Research

Articles

Sakstrup, Casper. When Strength Becomes Weakness: Precolonial State Development, Monopoly on Violence, and Civil War. Accepted for publication in Comparative Political Studies.

Sakstrup, Casper & Jakob Tolstrup (2022). To Intervene or Not to Intervene? Democratic Constraints on Third-Party Support in Civil Wars. Government and Opposition 57 (1): 126–147. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2020.19

Bokobza, Laure, Suthan Krishnarajan, Jacob Nyrup, Casper Sakstrup & Lasse Aaskoven (2022). The Morning After: Cabinet Instability and the Purging of Ministers after Failed Coup Attempts in Autocracies. The Journal of Politics 84 (3): 1437–1452. doi: https://doi.org/10.1086/716952 – Blog post

Sakstrup, Casper (2021). What’s going on Next Door? Irregular leader change in neighboring countries, uncertainty, and civil war. Journal of Peace Research 58 (3): 539–553. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343320913092

Sakstrup, Casper & Kristina Jessen Hansen (2021). Revisiting the Emotion-Risk Interaction: Do Anger and Fear Moderate the Impact of Risk on Public Support for War? International Journal of Public Opinion Research 33 (4): 1012–1023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edaa032

Dissertation

Sakstrup, Casper (2019). Third-party Involvement in Civil War: Causes and Consequences, PhD Dissertation. Aarhus: Forlaget Politica. link: https://politica.dk/politicas-phd-serie/casper-sakstrup/

Reports

Kristensen, Kristian Søby & Casper Sakstrup (2016). Russian Policy in the Arctic after the Ukraine Crisis. Copenhagen: Centre for Military Studies. link English version: https://cms.polsci.ku.dk/english/publications/russian-policy-in-the-arctic/Russian_Policy_in_the_Arctic_after_the_Ukraine_Crisis.pdf
link Danish version: https://cms.polsci.ku.dk/publikationer/russisk-politik-i-arktis-efter-ukrainekrisen/Rusland-i-arktis_final.pdf

Sakstrup, Casper, Johannes Kidmose & Jette Steen Knudsen (2015). Samfundsansvar – Aktuel anvendelse i og fremtidig relevans for det danske forsvar af samfundsansvarsbegrebet [Corporate Social Responsibility – Current application and future relevance of the corporate social responsibility concept for the Danish Defence]. Copenhagen: Centre for Military Studies. link: https://cms.polsci.ku.dk/publikationer/samfundsansvar/Samfundsansvarsbegrebet.pdf

Working papers

Sakstrup, Casper & Henrikas Bartusevičius. Group-based injustice motivates, whereas group-based inequality dissuades, political violence.

Sakstrup, Casper & Kristina Jessen Hansen. (Ir)rational Responses to Costs in War? A New Conceptual Framework.

Sakstrup, Casper. The Dictator’s Foreign Policy: Elite cohesion and institutional checks.

Sakstrup, Casper. Kausalitet i scenarieforskning: Konsekvenser for udenrigs- og sikkerhedspolitiske analyser [Causality in Scenario Research: Consequences for Foreign and Security Policy Analyses].

Sakstrup, Casper. Scenario research as a basis for policy recommendations: Potentials and Pitfalls.

Op-eds

Sakstrup, Casper (2021). ”Mens vi talte om corona”, Weekendavisen, 9 March 2021.

Schaub, Gary & Casper Sakstrup (2014). “Hvorfor flyver russerne aggressivt over Østersøen?”, Jyllands-Posten, 17 December 2014.

Sakstrup, Casper (2013). “Reform med tvivlsom gevinst”, Jyllands-Posten, 28 November 2013.

Sakstrup, Casper (2009). ”Hurra for det brede forsvarsforlig”, Jyllands-Posten, 5 July 2009