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Estrada, Fernando - 2010

This article proposes a reading of the armed conflict from an evolutionary design that takes into account the concept … of private protection agencies in the works of Schelling/ Nozic/Gambetta. Their aim is to assess the dynamics of conflict …

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Is The 'Surge' Working? Some New Facts

Greenstone, Michael - 2007

There is a paucity of facts about the effects of the recent military Surge on conditions in Iraq and whether it is paving the way for a stable Iraq. Selective, anecdotal and incomplete analyses abound. Policy makers and defense planners must decide which measures of success or failure are most...

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Deadweight Loss and the American Civil War : The Political Economy of Slavery, Secession, and Emancipation

Hummel, Jeffrey - 2012

Two broad positions have dominated the history of economic thought with respect to chattel slavery. The view of the classical economists, dating back as far as Adam Smith and including a good many abolitionists, was that slavery was inefficient and therefore unprofitable. The contrasting...

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Performance Analysis of Defense Stocks on the Background of Peace and Conflict in the Post-Cold-War Era

Auer, Markus - 2014

defense spending while abnormal returns following geopolitical events (conflict escalations, peace treaties, terrorist attacks …

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The political legacies of wartime resistance : how local communities in Italy keep anti-fascist sentiments alive

Cremaschi, Simone; Masullo, Juan - 2023

Can past wartime experiences other than violence have long-term effects on political attitudes and behaviours? How are these legacies sustained across generations and beyond those who directly experienced war? We explore these questions in Italy, a country whose democratic institutions were...

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The Unequal Burden of War : The Effect of Armed Conflict on the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy

Pluemper, Thomas; Neumayer, Eric - 2011

Most combatants in armed conflict are men, so naturally men are the major direct victims of military operations. Yet … arguably more so than men. This article provides the first rigorous analysis of the impact of armed conflict on female relative … to male life expectancy. We find that over the entire conflict period interstate and civil wars on average affect women …

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The Money War : An Interpretation of Democracy, Depreciation, and Taxes in the U.S. Civil War

Ron, Ariel; Valeonti, Sofia - 2021

Both sides in the U.S. Civil War financed military spending by issuing new fiat currencies. The Union “greenback” underwent moderate inflation (by wartime standards), but the Confederate “grayback” suffered hyperinflation. Existing explanations for these price movements typically treat...

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Review of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, Fruits of Southern Secession, Calamitous Wars and the Disintegration of Sudan

Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2012

The secession of the Sudan into two parts, Northern and Southern countries and the following armed conflicts on its borders, calls for an analysis of why that happened. It is seen as a disaster for both as there are interrelationships between the two built over historical period. There are also...

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Oil price shocks and civil conflict : evidence from Nigeria

Nwokolo, Arinze - In: The World Bank economic review : WBER 36 (2022) 1, pp. 171-197

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Conflicts in the framing of conflicts : the case of community investment in a mining company in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Mària i Serrano, Josep Francesc; Goodman, Jennifer - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 35 (2023) 5, pp. 671-687

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