Search for dissertations about: "civil war"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 89 swedish dissertations containing the words civil war.
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21. Foreign Intervention in Internal Wars : The Case of the Nigerian Civil War 1967-70
Abstract : Scholars of widely diverging persuasions have recognized the implications of the world constellation in which the discourse on foreign intervention with all its manifestations in a civil war has an explanatory value. How-ever, a number of long-standing theoretical, methodological and epistemological challenges still resist clearcut solution. READ MORE
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22. Living With Bad Surroundings : War and Existential Uncertainty in Acholiland, Northern Uganda
Abstract : War has ravaged Acholiland in northern Uganda since 1986. The Ugandan army is fighting a rebel insurgency group called the Lord’s Resistance Movement/Army. READ MORE
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23. The Onset of Ethnic War as a Bargaining Process : Testing a Signaling Model
Abstract : Most theories of ethnic conflict explain ethnic war by reference to the factors that motivate and enable ethnic groups to rebel. To rebel is to rise up against or challenge government authority; but for war to be the outcome of a challenge the government must attempt to forcefully reassert its authority. READ MORE
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24. Guns and Governance : Local Elites and Rebel Governance in Côte d'Ivoire
Abstract : Close to one billion people live in conflict zones around the world, many of them in areas under rebel influence. Research on civil war shows that rebels often engage in governing localities under their control by creating institutions and practices intended to shape the social, political, and economic life of civilians. READ MORE
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25. A Scramble for Rents : Foreign Aid and Armed Conflict
Abstract : Previous research has not specified the circumstances under which foreign aid may increase the probability of armed conflict. The purpose of this dissertation is to address this gap by employing a theoretical framework in which foreign aid produces incentives for a rent-seeking scramble among elites. READ MORE