Add to ORKGThe San Francisco ChronicleThe idea that war is on the wane, a theory advanced in several recent studies, is appealing, but it is also dangerously misleading. Its central argument, made by scholars from the University of Maryland and the Human Security Center in British Columbia, is that since the end of the Cold War more than 15 years ago, nations have tended to fight each other less often, and that civil wars have grown less frequent and less lethal
For the past 70 years, there has been a downward trend in the size of wars, but the idea of an endur...
Global conflicts have declined substantially in number and intensity since 1990, except in sub-Sahar...
War is a global phenomenon, from Europe to Oceania, from America to Asia, all over Africa, recognize...
It is widely believed that the human impact of civil conflict in the present era is especially destr...
A number of recent studies argue that there is decline in armed conflict within and between nations....
Since the end of the 1980s, both the incidence and severity of violent conflicts and of domestic and...
A recent report by the United Nations and the World Bank argues that the world has seen “a surge in ...
Civil wars–and the violence, death, destruction and dislocation they cause–have become a central con...
About the book by Azar Gat "The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace: But Will War Rebound?", Oxfor...
Harrison and Wolf claim that interstate ?wars are becoming more frequent?. This is an alarming claim...
Most wars between countries end quickly and at relatively low cost. The few in which high-intensity ...
Figure 1 shows how the global incidence of civil war has changed over the last half-century.1 The in...
We provide strong evidence of a post-1950 decline in conventional war. A survey of the qualitative l...
This paper is part of a project, still in its infancy, on historical changes in war termination. Her...
Large-scale violent conflict takes several forms. However, over time international conflict has tend...
For the past 70 years, there has been a downward trend in the size of wars, but the idea of an endur...
Global conflicts have declined substantially in number and intensity since 1990, except in sub-Sahar...
War is a global phenomenon, from Europe to Oceania, from America to Asia, all over Africa, recognize...
It is widely believed that the human impact of civil conflict in the present era is especially destr...
A number of recent studies argue that there is decline in armed conflict within and between nations....
Since the end of the 1980s, both the incidence and severity of violent conflicts and of domestic and...
A recent report by the United Nations and the World Bank argues that the world has seen “a surge in ...
Civil wars–and the violence, death, destruction and dislocation they cause–have become a central con...
About the book by Azar Gat "The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace: But Will War Rebound?", Oxfor...
Harrison and Wolf claim that interstate ?wars are becoming more frequent?. This is an alarming claim...
Most wars between countries end quickly and at relatively low cost. The few in which high-intensity ...
Figure 1 shows how the global incidence of civil war has changed over the last half-century.1 The in...
We provide strong evidence of a post-1950 decline in conventional war. A survey of the qualitative l...
This paper is part of a project, still in its infancy, on historical changes in war termination. Her...
Large-scale violent conflict takes several forms. However, over time international conflict has tend...
For the past 70 years, there has been a downward trend in the size of wars, but the idea of an endur...
Global conflicts have declined substantially in number and intensity since 1990, except in sub-Sahar...
War is a global phenomenon, from Europe to Oceania, from America to Asia, all over Africa, recognize...