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Peace, terrorism, or civil conflict? : understanding the decision of an opposition group
Jetter, Michael - 2016
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493846
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The political economy of opposition groups : peace, terrorism, or civil conflict?
Jetter, Michael; Li, Bei - 2017
This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011754212
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Rent seekers in rentier states : when greed brings peace
Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Naghavi, Alireza - 2010
source of conflict and the rentier state view which emphasizes the role of resource rents in promoting peace and stability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737652
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Rent seekers in rentier states : when greed brings peace
Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Naghavi, Alireza - 2010
source of conflict and the rentier state view which emphasizes the role of resource rents in promoting peace and stability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702725
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Resource concentration and civil wars
Morelli, Massimo; Rohner, Dominic - 2013
This paper highlights the importance of natural resource concentration and ethnic group regional concentration for 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010222129
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The geography of inter-state resource wars
Caselli, Francesco; Morelli, Massimo; Rohner, Dominic - 2013
We establish a theoretical as well as empirical framework to assess the role of resource endowments and their geographic location for inter-State conflict. The main predictions of the theory are that conflict tends to be more likely when at least one country has natural resources; when the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010222133
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Chapter 24 Political Economy of Peacekeeping
Solomon, Binyam - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 741-774). 2007
-dimensional peacekeeping/peace building missions tended to significantly improve the chances for peace, while traditional peacekeeping (such as …The study of peacekeeping from an economics perspective is a fairly recent phenomenon. This chapter surveys three … research areas pursued by economists in analyzing peacekeeping. The first research strand examines the theory and empirics of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024405
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Does Trade Integration Contribute to Peace?
Lee, Jong-Wha - 2013
interdependence significantly promotes peace. It also suggests that the peace-promotion effect of bilateral trade integration is … bilateral trade but global trade openness also significantly promotes peace. It shows, however, that an increase in global trade … sharing borders. The main finding of the peace-promotion effect of bilateral and global trade integration holds robust when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075366
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Democratic peace : a principal-agent approach
Leonhardt, Nadine - 2013
Das Papier befasst sich modelltheoretisch mit dem empirischen Phänomen des „Demokratischen Friedens“, der Beobachtung also, dass Demokratien ihre Konflikte in der Regel nicht kriegerisch lösen. Die Grundlage meiner Analyse bildet das Modell von Fearon (1995), ein Verhandlungsspiel mit 2...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225096
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Democratic Peace – A Principal-Agent Approach
Leonhardt, Nadine - 2014
The present paper explicitly models the principal-agent relationship between a democratic population and its elected representative within a standard war bargaining setup. I find that the specific structure of this relationship and the problems resulting from it help overcome information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014149558