ethnic conflict. A new type of bargaining failure due to multiple types of potential conflicts (and hence multiple threat …

the intensity of a conflict. The model combines elements from network theory and from the politico-economic theory of … conflict. We postulate a Tullock contest success function augmented by an externality: each group's strength is increased by … efforts. We then perform an empirical analysis using data on the Second CongoWar, a conflict that involves many groups in a …

geographic location for inter-State conflict. The main predictions of the theory are that conflict tends to be more likely when …

high economic potential and purposeful institutions having the purpose of achieving/sustaining a global leadership, tends …

open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive … group are intermediate and rents are sizeable, hereas conflict looms under poor executive constraints. Analyzing annual data … when considering the incidence and onset of terrorism and conflict. The corresponding magnitudes are economically sizeable …

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 …

commitment of donors must not be in doubt. For these conditions to be in place, conflict resolution must be in donors' interests …