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In this paper we seek to answer the question: why governments engage in mass killing? Tullock (1974) gives gain or avoidance of loss as the motive. We construct a three-stage theoretic framework to explain the choice of a ruler of a country. The conditions that must be met for mass killing...
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Modern Georgian history knows two devastating conflicts which happened in recent years bringing much confusion and disorientation to local Georgian Community. Given article tries to explore the identity crisis which took place after the two wars. As a result of military actions great number of...
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The Political Economy of War and Peace brings insights into the political and economic forces that shape the … international, sub-national and ethnic conflicts of the present post-Cold War era. The larger vision is that war must be studied as … estimations. War appears as an endogenous aspect of systems of social interaction. The point of the volume is not simply to be …
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Most combatants in armed conflict are men, so naturally men are the major direct victims of military operations. Yet, armed conflicts have important indirect negative consequences on agriculture, infrastructure, public health provision and social order. These indirect consequences are often...
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We study whether the Coase conjecture holds in a model of bargaining during conflict due to Powell and Fearon. Two players, A and B, contest a divisible resource. At any time during the conflict, they can make a binding agreement to share the resource. The conflict continues until they make an...
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By defining political economy and war in the broadest sense, this unique Handbook brings together a wide range of …. These include an analysis of why wars begin, how wars are waged, what happens after war has ceased, and the various … alternatives to war. Other sections explore civil war and revolution, the arms trade, economic and political systems, and post …
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foundation. Introduction : the making of Sudan : a history of incomplete processes -- War and the transformative potential … (1989-2004) -- Re-negotiating a sudan. Sudan's war produced economy and society : the case for transformative potential … -- From Addis to Nivasha war-fatigue driven peace agreement : sources of fragility and challenges of governance -- Post …
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