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Improving military expenditure decisionmaking in sub-Saharan Africa
Harris, Geoff - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 5 (2010) 2, pp. 38-44
This article begins by emphasizing that the number and intensity of armed conflict has fallen substantially but that military expenditure levels in sub-Saharan Africa have nonetheless increased, largely as a result of South African expenditure. The article attempts to answer two questions....
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DRAMATISCHE WAHRHEIT, KRIEG UND FRIEDEN
SENTURK, Ridvan - In: Istanbul Commerce University Journal of Social Sciences 23 (2013) 1, pp. 15-42
Die Bedingungen, welche die Dominanz der Friede oder des Kriegs über das individuelle und gemeinschaftliche Leben bestimmen, sind nicht nur die Politischen, Ideologischen, Wirtschaftlichen und Militärischen. Das ist nicht nur die Frage des Militärischen, Ökonomischen und Politischen, auch...
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The scientist and the church
Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
‘Weapondollar-Petrodollar Coalition’ – but dismiss our ‘precise calibration of the oil/war nexus’ as ‘perfunctory.’ This dismissal …
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La justice pénale internationale, entre idéaux et justification
Saada, Julie - In: Revue Tiers-Monde n°205 (2011) 1, pp. 47-64
liberal political ideals about the philosophy of peace through law and utilitarianism. It shows how their implementation is …
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Conflict and the Millennium Development Goals
Stewart, Frances - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 4 (2003) 3, pp. 325-351
policy options that can be adopted towards countries at war. …
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The onset of peace.
Smith, Ron; Tasiran, Ali - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 7 (2012) 1, pp. 5-14
duration—how long war lasts before the onset of peace. We provide an exposition of the nature of the data and of the …Using the Uppsala Conflict Data Program's Conflict Termination Dataset, 1946-2007, we investigate determinants of war … transformations statistical issues involved in quantifying the dynamics of conflict, in particular the onset of peace. Various …
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Does Trade Integration Contribute to Peace?
Pyun, Ju Hyun; Lee, Jong-Wha - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2011
interdependence significantly promotes peace. It also suggests that the peace-promotion effect of bilateral trade integration is … bilateral trade but global trade openness also significantly promotes peace. It shows, however, that an increase in global trade … interdependence but also global trade integration. The main finding of the peace-promotion effect of bilateral and global trade …
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The deadweight cost of war: An illustrative CGE
Gilbert, John; Takahiko, Tanigawa; Linananda, Krit; … - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 6 (2011) 2, pp. 34-40
War is costly both because of the resources used up and because of the inefficiency introduced by the higher taxes … necessary to finance them. War has been justified by its ability to help an economy achieve full employment. Robert Barro argues … that war increases employment because folks work harder to smooth consumption and take advantage of the higher interest …
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Power Parity, Preponderance, and War between Great Powers, 1816-1989
Moul, William - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 47 (2003) 4, pp. 468-489
or encourage war between those two states? Distortions of both theory and evidence—mixing balances of power with … approximate parity in power capabilities encouraged war between great power disputants between 1816 and 1989. …
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The Peace Scale: Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Non-Rivalry and Peace
Klein, James P.; Goertz, Gary; Diehl, Paul F. - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 25 (2008) 1, pp. 67-80
Most efforts in international relations scholarship focus on understanding war and conflict. To the extent that peace …-level scale of dyadic peace. We then operationalize the scale using indicators suggested by different scholarly literatures as … code dyadic peace in non-rivalry periods. We conclude with a pilot study of the scale, as applied to pairs of states over …
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