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- Title
Shaking Hands with the Internal Enemy: Democracy and Civil Conflict Settlement.
- Authors
Zarpli, Omer
- Abstract
How does regime type affect the likelihood of negotiated settlements that end civil conflicts? A limited number of previous studies have offered divergent theories and mixed findings about whether democracy is an asset or a liability. I draw these disparate findings together and present a novel theory on why leaders under fully democratic and autocratic regimes may have a particularly difficult time in peacemaking, and how leaders in anocratic (hybrid) regimes are more likely to be successful in reaching negotiated settlements. Thus, I hypothesize that the relationship between regime type and the likelihood of conflict-resolution is inverted U-shaped. I test this hypothesis using data on all internal conflicts between 1946 and 2014, and find empirical support. The findings suggest that even if anocracies are more prone to the outbreak of civil wars as has been proposed by previous studies, they are also better at settling these conflicts.
- Subjects
ENEMIES; DEMOCRACY; CIVIL war; LEGAL settlement; INTERNATIONAL mediation; PEACEBUILDING
- Publication
International Studies Quarterly, 2020, Vol 64, Issue 4, p845
- ISSN
0020-8833
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/isq/sqaa056