Lars-Erik Cederman

Sharing Power, Securing Peace? (eBook, PDF)

Ethnic Inclusion and Civil War

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Does power sharing bring peace? Policymakers around the world seem to think so. Yet, while there are many successful examples of power sharing in multi-ethnic states, such as Switzerland, South Africa and Indonesia, other instances show that such arrangements offer no guarantee against violent conflict, including Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe and South Sudan. Given this mixed record, it is not surprising that scholars disagree as to whether power sharing actually reduces conflict. Based on systematic data and innovative methods, this book comes to a mostly positive conclusion by focusing on practices rather than merely formal institutions, studying power sharing's preventive effect, analyzing how power sharing is invoked in anticipation of conflict, and by showing that territorial power sharing can be effective if combined with inclusion at the center. The authors' findings demonstrate that power sharing is usually the best option to reduce and prevent civil conflict in divided states.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108307512
• Artikelnr.: 66177494

Autorenporträt

Lars-Erik Cederman is Professor of International Conflict Research, ETH Zürich. He is the author of Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve (1997), co-author of Inequality, Grievances and Civil War (Cambridge, 2013, with Kristian Skrede Gleditsch and Halvard Buhaug), as well as numerous articles in scientific journals.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Part I. Theories and concepts
2. Power sharing and conflict in the literature
3. Key concepts and arguments of our approach
Part II. Analyzing the effect of power sharing on civil war
4. Power sharing and civil war: Data and baseline models
5. Contrasting formal power-sharing institutions and practices
6. Endogenizing governmental power sharing and its effect on civil war
7. The strategic logic of governmental power sharing and civil war
8. The effect of territorial and governmental power sharing on civil war
9. The strategic logic of territorial power sharing, secession and civil war
Part III. Power sharing and civil war in time and space
10. The diffusion of power sharing
11. Trends in power sharing and conflict
12. Conclusions for theory and policy.