consent, show potential to productively address state-society conflict on projects, while others - like recent Congressional … licensing works in practice as an institutional mechanism for resolving state conflicts with civil society over infrastructure … issues per se. Given these characteristics of current community-based conflict, I explore a number of alternatives to current …

Resource-rich dictatorships are more inclined to repress civil society than others. In this paper, we identify a … tradeoff between political rents from natural resources and the organizational density of civil society. This organizational …

This paper considers evolutionarily stable decisions about whether to initiate violent conflict rather than accepting a … peaceful resource allocations that are rejected in favor of violent conflict, compared to the Nash equilibrium outcomes …. Relative advantages in fighting strength are reflected in the equilibrium set of peaceful resource allocations. -- Conflict …

may explain their preference to stand alone. -- Endogenous group formation ; contest ; conflict ; alliance ; experiment …

Proxy wars are a key pattern of political conflict and interstate competition. Rather than resorting to direct … the double principal-agent relationship predicts the continuation of conflict and thus the emergence of peace. …