Document Type
Article
Disciplines
5.5 LAW, 5.6 POLITICAL SCIENCE, Political science
Abstract
Research has identified several factors that impact the sustainability of post-conflict territorial autonomy arrangements (TAA), including previous levels of violence, economic development in a given territory, or the strategic importance thereof. We argue that a hitherto neglected variable lies in the legal form of the autonomy agreement – that is, the degree to which it has been ‘legalized’ by the language and processes prescribed in the agreement. Based on a qualitative evaluation, we assess the legalization degree of 236 TAA signed between 1990 and 2019. Survival analyses and Cox regression models show that a higher degree of legalization has a positive and significant effect on peace durability.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/17449057.2023.2207876
Recommended Citation
Schulte, Felix and Carolan, Gene, "What’s Law Got To Do With It? How The Degree of Legalization Affects The Durability Of Post-Conflict Autonomy Agreements" (2023). Articles. 46.
https://arrow.tudublin.ie/aaschlawart/46
Funder
This research received no external funding
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Publication Details
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449057.2023.2207876
Felix Schulte & Gene Carolan (2023) What’s Law Got to Do with It? How the Degree of Legalization Affects the Durability of Post-Conflict Autonomy Agreements, Ethnopolitics,
DOI: 10.1080/17449057.2023.2207876