to test his game-theoretic model—the Conflict Expectations Model--of sanctions behavior. The model purports to help …

This paper argues that natural resources in the past have been falsely identified as a cause of civil conflict onset …. The idea that natural resources spur conflict has reached a certain degree of acceptance among scholars and policy makers …

The paper presents an alternative narrative to the what led to conflict in the once peaceful Swat Valley in Pakistan …. The widely discussed view has been that Talibanization is what led to the conflict but this paper argues that it was in … fact bad governance over a period of time that led to this conflict by creating an environment where a governance vacuum …

Italy. This empirical study is underpinned by some theoretical insights drawn from conflict and rent-seeking theories. Then …

outcomes and the process of conflicts, and determining whether the conflict is able to provide incentives for establishing more …

This paper considers a partial equilibrium model of conflict where two asymmetric, rational and risk-neutral opponents … instrument to affect the outcome of the conflict. The second instrument is assumed to capture positive investments in ‘conflict … extremely large there is no room for cooperation and a conflict trap emerges; (b) whenever the degree of asymmetry falls within …