When and how the fighting stops: Explaining the duration and outcome of civil wars

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 415-434

  Brandt, Patrick T ^a   Mason, T David ^b   Gurses, Mehmet ^c   Petrovsky, Nicolai ^d   Radin, Dagmar ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Civil war; Competing risks; Conflict resolution; Duration

Indexed keywords

EID: 56649117683     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: 14768267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10242690701823267     Document Type: Article

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