Do Governmental Weapons Build-Ups Prolong or Shorten Intrastate Conflicts? An Instrumental Variable Survival Model

• In Event: Methodological Advances in Conflict Processes Research

Brief Overview

We analyze the specific roles of different types of governmental imports of major conventional weapons on the duration of intrastate conflicts. To determine causal effects, we use an instrumental variable survival model.

Authors

• Andreas Mehltretter, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich

• Maximilian Scherer, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich

• Paul W. Thurner, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU)