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55 J. Conflict Resol. 3 (2011)

handle is hein.journals/jcfltr55 and id is 1 raw text is: Journal of Conflict Resolution 55(I) 3-32 Doe The Author(s) 2011 Does G lobalization Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Breed Ethnic DOI: 10 1177/002200270383666 http://jcr.sagepub.com Discontent? OSAGE Susan Olzak' Abstract This article examines how different components of globalization affect the death toll from internal armed conflict. Conventional wisdom once held that the severity of internal conflict would gradually decline with the spread of globalization, but fatalities still remain high. Moreover, leading theories of civil war sharply disagree about how different aspects of globalization might affect the severity of ethnic and nonethnic armed conflicts. Using arguments from a variety of social science perspectives on globalization, civil war, and ethnic conflict to guide the analysis, this article finds that (I) economic globalization and cultural globalization significantly increase fatalities from ethnic conflicts, supporting arguments from ethnic competition and world- polity perspectives, (2) sociotechnical aspects of globalization increase deaths from ethnic conflict but decrease deaths from nonethnic conflict, and (3) regime corrup- tion increases fatalities from nonethnic conflict, which supports explanations sug- gesting that the severity of civil war is greater in weak and corrupt states. Keywords globalization, ethnic armed conflict, battle deaths Reports of fatalities from campaigns of ethnic cleansing in Darfur, Iraq, and Bosnia dramatically illustrate the potential for ethnic disputes within countries to turn deadly. Moreover, internal arimed conflicts now account for 90 percent of all fata- lities from any type of war (Lacina 2006). In response, an enormous literature has Department of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Corresponding Author: Susan Olzak, Department of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA Email: olzak@stanford.edu

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