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WORK TITLE: A Guide to Intrastate Wars
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Male.
EDUCATION:Concordia College, B.A., 1994; Rice University, M.A., 1999, Ph.D., 2001.
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Academic and historian. Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, senior lecturer, 2001-02; Wright State University, Dayton, OH, instructor, 2002-05; Tarleton State University-Central Texas, Killeen, TX, assistant professor, 2006-09; Texas A&M University-Central Texas, Killeen, TX, assistant professor, beginning 2009, then Distinguished Graduate Faculty and associate professor of political science.
WRITINGS
Contributor to academic journals, including International Studies Review and Civil Wars.
SIDELIGHTS
Jeffrey Dixon is an academic and historian. He earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations and political science/history from Minnesota’s Concordia College before going on to complete a Ph.D. in 2001 in political science from Rice University, where he wrote his thesis on the way that third-party military intervention contributed to the outcomes of civil wars. After graduation, he served as a senior lecturer at Pennsylvania State University for a year before becoming an instructor at Wright State University. From 2006 until 2009 he served as an assistant professor at Tarleton State University-Central Texas before joining the faculty at Texas A&M University-Central Texas in 2009.
Dixon eventually became the Distinguished Graduate Faculty and associate professor of political science at Texas A&M University-Central Texas. There he serves as the cohost of the Correlates of War Civil War Dataset. His research interests include the causes, durations, and conclusions of civil wars. On these topics and others, he has published articles in academic journals, such as International Studies Review and Civil Wars.
Dixon published his first book, A Guide to Intra-state Wars: An Examination of Civil, Regional, and Intercommunal Wars, 1816-2014, in 2016 with coauthor and Global Women’s Leadership in International Security president Meredith Reid Sarkees. Dixon draws much of his research from the Correlates of War (COW) Project, which posits that those who wish to have peace should study war. The account compiles hard data on interstate civil wars from the COW Project in its unique mix of history and political science. The book is divided into chapters that focus on wars on each continent, ordering the corresponding wars chronologically. The book starts with the First Caucasus War of 1818 to 1822 and continues up to Yemen’s Rada’a War of 2014. The authors construct a narrative on the conflicts and offer other statistics and demographics, such as outlining the participants of the conflict, the dates of the events, how many deaths were recorded on each side, the size of the military forces involved, the origins of the conflict, and what its ultimate outcome was. The authors also discuss how coding rules for the cases were applied and also how the variables of the conflicts were dealt with.
Reviewing the book in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, J.A. Knapp observed that Dixon presents his information “in true scholarly fashion.” Knapp stated: “Exquisitely indexed and well referenced, the work offers a unique perspective on warfare.” Knapp said that A Guide to Intra-state Wars is “highly recommended” for readers at all academic levels.
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Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, April 1, 2016, J.A. Knapp, review of A Guide to Intrastate Wars: An Examination of Civil, Regional, and Intercommunal Wars, 1816-2014, p. 1150.
ONLINE
Texas A&M University-Central Texas Web site, https://www.tamuct.edu/ (March 16, 2017), author faculty profile.
Dr. Jeffery Dixon
Jeffrey Dixon
Contact
jeffreydixon@tamuct.edu
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254.501.5871
Spring 2017 Classes
PLSK-320-110-Terrorism & Political Violence
PLSK-441-110-Freedom and Authority
PLSK-486-110-Problems
PLSK-490-110-Political Science Capstone Cou
PLSK-501-110-Political Decision-Making
PLSK-506-110-Comparative Politics
PLSK-518-110-Terrorism Studies
Education
College or University Degree Earned Degree Subject Area
Rice University PhD (2001) Political Science: International Relations
Rice University MA (1999) Political Science
Concordia College BA (1994) International Relations, History & Political Science
Education Related Employment
Dates Educational Institution Name Position
2009-present Texas A&M University – Central Texas Assistant Professor
2006-2009 Tarleton State University – Central Texas Assistant Professor
2002-2005 Wright State University Instructor
2001-2002 Pennsylvania State University Senior Lecturer
1999-2000 Rice University Junior Lecturer
Related Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Dixon, Jeffrey. 2009. "What Causes Civil Wars? Integrating Quantitative Research Findings." International Studies Review 11(4): 707-735.
Dixon, Jeffrey. 2009. "Emerging Consensus: Results From The Second Wave Of Statistical Studies On Civil War Termination." Civil Wars 11(2): 121-136.
Other Publications
Dixon, Jeffrey. 2009. "Amalendu Misra. Politics of Civil Wars: Conflict, Intervention, and Resolution." Book Review. Journal of Conflict Studies 29: forthcoming.
Works Under Active Progress
Dixon, Jeffrey, and Meredith Sarkees. 2013/2014 (scheduled). Rivals For Power: An Examination of Civil Wars, 1816-2012. Washington, DC: CQ Press. Progress: 30% / 100,000 words complete. "Bargaining Structure Theory and Intercommunal War Termination." Paper presented at Annual Meeting of International Studies Association, April 2012.
"Taking Historians Seriously? The Changing Role of Military History in Political Science." Paper presented at Central Texas Military History Symposium, August 2011.
With Breann Crane. "Sources of Bias in Civil War Datasets." Paper presented at Annual Meeting of International Studies Association, February 2010
Other Conference Presentations
"Bound Gullivers or Reluctant Leviathans? Bargaining Structure Theory and the Puzzle of (Non)Intervention in Intercommunal Wars." Paper presented at North American Meeting of Peace Science Society (International), October 2011.
"Reluctant Leviathans: The Puzzle of (Non)Intervention in Intercommunal Wars" Paper presented at Annual Meeting of Midwest Political Science Association, April 2011.
"Civil Wars: The Military Dimension." Paper presented at Annual Meeting of International Studies Association, February 2010.
"Organized Anarchy: The Changing Structure of Civil Wars." Paper presented at Annual Meeting of International Studies Association, March 2007.
Date Updated: 6/4/12
Jeffrey S. Dixon received his BA in International Relations and Political Science/History from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. He received his PhD in Political Science from Rice University in Houston, Texas, writing his dissertation on the consequences of third-party military intervention on civil war outcomes. He has published articles on the causes of civil wars, how civil wars end, and the duration of civil wars. He is currently Distinguished Graduate Faculty and Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University–Central Texas and co-host of the Correlates of War Civil War Dataset.
Dixon, Jeffrey S.: A guide to intrastate wars: an examination
of civil, regional, and intercommunal wars, 1816-2014
J.A. Knapp
CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.
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Dixon, Jeffrey S. A guide to intrastate wars: an examination of civil, regional, and intercommunal wars, 1816-2014, by Jeffrey S. Dixon and
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Si vis pacem, studium bellum. ("If you want peace, study war.") This is the philosophy of the Correlates of War (COW) Project, from which the
data for this important reference work are drawn. Launched in 1963, COW provides longitudinal data on wars, and this new work by Dixon
(Texas A&M Univ., Central Texas) and Sarkees (president, Global Women's Leadership in International Security) is a collection of their data on
intrastate (what are usually called civil) wars. COW data sits at the intersection of history and political science and provides hard data that can
often prove elusive. Each chapter is devoted to a particular continent, listing all the conflicts therein in chronological fashion. More than 500
conflicts are detailed, from the "First Caucasus War of 1818 to 1822" to the "Rada'a War of 2014 to present" in the Arabian Peninsula. In addition
to a clear narrative on each conflict, the authors list the participants, dates, sizes of military forces, deaths on each side, who initiated the conflict,
and its outcome. In true scholarly fashion, details on how coding rules were applied in each case are provided, and an entire chapter is devoted to
describing how variables are defined. Exquisitely indexed and well referenced, the work offers a unique perspective on warfare. Summing Up:
*** Highly recommended. All academic levels; general readers.--J. A. Knapp, Penn State University
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