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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 …
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, such as during civil war or fragile democratic transition, the key tasks include reducing agency slack and making …
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There is a large literature on the economic costs of military conflict, which uses a variety of methods including accounting procedures, statistical models and event studies of how stock markets respond to news of conflict. This literature is not only subject to all the criticisms directed...
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In 2013, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) recorded 33 armed conflicts with a minimum of 25 battle-related deaths, up by one from 2012. Seven of these were recorded as wars, that is conflicts leading to 1,000 or more battle-related deaths in a calendar year. There have been 144 armed...
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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 …
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In 2012, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) recorded 32 armed conflicts with a minimum of 25 battle-related deaths. This is a significant decrease from the 37 recorded in 2011. Overall, the 2000s has been the least conflict-ridden decade since the 1970s. A worrying finding, however, is...
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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 …
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Countries with open capital markets tend to have fewer militarized disputes and wars. Gartzke, Li & Boehmer propose that this association arises from the enhanced ability of states with open capital markets to credibly signal resolve through the bearing of economic costs ex ante to militarized...
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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 …
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Until recently, most writings on the relationship between climate change and security were highly speculative. The IPCC assessment reports to date offer little if any guidance on this issue and occasionally pay excessive attention to questionable sources. The articles published in this special...
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