Why are authoritarian breakdowns often fraught with communal violence? The literatures on authoritarian breakdowns, democratization, and ethnic conflict include theories that can explain either the temporal or spatial variation of communal violence but not both. A more compellin…
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A violent incident took place between two Palestinian Arab villages in Galilee, Israel. One village is prominently Druze, and the other is Christian. The dissertation provides a background history on these communities and the way they traditionally manage conflicts. It also cont…
This paper examines underlying reasons behind communal violence and civil war and attempts to explain the role of political entrepreneurs in escalating communal violence to civil war. The author tests his theory against the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenians and Azer…