WHY DO ETHNIC GROUPS REBEL ? New Data and Analysis By LARS - ERIK CEDERMAN

Ethnic Politics and Armed Conflict: A Configurational Analysis of a New Global Data Set

struggles would transform the world during the twentieth century. Instead, it turned out to be the age of ethnonationalist conflicts. Wars fought in the name of national liberation or ethnic autonomy comprise only one fifth of the wars between the Congress of Vienna (1814) and the Treaty of Versailles (1919). From Versailles to 2001, however, the share of ethnonationalist wars rose to 45 percen...

Why Do Ethnic Groups rEbEl? new Data and Analysis

D its fundamental role in legitimizing the modern state system, nationalism has rarely been linked to the outbreak of political violence in the recent literature on ethnic conflict and civil war. to a large extent, this is because the state is absent from many conventional theories of ethnic conflict. indeed, some studies analyze conflict between ethnic groups under conditions of state failure,...

Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Nationalism and Bounded Integration: What It Would Take to Construct a European Demos Eui Working Papers

Unequal We Fight: The Impact of Economic Inequality Within Ethnic Groups on Conflict Initiation

Rebel mobilization is a crucial component of conflict initiation, but the existing civil war literature has not given adequate attention to this element in an ethnic group’s decision to fight. In this paper we look at the mobilization process by considering the impact of intragroup economic inequality on conflict. We argue that an ethnic group’s economic inequality is negatively related to its ...

Causal Inference with Spatially Disaggregated Data: Some Potentials and Limits

In studies of civil strife, the ecological fallacy seems to befall all large-n studies and thus there has been a big push, by several researchers, in recent years to gather disaggregated, spatially explicit data. An interesting example is the recently assembled geo-reference Ethno-Power Relations dataset (Wimmer et al.), and used by Cederman et al. (2011) to argue that political exclusion and g...