Thursday, July 16, 2015

New Issue: Journal of Conflict Resolution

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution (Vol. 59, no. 5, August 2015) is out. Contents include:
  • Special Issue: Militias in Civil Wars
    • Corinna Jentzsch, Stathis N. Kalyvas & Livia Isabella Schubiger, Militias in Civil Wars
    • Paul Staniland, Militias, Ideology, and the State
    • Ben Oppenheim, Abbey Steele, Juan F. Vargas, & Michael Weintraub, True Believers, Deserters, and Traitors: Who Leaves Insurgent Groups and Why
    • Jonathan Filip Forney, Who Can We Trust with a Gun? Information Networks and Adverse Selection in Militia Recruitment
    • Sabine C. Carey, Michael P. Colaresi, & Neil J. Mitchell, Governments, Informal Links to Militias, and Accountability
    • Dara Kay Cohen & Ragnhild Nordås, Do States Delegate Shameful Violence to Militias? Patterns of Sexual Violence in Recent Armed Conflicts
    • Jessica A. Stanton, Regulating Militias: Governments, Militias, and Civilian Targeting in Civil War
    • Kristine Eck, Repression by Proxy: How Military Purges and Insurgency Impact the Delegation of Coercion