Global civil war and post-9/11 discourse inThe Wasted Vigil

Globalization and Civil War

Terrorism, Civil War Outcomes, and Post-war Stability: Hypotheses and (very) Preliminary Findings

How does the use of terror tactics by one or both sides affect the likelihood of negotiations or the chances for their success? Are terrorist wars more likely to end with the defeat of one side rather than a compromise outcome? Are conflicts that involve terrorism any more or less likely to resume than others? The use of terror seem to make peace close to impossible in some cases (the Palestini...

The post-war public health effects of civil conflict.

Civilian suffering from civil war extends well beyond the period of active warfare. We examine longer-term effects in a cross-national analysis of World Health Organization data on death and disability broken down by age, gender, and type of disease or condition. We find substantial long-term effects, even after controlling for several other factors. We estimate that the additional burden of de...

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Selected Iranian and Saudi Arabian Print Media on Civil War in Syria

Abstract This study tried to examine the relationship between language strategies/sources and ideologies, and how ideologies are constructed and expressed through language strategies in different English newspapers with different political contexts. The focus of the study was on the style of representation of Syrian civil war in Tehran-Times and Asharq Al-Awsat newspapers. The data from these n...

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Selected Iranian and Saudi Arabian Print Media on Civil War in Syria

Abstract This study tried to examine the relationship between language strategies/sources and ideologies, and how ideologies are constructed and expressed through language strategies in different English newspapers with different political contexts. The focus of the study was on the style of representation of Syrian civil war in Tehran-Times and Asharq Al-Awsat newspapers. The data from these n...