mediating pathways for the average male randomly picked from the population. Contrary to the arguments that war fosters … foster cooperative behaviors but promotes parochialism. Further analyses show war-driven grievances, the normalization of …

applies economic concepts and models to help one understand diverse conflict activities such as war, terrorism, genocide, and … on well-established areas such as war, terrorism and alliances and under-researched areas including genocides, individual … and family aspects of war, and conflict prevention, they apply new economic tools to the study of war and peace such as …

nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with such an asymmetric payoff structure, and private information about military … win the war unless its expected military technology is considerably worse. Our model may thus explain why defending …