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Bridging Micro and Macro Approaches on Civil Wars and Political Violence
Balcells, Laia; Justino, Patricia - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 58 (2014) 8, pp. 1343-1359
This article reflects on the importance of linking micro and macro levels of analysis in order to advance our current understanding of civil wars and political violence processes and discusses the contributions of the articles in this special issue. We first identify the main problems in...
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Going Private
Baum, Matthew A. - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 48 (2004) 5, pp. 603-631
This study investigates why, despite the potential credibility enhancement associated with generating domestic audience costs, leaders (in this instance, U.S. presidents) frequently opt to “go private†by conducting foreign policy out of the public spotlight. The author argues that...
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Retributive Support for International Punishment and Torture
Liberman, Peter - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 57 (2013) 2, pp. 285-306
This article tests the hypothesis that ordinary people favor punishing badly behaved foreign actors to make them “pay†for their crimes rather than purely to protect national security interests. In an undergraduate sample, people’s endorsement of the principle of retributive...
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Children of War and Peace
Sagi-Schwartz, Abraham - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 56 (2012) 5, pp. 933-951
Political conflicts and intractable wars can be conceived as disasters of human activities and they affect the entire life of children and their families. An ecological-transactional perspective of human development is adopted in order to identify multilevel developmental and contextual...
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Power Cycles, Risk Propensity, and Great-Power Deterrence
Tessman, Brock F.; Chan, Steve - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 48 (2004) 2, pp. 131-153
tend to incline states to initiate deterrence confrontations and escalate them to war. Democratic states, however, are less …
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Opportunities to Fight
Clark, David H.; Regan, Patrick M. - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 47 (2003) 1, pp. 94-115
Quantitative social science relies centrally on the ideal that any concept can be operationalized and measured. Although notionally tenable, practical limits dictate that some concepts might be more easily and more reliably measured than others. Some conceptual variables are not easily...
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The Effects of Different Types of Military Mobilization on the Outcome of International Crises
Lai, Brian - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 48 (2004) 2, pp. 211-229
One dominant explanation for why crises escalate to war is based on misperception. Alternative rational explanations … for why crises escalate to war are examined, including commitment problems, the cost of revealing military advantages, and … a desire for greater future gains. These explanations for war argue that states are likely to prefer a military to a …
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The Common Priors Assumption
Fey, Mark; Ramsay, Kristopher W. - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 50 (2006) 4, pp. 607-613
In a recent article in this journal, Smith and Stam (2004) call into question the usefulness and applicability of what is know as the common priors assumption in the modeling of countries' strategic behavior in international relations. While the authors of this comment acknowledge that it is...
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Power Parity, Preponderance, and War between Great Powers, 1816-1989
Moul, William - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 47 (2003) 4, pp. 468-489
or encourage war between those two states? Distortions of both theory and evidence—mixing balances of power with … approximate parity in power capabilities encouraged war between great power disputants between 1816 and 1989. …
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Divergent Beliefs in “Bargaining and the Nature of Warâ€
Smith, Alastair; Stam, Allan C. - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 50 (2006) 4, pp. 614-618
€œBargaining and the Nature of War†(Smith and Stam 2004). In that article, the authors constructed a model of bargaining between two …, should a war between them continue to a decisive conclusion. The players' divergent beliefs make up one of the fundamental … potential causes of war in the model. Fey and Ramsay argue that Smith and Stam's departure from the standard common priors …
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