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- W1618321105 abstract "This paper investigates the determinants of mercenary participation in intra-state and sub-state wars during the second half of the 20th century. Using a new dataset, we …nd that higher GDP and diamonds increase the probability that mercenaries are …ghting in an internal war. Military interventions also increase the risk of mercenary involvement, with the exception of UN interventions. In a third of all wars in the second half of the 20th century one or the other warring faction hired mercenaries - foreigners who actively fought for money and who were not integrated in the regular armed forces. Mercenaries are thus still frequently engaged, even though, compared with previous centuries, the use of mercenaries got discredited in the 20th century, and in spite of several initiatives to ban mercenaries. 1 Mercenaries raise security concerns, since they are not embedded in the control and accountability mechanisms of regular troops. Indeed, mercenaries are often accused of human rights violations. On the other hand, privatizing the military seems to some an � We thank participants of the Jan Tinbergen Peace Science Conference in Amsterdam" @default.
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- W1618321105 title "Mercenaries in Civil Wars, 1950-2000" @default.
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