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Author: Joel David Singer
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780472101665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of articles that details the efforts of the Correlates of War Project in data generation and indicator construction
Author: J. David Singer
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Published: 1990-05-01
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780788194238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Correlates of War Project, launched in the 1960s, is 3one of the major social science projects of this century and since 1941 the major research project on the causes of war.2 Participants in the Project have developed and analyzed research methods of use to scholars in all areas of the social sciences. These essays detail the achievements of the Project in data generation and the construction of indicators for such key concepts as power, polarity, and war. Discusses methodological difficulties and offers evaluation and comparison of key measures in relation to nat. attributes, systemic attributes, alliances among nations, and militarized disputes.
Author: Joel David Singer
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 442
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 374
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jeffrey S. Dixon
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2015-10-22
Total Pages: 817
ISBN-13: 0872897753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title describes how civil war is defined and categorized and presents data and descriptions for nearly 300 civil wars waged from 1816 to the present. Analyzing trends over time and regions, this work is the definitive source for understanding the phenomenon of civil war.
Author: Paul Diehl
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2010-06-02
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0472026917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides the first detailed analysis of international rivalries, the long-standing and often violent confrontations between the same pairs of states. The book addresses conceptual components of rivalries and explores the origins, dynamics, and termination of the most dangerous form of rivalry--enduring rivalry--since 1816. Paul Diehl and Gary Goertz identify 1166 rivalries since 1816. They label sixty-three of those as enduring rivalries. These include the competitions between the United States and Soviet Union, India and Pakistan, and Israel and her Arab neighbors. The authors explain how rivalries form, evolve, and end. The first part of the book deals with how to conceptualize and measure rivalries and presents empirical patterns among rivalries in the period 1816-1992. The concepts derived from the study of rivalries are then used to reexamine two central pieces of international relations research, namely deterrence and "democratic peace" studies. The second half of the book builds an explanation of enduring rivalries based on a theory adapted from evolutionary biology, "punctuated equilibrium." The study of international rivalries has become one of the centerpieces of behavioral research on international conflict. This book, by two of the scholars who pioneered such studies, is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject. It will become the standard reference for all future studies of rivalries. Paul F. Diehl is Professor of Political Science and University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar, University of Illinois. He is the coeditor of Reconstructing Realpolitik and coauthor of Measuring the Correlates of War. Gary Goertz is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Arizona, and is the coauthor with Paul Diehl of Territorial Change and International Conflict.
Author: Richard Caplan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 0198810369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn essential and accessible guide to the assessment of the effectiveness of peace-building policies for all those working in, or studying, the area.
Author: Bear F. Braumoeller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-02-11
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1139560441
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo great leaders make history? Or are they compelled to act by historical circumstance? This debate has remained unresolved since Thomas Carlyle and Karl Marx framed it in the mid-nineteenth century, yet implicit answers inform our policies and our views of history. In this book, Professor Bear F. Braumoeller argues persuasively that both perspectives are correct: leaders shape the main material and ideological forces of history that subsequently constrain and compel them. His studies of the Congress of Vienna, the interwar period, and the end of the Cold War illustrate this dynamic, and the data he marshals provide systematic evidence that leaders both shape and are constrained by the structure of the international system.
Author: Barbara F. Walter
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-04-13
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 140082446X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy do some civil wars end in successfully implemented peace settlements while others are fought to the finish? Numerous competing theories address this question. Yet not until now has a study combined the historical sweep, empirical richness, and conceptual rigor necessary to put them thoroughly to the test and draw lessons invaluable to students, scholars, and policymakers. Using data on every civil war fought between 1940 and 1992, Barbara Walter details the conditions that lead combatants to partake in what she defines as a three-step process--the decision on whether to initiate negotiations, to compromise, and, finally, to implement any resulting terms. Her key finding: rarely are such conflicts resolved without active third-party intervention. Walter argues that for negotiations to succeed it is not enough for the opposing sides to resolve the underlying issues behind a civil war. Instead the combatants must clear the much higher hurdle of designing credible guarantees on the terms of agreement--something that is difficult without outside assistance. Examining conflicts from Greece to Laos, China to Columbia, Bosnia to Rwanda, Walter confirms just how crucial the prospect of third-party security guarantees and effective power-sharing pacts can be--and that adversaries do, in fact, consider such factors in deciding whether to negotiate or fight. While taking many other variables into account and acknowledging that third parties must also weigh the costs and benefits of involvement in civil war resolution, this study reveals not only how peace is possible, but probable.
Author: Morten Jerven
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-14
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1317552989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe chief economist for the World Bank's Africa region, Shanta Devarajan, delivered a devastating assessment of the capacity of African states to measure development in his 2013 article "Africa's Statistical Tragedy". Is there a "statistical tragedy" unfolding in Africa now? If so then examining the roots of the problem of provision of statistics in poor economies is certainly of great importance. This book on measuring African development in the past and in the present draws on the historical experience of colonial French West Africa, Ghana, Sudan, Mauritania and Tanzania and the more contemporary experiences of Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The authors each reflect on the changing ways statistics represent African economies and how they are used to govern them. This bookw as published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies.
