Civil war
Master
In Maynard (USA)
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Maynard (USA)
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This course surveys the social science literature on civil war. Students will study the origins of civil war, discuss variables that affect the duration of civil war, and examine the termination of conflict. This course is highly interdisciplinary and covers a wide variety of cases.
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Subjects
- Conflict
Course programme
Seminar: 1 session / week, 2 hours / session
This course is suitable for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. MIT students must receive the instructor's permission.
This course is aimed at both students with little knowledge of the civil war literature and those students with some background in the subject. For the former, the course will cover the basic variables and findings in recent literature, as well as, discuss cases of civil war in a variety of regions. For students more familiar with the subject, the course aims to provide an opportunity to address questions of definition, operationalization of variables, comparative case design, and other methodological issues relevant to conducting research in the area of civil war or violent conflict.
The course is divided into four sections:
There are four short papers and one long paper. The short papers ask the student to discuss and summarize specific sections of the course.
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