What is civil war? Conceptual and empirical complexities of an operational definition

Journal of Conflict Resolution

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 814-858

  Sambanis, Nicholas ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Civil war; Coding rules; Correlates of War; Data sets

Indexed keywords

EID: 9944235712     PISSN: 00220027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022002704269355     Document Type: Review

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