What is political violence?

Readings due before class on Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Required

• Stathis N. Kalyvas, “Jihadi Rebels in Civil War,” Dædalus 147, no. 1 (2018): 36–47.
• Stathis N Kalyvas and Laia Balcells, “International System and Technologies of Rebellion: How the End of the Cold War Shaped Internal Conflict,” American Political Science Review 104, no. 3 (2010): 415–429.

Recommended

• The Wiki on political violence
• Nicholas Sambanis, “What Is Civil War?: Conceptual and Empirical Complexities of an Operational Definition,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 48, no. 6 (2004): 814–858.