from surprise warfare may agree to peace, but will later renege on it. It is shown that the levels of conflict chosen by … (sanctions) can reduce or eliminate conflict. These sanctions, however, need to be credible. Finally, the independent provision …

This paper expands the micro-foundations of the traditional greed and grievance non-cooperative model of civil conflict … better understanding of conflict persistence, the consequences of competing international aid and why sub-optimal sanctions …

This paper develops a model of conflict resolution over scarce water in a trans-boundary river. In our model, we … along the river, they sequentially bargain over the surplus of water, or decide to engage in a military conflict with their … upstream neighbour. The probability of winning a military conflict is determined by a contest success function which depends on …

costlessly enforced. The costs of insecurity and the resultant conflict are, however, real and often economically significant. In … this paper, we examine how international trade regimes affect the costs of conflict and, in turn, how the desirability of … international trade is affected by these costs. We consider both domestic and international conflict. Trade openness reduces the …

We set up a rich bilateral bargaining model with four salient points (disagreement point, ideal point, reference point … solutions place on the disagreement point do not directly imply a unique efficiency ranking in this bargaining problem with a …, and tempered aspirations point), where the disagreement point and the utility possibilities frontier are endogenously …