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geographic location for inter-State conflict. The main predictions of the theory are that conflict tends to be more likely when …
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, and economic sanctions); chapters on past topics where there has been significant advances in knowledge (e.g., conflict …
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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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Voters would be better off if they removed politicians offering low-quality government by pursuing populist policies and re-elected those who improved government quality with sustainable policies. In many political contexts, including those with free and fair elections, voters do the opposite....
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ethnic conflict. A new type of bargaining failure due to multiple types of potential conflicts (and hence multiple threat …
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What actions should we expect countries to take when engaged in economic warfare? This paper first shows that the goal of winning a war implies a very simple and intuitive objective of economic warfare: maximize one's own less the opponent's (weight-adjusted) payoff. This objective function is...
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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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