In a model of evolution driven by conflict between societies more powerful states have an advantage. When the influence …

We examine the mechanics of deterrence and intervention when fear is a motive for conflict. We contrast results … distinguish predatory and preemptive incentives as determinants of conflict. We show that while weapons have an unambiguous …

We propose a model of cycles of distrust and conflict. Overlapping generations of agents from two groups sequentially … a sequence of bad actions originated. Assuming that both sides are not extremists, spirals of distrust and conflict get … this mechanism can be useful in interpreting cycles of ethnic conflict and international war, and how it also emerges in …

contributed significantly to the frequency, incidence, and onset of both overall and ethnic civil conflict over the last half …-century, accounting for a large set of geographical and institutional correlates of conflict, as well as measures of economic development … the incidence of intragroup factional conflict. These findings arguably reflect the contribution of genetic diversity to …

This paper investigates the economic effects of conflict, using the terrorist conflict in the Basque Country as a case … September 1998 as a natural experiment to estimate the effects of the conflict. If the terrorist conflict was perceived to have …

conflict over the control of arable land. Second, to impede further the production and exportation of drugs the state attempts … subsidies to the conflict over control of arable land and smaller subsidies to eradication and interdiction efforts. …