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Scholars and policymakers are worried about “ungoverned spaces” — areas of limited or anomalous government control inside otherwise functional states. Ungoverned spaces are the latest incarnation of persistent concerns about governance: that under- or poorly governed areas will spawn...
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This paper applies an alternative model to analyze criminal behaviour by countries based on real option models. Criminal options incorporate a richer framework than traditional cost-benefit models and allow examining the optimal timing of a crime as criminals have the possibility but not the...
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Afghanistan was necessary for winning the war on terror. Yet despite spending $8.4 billion on drug interdiction in Afghanistan … since 2002, opium production has grown substantially. We examine the failures of the U.S.-led war on drugs in Afghanistan …Following the start of the war on terror in 2001, U.S. policymakers determined that winning the war on drugs in …
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, the Self-Defense Forces (SDFs), overseas for a high-risk operation, the evacuation from Afghanistan in August 2021 …
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About fifty years after the independence of most former colonies on the African continent, books on African nationalism again rank high on the agenda of the international academic discussion. A selection of three recent publications demonstrates the advances made in scholarly analysis in the...
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About fifty years after the independence of most former colonies on the African continent, books on African nationalism again rank high on the agenda of the international academic discussion. A selection of three recent publications demonstrates the advances made in scholarly analysis in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334818
The paper provides a theory of war and conflict issues, and applies the theory to the arms race and the possibility of … strategic concerns, are examined. Finally, the results of the models are applied to the stylised facts of India-Pakistan rivalry … war in the South Asian subcontinent. We try to give a new perspective on an old question: wars are not rational since they …
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Can we predict when and where violence will break out within cases of genocide? Given often weak political will to … contemplating intervention. I develop a theoretical model to help identify areas vulnerable to violence during genocide. I argue … strength of society's cohesion below. Violence will be delayed in areas where political and military resistance to the center …
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Can we predict when and where violence will break out within cases of genocide? Given often weak political will to … contemplating intervention. I develop a theoretical model to help identify areas vulnerable to violence during genocide. I argue … strength of society's cohesion below. Violence will be delayed in areas where political and military resistance to the center …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691067
Can we predict when and where violence will break out within cases of genocide? Given often weak political will to … contemplating intervention. I develop a theoretical model to help identify areas vulnerable to violence during genocide. I argue … strength of society’s cohesion below. Violence will be delayed in areas where political and military resistance to the center …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744989