local wartime institutions. To this end, I present original evidence on conflict areas in Colombia to illustrate the scope …

how PTAs could induce hostilities between members and nonmembers. In this article, I argue that dyadic conflict is more … spanning 1961 to 2000, I find that PTA-induced trade distortions are associated with a higher likelihood of conflict between …

representative for states at large. Yet, most research on conflict has only examined national income averages and neglected spatial …. The authors test these hypotheses empirically using spatially disaggregated data on the location of conflict outbreaks and … per capita income estimates. The authors find that areas with absolute poverty indeed see more outbreaks of conflict, and …

The relationship between conflict and education has been studied before. However, previous authors have always focused … strongly on the supply-side effects, whereas this article examines the influence of conflict on the demand for education. It is … theoretically shown that, under relatively general conditions, individuals living in a conflict area have an incentive to increase …

conflict, we find that income levels unambiguously increase the chance of peace. Among other issues, we discuss the critical …

monitoring, conflict resolution, enforcement, and/or the delegation of authority to intergovernmental organizations. This article …

In spite of its long history among scholars of international conflict, empirical evaluations of diversionary theory … international conflict participation on the other; and measurement error in operationalizations of the independent variableâ …

While theoretical models of conflict often treat actors as unitary, most self-determination groups are fragmented into … find that competition between co-ethnic factions is a key determinant of their conflict behavior. More competing factions …