With the disintegration of the USSR a conflict arose between Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan over the Syr Darya … river. Upstream Kyrgyzstan operates the Toktogul reservoir which generates hydropower demanded mainly in winter for heating …. Downstream Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan need irrigation water in summer, primarily to grow cotton. Regional agreements obliging …

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. …

I study a two-period model of conflict with two combatants and a third party who is an ally of one of the combatants …. There exist perfect Bayesian equilibria in which the third party's intervention worsens the conflict by energizing her ally … to withdraw from or stay in the conflict is based on her prior beliefs and not on the current conditions of the conflict …

inverse trade-conflict relationship, but is the opposite of the conclusion reached by Gartzke et al. (2001), who reject the … opportunity costs as the basis for the inverse trade-conflict relationship, thus implying that one need not rely on signaling. …

, aggression feeds on itself, and mutual fear escalates into conflict. Chicken is a model of preemption and deterrence. With …

it was locked in by past investments. To model such asymmetric conflict we use a three stage game. In the first stage the …

In the course of the last decade, the IBSA states (India, Brazil, South Africa) have increased their weight in the … the state of and perspectives on bi- and trilateral collaboration initiatives on defense and armaments between India …Im Verlauf der letzten Dekade konnten die IBSA-Staaten (Indien, Brasilien, Südafrika) ihre Position in der sich …

divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to … for access to tap water in rural India. Communities that are heterogeneous in terms of caste (within the majority Hindu …We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social …

This paper seeks to address the problem of conveying changes in open-water quality to the public within surveys such as … within stated preference valuation studies. This is achieved through the creation of a new water quality ladder designed to … measures of water quality so as to enhance the transferability of values derived from using such a scale. This paper also seeks …

contrasting approaches towards the game by India and Pakistan, that is, infinite versus finite respectively. To exhibit the games …. These games have been found to fit the observed story of relations between India and Pakistan, with the recent involvement …-Pulwama incident were scrutinized and decrypted using game theory. The analysis revealed that Pakistan plays the game of Mutual …