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Negotiating statehood through ceasefires: Syria’s de-escalation zones / Sosnowski, Marika

Sosnowski, Marika	Journal Article
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This paper examines how ceasefires can influence elements of statehood. It adds to scholarship that views statehood as being in a continuous process of change by conceptualising international ceasefires as the negotiation of an embryonic type of wartime order that has ramifications for how power and authority are dispersed among competing actors in civil war. Through the example of the Syrian de-escalation zones, the paper suggests that the ceasefire not only affected the use of violence but recalibrated relations between international and local actors for control over diplomacy, security, territory, and citizenship.

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Syria ; Negotiation ; STATEHOOD ; Astana ; Ceasefires ; Civil War

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Private military & security companies, conflict complexity, and peace duration: an empirical analysis / Radziszewski, Elizabeth; Akcinaroglu, Seden

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PMSC training has the potential to improve state capacity, reduce the combatants’ opportunity and willingness to fight, and prolong the duration of peace. However, the benefit of PMSC training-related intervention over other types of PMSC interventions depends on the level of conflict complexity. Analysis of novel data on PMSC interventions and peace episodes following major/minor civil wars (1990–2008) shows that in cases when PMSCs intervene, training makes a positive contribution to peace in wars with a limited number of rebel groups that do not resort to terrorism. Positive impact dissipates in conflicts with greater levels of rebel fragmentation and terrorist tactics.

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Intervention ; Private Military and Security Companies ; Civil War ; Speace Duration

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