This paper considers a partial equilibrium model of conflict where two asymmetric, rational and risk-neutral opponents … instrument to affect the outcome of the conflict. The second instrument is assumed to capture positive investments in ‘conflict … extremely large there is no room for cooperation and a conflict trap emerges; (b) whenever the degree of asymmetry falls within …

conflict, and it is generally impossible to find a single real-valued function representing the interests of the whole of … intrinsically necessary for the understanding of the fundamental problem of conflict resolution in economics in its various forms … equilibrium and the resolution by social choice of the resource allocation conflict in economics (Chichilnisky, 1991). …

‘as is,’ from our own work. The primary source is ‘The Weapondollar-Petrodollar Coalition,’ a 71 page chapter in our book … ‘Weapondollar-Petrodollar Coalition’ – but dismiss our ‘precise calibration of the oil/war nexus’ as ‘perfunctory.’ This dismissal …

Scholars and policymakers have devoted much attention to issues of third party intervention in conflict. The present … paper considers a conflict that draws two countervailing outside interveners. As in the realist perspective, the outside … escalatory conflict intervention. The paper also studies conditions required for the United Nations, or some such supra …