This article proposes a reading of the armed conflict from an evolutionary design that takes into account the concept … of private protection agencies in the works of Schelling/ Nozic/Gambetta. Their aim is to assess the dynamics of conflict …

analyze the impact of one of the world's largest anti-poverty programs, India's NREGS, on the intensity of Maoist conflict. We …

When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against … the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict …. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predicted to emerge under …

open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive … when considering the incidence and onset of terrorism and conflict. The corresponding magnitudes are economically sizeable …This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and …

, economic and political repercussions of the prolonged conflict in the region. The rise of terrorism and the War on Terror in …The Middle East has experienced significant and wide-ranging consequences due to terrorism and the resulting War on … Terror. The region saw substantial impacts as a result of the War on Terror. This study briefly overviews the security …