In July 2014, against the backdrop of an escalating conflict in Ukraine and the crash of a civilian passenger airliner …

advantage in the final stage. We examine such momentum in conflict scenarios and investigate how valuable it must be to avoid a …, rent dissipation in the two-stage conflict is equal across party whether or not an individual obtains first-stage momentum … as useful conflict benchmarks, they dissipate additional expected contest rents. This additional rent-dissipative toll …

We examine the effect of inter-group fiscal competition on within-group violent conflict. Using a triple difference … that higher competition between villages reduces conflict but only up to moderate levels of competition. The conflict …

We examine the factors behind Afghanistan's persistent underdevelopment. Drawing on various theories of development … functioning affects Afghanistan's development. To capture the functioning of development traps empirically, we use several … economic development. We show that Afghanistan is caught in multiple development traps with entwined functioning, creating …

own resources. We show that there exists a unique equilibrium for this conflict game and examine the relation between …Conflict parties are frequently involved into more than one conflict at a given time. In this paper the interrelated … structure of conflictive relations is modeled as a conflict network where opponents are embedded in a local structure of …

on the technologies of conflict within each battlefield and the nature of economies or diseconomies in how battlefield … out-comes and costs aggregate in determining payoffs in the overall conflict. -- conflict, contest ; battlefield ; Colonel …

across the targets. -- Colonel Blotto ; conflict resolution ; weakest-link ; best-shot ; multi-dimensional resource …

existence of a unique equilibrium in pure strategies, and carry out some comparative static exercises. -- conflict …