and rent-seeking to conflict and sports. We first examine the theoretical foundations of contest functions and classify …

We consider preference evolution in a class of conflict models with finite populations. We show that whereas aggregate … conflict effort is always the same in evolutionary equilibrium, larger populations have greater individual subjective costs of … conflict effort. …

examine the roles of ethnicity and religion in conflict and war. Based on one theory, the Ottoman conquests were driven by the …

which the players with the common opponent have incentive to form an alliance involving a pre-conflict transfer of resources …

In many instances of potential violent or non-violent conflict, the future strategic positions of adversaries are very … different when there is open conflict than when there is settlement. Then, we show that as the future becomes more important …, open conflict becomes more likely than settlement. We discuss the applicability of this finding in war, litigation, and …

resort to acts of terrorism. Here, identity is crucial to the putative terrorist, providing the microfoundations of dissident … group behaviour by solving the collective action problem. I also sketch a macromodel of drugs production in a conflict …

exists a non-monotonic relationship between the level of underlying rivalry and the level of social conflict. …

-theoretic principles may be particularly appropriate to the study of conflict. …

rivals of a different affiliation. The overall patterns of conflict in continental Europe as well as those between the …