Rebellion

Research on violent mobilization broadly emphasizes who joins rebellions and why , but neglects to explain the timing or nature… Expand

In 1975, most civil wars were located in Asia, and all but two were guerrilla wars—contests entailing an asymmetric rebel… Expand

We apply formal, statistical measurement models to the Polity indicators, used widely in studies of international relations to… Expand

Dictatorships are not all the same: some are purely autocratic but many exhibit a full panoply of seemingly democratic… Expand

How do a few Third World conflicts become international causes celebres, while most remain isolated and unknown? Why, for… Expand

The idea that we might be robots is no longer the stuff of science fiction; decades of research in evolutionary biology and… Expand

This article presents an agent-based computational model of civil violence. Two variants of the civil violence model are… Expand

Geographical factors play a critical role in determining how a civil war is fought and who will prevail. Drawing on the PRIO… Expand

1 ABSTRACT Civil war is fought between two political organizations, the state and a rebel group. Myriad theories of civil war… Expand

The authors investigate whether civil wars have economic causes. The model is based on utility theory, rebels will conduct a… Expand