The Break of Dawn? Shifting Interests and Opportunities in the Libya Dawn Bloc
Libya was the fifth most active country in the ACLED dataset in February 2015 with…
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Where’s ISIS in all this crisis?
The Egyptian air force’s bombing campaign in Libya’s eastern city of Derna on the 16th…
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Counter-revolution, Autocracy, and Stability in Egypt in 2014
The most significant trend witnessed throughout 2014 in Egypt was the dramatic decline of riot…
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Political Militias and Remote Violence in 2014
Version 5 of ACLED carries a new event type termed ‘Remote violence’. Remote violence is…
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Service-delivery demonstrations, political voice and elections in South Africa
South Africa was the seventh most active country in the ACLED dataset in 2014, in…
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A Review of Libya in 2014
Libya was the fourth most active and the sixth most violent country in the ACLED…
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Terrorism: A review of differences in definition
The existence of multiple, contrasting and even contradictory definitions and conceptualisations of terrorism in policy,…
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Resource-Related Conflict in Africa
Natural resource extraction by mining (including oil, diamonds, copper, and cobalt) has tremendous positive economic…
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Anti-Government Protests and Regime Breakdown: Conflict Dynamics in Transitional States
“Authoritarian regimes…breakdown in systematically different ways, and they also affect post-transition outcomes” Geddes (1999: 6)…
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