Political Violence

VOLUME ONE: CONCEPTS AND THEORIES OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE The Melian Dialogue from History of the Peloponnesian Wars - Thucydides War Is an Instrument of Policy and Arming the Nation, from On War - Carl von Clausewitz The Renaissance of Security Studies - Stephen Walt Human Security - Roland Paris Paradigm Shift or Hot Air? War-Making and State-Making as Organized Crime - Charles Tilly Transnational Dimensions of Civil War - Kristian Gleditsch The Diffusion of Revolution - Kurt Weyland '1848' in Europe and Latin America Silver or Lead - William Finnegan The Drug Cartel La Familia Gives Local Officials a Choice: Take a Bribe or a Bullet What Is Civil War? Conceptual and Empirical Complexities of an Operational Definition - Nicholas Sambanis 'New' and 'Old' Civil Wars - Stathis Kalyvas A Valid Distinction? States, Insurgents and Wartime Political Orders - Paul Staniland Hobbes and the Congo - Severine Autesserre Frames, Local Violence and International Intervention The Core Commitments of Critical Terrorism Studies - Richard Jackson The Case for Calling Them Nitwits - Daniel Byman and Christine Fair Non-State Actors and the Diffusion of Innovations - Michael Horowitz The Case of Suicide Terrorism Looking for Waves of Terrorism - Karen Rasler and William Thompson VOLUME TWO: CAUSES OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE Final Solutions - Benjamin Valentino The Causes of Mass Killing and Genocide Violence against Civilians in War - Kristine Eck and Lisa Hultman Insights from New Fatality Data Ethnicity, Insurgency and Civil War - James Fearon and David Laitin Greed, Grievance and Mobilization in Civil Wars - Patrick Regan and Daniel Norton The Security Dilemma and Ethnic Conflict - Barry Posen Symbolic Politics or Rational Choice? Testing Theories of Extreme Ethnic Violence - Stuart Kaufman Horizontal Inequalities and Ethno-Nationalist Civil War - Lars-Erik Cederman, Nils B. Weidmann and Kristian Skrede Gledistch A Global Comparison Ideology in Context - James Ron Explaining Sendero Luminoso's Tactical Escalation Spoiling inside and out - Wendy Pearlman Internal Political Contestation and the Middle East Peace Process Following the money: Muslim versus Muslim in Bosnia's civil war - Fotini Christia Does Conflict Beget Conflict? Explaining Recurring Civil War - Barbara Walter The Causes of Terrorism - Martha Crenshaw The Structural Causes of Oppositional Political Terrorism - Jeffrey Ian Ross Towards a Causal Model VOLUME THREE: DYNAMICS OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE Wanton and Senseless? The Logic of Massacres in Algeria - Stathis Kalyvas Moral Disengagement in the Perpetration of Inhumanities - Albert Bandura The Dynamic Relationship between Protest and Repression - Sabine Carey Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Paul Staniland Insurgent Fratricide, Ethnic Defection and the Rise of Pro-State Paramilitaries Transnational Rebels - Idean Saleyhan Neighboring States as Sanctuary for Rebel Groups Variation in Sexual Violence during War - Elisabeth Jean Wood Strategic Engineered Migration as a Weapon of War - Kelly Greenhill Strategies of Terrorism - Barbara Walter and Andrew Kydd The political effectiveness of terrorism revisited - Max Abrahms Palestinian Suicide Bombing - Mia Bloom Public Support, Market Share and Outbidding Why do some civil wars last so much longer than others? - James Fearon Rage against the Machines - Jason Lyall and Isaiah Wilson III Explaining Outcomes in Counter-Insurgency Wars VOLUME FOUR: RESPONSES AND ALTERNATIVES TO POLITICAL VIOLENCE Give War a Chance - Edward Luttwak Ending Civil Wars - Monica Duffy Toft A Case for Rebel Victory? Does Indiscriminate Violence Incite Insurgent Attacks? Evidence from Chechnya - Jason Lyall The Dynamics of Violence in Vietnam: - Matthew Adam Kocher and Stathis Kalyvas An Analysis of the Hamlet Evaluation System (HES) Spoiler Problems in Peace Processes - Stephen Stedman Escaping the symbolic politics trap: Reconciliation initiatives and conflict resolution in ethnic wars - Stuart Kaufman International Peace-Building - Michael Doyle and Nicholas Sambanis A Theoretical and Quantitative Analysis When Duty Calls - Robert Pape A Pragmatic Standard of Humanitarian Intervention Stabilizing the Peace after Civil War - Caroline Hartzell, Matthew Hoddie and Donald Rothchild An Investigation of Some Key Variables Why Respecting Physical Integrity Rights Reduces Terrorism - James Walsh and James Piazza Negotiating with Terrorists - Peter Neumann Why Civil Resistance Works - Maria Stephan and Erica Chenoweth The Strategic Logic of Non-Violent Conflict