A notable feature of post-World War II civil wars is their very long average duration. We provide a theory of the …

The War for Independence left the National Government deeply in debt. The spoils from winning that war also gave it an …

This paper argues that before World War II the desire to maintain a trustworthy reputation for honoring war debts was … honoring in full of war debts following World War II. The discussion focuses on differences in economic and political … conditions after World War II, especially the extension of the voting franchise, the increased economic and political power of …

This paper attempts to provide a more complete reckoning of the costs of the Iraq War, using standard economic and … underestimate the War's true costs. We estimate a range of present and future costs, by including expenditures not in the $500bn CBO … the war on the overall performance of the economy. Even taking a conservative approach and assuming all US troops return …

with a range of political economy outcomes -- civil conflict, redistribution, economic growth and the provision of public … goods. We use linguistic trees, describing the genealogical relationship between the entire set of 6,912 world languages, to …, originating thousands of years ago, lead to measures of diversity that are better predictors of civil conflict and redistribution …

Medical and public health innovations in the 1940s quickly resulted in significant health improvements around the world …, and - over the following 40 years - social conflict. This result is robust across alternative measures of conflict and is … period, a faster increase in population made social conflict more likely, probably because it increased competition for …

from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level …, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus while war has many negative legacies for individuals and … reanalyze the emerging body of evidence, and weigh alternative explanations. There is some indication that war violence …