objective in Civil War
How and when armed conflicts end
Transnational Dimensions of Civil War
Armed Conflict 1946-2001
The Dynamics of Civil War Duration and Outcome
Why Do Some Civil Wars Last So Much Longer than Others
Policing the Remnants of War
Rondas Campesinas in the Peruvian Civil War
International Peacebuilding
Are Coethnics More Effective Counterinsurgents? Evidence from the Second Chechen War
Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |