Sudan's two main security forces are fighting each other. A swift military outcome is not to be expected in view of the … means that the chances for successful mediation are not hopeless. For this to happen, how­ever, Sudan’s international … very beginning. This could well be in the interest of the parties to the conflict, as they will need a third actor to …

controlling for age dependency, number of police (and security) officers, per capita economic prosperity, educational level and …

reduce conflict likelihood. This paper shows that the security imperative prevails in such countries and that tax bargaining … social outcomes in Somalia and is relevant for most fragile and conflict-affected countries. The qualitative parts describing … the social contract in Somalia use the lenses of security, education, and taxes to describe the current setting. It is …

In a canonical model of military conflict, victory and defeat depend stochastically on the difference of resources … deployed by the conflict parties. The present paper offers a comprehensive analysis of that model. The unique Nash equilibrium … conflict and, less often so, of its resolution. The formal derivation exploits the variation-diminishing property of higher …