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 develop more disputes over sets of common issues. We...

In 1939 the British Government tried to assess Soviet war potential in order to know more about their potential ally, as part of the negotiations concerning an Anglo-French-Soviet alliance. British assessments of Soviet economic and military strength (and the internal stability of the Stalin...

Why did the League of Nations ultimately fail to achieve widespread disarmament, its most fundamental goal? This article shows that the failure of the League of Nations had two important dimensions: (1) the failure to provide adequate security guarantees for its members (like an alliance); (2)...

Afghanistan, Somalia und die Demokratische Republik Kongo sind Beispiele für Entwicklungsländer, die unter den Folgen von Krieg, Armut und instabilen demokratischen Strukturen leiden. Diese Länder sehen sich in Sicherheitsfragen einer sehr schwierigen Herausforderung gegenüber und brauchen...

Článok sa zaoberá veľmi citlivou a často marginalizovanou témou, ktorou je arménska genocída. Genocída sa uskutočnila počas 1. svetovej vojny vo vtedajšej Osmanskej ríši na území dnešného Turecka. Genocída arménskeho národa bola dôsledkom konfliktu dvoch mocensky nerovných...

Arménska genocída je prvou genocídou 20. storočia, ktorá je svedectvom ľudskej nevraživosti. Ako zločin proti ľudskosti ju uznali desiatky parlamentov európskych štátov, mimoeurópskych štátov, Európsky parlament i Rada Európy. Arménska genocída je súhrnné označenie pre...

Napriek istej integrite severského regiónu, postoj severských štátov k Európskej únii a členstvu v nej je diametrálne odlišný. Tieto rozdiely sú badateľné aj v rámci jedného štátneho celku – Dánskeho kráľovstva, na čele so spoločným monarchom – Margarétou II. Ide o...

Does sharing the same religion, civilization or racial proximity lead to more peaceful relations between countries? This paper argues that cultural similarity can actually cause wars, which occur to combat di_usion. This new theory of war combines the models of Acemoglu and Robinson (2006) and...

We study the long-term economic legacy of highly-skilled minorities a century after their wholesale expulsion. Using mass expulsions of Armenian and Greek communities of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century as a unique natural experiment of history, we show that districts with greater...

We present a new aggregation method - called SVM algorithm - and use this technique to produce novel measures of democracy (186 countries, 1960-2014). The method takes its name from a machine learning technique for pattern recognition and has three notable features: it makes functional...