trade agreements (shallow RTAs) however have no effect on war probabilities. Accordingly, international insecurity has a …Many historians argue that the main goal of European trade integration was the preservation of peace. This paper … investigates whether this reasoning is relevant for the EU and other regional trade agreements (RTAs). I provide empirical evidence …

literature to endogenize countries terms of trade. We use data from the Correlates of War project to empirically test these …We investigate the implications of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) for interstate confl ict. We set up a two …-stage game with three competing importers, where fi rst, two of the countries decide on whether to initiate war against each …

This paper investigates the determinants of the shape of regional trade agreements (RTAs). Because the world is … constituted by independent political entities, international trade flows take place in a system where property rights are … unsecured and RTAs should be understood as regulation mechanisms. In this theoretical framework, trade and security issues …

The paper provides a theory of war and conflict issues, and applies the theory to the arms race and the possibility of … war in the South Asian subcontinent. We try to give a new perspective on an old question: wars are not rational since they … than going for the less costly option of settlement. In the paper a war game is played in which two states first build …

We investigate the effect of trade integration on interstate military conflict. Our empirical analysis, based on a … large panel data set of 243,225 country-pair observations from 1950 to 2000, confirms that an increase in bilateral trade … interdependence significantly promotes peace. It also suggests that the peace-promotion effect of bilateral trade integration is …

We investigate the effect of trade integration on interstate military conflict. Our empirical analysis, based on a … large panel data set of 243,225 country-pair observations from 1950 to 2000, confirms that an increase in bilateral trade … interdependence significantly promotes peace. It also suggests that the peace-promotion effect of bilateral trade integration is …

archival military surveys fielded by the US War Department during World War II. Drawing on a large, representative sample of …

In war powers analysis, reliance on the interpretive method of historical practice, also called the “gloss of history …,” has made history a technology of the forever war. This approach draws upon the history of U.S. military conflict to … methodology, however. The understanding of history in historical gloss is not informed by the changing historiography of war. This …

ascribed first to the fact that in the wake of the war with Georgia in August 2008 the tandem of the Russian leaders (the RF …