scholarly journals Insurgency and Small Wars: Estimation of Unobserved Coalition Structures

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Trebbi ◽  
Eric Weese
Keyword(s):  
Small Wars ◽  
Coalition Structures

scholarly journals Insurgency and Small Wars: Estimation of Unobserved Coalition Structures

Econometrica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 463-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Trebbi ◽  
Eric Weese
Keyword(s):  
Humanitarian Intervention ◽  
Guerrilla Warfare ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Economic Costs ◽  
Internal Organization ◽  
Small Wars ◽  
Coalition Structures ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Global Terrorism ◽  
Shed Light

Insurgency and guerrilla warfare impose enormous socio‐economic costs and often persist for decades. The opacity of such forms of conflict is an obstacle to effective international humanitarian intervention and development programs. To shed light on the internal organization of otherwise unknown insurgent groups, this paper proposes two methodologies for the detection of unobserved coalitions of militants in conflict areas. These approaches are based on daily geocoded incident‐level data on insurgent attacks. We provide applications to the Afghan conflict during the 2004–2009 period and to Pakistan during the 2008–2011 period, identifying systematically different coalition structures. Applications to global terrorism data and identification of new groups or shifting coalitions are discussed.

Small Wars, Big Wars: Security Debates During Israel's First Decade

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mordechai Bar-On
Keyword(s):  
Small Wars

Clausewitz and the Eighteenth-Century Context of Partisan Warfare

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sibylle Scheipers
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Small Wars ◽  
System P ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Partisan Warfare

Clausewitz was an ardent analyst of partisan warfare. In 1810 and 1811, he lectured at the Berlin Kriegsschule, the war academy, on the subject of small wars. Clausewitz’s lectures focused on the tactical nature of small wars. However, the eighteenth-century context was by no means irrelevant for Clausewitz’s further intellectual development. On the contrary, he extrapolated from his analysis of the tactical nature of small wars their strategic potential, as well as their exemplary nature for the study of war as such. The partisan, in Clausewitz’s eyes, possessed exemplary qualities in that he acted autonomously and, in doing so, had to draw upon all his human faculties. As such, he was the paradigmatic antagonist to the regular soldier who displayed a ‘cog mentality’ fostered by the Frederickian military system.

scholarly journals The Use of Aircraft in Small Wars

1920 ◽  
Vol 65 (458) ◽  
pp. 310-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. E. Borton
Keyword(s):  
Small Wars

scholarly journals Computing optimal coalition structures in polynomial time

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 35-83
Author(s):  
Shaheen Fatima ◽  
Michael Wooldridge
Keyword(s):  
Polynomial Time ◽  
Coalition Structures

scholarly journals Sequentially Stable Coalition Structures

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yukihiko Funaki ◽  
Takehiko Yamato
Keyword(s):  
Coalition Structures ◽  
Stable Coalition
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