Diplomacy and Other Forms of Intervention in Civil Wars

Patrick M. Regan and Aysegul Aydin
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Patrick M. Regan: Department of Political Science Binghamton University, New York
Aysegul Aydin: Department of Political Science Binghamton University, New York

Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2006, vol. 50, issue 5, 736-756

Abstract: Much of the empirical literature suggests that outside interventions tend to lengthen the expected duration of civil wars; conversely, the policy community often acts as if it holds the opposite expectation for the outcome of intervention. The authors argue that the divergence can be found in how models of intervention are specified in the literature. They propose a model with two novel contributions. First, they incorporate mediations as the key to resolving the strategic problems that the civil war parties face. Second, they account for the decaying effect of interventions over time. Their results suggest that diplomacy is critical for understanding the duration of civil conflicts. They find that mediation has a dramatic effect on the expected duration of a civil war and that when controlling for diplomatic efforts, economic interventions can also reduce the expected duration.

Keywords: diplomacy; interventions; civil war; mediation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1177/0022002706291579

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