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Happiness research has dealt with a great number of determinants of well-being but has neglected the effect of war …-being of the people killed in war. Wars may also increase happiness by providing shared experiences, raising national pride …
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, who live in a war zone along the border with Gaza. The participants were asked to tell their life stories and to answer …
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Social Anthropology delved into the war as one of most important activities of all societies, cultures and … of technology previously developed in peace-time. Whenever societies are unable to make the war, simply they are … extinguished. Nonetheless, after the World Trade center's attack in Sept. 2001, terrorism advent and the war on terror have created …
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cost of war; then, whether capitalism has shown a preference for war. Both questions are considered comparatively. Neither …
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This article studies temporal variations in wealth levels and distribution in an Ottoman context during the eighteenth century. By analysing the probate estate inventories of the Muslim deceased in Kastamonu, located in north-central Anatolia, we demonstrate that real wealth levels generally...
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During crisis art is often considered as a safe haven both by the scientific literature and the financial advisors. For example, during WWII art markets encountered a massive boom in occupied countries This paper questions this vision of art as a safe investment providing evidence that art has...
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Using the Uppsala Conflict Data Program's Conflict Termination Dataset, 1946-2007, we investigate determinants of war … duration—how long war lasts before the onset of peace. We provide an exposition of the nature of the data and of the …
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An assessment of the employment of mercenaries in Afghanistan gives mixed results. U.S. armed forces appear to have been happy with the Afghan Security Forces and ad hoc militias and only replaced them because of political reasons or because they felt that they were no longer needed. By...
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The ability of military alliances to deter depends on their credibility: the degree to which others believe that allies will fulfill their commitments. One way to measure credibility is to compare nations' lists of allies. The more similar those lists are, the more similar are those nations'...
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