TY - BOOK ID - 8845663 TI - Reputation and civil war : why separatist conflicts are so violent PY - 2009 SN - 9780521747295 9780521763523 9780511642012 9780511641398 0511641397 0511642016 9780511640032 051164003X 0521763525 0521747295 1107193923 9786612386343 0511640714 1282386344 0511638957 0511637888 9781107193925 6612386347 9780511640711 9781282386341 9780511638954 9780511637889 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - SELF-DETERMINATION, NATIONAL KW - AUTONOMY AND INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS KW - CIVIL WAR KW - POLITICAL VIOLENCE KW - Civil war. KW - Insurgency. KW - Autonomy and independence movements. KW - Political violence. KW - Violence KW - Political crimes and offenses KW - Terrorism KW - National independence movements KW - Secession movements KW - Social movements KW - Decolonization KW - Nationalism KW - Insurgent attacks KW - Rebellions KW - Civil war KW - Revolutions KW - Government, Resistance to KW - Internal security KW - Civil wars KW - Intra-state war KW - International law KW - War UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8845663 AB - Of all the different types of civil war, disputes over self-determination are the most likely to escalate into war and resist compromise settlement. Reputation and Civil War argues that this low rate of negotiation is the result of reputation building, in which governments refuse to negotiate with early challengers in order to discourage others from making more costly demands in the future. Jakarta's wars against East Timor and Aceh, for example, were not designed to maintain sovereignty but to signal to Indonesia's other minorities that secession would be costly. Employing data from three different sources - laboratory experiments on undergraduates, statistical analysis of data on self-determination movements, and qualitative analyses of recent history in Indonesia and the Philippines - Barbara F. Walter provides some of the first systematic evidence that reputation strongly influences behavior, particularly between governments and ethnic minorities fighting over territory. ER -