This article examines how military organizations that are generally committed to following the laws and customs of war … exploit what the author terms ‘the collateral damage exemption’, by employing legally-sanctioned war-fighting strategies …

, such as during civil war or fragile democratic transition, the key tasks include reducing agency slack and making …

preferences over the resort to war and when they cannot commit to implement inherited policies. How, then, does the expected … successor to affect both the terms of settlement and the occurrence of war. First, political survival incentives can lead an … incumbent to demand more than her adversary is willing to concede, provoking war when the successor is of similar resolve …

In the past four decades scholars have produced a large literature on the relationship between territory and war. What … is clear is that territory has been and will continue to be a core issue in explaining the escalation and onset of war …

in an African civil war context. According to TMT, people manage awareness of inevitable death by increased striving for …, compared to a control condition. Given that mortality is chronically salient in the context of a civil war, these effects can …