Border settlement and the movement toward and from negative peace

Andrew P. Owsiak, Paul F. Diehl and Gary Goertz
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Andrew P. Owsiak: University of Georgia, USA
Paul F. Diehl: University of Texas—Dallas, USA
Gary Goertz: University of Notre Dame, USA

Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2017, vol. 34, issue 2, 176-193

Abstract: How does border settlement—that is, the management of salient territorial conflict—affect the prospects for negative peace? Using recently released data on dyadic interstate relationships during the period 1946–2001, we build on territorial peace research to argue, predict, and find three connections between border settlement and negative peace. More specifically, border settlement: (a) increases the likelihood that a dyad is at negative peace; (b) raises the likelihood that dyads transition from rivalry to negative peace relationships; and (c) consolidates negative peace—by impeding transitions toward rivalry relationships. We confirm each of these findings with a commonly used measure of border settlement, as well as an alternative indicator of unsettled borders: civil wars. These findings cumulatively support our argument, demonstrate the importance of studying relationships outside the rivalry context, and suggest that border settlement plays a critical role in the emergence and consolidation of negative peace.

Keywords: Democracy; interstate borders; negative peace; rivalry; territorial conflict (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/0738894216650420

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