Laia Balcells, Ph.D. - Do Third-Party Guarantors Reassure Foot

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Natalia Garbiras-Díaz, Michael Weintraub, L. Fergusson, J. G. Duque, Laia Balcells
Social Science Research Network, 2023

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Garbiras-Díaz, N., Weintraub, M., Fergusson, L., Duque, J. G., & Balcells, L. (2023). Do Third-Party Guarantors Reassure Foot Soldiers? Social Science Research Network.

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Garbiras-Díaz, Natalia, Michael Weintraub, L. Fergusson, J. G. Duque, and Laia Balcells. “Do Third-Party Guarantors Reassure Foot Soldiers?” Social Science Research Network (2023).

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Garbiras-Díaz, Natalia, et al. “Do Third-Party Guarantors Reassure Foot Soldiers?” Social Science Research Network, 2023.

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@article{natalia2023a,
  title = {Do Third-Party Guarantors Reassure Foot Soldiers?},
  year = {2023},
  journal = {Social Science Research Network},
  author = {Garbiras-Díaz, Natalia and Weintraub, Michael and Fergusson, L. and Duque, J. G. and Balcells, Laia}
}

Abstract

Since the Cold War, international third parties such as the United Nations (UN) have become frequent guarantors of peace agreements. Existing studies demonstrate that third parties ameliorate credible commitment problems, yet these studies nearly exclusively marshal evidence at the macro-level and focus on elites, rather than foot soldiers. Using a novel phone survey of 4,435 ex-combatants from the FARC-EP, Colombia’s largest rebel group