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Development, inequality, and war in Africa

Nafziger, E. Wayne - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 1 (2006) 1, pp. 14-19

Five factors contribute to humanitarian crises in Africa. They are: stagnating and declining incomes, rising income inequality, avaricious competition to extract Africa's mineral wealth, military centrality, and a tradition of violent conflict. One factor - ethnic differences - turns out to be a...

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Demand and supply of commercial firearms in the United States

Brauer, Jurgen - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 8 (2013) 1, pp. 23-28

The article establishes methods by which to estimate demand and supply in the commercial firearms market in the United … States. For the first time, this includes the number of used firearms resold via federally licensed retailers. For 2010, for … were used weapons. The total number of military and nonmilitary firearms that entered commerce between 1986 and 2010 is …

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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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A Tug of War Team Contest

Häfner, Samuel - 2015

This paper analyzes a tug of war contest between two teams. In each round of the tug of war a pair of agents from the opposing teams competes in a private value all-pay auction with asymmetric type distributions and effort effectiveness. Whichever team arrives fi rst at a given lead in terms of...

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Determinants of the duration and ending of terrorist and other non-state armed groups

Noe, Dominik - 2013

This study empirically investigates the impact of group characteristics and host country conditions on the duration and the ending of terrorist organizations and rebel groups. The empirical analysis relies on data for more than 600 armed groups from the Terrorist Organization Profiles, collected...

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When to Expect a Coup D'État? An Extreme Bounds Analysis of Coup Determinants

Gassebner, Martin; Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2016

Over the last several decades, both economists and political scientists have shown interest in coups d'état. Numerous studies have been dedicated to understanding the causes of coups. However, model uncertainty still looms large. About one hundred potential determinants of coups have been...

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I hope I die before I get old: The supply side of the market for suicide bombers

Apolte, Thomas - 2017

We explore the supply side of the market for suicide bombers. While the strategic edge of suicide attacks for certain terrorist organizations has been thoroughly explored, the motivation of the suppliers remains quite mysterious. Following a review of existing theoretical approaches and...

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When to expect a coup d'état? An extreme bounds analysis of coup determinants

Gassebner, Martin; Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2016

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When to expect a coup d’état? An extreme bounds analysis of coup determinants

Gassebner, Martin; Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2016

Over the last several decades, both economists and political scientists have shown interest in coups d’état. Numerous studies have been dedicated to understanding the causes of coups. However, model uncertainty still looms large. About one hundred potential determinants of coups have been...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621177

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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