An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and
other nations have played in shaping Syria's ongoing civil war" One of the best informed and …

An emerging literature on civil and international conflict management is developing and
testing insights from formal theories of conflict. Third parties may attempt to prevent or …

Existing research has related civil war primarily to country-specific factors or processes that
take place within individual states experiencing conflict. Many contemporary civil wars …

There is a long history of state governments providing support to nonstate armed groups
fighting battles in other countries. Examples include Syria's aid to Hamas, Ecuador's support …

Systems of law usually establish a hierarchy of norms based on the particular source from
which the norms derive. In national legal systems, it is commonplace for the fundamental …

To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To
answer this question, we exploit a unique natural experiment: the 2004 expiration of the US …

What explains the effect of external intervention on the duration of civil war? The literature on
intervention has made some progress in addressing this question, but it has been hindered …

The last fifteen years have seen a proliferation of peace agreements. Some 50 percent of
civil wars have terminated in peace agreements since 1990, more than in the previous two …

Although research on conflict has tended to separately study interstate conflict and civil war,
states experiencing civil wars are substantially more likely to become involved in militarized …

Settlements to civil conflict, which are notably difficult to secure, sometimes contain clauses
enabling the combatant sides to participate as political parties in post-conflict elections. In …