Week 4
Slides
Readings
All readings can be accessed here.
Required
- Chapter 7 in Stathis Kalyvas, The Logic of Violence in Civil War (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
- J. M. Weinstein, “Resources and the Information Problem in Rebel Recruitment,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 49, no. 4 (2005): 598–624.
- Dara Kay Cohen, “Explaining Rape During Civil War: Cross-National Evidence (1980–2009),” American Political Science Review 107, no. 3 (2013): 461–477.
Recommended
- S. N. Kalyvas and M. A. Kocher, “How ‘Free’ Is Free Riding in Civil Wars?: Violence, Insurgency, and the Collective Action Problem,” World Politics 59, no. 2 (2007): 177–216.
- Matthew Adam Kocher, Thomas B Pepinsky, and Stathis N Kalyvas, “Aerial Bombing and Counterinsurgency in the Vietnam War,” American Journal of Political Science 55, no. 2 (2011): 201–218.