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Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2009

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 … that affect conflict, including measures of trade and democracy. …

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Years of Life Lost to Revolution and War in Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2021

This study examines the causal joint effect of a new political regime and war against Iraq on life expectancy of Iranians for the period 1978–1988 during the revolution and war. I use a synthetic control approach to construct a synthetic Iran based on a weighted average of other Middle East...

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The costs of organized violence : a review of the evidence

Skaperdas, Stergios - 2009

I critically review recent studies that estimate those costs of violence and conflict that can emerge among organized … of organized conflict and violence are aggregated. …

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Foreshadowing Mars: Religiosity and Pre-Enlightenment Warfare

Barber, Luke; Jetter, Michael; Krieger, Tim - 2023

Can religiosity sway a society's propensity for violence against outgroups? We first introduce two state-year-level religiosity measures for several pre-Enlightenment European states with the frequencies of (i) religious language in book publications and (ii) Christian names of newborns. To...

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Lock, stock, and barrel: A comprehensive assessment of the determinants of terror

Gassebner, Martin; Luechinger, Simon - 2011

We assess the robustness of previous findings on the determinants of terrorism. Using extreme bound analysis, the three most comprehensive terrorism datasets, and focusing on the three most commonly analyzed aspects of terrorist activity, i.e., location, victim, and perpetrator, we re-assess the...

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Suicide Attacks and Religious Cleavages

Filote, Andra; Potrafke, Niklas; Ursprung, Heinrich - 2015

investigate whether the total number of suicide attacks per violent conflict or the annual number of suicide attacks per country …

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Years of Life Lost to Revolution and War in Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2021

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Economic Warfare

Spiro, Daniel - 2023

What actions should we expect countries to take when engaged in economic warfare? This paper first shows that the goal of winning a war implies a very simple and intuitive objective of economic warfare: maximize one's own less the opponent's (weight-adjusted) payoff. This objective function is...

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Arming in the Global Economy: The Importance of Trade with Enemies and Friends

Garfinkel, Michelle R.; Syropoulos, Constantinos; … - 2019

We analyze how trade openness matters for interstate conflict over productive resources. Our analysis features a terms …, greater trade openness brings with it a reduction in resources diverted to conflict and thus wasted, as well as the familiar … with a third (friendly) country, a move from autarky to trade intensifies conflict between the two adversaries, inducing …

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Foreign influence and domestic policy: a survey

Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Hauk, Esther - 2019

dynamics and for internal conflict than is commonly acknowledged in both empirical and theoretical research. …

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