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We propose two new concepts, of non-state sovereign entrepreneurs and the non-territorial sovereign organizations they form, and relate them to issues pertaining to state sovereignty, governance failures, and violent social conflict over the appropriation of the powers that accrue to states in...
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Dietrich Fischer reviews the cost of war as against the cost of war-prevention. But for all the good reasons of why peace is … cheaper than war, war nonetheless recurs. Jurgen Brauer examines why there seems to be so little peace - if it is so cheap to …
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This piece introduces the new journal. This issue - Conflict or Development? - has a regional focus on Africa. Joseph Stiglitz discusses the role of information in conflict and draws a fascinating analogy between civil strife and a labor strike. Paul Collier and Neil Cooper take different...
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To develop effective policy to reduce the proliferation of illicit small arms in developing countries, it is necessary to have a good understanding of how these weapons are distributed and how illicit stockpiles are formed. This article captures structural characteristics of small-arms...
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the case of security and peace in southern Africa. To this end, it extracts from the literature a set of fundamental …
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We define peace economics as the economic study and design of political, economic, and cultural institutions, their … between societies. Differentiating peace economics from defense/military economics, conflict economics, and security economics …, we assert that while founded on positive precepts, peace economics is distinct for its normative character. We place …
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Dietrich Fischer reviews the cost of war as against the cost of war-prevention. But for all the good reasons of why peace is … cheaper than war, war nonetheless recurs. Jurgen Brauer examines why there seems to be so little peace - if it is so cheap to …
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