Civil wars and third-party interventions in Africa

• Main Author: Mattoon, Audrey
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Palgrave Macmillan 2020
• Subjects: Political science; Civil war > Africa; Intervention (International law); SOCIAL SCIENCE General; Civil war; Intervention (International law); Politics and government; Political Science > General; Political Science > Political Freedom and Security >; 303.6 4096
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/81411
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

Contents: List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Intricacy of Intervention; Who Intervenes and How Effective Are They?; Relationships and Interventions: Colonial History; Research Design; Why Not Regression?; Blueprint of the Book; Practical Implications; Note; References; Chapter 2: Legibility and Friction: Operating in Post-colonial Africa; Legibility and Post-colonial Africa; Structural; Cultural; Pathways to Intervention Success; Friction; Goal Creation; Intervention Outcomes and Intervention Success; Summary; Notes; References Contents: Chapter 3: Applying Multi-method Design to Post-­colonial AfricaQualitative Comparative Analysis; QCA Datasets; Intervention Outcome; Crisp-Set QCA; Conditions; Fuzzy-Set QCA; Conditions; Comparative Case Studies; Case Selection; Case Study Data; Notes; References; Chapter 4: QCA: Intervention in Africa Since 1960; Part 1: Qualitative Comparative Analysis; csQCA-All Interventions; Resolving Contradictions; Reduced Solutions; FsQCA-Colonial Power Interventions; Calibration; Data Analysis; fsQCA Model; Cultural; Institutional; Part 2: QCA Summary Discussion; Notes; References Contents: Chapter 5: Intervention GoalsSierra Leone; Goals; Language and Executive Relations; Côte d'Ivoire-First Intervention; Goals; Language and Executive; Côte d'Ivoire-Second Intervention; Goals; Language and Executive Relations; Mali; Goals; Language and Executive Relations; Connecting Goals to Outcomes; Testing Realizable Goals and Their Relation to Outcomes; Notes; References; Chapter 6: Operational Friction; Sierra Leone; Institutions and Operations; Language; Executive Relations; Côte d'Ivoire-First Intervention; Language; Executive Relations; Côte d'Ivoire-Second Intervention; Language Contents: Executive RelationsMali; Institutions and Operations; Language; Executive Relations; Connecting Operations to Outcomes; Notes; References; Chapter 7: Conclusion; QCA Results; Language; Goals; Operations; Future Research; Policy Applications; Notes; References; Appendix A: Simplifying Assumptions for Boolean Minimization of csQCA; Sources for QCA Coding by Case ; References; Index