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Data, Models, Coefficients: The Case of United States Military Expenditure

Brauer, Jurgen - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 24 (2007) 1, pp. 55-64

This article is an exercise in economic methodology. It replicates two published models of the effect of military expenditure on the United States economy but, in order to study variations in the relevant estimated parameters, applies two different military expenditure data sets to the models...

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War with Outsiders Makes Peace Inside

Münster, Johannes; Staal, Klaas - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 28 (2011) 2, pp. 91-110

This article presents a new theoretical perspective on the diversionary use of force. Players are partitioned into groups and choose how to allocate their resources to production, fighting against other groups, and fighting internally. The model gives a rationalist explanation of the group...

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Success Breeds Success? War Outcomes, Domestic Opposition, and Elections

Arena, Philip - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 25 (2008) 2, pp. 136-151

War outcomes are unlikely to effect elections if the major parties did not disagree over the war. Leaders who enter … government during the war. Employing original data on legislative opposition during interstate wars, this paper examines all … likely to be punished (rewarded) for bad (good) outcomes if the opposition did not support the war. Further, there is no …

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Bargaining, War, and Alliances

Wagner, R. Harrison - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 21 (2004) 3, pp. 215-231

recent work on the relation between bargaining and war to a three-state setting where coalitions are possible. I show that if …

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Dangerous Dyads Revisited: Democracies May Not Be That Peaceful After All

Buhaug, Halvard - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 22 (2005) 2, pp. 95-111

In recent years, the quantitative international relations literature has increasingly paid attention to the potential problem of serially correlated observations in time-series cross-section (TSCS) data. Today, no study using TSCS data is published unless it manages to control for temporal...

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â€œThe Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friendâ€ Is the Enemy: Dealing with the War-Provoking Rules of Intent

Saperstein, Alvin M. - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 21 (2004) 4, pp. 287-296

A set of rules often invoked to explain or justify the evolution of intentions and the consequent behavior of competitive systems consists of the following: 1. The friend of my friend is my friend. 2. The friend of my enemy is my enemy. 3. The enemy of my friend is my enemy. 4. The enemy of my...

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Secondary Casualty Information: Casualty Uncertainty, Female Casualties, and Wartime Support

Gartner, Scott Sigmund - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 25 (2008) 2, pp. 98-111

results contribute to our understanding of wartime public support, women in combat, and the Iraq War. …

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The Trade-Offs of Fighting and Investing: A Model of the Evolution of War and Peace1

Kadera, Kelly M.; Morey, Daniel S. - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 25 (2008) 2, pp. 152-170

weigh the trade-offs between economic and military growth, as well as deciding on the best strategy to follow should war … states might conclude that their only hope of winning or surviving a rivalry lies in fighting a counterforce war, explain why …

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The Geo-Politics of Forced Migration in Africa, 1992â€”2001

Iqbal, Zaryab - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 24 (2007) 2, pp. 105-119

Of the consequences of war, the movement of large numbers of displaced peoples across international borders is among … clear effects for the presence of conflict, with war in the source country substantially increasing refugee flows and war in …

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A Reassessment of Democratic Pacifism at the Monadic Level of Analysis

Boehmer, Charles R. - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 25 (2008) 1, pp. 81-94

Are democracies generally peaceful? Studies have produced mixed evidence, both for and against this proposition. I review and update the literature on this topic and explore reasons why some scholars have come to emphasize those studies showing that democracies are no more or less conflict-prone...

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