of modernity tended to portray a secular trend toward the triumph of rationalized social order centered in diachronic … modernity through the articulation of rationalized diachronic time with the sacred strategic time of apocalyptically framed … 'holy war.' Overall, the 'empire of modernity' is a hybrid formation that bridges diachronic and strategic temporalities …

This paper reviews four economic theories of leadership selection in conflict settings. The 'credibility rationale … doves are more likely to secure peace, post-conflict hawks may be rationally selected. The 'social psychological rationale … conflict, but hawk selection post-conflict. Finally, the 'expressive rationale' predicts that regardless of the underlying …

wisdom that doves are more likely to secure peace, but post-conflict there are good reasons for hawks to be rationally … upon bargaining power. As in the bargaining rationale, dove selection can be predicted during conflict, but hawk selection … post-conflict. Finally, the expressive rationale is discussed which predicts that regardless of the underlying structure of …

conflict and peace are treated as a latent state. From this, we are able toconstruct a measure of the discounted number of …

wisdom that doves are more likely to secure peace, but post-conflict there are good reasons for hawks to be rationally … upon bargaining power. As in the bargaining rationale, dove selection can be predicted during conflict, but hawk selection … post-conflict. Finally, the expressive rationale is discussed which predicts that regardless of the underlying structure of …

a national conflict. The article discusses various forms of reflexivity, and concludes that 'analytical reflexivity …

The conflict in Northern Ireland was an example of "complex warfare" with both insurgency and sectarian violence. We … present a unified model that helps to identify these two forms of conflict from the spatial distribution of violence. The … troop surge in 1972 and the proximity to the Republic of Ireland on the two elements of the conflict. …

This paper explores the effect of conflict on GDP in Northern Ireland. A synthetic control region constructed as a … weighted average of other UK regions provides an estimate of counterfactual ‘no-conflict’ GDP. Comparing this with actual per … capita GDP suggests a negative impact of up to 10%. Excluding the increased grants provided in response to the conflict, a 15 …

view. They can generate chaos and progress, separation and cohesion. More and more specialists believe that conflict … present various strategies of conflict resolution, on the basis of a cost analysis generated by conflicts at organizational …

The Two Faces of Education in Ethnic Conflict challenges a widely-held assumption - that education is inevitably a …