History and Ethnic Conflict: Does Precolonial Centralization Matter?
How does the trajectory of precolonial political institutions affect contemporary ethnic conflict? I argue that ethnic groups that were governed by centralized political institutions in the precolonial period are more likely to be associated with armed conflict in the present, but that colonial stat...
| Publicado en: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 63; no. 2; pp. 417 - 432 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2019
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