This introductory note discusses the main arguments that motivated the growing interest in power measures: the substantial growth in the application of power indices to political institutions, especially the European Union, the intensive discussion of the monotonicity properties of various...

We consider the problem of conflict resolution between a state and a sub-state challenger in a civil war. Until now, the literature on civil war bargaining has largely assumed that each side in the conflict negotiates as a unitary actor. The present paper extends our understanding of this...