commitment of donors must not be in doubt. For these conditions to be in place, conflict resolution must be in donors' interests …

influencing the policy choice by changing the political institutions in the target country (with or without a civil war). We … dynamics and for internal conflict than is commonly acknowledged in both empirical and theoretical research. …

We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from a recourse to formal institutions of conflict …km-by10km grid cell-level data on conflict in a spatial regression discontinuity design framework, we show that areas … conflict management, led to a sharp surge in attacks against state targets in frontier areas. We show that the surge in …

heterogeneity on economic outcomes. The results confirm the generally found growth-reducing effect of ethnic heterogeneity but also …

nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …

spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent …

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 …

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 …

We construct a dynamic theory of civil conflict hinging on inter-ethnic trust and trade. The model economy is … beliefs on the average propensity to trade of the other group. Since confict disrupts trade, the onset of a conflict signals … after each conflict episode. Third, "accidental" conflicts that do not reflect economic fundamentals can lead to a permanent …

We construct a dynamic theory of civil conflict hinging on inter-ethnic trust and trade. The model economy is … beliefs on the average propensity to trade of the other group. Since conflict disrupts trade, the onset of a conflict signals … after each conflict episode. Third, "accidental" conflicts that do not reflect economic fundamentals can lead to a permanent …