We argue that the United Nations Trusteeship System after World War II, in its attempts to
release states into independence, was simultaneously complicit in perpetuating secessionist …

Abstract Declarations of Independence (DoIs) tend to employ the grievance topoi as a
means to legitimize their demands for statehood. We find, however, that after the end of the …

The South Caucasus is an important region for the study of separatism. While separatist
tendencies are present in a large number of South Caucasian ethnic groups, there are …

What factors contributed to the centralization of colonial rule over time? I argue that internal
and external threats to the control of territories and populations can lead to the adoption of …

Empirical studies of the causes of civil war conceptualise onset as a binary event. That is,
either a civil war begins or not. Yet, this measure often does not correspond to observed …

Abstract Declarations of Independence (DoIs) tend to employ the grievance topoi as a
means to legitimize their demands for statehood. We find, however, that after the end of the …

The diffusion of episodes of terrorism and political violence around the world has
heightened the need for states to design effective counterterrorist measures. Orthodox …

This study aims to determine the relevance of the theoretical analysis of the phenomenon of
country annexation in the context of international relations, from 1816 to 2022 using …

How do civil wars begin? And does the type of onset impact how conflicts unfold? While the
study of why civil wars start has been a central focus in the literature on civil war, the study of …

This article presents a new integrative analytical framework for studying and understanding
the multitude of processes that make intrastate armed conflicts become internationalized in a …