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Economic sanctions and trade flows in the neighbourhood

Bove, Vincenzo; Di Salvatore, Jessica; Nisticò, Roberto - 2021

We investigate the effect of economic sanctions on trade flows in countries sharing a border with the sanctioned state. On the one hand, trade models suggest that trade flows should decrease as sanctions disrupt trading routes and economic ties with suppliers and customers. On the other hand,...

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Power, institutions, and state-building after war: A controlled comparison of Rwanda and Burundi

McDoom, Omar - 2023

I examine whether and how the means through which a civil war ends affects the success of a country's state-building strategy after conflict. I show that two distinct modes of conflict termination-military victories and negotiated settlements-lead to differential long-run statebuilding outcomes...

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"Embedded" assistance: Finn Church aid's secondment in Somalia

Lepistö, Rauli S.; Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Ojala, Jussi - 2015

Donors face distinct challenges in operating in fragile states and supporting the building of state capacity. This paper explores one type of assistance - the 'embedding' of highly-skilled staff members within local government agencies - through a unique case study of Finn Church Aid's...

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Consociational settlements and reconstruction: Bosnia in comparative perspective, 1995 - present

Stroschein, Sherrill - 2013

This paper examines Bosnia with some comparative insights from Northern Ireland. Both places were extremely fragile in the immediate aftermath of their brokered peace negotiations and consociational institutions, in Bosnia in 1995 and Northern Ireland in 1998. Bosnia in particular was the...

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Intervention, aid, and institution-building in Iraq and Afghanistan: A review and critique of comparative lessons

Monten, Jonathan - 2013

Since 2001 international attention has focused on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and specifically on the question of whether external intervention can assist weak or fragile states in successfully making the transition to stable democracies. Despite their differences, Iraq and...

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Unintended consequences of economic sanctions for human rights: Conflict minerals and infant mortality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Parker, Dominic P.; Foltz, Jeremy D.; Elsea, David - 2016

Are victims of human rights abuses better off with or without economic sanctions targeted at their perpetrators? We study this question in the context of a US human rights policy, Section 1502 of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. By discouraging companies from sourcing 'conflict minerals' from the...

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Do fences make good neighbours? Evidence from an insurgency in India

Kaila, Heidi; Singhal, Saurabh; Tuteja, Divya - 2017

India has employed a variety of military, political, and economic measures to combat the long running insurgency in Kashmir with little evidence on what contributes to stability in the region. This paper uses a variety of tests to detect structural breaks in the time series for violence over the...

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Conflict and development: Recent research advances and future agendas

Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Martin-Shields, … - 2017

research requires new and better sources of data on conflict and conflict impacts, including from household surveys in conflict …-affected areas. Impact evaluations can also be valuable sources of insights about how conflict impacts on people and how … peacebuilding and reconstruction can be improved. We also see the need for much more detailed studies on the long-term impacts of …

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Elite murder and popular resistance: Evidence from post-World War II Poland

Krakowski, Krzysztof; Schaub, Max - 2022

Does repression of opposition elites prevent resistance against foreign-imposed regimes? On the one hand, elimination of elites can undermine the opposition's capacity for antiregime resistance. Yet killing opposition elites deprives the new regime of useful human capital. Co-optation of elites...

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Trade sanctions and informal employment

Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Nisticò, Roberto - 2023

This paper examines how trade sanctions affect the allocation of workers across formal and informal employment. We analyse the case of the unexpected and unprecedented trade sanctions imposed on Iran in 2012. We use a difference-in-differences approach and compare the probability of working in...

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