Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: External Support, Internal Strength, and the Strategy of Minority Repression

• In Event: Human Rights, Repression, Civilian Victimization, and Political Violence I

Brief Overview

We study how the internal strength of ethnic separatism, combined with external support for such movements, influences when and where states deploy severe violence like genocide or opt for more moderate approaches like internal colonization.

Authors

• Howard Liu, University of South Carolina

• Chuyu Liu, University of Amsterdam

• Chen-Yu Yu Lee, Pennsylvania State University