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The Dilemma of Neutrality
by Leaning, Jennifer
This paper focuses on the dilemma that humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) face in their efforts to gain access to populations caught up in current wars. Narrow and broad concepts of...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: July 2007 More
Population Shifts and Civil War: A Test of Power Transition Theory
by Toft, Monica Duffy
Do shifts in the distribution of ethnic group populations within a multinational state make civil war more likely? This article tests the proposition that they do using the competing logic of two...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: July 2007 More
Anti-Semitism and Zionism in the Debate on the Palestinian Issue
by Kelman, Herbert C.
The heated debate about the Palestinian issue and Israeli actions in the occupied territories often confronts me with a dilemma. To begin with, I have trouble with any attempt to structure the issue...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: July 2007 More
The Myth of the Borderless World: Refugees and Repatriation Policy
by Toft, Monica Duffy
This essay explores the impact of the end of the Cold War on the counter-refugee-crisis policies of the United Nations and its strongest member states. I argue that during the ColdWar, state...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: June 2007 More
The Israeli-Palestinian peace process and its vicissitudes: Insights from attitude theory
by Kelman, Herbert C.
The vicissitudes of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process since 1967 are analyzed using attitudes and related concepts where relevant. The 1967 war returned the two peoples' zero-sum conflict around...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: May 2007 More
Getting Religion? The Puzzling Case of Islam and Civil War
by Toft, Monica Duffy
In this article I argue that overlapping historical, geographical, and, in particular, structural factors account for Islam’s higher representation in religious civil wars. Together, the historical...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: March 2007 More
What You Export Matters
by Rodrik, Dani; Hausmann, Ricardo; Hwang, Jason
When local cost discovery generates knowledge spillovers, specialization patterns become partly indeterminate and the mix of goods that a country produces may have important implications for economic...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: March 2007 More
Transitional Subjects: The Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration of Former Combatants in Colombia
by Theidon, Kimberly S.
A key component of peace processes and postconflict reconstruction is the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants. DDR programs imply multiple transitions: from the...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: March 2007 More
Género en transición: sentido común, mujeres y guerra
by Theidon, Kimberly S.
Este artículo explora algunos testimonios surgidos en las comisiones de verdad en el Perú y sus implicaciones en relación con las mujeres y la guerra. Examina lo que constituye las estrategias de...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: February 2007 More
Truth with Consequences: Justice and Reparations in Post-Truth Commission Peru
by Theidon, Kimberly S.; Laplante, Lisa J.
Truth commissions have become key mechanisms in transitional justice schemes in post conflict societies in order to assure transitions to peace, the rule of law, and respect for human rights....
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: February 2007 More