Sharing Power, Securing Peace?: Ethnic Inclusion and Civil War

ISBN-13: 9781108406550 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Julian (University College London) Wucherpfennig

Opis

Shows how power-sharing practices reduce violence both preventively and after conflicts by giving potential violent challengers access to central and/or regional power.

Recenzje

'As Fred Iklé's classic book states in its title, 'Every War Must End,' and most civil wars end with some form of power-sharing, formal or informal, between the state and its challengers. This landmark book by Cederman, Hug, and Wucherpfennig offers valuable new insights and a wealth of new empirical results on whether sharing power helps secure the peace in the aftermath of ethnic war. With attention to the usual methodological pitfalls in the analysis of observational data and conceptual innovations throughout their book, Cederman, Hug, and Wucherpfennig provide a strong argument for the peace-inducing effects of the practice - rather than merely the promise - of sharing political power, while also noting that power-sharing institutions are no panacea. This extraordinary book charts the way forward in the quantitative study of civil war.' Nicholas Sambanis, Professor of Political Science, The University of Pennsylvania

Spis treści

1. Introduction; Part I. Theories and concepts; 2. Power sharing and conflict in the literature; 3. Key concepts and arguments of our approach; Part II. Analyzing the effect of power sharing on civil war; 4. Power sharing and civil war: Data and baseline models; 5. Contrasting formal power-sharing institutions and practices; 6. Endogenizing governmental power sharing and its effect on civil war; 7. The strategic logic of governmental power sharing and civil war; 8. The effect of territorial and governmental power sharing on civil war; 9. The strategic logic of territorial power sharing, secession and civil war; Part III. Power sharing and civil war in time and space; 10. The diffusion of power sharing; 11. Trends in power sharing and conflict; 12. Conclusions for theory and policy.