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- W2003700704 abstract "Sixteen Million One: Understanding Civil War. By Paradigm Publishers, 2009. 229 pp., $24.95 paperback (ISBN-13: 978-1-59451-620-7).The title, Sixteen Million One, which is derived from the estimated total casualties resulting from civil wars during the past fifty years, investigates the causes of civil wars, as well as policies that can reduce the incidence and severity of these conflicts. Regan's work is novel in several respects. The book accomplishes a task that most academics avoid: Bringing often arcane social scientific studies to bear on a policy issue of contemporary import and doing so via accessible language and methodology. Moreover, Regan demonstrates the process by which social scientists rely on firsthand observations to identify behavioral puzzles that can, in part, be informed by social science methods. In particular, Sixteen Million One underscores Regan's considerable experience exploring firsthand ongoing civil wars, ranging from Palestine to Nicaragua, investigations that are supplemented by Regan's observations about contemporary, rural America. In short, Sixteen Million One demonstrates that in order to understand, as Ted Robert Gurr posed it famously, “why men rebel,” it is important to discuss such motivations directly with the rebels and non-rebels. Last, the policy component of Sixteen Million One is fortified by Regan's personal experience serving as a mediator in his local community, an important, even novel, vantage point from which to consider the nuance between social science rigor and insight derived from …" @default.
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- W2003700704 title "From Global to Local: Uncovering the Structural Causes of Civil War" @default.
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