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nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …
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spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent …
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dynamics and for internal conflict than is commonly acknowledged in both empirical and theoretical research. …
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commitment of donors must not be in doubt. For these conditions to be in place, conflict resolution must be in donors' interests …
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In this chapter, we review the recent literature on conflict and appropriation. Allowing for the possibility of … conflict, which amounts to recognizing the possibility that property rights are not perfectly and costlessly enforced … technologies of conflict. A central objective of this research is to identify the effects of conflict on economic outcomes: the …
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In a world continuously beset by conflict and violence, the positive study of international security and defense has … analytic approaches, (b) how developing ideas about conflict, predation and governance have entered into and greatly influenced …
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This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. Using data for 149 countries between 1970 and 2007, this contribution, contrary to expectations from capitalist peace theory, does not find that Anti-American terrorism increases with external economic liberalization...
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This paper develops a framework for analyzing different policymaking styles, their causes and their consequences in Latin America, finding that lower institutionalization and greater use of alternative political technologies (APTs) are more likely the lower the cost of using these technologies,...
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spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent …
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of industrialization. The distribution of wealth affects the incentives of agents to invest in political conflict, and … latter effect increases with the amount of accumulated capital. The model also captures the hump-shaped path of conflict …
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