Researching a Civil War Drummer Boy

Civil War in Cyberspace

In der Informationsgesellschaft nehmen auch in Deutschland aggressive und kriminelle Handlungen (Computermißbrauch) ausweislich der jährlichen Kriminalstatistik [BMI02] zu. Weniger Bedeutung wird in Deutschland bisher politisch–motivierten Aktionen beigemessen. Weltweit werden klassische Verfahren wie ziviler Ungehorsam, innere Unruhen und Bürgerkrieg zunehmend durch IT–gestützte Verfahren ergä...

Globalization and Civil War

Repression or Civil War?∗

Perhaps the crowning achievement of mature democracies is the peaceful acceptance of the ballot box as the primary instrument for deciding who should hold power in society. We do not have to go far back in the history of most democratic states, however, to find a distinct role for political violence. Moreover, many inhabitants of the globe still remain at risk of falling prey to widespread viol...

Kentucky Civil War recruits: a medical profile.

The Civil War remains the most thoroughly explored field for research among American historians. Battles are fought and refought, strategies analysed in the light of modem mijitary thought, and seemingly every minute aspect of the Brothers' War is probed, then probed again. Yet with the exception of Bell I. Wiley,' George W. Adams,2 Horace H. Cunningham,3 and a few others,4 historians have devo...

Understanding Civil War: a New Agenda

1 The papers in this Special Issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution are drawn from the first round of a research project on civil war initiated by the World Bank. 2 Civil war is pertinent to the World Bank because it occurs disproportionately in low-income countries and evidently further reduces income. Hence, it is of concern for an organization whose mission is poverty reduction. Since t...