Journal article
Conflict Environments and Civil War Onset
Journal of global security studies, Vol.6(2), ogz064
2021
DOI: 10.1093/jogss/ogz064
Abstract
The spread of civil war poses serious risks and costs. We argue that conflict environments, which vary across time and space, systematically exacerbate the spread of civil war. As conflict in a state’s neighborhood becomes more spatially proximate and as lingering effects of conflict accumulate over time, that state’s risk of civil war onset increases. To theorize and test this argument, we construct the conflict environment (CE) score, a concept that taps into spatial and temporal dimensions of violence in a state’s neighborhood. Using the CE score in established empirical models of civil war onset, we demonstrate that a dangerous conflict environment consistently elevates the risk of civil war, outperforming traditional measures of nearby violence, even when domestic factors are taken into account.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Conflict Environments and Civil War Onset
- Creators
- Lindsay Reid - Gettysburg CollegeRachel Myrick - Stanford UniversityKelly M Kadera - University of IowaMark J C Crescenzi - University of North Carolina
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of global security studies, Vol.6(2), ogz064
- DOI
- 10.1093/jogss/ogz064
- ISSN
- 2057-3170
- eISSN
- 2057-3189
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2021
- Academic Unit
- Political Science; International Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9983983395202771
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