We analyze how trade openness matters for interstate conflict over productive resources. Our analysis features a terms …, greater trade openness brings with it a reduction in resources diverted to conflict and thus wasted, as well as the familiar … with a third (friendly) country, a move from autarky to trade intensifies conflict between the two adversaries, inducing …

intervention. At the same time, and regrettably, sanctions do not necessarily prevent armed conflict adding to the economic cost …

US army and the Iraqi government, thus reducing insurgent violence. In fact, the number of insurgent attacks dramatically … counterproductive. Policy makers seeking to adopt similar strategies in Afghanistan should take the relocation into account in their …

The rapid economic rise of China, India, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) could have several … effects on regional peace and global security. The power transition perspective overstates the risk of conflict that results … interdependence, and international institutions—provide weak insurance, at best, against conflict in Asia. Emerging Asian powers may …

We construct a model of conflict and trade to study the consequences of interstate disputes over contested resources … comparative advantage in the absence of conflict. And, where such conflict is present, comparisons of autarkic prices to world …

constant relapse to violence. The study combines a qualitative review of data from Afrobarometer, the National Democratic …'s structural source of relapse into violence with sustainable disincentives. Apart from women's empowerment through education and …

The last two decades were characterized by severe conflicts in the West Africa subregion. The era of conflict … expounds, operationalizes and clarifies the concept of human security and development, and how human security issues lead to … underdevelopment. The paper investigates the human security concerns in the post-conflict period and also looks at the crisis of …

credit agencies and multilateral development banks …