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All Terrorism is Local? A Quantitative Analysis of Al Qaeda Affiliation and Rebel Group Behavior (open access)

All Terrorism is Local? A Quantitative Analysis of Al Qaeda Affiliation and Rebel Group Behavior

Paper examines the effects of affiliation, focusing on Al Qaeda, on the behavior of rebel groups.
Date: 2014
Creator: Robbins, Arianna
System: The UNT Digital Library
All’s Well That Ends Better: Third-Party Intervention as a Challenge to Sovereignty (open access)

All’s Well That Ends Better: Third-Party Intervention as a Challenge to Sovereignty

Paper investigates the role third party intervention has played in undermining or bolstering the stability of a state’s leadership in a post-conflict setting via capacity building and legitimacy.
Date: 2014
Creator: VanMeter, Emily
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bottoms Up: How Subnational Elections Predict Parties' Decisions to Run in Presidential Elections in Europe and Latin America (open access)

Bottoms Up: How Subnational Elections Predict Parties' Decisions to Run in Presidential Elections in Europe and Latin America

This article argues that a party's presence in elections across subnational units and its subsequent performance in these elections are determining factors for whether it enters the presidential race.
Date: August 25, 2015
Creator: Spoon, Jae-Jae & Jones West, Karleen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Calling in the Big Guns: Desire for Military Intervention in Politics (open access)

Calling in the Big Guns: Desire for Military Intervention in Politics

Paper explores the relationship between perceptions of legitimacy and the desire for military intervention in politics.
Date: 2013
Creator: Hayden, Sarah L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coming Home Again: Repatriation and Peace Durability (open access)

Coming Home Again: Repatriation and Peace Durability

Paper explores the impact of repatriation on peace durability.
Date: 2012
Creator: Reinhardt, Katie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Decentralization and Conflict: The Missing Link in State Capacity Literature (open access)

Decentralization and Conflict: The Missing Link in State Capacity Literature

Paper explores the relationship between decentralization and the onset of civil wars.
Date: 2013
Creator: Fan, Derick
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discord is Beauty; Silence is Beast: Dissent in Authoritarian Regimes (open access)

Discord is Beauty; Silence is Beast: Dissent in Authoritarian Regimes

Paper explores the link between types of authoritarian regimes and violent and nonviolent dissent.
Date: 2013
Creator: Copeland, D.K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discourse and Dissonance: Religious Agendas in the 104th Congress (open access)

Discourse and Dissonance: Religious Agendas in the 104th Congress

This article investigates the religious dimension of Republican legislators' participation in one-minute speeches during the 104th Congress (1995-1996).
Date: August 20, 2015
Creator: Blackstone, Bethany & Oldmixon, Elizabeth Anne
System: The UNT Digital Library
Does the Truth Really Set You Free? Examining the Effect of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions on Social and Political Trust (open access)

Does the Truth Really Set You Free? Examining the Effect of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions on Social and Political Trust

Paper investigates the effect that truth and reconciliation commissions (TRCs) have on social and political trust in Africa, utilizing the Afrobarometer and World Values Survey.
Date: 2014
Creator: Mendez, Nicole
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Counterterrorist Policy on Terrorist Success in Western Europe (open access)

The Effect of Counterterrorist Policy on Terrorist Success in Western Europe

Paper examines the effectiveness of post-9/11 counterterrorism policies in Western Europe.
Date: 2010
Creator: McGee, Daniel
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Tangible and Intangible Salience on Conflict (open access)

The Effects of Tangible and Intangible Salience on Conflict

Paper explores the interaction effect of tangible and intangible salience on the management of contentious issues between countries.
Date: 2011
Creator: Barrett, Emily
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engendering Violence: The Acceptability of Domestic Violence as a Determinant of Intrastate Conflict (open access)

Engendering Violence: The Acceptability of Domestic Violence as a Determinant of Intrastate Conflict

Paper analyzes the influence of attitudes regarding domestic violence upon the likelihood of civil conflict.
Date: 2014
Creator: Leban, Lucy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Disasters and Subnational Conflict: A Study on the Effects of Environmental Disasters and Environmentally-Induced Migration on Subnational Conflict (open access)

Environmental Disasters and Subnational Conflict: A Study on the Effects of Environmental Disasters and Environmentally-Induced Migration on Subnational Conflict

Paper examines the effect of migration precipitated by environmental disasters on the likelihood of conflict in host communities.
Date: 2012
Creator: Manglaris, Angela
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ethnicity, Civil War and International Disputes (open access)

Ethnicity, Civil War and International Disputes

Paper explores the role played by ethnicity in civil war in terms of sparking international disputes.
Date: 2010
Creator: Kenwick, Michael
System: The UNT Digital Library
Expanding Powers, Gender Dynamics and Militarized Interstate Disputes: The Impact of National Material Capability and Gender on Onset and Escalation (open access)

Expanding Powers, Gender Dynamics and Militarized Interstate Disputes: The Impact of National Material Capability and Gender on Onset and Escalation

Paper explores the relationship between national capabilities and the likelihood of conflict, and in particular the impact of gender on this relationship.
Date: 2014
Creator: Ferris, Rachel Elizabeth
System: The UNT Digital Library
Explaining Peace Duration through Foreign Aid and Civil War Outcome (open access)

Explaining Peace Duration through Foreign Aid and Civil War Outcome

Paper explores the relationship between foreign aid and civil war outcome and analyzes the impact these factors have on peace duration in a post-conflict environment.
Date: 2011
Creator: Martinez, Melissa
System: The UNT Digital Library
Finding the Frontline in Civil Conflict: Looting and Recruiting in African Refugee Camps (open access)

Finding the Frontline in Civil Conflict: Looting and Recruiting in African Refugee Camps

This paper explores the relationship between the locations of conflict zones and refugee camps in African nations.
Date: 2014
Creator: Bolte, Brandon L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Food Price Shocks and Political Unrest (open access)

Food Price Shocks and Political Unrest

Paper explores why some countries experience protests in response to global food price shocks while others do not.
Date: 2011
Creator: Trail, Bobby Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gender Equality and Post-Conflict Peace (open access)

Gender Equality and Post-Conflict Peace

Paper explores relationship between gender equality and the duration of peace in post civil war societies.
Date: 2010
Creator: Kelly, Eliza
System: The UNT Digital Library
Globalization and Indigenous Group Violence in Latin America (open access)

Globalization and Indigenous Group Violence in Latin America

Paper investigates the relationship between levels of globalization and indigenous conflict in Latin America.
Date: 2010
Creator: Rojas, Jacqueline I.
System: The UNT Digital Library
High on Repression: How Military Involvement Increases Violence and Corruption When Fighting Drug Trafficking (open access)

High on Repression: How Military Involvement Increases Violence and Corruption When Fighting Drug Trafficking

Paper describes research that tests the effectiveness of a military approach versus an approach of social and judicial reform for fighting drug cartels.
Date: 2012
Creator: Torres, Roman D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Human Trafficking: An International Study (open access)

Human Trafficking: An International Study

Paper analyzes the factors that contribute to human trafficking worldwide.
Date: 2005
Creator: Johnykutty, Sophia
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inca Sí, Indio También: Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Conflict in Latin America (open access)

Inca Sí, Indio También: Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Conflict in Latin America

Paper investigates the relationship between the granting of indigenous rights and indigenous conflict in Latin America.
Date: 2011
Creator: Coffta, Odilia R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Mediation as a Rhetorical Situation: Connecting Context, Actors, and Strategy for Mediation Success (open access)

International Mediation as a Rhetorical Situation: Connecting Context, Actors, and Strategy for Mediation Success

Paper examines the relationship between characteristics of conflict situations, the participants in mediation processes, and mediation strategies and the influence of these characteristics on mediation success.
Date: 2011
Creator: Harroff, Lindsay
System: The UNT Digital Library