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Ethnonationalist triads: assessing the influence of Kin groups on civil wars / Cederman, Lars-Erik; Girardin, Luc; Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede   Journal Article
Cederman, Lars-Erik Journal Article
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Publication 2009.
Summary/Abstract Although the case-based literature suggests that kin groups are prominent in ethnonationalist conflicts, quantitative studies of civil war onset have both overaggregated and underaggregated the role of ethnicity, by looking at civil war at the country level instead of among specific groups and by treating individual countries as closed units, ignoring groups' transnational links. In this article the authors integrate transnational links into a dyadic perspective on conflict between marginalized ethnic groups and governments. They argue that transnational links can increase the risk of conflict as transnational kin support can facilitate insurgencies and are difficult for governments to target or deter. The empirical analysis, using new geocoded data on ethnic groups on a transnational basis, indicates that the risk of conflict is high when large, excluded ethnic groups have transnational kin in neighboring countries, and it provides strong support for the authors' propositions on the importance of transnational ties in ethnonationalist conflict.
Key Words Ethnonationalist Triads  Kin Groups  Civil War 
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Integrating data on ethnicity, geography, and conflict : the ethnic power relations data set family / Vogt, Manuel; Bormann, Nils-Christian ; Cederman, Lars-Erik ; Girardin, Luc   Article
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Summary/Abstract This article introduces the new Family of Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) data sets, version 2014, which is the latest in a series of data sets on ethnicity that have stimulated civil war research in the past decade. The EPR Family provides data on ethnic groups’ access to state power, their settlement patterns, links to rebel organizations, transborder ethnic kin relations, and intraethnic cleavages. The new 2014 version does not only extend the data set’s temporal coverage from 2009 to 2013, but it also offers several new features, such as a new measure of regional autonomy that is independent of national-level executive power and a new data set component coding intraethnic identities and cleavages. Moreover, for the first time, detailed documentation of the EPR data is provided through the EPR Atlas. This article presents these novelties in detail and compares the EPR Family 2014 to the most relevant alternative data sets on ethnicity.
Key Words Conflict  Power  Civil Wars  Internal armed Conflict 
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