“Re-examining the Military Victory as a Strategy for Identity-Based Civil War Termination”

Going in When it Counts: Military Intervention and the Outcome of Civil Conflicts∗

Conventional wisdom suggests that biased military interventions in civil conflicts should increase the probability that the supported side will win. However, while this is the case for rebel groups, the same is not true for governments. The explanation for this surprising finding becomes clear once one considers the decision of a third party intervener. Since interveners want to impact the outc...

American Self-Identification: A Strategy of Maintenance

Iran and Iraq's Approach toward International System and Its Impact on the Initiation and Termination of Imposed War

The main hypothesis of this article is that these two countries' approach toward the structure of international system and resulting policies toward this structure have played a pivotal role to initiate and terminate the war. The authors mainly argue that Iran's critic approach toward the structure of international system and its efforts to destroy such a structure opposed by Iraq's cooperation...

Simulation of The Impact of Income Distribution on Social Unrest Using Agent-based Modeling Approach

Abstract Poverty and various forms of inequality, including class, gender, racial, and ethnic inequalities, are caused by imbalances of power relations and make society prone to social instability and unrest; Inequalities that are by-products of the growing power imbalances between the rich and the poor. The problems of poverty and inequality are inextricably linked to powerful economic and p...

The Long Small War: Indigenous Forces for Counterinsurgency

T he United States and its partners are prosecuting a protracted war against insurgents and terrorists who are animated by an ideology stemming from a radical fundamentalist interpretation of Islam. As of early 2006, the American national security bureaucracy began to use the appellation the “long war” in place of the Global War on Terrorism. At least one document describes this long war as the...