of rationality. Yet rational choice theory is increasingly used to model organizations, politics, and international … . . . the foolish attempts to draw the blood of reparations and war debts . . . usher in a second vast military conflagration … pure form of noncooperative game theory, the semi-strong form of Williamson's "contractual man", and the strongly bounded …

The Political Economy of War and Peace brings insights into the political and economic forces that shape the … international, sub-national and ethnic conflicts of the present post-Cold War era. The larger vision is that war must be studied as … estimations. War appears as an endogenous aspect of systems of social interaction. The point of the volume is not simply to be …

same topic, which have focused on the ethnic dimensions of war (Horowitz 1985), the general causes and consequences of … civil war and civil conflict (Sambanis 2002; Collier and Hoeffler, 2007; Blattman and Miguel 2010), and more general aspects …

theoretical, examining the mechanisms that lead to war or are more conducive to peace. …