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When to Expect a Coup D'État? An Extreme Bounds Analysis of Coup Determinants

Gassebner, Martin; Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2016

hundred potential determinants of coups have been proposed, but no consensus has emerged on an established baseline model for …

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Does Development Aid Increase Military Expenditure?

Langlotz, Sarah; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016

The diversion of development aid to the recipient's military may be one explanation why aid is often found to be … ineffective in promoting economic growth and development. Previous studies have not derived the causal effects of development aid … on military expenditure. Using a new instrumental variable strategy, we examine whether bilateral development aid …

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Cyber Technology and Arms Race

Kanniainen, Vesa - 2017

Cyber technology represents digital military capability with the purpose of causing damage to the military strength and the social infrastructure of a potential enemy. War using conventional weapons may be preceded by or combined with a war using cyber technology. This paper introduces such...

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Offset Contracts as an Insurance Device in Building the National Security

Kanniainen, Vesa; Lehtonen, Juha-Matti - 2017

A dynamic multi-stage decision-theoretic approach is introduced to establish the optimal offset and its incidence, the contract price arising from bargaining, and the scale of the acquisition. A new rationale is suggested for offsets in terms of their role as an insurance devise. Results are...

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Does A Change of Government Influence Compliance with International Agreements? Empirical Evidence for the NATO Two Percent Target

Blum, Johannes; Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

We examine whether changes of government influence compliance with international agreements. We investigate compliance with the NATO two percent target to which all NATO countries committed themselves during the NATO summit in Wales in 2014. The dataset includes the military expenditure by NATO...

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Religiosity and Terrorism: Evidence from Ramadan Fasting

Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A.; Strittmatter, Anthony - 2018

This study examines the effect of religiosity on terrorism by focusing on one of the five pillars of Islam: Ramadan fasting. For identification, we exploit two facts: First, daily fasting from dawn to sunset during Ramadan is considered mandatory for most Muslims. Second, the Islamic calendar is...

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Trade, conflicts, and political integration: the regional interplays

Vicard, Vincent - 2006

This paper investigates the determinants of the different forms taken by regional integration in different parts of the …

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Opium for the masses?: conflict-induced narcotics production in Afghanistan

Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove; Willumsen, Fredrik - 2009

We show that the recent rise in Afghan opium production is caused by violent conflicts. Violence destroys roads and irrigation, crucial to alternative crops, and weakens local incentives to rebuild infrastructure and enforce law and order. Exploiting a unique data set, we show that Western...

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War and relatedness

Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2009

We develop a theory of interstate conflict in which the degree of genealogical relatedness between populations has a positive effect on their conflict propensities because more closely related populations, on average, tend to interact more and develop more disputes over sets of common issues. We...

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The political economy of conscription

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2009

Though in decline recently, military conscription is still a widely used mode of staffing armies. Since not many valid economic, social or military arguments in favor of the draft can be put forward, the question emerges why societies choose to rely on it. In this survey we explain the political...

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