Determinants of violence and escalation
(2019) STVK02 20191Department of Political Science
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Democratic peace theory, or DPT, has in recent academic studies had its
explanatory power and validity questioned and examined. One of the contenders against DPT is civil-military relations. This paper aimed to examine whether democratic peace and civil-military relations could explain conflict behavior and conflict escalation in militarized interstate disputes, as opposed to the common method of analyzing conflict onset. This paper uses the quantitative and statistical method of multiple linear regression to find variables that significantly affect the dependent variable. The results show that level of democracy, civil-military
relations, relative state power, and trade interdependence have significant effects on conflict behavior and... (More) - Democratic peace theory, or DPT, has in recent academic studies had its
explanatory power and validity questioned and examined. One of the contenders against DPT is civil-military relations. This paper aimed to examine whether democratic peace and civil-military relations could explain conflict behavior and conflict escalation in militarized interstate disputes, as opposed to the common method of analyzing conflict onset. This paper uses the quantitative and statistical method of multiple linear regression to find variables that significantly affect the dependent variable. The results show that level of democracy, civil-military
relations, relative state power, and trade interdependence have significant effects on conflict behavior and escalation. Democracy has a strong deterring effect on conflict behavior and escalation, whereas military influence had an exacerbating effect. This study finds that both DPT and civil-military relations are important aspects to account when analyzing how conflict stakeholders behave. (Less)
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- author
- Nilsson Qvist, Sebastian LU
- supervisor
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- Martin Hall LU
- Maiken Røed LU
- organization
- course
- STVK02 20191
- year
- 2019
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Militarized interstate disputes, civil-military relations, praetorianism, conflict behavior, conflict decision-making.
- language
- English
- id
- 8975888
- date added to LUP
- 2019-09-06 09:58:21
- date last changed
- 2019-10-10 11:13:32
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