Oppositions and deadly conflicts among ethnic collectivities are important around the word.
Ethnies (our term for ethnic groups) also strongly affect interstate relations. Both interethnic …

The comparative study of domestic political conflict has experienced a paradigm shift with
the replacement of theories emphasizing deprivation and system imbalance with theories of …

Aggregate data studies of domestic political conflict have used an Action-Reaction (AR)
model that has produced contradictory findings about the repression/dissent nexus …

Since the mid 1960s, theorists have elaborated over two dozen different solutions to the
collection action problem. During much of this same period, students of conflict have …

Propositions about determinants of political violence at the cross-national level are derived
from rational action theory and tested across the entire population of independent states in …

The task of this study is to determine if certain political and socioeconomic variables have
strong relationships with political repression conceptualized as disappearance, detention …

This article investigates the relationship between multiethnicity and domestic conflict from
1946 to 1992. Multiethnicity is measured by the size of the largest ethnic group, the number …

Contradictory findings, that economic inequality may have a positive, negative, or no impact
on political conflict, are a puzzle for conflict studies. Three approaches have been used to …

This volume, newly published in paperback, is part of a comprehensive effort by RJ Rummel
to understand and place in historical perspective the entire subject of genocide and mass …

In this article, we provide a systematic analysis of the extent to which political, economic, and
cultural factors are associated with civil wars in the post-colonial states of Africa, Asia, and …