Security Transitions

• In Event: Ending Civil Conflict

Brief Overview

We find that Afghanistan's recent security transfer to local forces was marked by a sharp decline in insurgent violence. However, his effect reversed with the actual physical pull out of foreign troops.

Authors

• Thiemo Fetzer, University of Warwick

• Oliver W. Vanden Eynde, Paris School of Economics, CNRS

• Austin L. Wright, Princeton University