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Leff, Carol S. Leff, Carol S. Diehl, Paul F. Vasquez, John A. Bowers, Jake Svolik, Milan Arackal, Sheena 2014-05-30T16:47:50Z 2014-05-30T16:47:50Z 2014-05 2014-05-30T16:47:50Z 2014-05 Why, during an ethnic conflict, would an ethnic group turn its weapons against itself? That is the question that motivates this dissertation. Such behavior is puzzling because as an ethnic group devotes valuable time, energy, and resources on an intra-group conflict, it reduces the total amount of resources the group can draw on to wage the ethnic conflict. Unfortunately, the ethnic conflict literature provides few answers to the puzzle of infighting during ethnic conflict because the ethnic conflict literature generally assumes that ethnic violence increases ethnic cohesion. I examine that assumption in detail, and find it both theoretically and empirically flawed. Instead, I argue that both at the factional level and at the individual level, ethnic violence creates incentives and opportunities for fragmentation, and the ethnic leadership then engages in infighting to counter this pressure. I test the theory using both large-n statistical analyses, as well as process tracing and case studies. Both empirical analyses provide evidence to support the theory, challenging the claim that ethnic violence increases ethnic cohesion. Ultimately, I conclude that infighting during ethnic conflict is the irrational macro-level outcome of rational micro-level choices. Item withdrawn by Laura Spradlin (lspradl2@illinois.edu) on 2014-04-16T14:39:19Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Arackal_Sheena.pdf: 1828317 bytes, checksum: 0f210eef2f77bd487cde653b7cab0bb8 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-30T16:47:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Sheena_Arackal.pdf: 1828317 bytes, checksum: 0f210eef2f77bd487cde653b7cab0bb8 (MD5) license.txt: 4064 bytes, checksum: eb6ddd3a62b75b6e81809fffd23ae7be (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/49512 en Copyright 2014 Sheena A. Arackal Ethnic Violence Infighting Ethnic Conflict Ethnicity Not my brother's keeper: How ethnic violence causes infighting text Political Science 1710 Political Science 0343 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:Political Science -UIUC 10KS0343PHD