Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop 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...

بررسی تطبیقی دیپلماسی آمریکا درقبال جنگ عراق علیه ایران و کویت

Successive changes in the Persian Gulf region after fall of the Shah In 1979, led invasion of Iraq to Iran. According to experts in International politics, Iraq’s attack is known as America’s proxy war against Iran with at least cost for its main party, America, and extensive damages for Iraq and Iran later. America's actions in the Iran-Iraq war caused to decrease credibility of United Nations...

A Roadmap to Realistic Computational Models of Civil Wars

Introduction Civil wars arguably pose the most serious problem to security in the contemporary world. Since the end of World War II, internal conflicts have become much more frequent than wars among states (Sollenberg and Wallensteen 2001). Accordingly, it does not come as a surprise that most conflict analysts have increasingly come to shift their research toward civil wars (Lake 2003). There ...

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

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

*Correspondence should be directed to Lars-Erik Cederman ([email protected]). We would like to thank the many individuals who helped assemble the data set on which this article relies. We cannot list all country experts who generously shared their knowledge, but we should like to mention Dennis Avilés, Yuval Feinstein, Dmitry Gorenburg, Wesley Hiers, Lutz Krebs, Patrick Kuhn, Anoop Sarbahi, Jam...