We provide the first systematic examination of the determinants of military mobilization over the very long run … plausible determinants of military mobilization. Contrary to what is so often suggested by scholars, we find little evidence …

railroad made it possible to field and support mass armies, significantly increasing the observed size of military forces …

static contest model, in which two sides choose levels of arming and whether to engage in actual conflict or settle in the … shadow of conflict. We show how arming critically depends on both governance and norms, and therefore how societies with … potentially conflictual relations can make either high or low levels of expenditures on security without any difference in the …

The United States used a combination of economic, political, and military means to effect change in Iraq. Most notably …, the United States used a buildup of security forces, the “surge”, as an intervention to stabilize Iraq. This article uses … structural change tests to determine the effect of the intervention on security and economic metrics of success. There appears to …

problem. This paper focuses on experiences of local health workers in eastern Burma's chronic conflict, including their … strategies for addressing security and ensuring access to vulnerable ethnic communities in the region. Face-to-face in … government's military activities in the region have severely impacted access to care, which remains restricted. Data show that …

In this paper, we first briefly review the recent literature on climate change, resource scarcity and conflict. This is … then followed by introducing an agent based computational model based on the theory of production and conflict which is …, differentiates between conflict subjects, takes into account bounded rationality, non-linearity and feedback loops, and is enriched …

This article looks at the interrelationship between water and food security. More specifically, it examines the … conflict, global trade and climate change. The article makes four points: (1) that resource scarcity as a driver of conflict is … power, social and gender relations; (3) global trade has enabled national food and water security, but that is now …

efficient provision of global security. In that paper, the level of threat by a rogue nation was assumed as being exogenously … opinion in the respective countries facing the rogue nation's threat, impacts the efficient provisioning of global security. …