alliance formation due to social cues from the photographs being used as a coordination device to facilitate faster alliance …

effects of international trade, besides keeping markets open to further reduce the potential of international conflict. …

This paper considers a partial equilibrium model of conflict where two asymmetric, rational and risk-neutral opponents … option of choosing a second instrument to affect the outcome of the conflict. The second instrument is assumed to capture a … complex bundle of Conflict Management Procedures (CMPs). Through comparative statics, different scenarios are studied. A …

This article proposes a reading of the armed conflict from an evolutionary design that takes into account the concept … of private protection agencies in the works of Schelling/ Nozic/Gambetta. Their aim is to assess the dynamics of conflict …

institutions, there is generally a conflict over these social choices, ultimately resolved in favor of groups with greater …

effects of terrorism on the preferences of the Israeli electorate. We find that the occurrence of a terror attack within three … political parties out of the two blocs vote. This effect is of a significant political magnitude given the level of terrorism in … a small number of localities suffer terror attacks we obtain that terrorism causes the ideological polarization of the …

The financial side of terrorism has not been given due importance in the literature. This paper analyses the … implications of the financial side of terrorism for the relationship between the incidence of terrorism and affluence. It is … actual incidence of terrorism does not mimic this relationship. This is because of the financial side of terrorism and its …