2017/01/01 by Barbara Harff · 8 citations
Social Sciences · #Argument (complex analysis) #Criminology #Democracy #Genocide #Global Peace and Security Dynamics #Jurisprudence #Law #Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts #Political Conflict and Governance #Political science #Sociology
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-54463-2_12
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Rudolph Rummel and I are both products of Northwestern University’s Ph.D. program—although I graduated 18 years later. Thanks to him, I already knew something about factor analysis, having read his dissertation. I was equally familiar with arguments about peace among democratic states, because my major was in international relations with a minor in jurisprudence (i.e. international law) and another in comparative studies. The democratic peace argument filtered much later into comparative studies of civil conflict in democratic societies and made much sense to me in theory, the way it became a major focus in Rudy’s work on mass death and genocide. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.