PUBLICATIONS, WORKING PAPERS, AND DATA

ALEXANDER B. DOWNES

BOOK

Targeting Civilians in War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008.

• Link to Targeting Civilians in War at Cornell University Press.
• Link to Targeting Civilians in War at amazon.com.

• Replication Data for statistical analysis in Chapter 2 (Stata format)
• Web Appendix: includes description of all variables used in statistical analysis; replication instructions; tables with additional results; and sources for all civilian fatality figures in the dataset (pdf)

ARTICLES

1. "Restraint or Propellant? Democracy and Civilian Fatalities in Interstate Wars," Journal of Conflict Resolution 51, no. 6 (December 2007): 872-904.

• Replication Data (Stata format)
• Web Appendix: replication instructions, variable description, additional tables, and sources for civilian fatality figures in the dataset (pdf)

2. "Draining the Sea by Filling the Graves : Investigating the Effectiveness of Indiscriminate Violence as a Counterinsurgency Strategy," Civil Wars 9, no. 4 (December 2007): 420-444.

3. "Introduction: Modern Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Comparative Perspective," Civil Wars 9, no. 4 (December 2007): 313-323.

4. "Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: The Causes of Civilian Victimization in War," International Security 30, no. 4 (Spring 2006): 152-195 (pdf).

• Additional Table on Timing of Civilian Victimization in Wars of Attrition (pdf)
• Replication Data for Table 3, "Determinants of Civilian Victimization by Capable Participants in Interstate Wars, 1816-2003" (Stata format)

5. "More Borders, Less Conflict? Partition as a Solution to Ethnic Wars," SAIS Review 26, no. 1 (Winter-Spring 2006): 49-61 (pdf).

6. "The Problem with Negotiated Settlements to Ethnic Civil Wars," Security Studies 13, no. 4 (Summer 2004): 230-279 (pdf).

7. "The Holy Land Divided: Defending Partition as a Solution to Ethnic Wars," Security Studies 10, no. 4 (Summer 2001): 58-116.

WORKING PAPERS

1. "Selection Effects and the War in Vietnam" (pdf).

2. "Covert Action, Democratic Peace, and the Cold War" (with Mary Lauren Lilley; pdf).

3. "Killing (Civilians) to Win? Evaluating the Military Effectiveness of Civilian Victimization in War" (pdf).

4. "Military Culture and Civilian Victimization: The Case of American Strategic Bombing of Germany in World War II" (pdf).

5. "Hypotheses on the Effectiveness of Civilian Victimization in War" (pdf).