Teaching from experience: foreign training and rebel success in civil War

This paper addresses the relationship between rebel training from external sponsors and civil war outcomes. While past research has examined how foreign support, broadly, shapes the dynamics of civil wars, little attention has been paid to how foreign training of rebel fighters affects civil wars. W...

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Published inConflict management and peace science Vol. 38; no. 6; pp. 696 - 717
Main Authors Keels, Eric, Benson, Jay, Widmeier, Michael
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.11.2021
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Civil war
Quantitative analysis
Teaching
Training
Civil war
learning
foreign sponsorship
rebel training
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Summary:This paper addresses the relationship between rebel training from external sponsors and civil war outcomes. While past research has examined how foreign support, broadly, shapes the dynamics of civil wars, little attention has been paid to how foreign training of rebel fighters affects civil wars. We theorize that rebels that receive training from formerly successful rebels are more likely to experience favorable conflict outcomes than those with no training or with training from sponsors inexperienced with fighting a civil war. These propositions are tested with a quantitative analysis of all intrastate conflicts from 1975 to 2010, providing support for our hypothesis.
ISSN:0738-8942
1549-9219
DOI:10.1177/0738894220912976