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The Enemy Votes : Weapons Improvisation and Bargaining Failure

Wood, Garrett - 2018

Belligerents could in principle avoid the ex post costs of conflict by revealing all private information about their …

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Federle, Jonathan-Julian; Rohner, Dominic; Schularick, … - 2025

Economic resources are often seen as decisive for the outcomes of military conflicts. This paper asks whether “deeper pockets” help win wars. We construct a fine-grained dataset covering more than 700 interstate disputes and rely on exogenous resource price shocks to estimate the causal...

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International sanctions and coups d'état

Langer, Pascal - 2024 - This Version: December 20, 2024

This paper investigates the relationship between international sanctions and coups d'état in targeted countries. Employing a panel logit model and utilizing data from 1972 to 2013 drawn from the Global Sanctions Database and the Coup Leaders Dataset, we analyze the effects of UN and Western...

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Revisiting Negative Externalities of U.S. Military Bases : The Case of Okinawa

Hikotani, Takako; Horiuchi, Yusaku; Tago, Atsushi - 2021

In a recently published article, Allen et al. (2020) argue that U.S. military deployments nurture favorable attitudes toward the U.S. among foreign citizens. Their claim is based on social contact and economic compensation theories, applied to a large-scale cross-national survey project funded...

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Conflict and Inter-Group Trade : Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis

Korovkin, Vasily; Makarin, Alexey - 2021

Does armed conflict reduce trade, even in noncombat areas, through the destruction of inter-group social capital? We … analyze Ukrainian trade transactions before and after the 2014 Russia-Ukraine conflict. In a difference … social effects, conflict can be economically damaging, even away from combat areas …

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Lock, stock, and barrel : a comprehensive assessment of the determinants of terror

Gassebner, Martin; Lüchinger, Simon - 2011

We assess the robustness of previous findings on the determinants of terrorism. Using extreme bound analysis, the three most comprehensive terrorism datasets, and focusing on the three most commonly analyzed aspects of terrorist activity, i.e., location, victim, and perpetrator, we re-assess the...

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Clausewitz on auctions

Häfner, Samuel - 2012

A multi-stage model on the course of war is presented: Individual battles are modeled as private value all-pay auctions with asymmetric combatants of two opposing teams. These auctions are placed within a multi-stage framework with a tug-of-war structure. Such framing provides a microfounded...

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Suicide attacks and religious cleavages

Filote, Andra; Potrafke, Niklas; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2015

investigate whether the total number of suicide attacks per violent conflict or the annual number of suicide attacks per country …

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War and relatedness

Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2009

We develop a theory of interstate conflict in which the degree of genealogical relatedness between populations has a … positive effect on their conflict propensities because more closely related populations, on average, tend to interact more and … that affect conflict, including measures of trade and democracy. -- conflict ; genetic distance ; common issues ; rival …

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Military intervention via drone strikes

Mahmood, Rafat; Jetter, Michael - 2019

We study the 420 US drone strikes in Pakistan from 2006-2016, isolating causal effects on terrorism, anti-US sentiment, and radicalization via an instrumental variable strategy based on wind. Drone strikes are suggested to encourage terrorism in Pakistan, bearing responsibility for 16 percent of...

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