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in that person's group. Group reciprocity may be a key motivation behind intergroup conflict. We investigated group …
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potential source of conflict. Following a prelude of water and ‘the human condition’, the paper presents an analytical survey of … the various aspects of the water-conflict-security nexus, describing how water may cause or constitute security problems … conflict, as scope is thereby created for resorting to ‘extraordinary measures’ such as going to war. Based on this analysis of …
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the intensity of a conflict. The model combines elements from network theory and from the politico-economic theory of … conflict. We obtain a closed-form characterization of the Nash equilibrium. Using the equilibrium conditions, we perform an … empirical analysis using data on the Second Congo War, a conflict that involves many groups in a complex network of informal …
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Trotz der nach dem Ende des Kalten Krieges erwarteten Friedensdividende erreichte die Zahl der Kriege und bewaffneten Konflikte Anfang der 1990er-Jahre eine Rekordzahl, wobei über 90 Prozent der Kriege und Konflikte in der so genannten Dritten Welt ausgetragen wurden. Durch diese Entwicklung,...
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Contests between groups are plagued by intra-group externalities (freeriding). Yet, costless incentive schemes that entirely avoid free-riding within a group might not be desirable, neither individually nor socially. In contests among two groups, a relatively weak (i.e., small or unproductive)...
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strategic trade and investment policy. The emergence of this new economy signals a new era of conflict, on new battlegrounds and …
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of engaging in conflict at their disposal, and thus rely on different repertoires of contention when engaging in …
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We set out a model of production and appropriation involving many players, who differ with respect to both resource endowments and productivities. We write down the model in a novel way that permits our analysis to avoid the proliferation of dimensions associated with the best response function...
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, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …
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fragmentation and conflict on international trafficking through internal and international displacements. …
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