You Can Lead a State to Crisis, and You Can Make It Fight: Violent Non-State Actors and Crisis Escalation

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Brief Overview

Testing crisis dyads from 1987-2015 in ordered logistic regressions, I find that dyads with a violent non-state actor involved are significantly more likely to escalate and that state-VNSA relationships are significant for crisis escalation.

Author

• Heather Kopp, Truman State University