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conflict over the control of arable land. Second, to impede further the production and exportation of drugs the state attempts … subsidies to the conflict over control of arable land and smaller subsidies to eradication and interdiction efforts. …
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This article provides an empirical investigation of the determinants of terrorism at the country level. In contrast with the previous literature on this subject, which focuses on transnational terrorism only, I use a new measure of terrorism that encompasses both domestic and transnational...
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Gender inequality, conflict and fragility are key challenges to sustainable development. They are inextricably linked …: unequal gender relations can drive conflict and violence, while women’s active participation in decision-making contributes to … gender equality into programming in fragile and conflict-affected settings. It focuses on engaging men and boys and …
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enforcement of long-term illegal trade relations, and may even provide an effective enforcement mechanism for occasional (one …-shot) illegal transactions, which would not be enforceable otherwise. -- Law enforcement ; Self-reporting ; Corruption ; Crime …
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In a model of evolution driven by conflict between societies more powerful states have an advantage. When the influence …
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We provide a general framework for the analysis of the dynamics of institutional change (e.g., democratization, extension of political rights or repression of different groups), and how these dynamics interact with (anticipated and unanticipated) changes in the distribution of political power...
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We propose a model of cycles of distrust and conflict. Overlapping generations of agents from two groups sequentially … a sequence of bad actions originated. Assuming that both sides are not extremists, spirals of distrust and conflict get … this mechanism can be useful in interpreting cycles of ethnic conflict and international war, and how it also emerges in …
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Motivated by a novel stylized fact - countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance - we provide a framework of endogenous institutional choice based on the idea that elites are constrained by the threat of rebellion, and that this threat is rendered less effective by...
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contributed significantly to the frequency, incidence, and onset of both overall and ethnic civil conflict over the last half …-century, accounting for a large set of geographical and institutional correlates of conflict, as well as measures of economic development … the incidence of intragroup factional conflict. These findings arguably reflect the contribution of genetic diversity to …
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This paper investigates the economic effects of conflict, using the terrorist conflict in the Basque Country as a case … September 1998 as a natural experiment to estimate the effects of the conflict. If the terrorist conflict was perceived to have …
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