What Is a Civil War? A Critical Review of Its Definition and (Econometric) Consequences

• Tác giả: Mark Gersovitz
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 341.68 +Law of nations and civil war
• Thông tin xuất bản: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank, 2015
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 293320
• Chủ đề: 1. Civil wars; 2. combatants; 3. postwar reconstruction; 4. rehabilitation; 5. violence

Tóm tắt

 We argue that the academic literature, both qualitative and quantitative, has mislabeled most episodes of large-scale violence in Africa as civil wars
  these episodes better fit our concept of regional war complexes. Our paper seeks to highlight the fundamental flaws in the conception of civil war in the econometric literature and their implications for econometric specification and estimation, problems that this literature is inherently incapable of rectifying. We advocate the comparative study of regional war complexes in Africa based on historical narratives.