civil war and civil conflict (Sambanis 2002; Collier and Hoeffler, 2007; Blattman and Miguel 2010), and more general aspects … emergence of conflict. The political economy perspective offered here differs from other important surveys and analyses of the … same topic, which have focused on the ethnic dimensions of war (Horowitz 1985), the general causes and consequences of …

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

In many situations there is a potential for conflict both within and between groups. Examples include wars and civil … wars and distributional conflict in multitiered organizations like federal states or big companies. This paper models such … situations with a logistic technology of conflict. If individuals decide simultaneously and independently about the amount of …

We develop a theory of interstate conflict in which the degree of genealogical relatedness between populations has a … positive effect on their conflict propensities because more closely related populations, on average, tend to interact more and … to go to war with each other, even after controlling for a wide set of measures of geographic distance and other factors …

War or conflict is an activity of aggression and violence with weapons and new technologies for resolving internal and … of war is difficult to create because of manifold factors engaged in triggering conflicts over time and space. This study … populations that can lead to war …

post-war reconstruction. … article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that … war enhances land abundance. This implies that farm size for the analysis of land investment and tenure security. The …

ethnic conflict. A new type of bargaining failure due to multiple types of potential conflicts (and hence multiple threat … points) is identified. The theory predicts war to be more likely when resource and group concentration are high, and the … concentration variables for civil war. …

the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict … and their choice between peace, a terrorism campaign, and open conflict. …When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against …