the defence of the opponent. This model has many applications like political campaigning, wars, competition among lobbies …

thus lessen the severity of the conflict at home. However, unless the marginal return from guarding against terrorism is … security among the groups against external threats and a greater conflict between them in the domestic struggle for power. …

advantage in the conflict or that the joint production process exhibits increasing returns. Nor is there any presumption that …, the formation of alliances tends to reduce the severity of the conflict over the contestable resource. Furthermore …, despite the internal conflict that arises among the winning alliance’s members over the distribution of their joint product …

Property rights, whose security is often threatened by civil conflict, are a necessary condition for the establishment …

We examine how globalization affects trade patterns and welfare when conflict prevails domestically. We do so in a …'). Thus, conflict is viewed as ultimately stemming from imperfect property-rights enforcement. When comparing autarky with … conflict. We find that importers of the contested resource gain unambiguously. By contrast, exporters of the contested resource …

This paper develops a positive analysis of stable group formation, highlighting the role of conflict management within … groups. The analysis is based on a model of sequential conflict, starting with a "winner- take-all" contest for control of … joint production process. While reducing the severity of conflict over the contestable resource relative to the case of …