This paper examines the interactive effect of distance and trade on international conflict and cooperation. The effect … of geographic distance depends on trade, while the effect of trade varies with geographic distance. Trade reduces … conflict to a greater extent when dyads are geographically close, but has a greater effect on cooperation when countries are …

Water Agreements</li> <li>The Use of River Basin Modeling as a Tool to Assess Conflict and Potential Cooperation</li> <li …<i>Bridges over Water</i> places the study of transboundary water conflicts, negotiation, and cooperation in the … and cooperation between riparian states. With an appended chapter on principles and practices of negotiation, and a new …

. Specialization based on comparative advantage leads to gains from trade. If political conflict leads to a diminution of trade, then … at least a portion of the costs of conflict can be measured by a nation's lost gains from trade. The greater two nations …' gain from trade the more costly is bilateral (dyadic) conflict. This notion forms the basis of Baron de Montesquieu …

international trade. Together, these results suggest that the negative correlation between openness and conflict emerges because … stability facilitates international trade rather than because trade flows reduce internal conflict. …This article examines the relationship between economic openness and internal conflict. The article first discusses …

<em>The distribution in the construction market between cooperation and conflict</em> - The paper aims to analyze the … links between industry and trade in the construction market looking for the specificness of subjects turning around it …

different theories regarding distance and conflict will call for different understandings of “distance†and accordingly, ten … between distance and conflict will be tested for the ten different types of distance measurement, not with the aim of finding …This article introduces two new datasets. The first is a new interstate distance dataset. It is recognized that …

dramatic world trade growth Ñin the words of Rubin (2009), ÒÉYour world is going to get a whole lot smaller.Ó Using data from … ChinaÕs Customs Statistics, we examine the impact of oil prices on tradeÕs sensitivity to distance. We find that higher oil … prices increase tradeÕs elasticity to distance, but that the economic effect is small. We also find that the effect is more …

obtained with log-linear models of bilateral trade, distance effects (remoteness and land area) have declined over time. Trade …Technical progress can be expected to reduce transport costs over time, yet most studies of bilateral trade based on … the gravity model find distance effects to be increasing rather than decreasing. We investigate countries’ openness to …