Economics, which was awarded in recognition of their research.<b>Contents:</b> <ul> <ul> <li><b><i>Global Conflict:</i></b> <ul …> <li>War and Disintegration, 1914¨C1950 <i>(Jari Eloranta and Mark Harrison)</i></li> <li>Why the Wealthy Won: Economic … Mobilization and Economic Development in Two World Wars <i>(Mark Harrison)</i></li> <li>The USSR and Total War: Why Didn't the …

variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do … different types of conflict affect country growth rates? It finds that wars slow the economy. Estimates indicate that civil war … reduces annual growth by .01 to .13 percentage points, and high-intensity interstate conflict reduces annual growth by .18 to …

Prominent conflict datasets used in the social scientific study of war and peace are summarized. These include datasets … conflict types, alternative definitions of war and sub-war conflict, historical patterns of violence in the international … for armed conflicts (e.g., COW and UCDP/PRIO wars and sub-war conflicts), terrorism (e.g., GTD and ITERATE terrorist …

Millennium Development Goals. It explores the economic behaviour of countries affected by conflict and identifies the impact on … policy options that can be adopted towards countries at war. …

less internal fighting. In equilibrium, players choose sufficiently high external conflict in order to avoid internal … conflict. In contrast with the existing literature, this diversionary use of force takes place even though there is no …

In spite of its long history among scholars of international conflict, empirical evaluations of diversionary theory … international conflict participation on the other; and measurement error in operationalizations of the independent variableâ …

,000 or more battle-related deaths) declined from six in 2009 to four in 2010. The most intense war in terms of fatalities was … annual average for the post-Cold War period. …

The relationship between conflict and individual artistic output is ambiguous, both a priori and in terms of the …