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This paper focuses on two areas of security concern for the European Union: terrorism and international crime. I … resort to acts of terrorism. Here, identity is crucial to the putative terrorist, providing the microfoundations of dissident … group behaviour by solving the collective action problem. I also sketch a macromodel of drugs production in a conflict …
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, Muslims say, some of whom may resort to acts of terrorism. Here, identity is crucial and provides the micro-foundations of …
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This paper focuses on two areas of security concern for the European Union: terrorism and international crime. I … resort to acts of terrorism. Here, identity is crucial to the putative terrorist, providing the microfoundations of dissident … group behaviour by solving the collective action problem. I also sketch a macromodel of drugs production in a conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005071055
This paper models transnational terrorism as a three-way strategic interaction involving a government that faces armed … opposition at home, which may spill over in the form of acts of terrorism by the state's opponents against the government …'s external sponsor. The external sponsor also utilises deterrence against potential terrorists, which only lowers terrorism if …
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, and economic sanctions); chapters on past topics where there has been significant advances in knowledge (e.g., conflict …, terrorism, arms races, and military manpower); and chapters on topics that reflects the influence of globalization and new … threats (e.g., terrorism, trade and peace, and arms industries). Third, the chapter provides a brief overview of each chapter …
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This paper focuses on two aspects of insecurity for the European Union: domestic terrorism and international crime. In … macro-model is sketched of drugs production in a conflict-ridden developing country, where it is argued that demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009215215
In a society composed of a ruler and its citizens: what are the determinants of the political equilibrium between these two? This paper approaches this problem as a game played between a ruler who has to decide the distribution of the aggregate income and a group of agents/citizens who have the...
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In a society composed of a ruler and its citizens: what are the determinants of the political equilibrium between these two? This paper approaches this problem as a game played between a ruler who has to decide the distribution of the aggregate income and a group of agents/citizens who have the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385474
Two wealth effects typically arise in any contest: i) wealth decreases the marginal cost of effort, but also ii) decreases the marginal benefit of winning the contest. In this paper, we introduce three types of strategic contest models depending on whether the first, second, or both wealth...
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