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Military spending in the West generally declined after the Cold War. Given the economic pressures that many of these states confronted, they can be said to have experienced a fortuitous conjunction of lessening security demands with stable if not rising pressures to allocate more resources to...
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Afghanistan, Somalia und die Demokratische Republik Kongo sind Beispiele für Entwicklungsländer, die unter den Folgen von Krieg, Armut und instabilen demokratischen Strukturen leiden. Diese Länder sehen sich in Sicherheitsfragen einer sehr schwierigen Herausforderung gegenüber und brauchen...
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Using a data set of historical battles from 1600 to 1973, this paper analyzes the empirical determinants of tactical success in modern war. Based on a reduced form approach we consider key elements of military theory as factors in the production of combat success, formalized in a military...
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gravity model, we estimate the contemporaneous and lagged effects of wars on the trade of belligerent nations and neutrals …, controlling for other determinants of trade. We find large and persistent impacts of wars on trade, and hence on national and …
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We test the hypotheses that fundamental characteristics in regional proximity, landlockedness, religious-domination, legal origin, and income levels affect cross-country differences in the persistence in political terror and political instability in 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. The...
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of the Yugoslavian and Syrian wars. This means that the EU is facing major challenges. At the same time, it has to cope …
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Im populären und politischen Diskurs werden häufig ökonomische Verhältnisse (wie Armut, Ungleichheit oder Wachstumsschwäche) als Gründe für die Entstehung und den Export von Terrorismus aus ärmeren Ländern genannt. Zugleich gelten wirtschaftlich erfolgreiche Staaten häufig als Ziele...
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democratic reforms and economic development while often advocated countering Islamist violence appear to be rather ineffective …
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We construct a model in which a number of equally powerful ethnic groups compete for power by engaging in civil war. In non-redistributive equilibrium, ethnically homogeneous and ethnically diverse countries face a lower probability of civil war than countries with a moderate degree of ethnic...
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