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Although the need for the U.S. to work with other democracies during a future crisis is ever increasing, we do not yet have a sufficient understanding of what citizens in U.S. allies think about security policies and possible military actions. We leveraged on an extremely rare opportunity in...
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Which countries are likely to be subjects of research in the study of armed conflict? Evidence from other fields … suggests that research often focuses disproportionately on the West, but it is unclear to what extent this is true in conflict … studies. We suggest that a baseline explanation of research focus is country conflict experience, and present two additional …
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We review the main economic models of war and conflict. These models vary in details, but their implications are … qualitatively consistent, highlighting key commonalities across a variety of conflict settings. Recent empirical literature …, employing both laboratory and field data, in many cases confirms the basic implications of conflict theory. However, this …
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In administrating the 2016 federal budget, a single adjustment was made in November. Under the Law on the 2016 Federal Budget, allocations on the “National Defense” section of the budget expenditures were initially set at RUB 3,149 trillion, or RUB 32bn (1%) less than actual expenditures a...
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This paper seeks to identify an updated and policy-relevant research agenda for transatlantic defense burden sharing. There is a significant gap between recent work revisiting the burden sharing issue from a public choice perspective and that revisiting it from a security perspective. The public...
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How close does a nation come to the brink of war with an opponent during the process of crisis bargaining?The present study constructs a new formal model focused on a challenger's incentive to intensify military provocations against a defender that involves a trade-off between securing a more...
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This study examines the causal joint effect of a new political regime and war against Iraq on life expectancy of Iranians for the period 1978–1988 during the revolution and war. I use a synthetic control approach to construct a synthetic Iran based on a weighted average of other Middle East...
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systems with conflict development and resolution that are directed to achieve/sustain a global leadership to cope with …
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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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