External interventions and the duration of civil wars

The authors combine an empirical model of external intervention with a theoretical model of civil war duration. Their empirical model of intervention allows them to analyze civil war duration using "expected" rather than "actual" external intervention as an explanatory variable i...

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Main Author: Elbadawi, Ibrahim A.
Corporate Author: World Bank Development Research Group
Other Authors: Sambanis, Nicholas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C World Bank, Development Research Group, Public Economics 2000
Series:Policy research working paper
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Collection: World Bank E-Library Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:The authors combine an empirical model of external intervention with a theoretical model of civil war duration. Their empirical model of intervention allows them to analyze civil war duration using "expected" rather than "actual" external intervention as an explanatory variable in the duration model. Unlike previous studies, they find that external intervention is positively associated with the duration of civil war--Summary findings
Item Description:"September 2000"--Cover. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 17-18). - Title from title screen as viewed on Oct. 10, 2002