This chapter introduces the author’s selected papers on the economics of coercion and conflict. It defines coercion and … conflict and relates them. In conflict, adversaries make costly investments in the means of coercion. The application of … coercion does not remove choice but limits it to options that leave the victim worse off than before. Coercion and conflict are …

Surprisingly high levels of within-group cooperation are observed in conflict situations. Ex- periments confirm that …

geographic, economic, and historical trait, including proxies of pre-colonial conflict, predicts partitioning by the national … borders. Second, we exploit a detailed geo-referenced database that records various types of conflict across African regions … and show that civil conflict is concentrated in the historical homeland of partitioned ethnicities. We also document that …

This paper studies the conditions under which intra-elite conflict leads to a democracy. There are two risk averse …