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We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the … asymmetry and complementarity in members'efforts, and analyze how each group's internal conflict in-fluences its chance of … winning in the external conflict. We find that a more symmetric group may expend more effort in external conflict when the …
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observe surprisingly high levels of within - group cooperation in conflict situations such as civil wars. We provide an … future security. We argue that a group's reputation is a public good with a natural weakest - link structure. We extend the …
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Kovenock and Roberson’s (2012ab) replication of Hausken’s (2008a) equations and parameter restrictions do not enhance our insight into the defense and attack of reliability systems. This reply intends to fill the remaining understanding gaps.
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Kovenock and Roberson’s (2010) paper has the potential to advance the research frontier, but has deficiencies. This paper suggests how Kovenock and Roberson’s (2010) paper can be developed into a more substantial paper. Kovenock and Roberson’s (2010) paper consists of three sections. The...
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Three models are presented in which two players agree to share power in a particular ratio, but either player may subsequently "fire" at the other, as in a duel, to try to eliminate it. The players have positive probabilities of eliminating each other by firing. If neither is successful, the...
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Conflict parties are frequently involved into more than one conflict at a given time. In this paper the interrelated … structure of conflictive relations is modeled as a conflict network where opponents are embedded in a local structure of … bilateral conflicts. Conflict parties invest in specific conflict technology to attack their respective rivals and defend their …
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successfully and the defender's objective is to defend all targets. The models differ in how the conflict at each target is modeled …
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This paper experimentally examines behavior in a two-player game of attack and defense of a weakest-link network of targets, in which the attacker's objective is to successfully attack at least one target and the defender's objective is diametrically opposed. We apply two benchmark contest...
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We study conflict between two groups of individuals. Using Schaffer's (1988) concept of evolutionary stability we …
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ways of extending the standard static economic model of conflict to study patterns of conflict dynamics. It turns out that …. In particular, we are unable to study dynamic military conflict as a series of “battles” that are resolved individually … subject to this limitation. Plausible patterns of conflict dynamics emerge, which we can link to both historical conflict and …
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