geographic factors (such as location, terrain, and natural resources) interact with rebel fighting capacity and together play a … crucial role in determining the duration of conflict. Using precisely dated duration data in event history models and … geographic data for the conflict location, we find that conflicts located at considerable distance from the main government …

instability. The analysis suggests a bleak prognosis for domestic peace in postinvasion Afghanistan and Iraq as the causal factors …

-national survey conducted during and immediately after the 2001 U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. They propose three models of global …

development of nations, particularly in nondemocracies. The leaders of rich democratic states often trade resources for the …€œeasy money†resources. Such resources have deleterious consequences, particularly in nondemocracies, because they provide leaders …

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 …