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James D. Fearon PhD (UC Berkeley), a graduate of Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Cornell Law School, is Theodore and Francis Geballe Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Stanford University
Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
, known for his work on the theory of civil war
Civil war

A civil war is a war between organized groups to take control of a nation or region, or to change government policies. It is high-intensity conflict, often involving Regular Army, that is sustained, organized and large-scale....
s, international bargaining, war's inefficiency puzzle
War's inefficiency puzzle

War?s inefficiency puzzle is a research question asking why unitary-actor states would choose fight wars when doing so is costly. James Fearon?s Rationalist Explanations for War and Robert Powell's In the Shadow of Power, which launched rational choice theory in international relations, provide three possible answers: overly optimisti...
 and audience costs.

In his paper co-authored with David D. Laitin, "Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War" (2003), Fearon casts doubt on three conventional beliefs concerning political conflict: that the prevalence of civil war in the 1990s was due to the end of the Cold War, that a greater degree of ethnic or religious diversity alone makes a country more prone to civil war and that ethnic or other broad political grievances cannot accurately predict where a civil war will occur.






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James D. Fearon PhD (UC Berkeley), a graduate of Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Cornell Law School, is Theodore and Francis Geballe Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Stanford University
Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
, known for his work on the theory of civil war
Civil war

A civil war is a war between organized groups to take control of a nation or region, or to change government policies. It is high-intensity conflict, often involving Regular Army, that is sustained, organized and large-scale....
s, international bargaining, war's inefficiency puzzle
War's inefficiency puzzle

War?s inefficiency puzzle is a research question asking why unitary-actor states would choose fight wars when doing so is costly. James Fearon?s Rationalist Explanations for War and Robert Powell's In the Shadow of Power, which launched rational choice theory in international relations, provide three possible answers: overly optimisti...
 and audience costs.

In his paper co-authored with David D. Laitin, "Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War" (2003), Fearon casts doubt on three conventional beliefs concerning political conflict: that the prevalence of civil war in the 1990s was due to the end of the Cold War, that a greater degree of ethnic or religious diversity alone makes a country more prone to civil war and that ethnic or other broad political grievances cannot accurately predict where a civil war will occur. They also argue that defining "insurgency" is key to understanding civil war.

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