Journal article
Does Warfare Matter? Severity, Duration, and Outcomes of Civil Wars
- Abstract:
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Does it matter whether a civil war is fought as a conventional, irregular, or symmetric nonconventional conflict? Put differently, do “technologies of rebellion” impact a war’s severity, duration, or outcome? Our answer is positive. We find that irregular conflicts last significantly longer than all other types of conflict, while conventional ones tend to be more severe in terms of battlefield lethality. Irregular conflicts generate greater civilian victimization and tend to be won by incumbe...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal website
- Volume:
- 58
- Issue:
- 8
- Pages:
- 1390-1418
- Publication date:
- 2014-09-04
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1552-8766
- ISSN:
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0022-0027
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:820852
- UUID:
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uuid:048ebde1-bbd9-4f15-a84b-4b81c5e9246f
- Local pid:
- pubs:820852
- Source identifiers:
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820852
- Deposit date:
- 2019-06-28
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- Copyright holder:
- Balcells et al
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- © The Authors 2014.
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