'No peace, no war' proponents? How pro-regime militias affect civil war termination and outcomes. (March 2019)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'No peace, no war' proponents? How pro-regime militias affect civil war termination and outcomes. (March 2019)
- Main Title:
- 'No peace, no war' proponents? How pro-regime militias affect civil war termination and outcomes
- Authors:
- Aliyev, Huseyn
- Abstract:
- Previous research on non-state actors involved in civil wars has tended to disregard the role of extra-dyad agents in influencing conflict outcomes. Little is known as to whether the presence of such extra-dyadic actors as pro-regime militias affects conflict termination and outcomes. This article develops and tests a number of hypotheses on the pro-government militias' effect upon civil war outcomes. It proposes that pro-regime militias involved in intrastate conflicts tend to act as proponents of 'no peace, no war', favouring low-activity violence and ceasefires over other conflict outcomes. These hypotheses are examined using an expanded dataset on pro-government militias and armed conflict in a statistical analysis of 229 civil war episodes from 1991 to 2015. These findings shed new light on the role of extra-state actors in civil wars.
- Is Part Of:
- Cooperation and conflict. Volume 54:Number 1(2019:Mar.)
- Journal:
- Cooperation and conflict
- Issue:
- Volume 54:Number 1(2019:Mar.)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 54, Issue 1 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 54
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0054-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 64
- Page End:
- 82
- Publication Date:
- 2019-03
- Subjects:
- Armed groups -- civil war -- conflict outcome -- extra-dyadic -- extra-state
International cooperation -- Periodicals
327.05 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.uk.sagepub.com/home.nav ↗
http://cac.sagepub.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/0010836718766380 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0010-8367
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