Blar i Institutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap på forfatter "Gleditsch, Nils Petter"
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Geography matters, but people are the key: the location of Viet Cong initiated incidents
Kongsgård, Håvard Wahl (Master thesis, 2010) -
The effect of secondary diamonds and oil on the risk of armed cicil conflict onset, 1960 -2003: A subnational quantitative analysis
Weibust, Eivind Berg (Master thesis, 2010) -
The Lootable Resource on Africa's Horn:: Why are there no pirates in Northwest Somalia? And why are they everywhere else?
Westberg, Andreas Bruvik (Master thesis, 2011)In this thesis I wish to examine the underlying mechanisms that caused the onset of piracy in Somalia. Since the 1990s piracy has spread like wildfire from the Northeast of Somalia and Southwards. Yet it has failed to take ... -
This time is different! Or is it? NeoMalthusians and environmental optimists in the age of climate change
Gleditsch, Nils Petter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Warning about dire effects of climate change on armed conflict is a recent variation of a scenario that has been promoted by environmental pessimists for over two centuries. The essence is that human activities lead to ... -
Violence against civilians 1900-87: A four-part analysis using av new dataset to test the relationship between the severity of democide and type of government
Rolseth, Amund (Master thesis, 2011)The study of violence against civilians with its over 200 million dead in the 20th century is understudied if viewed in terms of the death toll compared to the studies of inter-state and civil war. R.J. Rummel’s extensive ...