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Civil War: A Review of Fifty Years of Research
Blattman, Christopher; Miguel, Edward - eSocialSciences - 2009
A review of several decades of scholarship on civil war, focusing on the answers to key questions: Why do wars begin …? Who fights? How are armed groups organized? How can we end and prevent internal war? A survey of the growing body of … macroeconomic and microeconomic evidence to assess the impacts of civil war on economic growth worldwide is given. This paper seeks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543100
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When do commitment problems not cause war? Turkey and Cyprus, 1964 versus 1974
Nome, Martin Austvoll - In: International Area Studies Review 16 (2013) 1, pp. 50-73
War is often attributed to the fact that parties are unable to commit to an agreement, or have incentives to renege on … it. This cause of war is known as “commitment problemsâ€. Yet commitment problems are not in themselves sufficient for … war. Parties to a conflict can experience commitment problems and not go to war. Although current theories suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011137995
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Non-state Sovereign Entrepreneurs and Non-territorial Sovereign Organizations
Brauer1, Jurgen; Haywood, Robert - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
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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Military Spending and Democracy
Brauner, Jennifer - Birkbeck, Department of Economics, Mathematics & Statistics - 2014
This paper examines empirically whether democracies allocate fewer resources to the military than dictatorships do. It employs a panel of up to 112 countries over the period 1960-2000 to estimate a standard demand for military spending model. While papers on the determinants of military spending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886266
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Economics of security - are terrorists rational?
Loužek, Marek - In: Politická ekonomie 2009 (2009) 2, pp. 177-193
rational choice theory point of view. Forth section analyses security dilemmas in the war on terror. Fifth section explores …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005258273
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Adam smith: A defence economist
Coulomb, Fanny - In: Defence and Peace Economics 9 (1998) 3, pp. 299-316
For Smith, “defence” is presented as one of the three big areas requiring the “expenses of the sovereign or Commonwealth”, and therefore justifying state intervention in the economy, beside “justice” and “public works and public institutions”. Against the mercantilist thought,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009215168
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Arms export controls and emerging domestic producers
Levine, Paul; Mouzakis, Fotis; Smith, Ron - In: Defence and Peace Economics 11 (2000) 3, pp. 505-531
The possibility of domestic production raises a difficulty for arms export control measures, since embargoes, by raising the effective price of imports, increase the incentive for domestic production. We address this issue by developing a partial equilibrium model of the international arms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009215237
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Country survey XI: Defence and the Israeli economy
Beenstock, Michael - In: Defence and Peace Economics 9 (1998) 3, pp. 171-222
The literature on economic aspects of defence in Israel is critically reviewed by subject: measuring the defence burden, the determinants of defence spending, the effects of defence spending on the economy, and the military-industrial complex. An overview of the Israeli economy is provided, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009215241
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Price competition in a model of arms trade
Garcia-Alonso, Mary Carmen - In: Defence and Peace Economics 10 (1999) 3, pp. 273-303
This paper presents a model of subsidized military production that examines the relationship between domestic procurement and arms exports. Weapon producers satisfy the defence procurement in their own country and compete in prices in the international market where weapons are imperfect...
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ANALYSING DEFENCE DEPENDENCY: THE IMPACT OF THE ROYAL NAVY ON A SUB-REGIONAL ECONOMY
Asteris, Michael; Grainger, Jeffery; Clark, David; … - In: Defence and Peace Economics 18 (2007) 1, pp. 53-73
This paper provides a methodology for estimating the economic impact of defence spending at a sub-regional level. It does so by calculating the income and employment generated by Britain's Royal Navy and associated defence activities in the City of Portsmouth and its surrounding area, during the...
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