TY - JOUR
T1 - Resource letter MPCVW-1
T2 - Modeling political conflict, violence, and wars: A survey
AU - Morgenstern, Ana P.
AU - Velásquez, Nicolás
AU - Manrique, Pedro
AU - Hong, Qi
AU - Johnson, Nicholas
AU - Johnson, Neil
PY - 2013/10/31
Y1 - 2013/10/31
N2 - This Resource Letter provides a guide into the literature on modeling and explaining political conflict, violence, and wars. Although this literature is dominated by social scientists, multidisciplinary work is currently being developed in the wake of myriad methodological approaches that have sought to analyze and predict political violence. The works covered herein present an overview of this abundance of methodological approaches. Since there is a variety of possible data sets and theoretical approaches, the level of detail and scope of models can vary quite considerably. The review does not provide a summary of the available data sets, but instead highlights recent works on quantitative or multi-method approaches to modeling different forms of political violence. Journal articles and books are organized in the following topics: social movements, diffusion of social movements, political violence, insurgencies and terrorism, and civil wars.
AB - This Resource Letter provides a guide into the literature on modeling and explaining political conflict, violence, and wars. Although this literature is dominated by social scientists, multidisciplinary work is currently being developed in the wake of myriad methodological approaches that have sought to analyze and predict political violence. The works covered herein present an overview of this abundance of methodological approaches. Since there is a variety of possible data sets and theoretical approaches, the level of detail and scope of models can vary quite considerably. The review does not provide a summary of the available data sets, but instead highlights recent works on quantitative or multi-method approaches to modeling different forms of political violence. Journal articles and books are organized in the following topics: social movements, diffusion of social movements, political violence, insurgencies and terrorism, and civil wars.
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U2 - 10.1119/1.4820892
DO - 10.1119/1.4820892
M3 - Letter
AN - SCOPUS:84886451160
VL - 81
JO - American Journal of Physics
JF - American Journal of Physics
SN - 0002-9505
IS - 11
M1 - 001311AJP
ER -