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Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{3} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{p{0.74655 cm} x{4.23045 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{What is an Intra-State Conflict?}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{Parties} & Government vs non-government actor \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} & 25 battle-related deaths a year \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Has to be fought over governing territory. Otherwise usually not counted \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.59264 cm} x{3.38436 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Fragile States}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Fragile state index & En index with states and a respective number. Higher number = more fragility = more conflict prone \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} & States with insufficient will or capacity to meet the needs of its people. States that are less able to deal with crisis and more vulnerable to political and violent conflicts \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 7) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} "Failed States" & Cannot sustain themselves or their population \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Perception US 2003 & That failed states are more dangerous than states with ambitions of conquest. (With hindsight can one say that Somalia is more dangerous than Russia?) \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 6) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Critique & Simplistic tool \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} & Does fragility cause conflict or does conflict cause fragility? \tn % Row Count 23 (+ 3) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Conflict is part of the index \tn % Row Count 25 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.84149 cm} x{3.13551 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{UN's Role}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Security Council & Council consting of 5 members and 10 chosen members. Legitimises and is legally binding \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} UN & The great legitimiser for use of force or any controversial political choice for that matter \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Why care if you can do it? If you do it without mandate can backfire (Tony Blair) \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 4) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} & Article 51 for self-defence \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Problem & Inherent problem is that the UN cannot be like NATO, it cannot do war. It relies on being respected, which it traditionally has been, but not so much anymore \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 7) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} & Only works when P5 agrees \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} UN Peacekeeping & it is a peace operation Carried out by the UN \tn % Row Count 24 (+ 2) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} & Prevention, observation and assisting \tn % Row Count 26 (+ 2) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Peacekeeping does & Edict levels of violence \tn % Row Count 28 (+ 2) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} & Prevents the spread of violence \tn % Row Count 30 (+ 2) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.84149 cm} x{3.13551 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{UN's Role (cont)}} \tn % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Helps mediation and negotiation \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} & Maintain peace in the aftermath of conflict \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Peacekeeping does not & Establish democracy or economic growth \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 13 \SetRowColor{white} & Solve the underlying causes of conflict \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) % Row 14 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Tend to fight well \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 1) % Row 15 \SetRowColor{white} & Moreover: scandals galore \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 1) % Row 16 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Does Peacekeeping work? & Depends on expectations and threshholds \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 2) % Row 17 \SetRowColor{white} & Not a "quick fix", but a good tool for keeping peace \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Causes of Civil War - Walter 2009}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Structural Approach & Civil War happening is a probability with several factors \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} & Large population, low GDP, horizontal inequalities (across groups), inconstistent democratic institutions, low coercive ability, rough terrain \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 8) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Process Based Approach & Civil War as result of process where different actors want different things \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 4) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} & Bargaining theory - War is a very inefficient way to solve conflict, but when civil war occurs it occurs for 3 reasons \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 6) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} 1. Private info, incentives to misrepresent & Parties withhold information in order to get a better deal in settlments or to prevent good defence. Esp rebel groups \tn % Row Count 27 (+ 6) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} & Decreases chances of settlement \tn % Row Count 29 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} 2. Commitment and Credibility Issues & states cannot agree on a post-war solution in a pre-war situation because it might be hard to commit to such a solution. Hard for the government to not suppress the oiposition. The promise the government is making is hard for the opposition to trust. \tn % Row Count 42 (+ 13) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Causes of Civil War - Walter 2009 (cont)}} \tn % Row 7 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} 3. Indivisible stakes & Symbolic areas - Kosovo, Jerusalem. Technically you can divide it, but would population let you? \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 5) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{white} & Who will get throne after king dies? Daughter, Brother or Son from second marriage \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 5) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.54287 cm} x{3.43413 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{State Capacity - Fjelde, De Soysa}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Government options & Coercion, co-optation or cooperation \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} & threat capacity, economic capacity, and integrative capacity of states \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Every state has grievances, few have opportunities \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} & more money into society (co-optation) - less likely civil war \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & If the system functions, you are less likely to rebel \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} & Co-optation \textgreater{} coercion \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.04057 cm} x{2.93643 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Third-Party Intervention}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} International intervention & illegal, Interference in the territory or domestic affairs of another state with military force, typically in a way that compromise a sovereign government's control over its own territory and population \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 9) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} & R2P - Right to protect (from genocide and intervene if one goes on) \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Humanitarian Intervention & Entry into a country by the armed forces of another country or international organisation with the aim of protecting citizens from violation of their human rights \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 8) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} & So interference but in the name of humanity (conflict between sovereignty and human rights) \tn % Row Count 24 (+ 4) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Multilateral Peace Operation & Operations conducted under UN authority and or the Security Council \tn % Row Count 27 (+ 3) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} & a) facilitating implementation of peace agreements that are already in place. b) supporting a peace proccess. c) assisting conflict prevention and/or peacebuilding effects. \tn % Row Count 35 (+ 8) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.04057 cm} x{2.93643 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Third-Party Intervention (cont)}} \tn % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} UN Peacekeeping & Keeping up peace \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Third Party Intervention - Kalyvas}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} After the Cold War Civil Wars are fought differently & Normal Intrastate down \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} & Internationalised intrastate up \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} How conflict formes based on tech of parties & High tech rebels + high tech state= conventional \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} & Low tech rebels + high tech state= irregular \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & High tech rebels + low tech state= coup \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} & Low tech rebels + low tech rebels= symmetrical nonconventional \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 4) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Aid & Aid increases win probability of side supported \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.34379 cm} x{3.63321 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Third Party - Balch-Lindsay 2008}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{Intervention} & 1000 troops on the ground counted as intervention \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} & Intervention for government, rebels, both parties \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{Government} & Government more likely to win, slightly negotiated solution \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Rebels & Rebels more likely to win, though still not very likely. Negotiated solution \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Balanced (salt) & Long wars, not likely negotiated solution \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} Takeaway & Involvement one-sided increases probability of one party winning and negotiated solution \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}