-stage game with three competing importers, where fi rst, two of the countries decide on whether to initiate war against each …), but could render the eruption of war between member and non-member countries more likely (peace diversion). This paper is … literature to endogenize countries terms of trade. We use data from the Correlates of War project to empirically test these …

directly. We focus on civilian regimes and find that war decreases the payoff to the military from both forms of involvement …, but also makes staging successful coups easier. In equilibrium, an increase in the likelihood of war makes indirect … evidence for this non-monotonic relationship, with coups being least likely for low and high probabilities of war …

directly. We focus on civilian regimes and find that war decreases the payoff to the military from both forms of involvement …, but also makes staging successful coups easier. In equilibrium, an increase in the likelihood of war makes indirect … evidence for this non-monotonic relationship, with coups being least likely for low and high probabilities of war …

-ending conflict over Kashmir since the sub-continent was divided in 1947, and have been involved in numerous wars and superpower games … twenty years, Sri Lanka has been involved in a bloody civil war. Even Bhutan and Maldives experience security and internal … perspectives.Conflict and peace in South Asia connect with a diverse array of factors, ranging from poverty, nuclear proliferation …