In a world continuously beset by conflict and violence, the positive study of international security and defense has … analytic approaches, (b) how developing ideas about conflict, predation and governance have entered into and greatly influenced …

This paper considers a partial equilibrium model of conflict where two rational and risk-neutral opponents conflict in … order to appropriate a positive fraction of a stake. This paper is intended to extend the literature on conflict dealing …

conflict and more intense fighting …

The Hirshleifer model of conflict is used to argue that without voluntary action to increase human security, the state … may have extensive opportunities and incentives to increase the risk of conflict in the many poor countries where central … in the ‘likelihood of conflict' sea. That energy, which is harmless and even potentially useful, can become dangerous …

the circumstances. We derive implications for peace and conflict. We find conflict induced poverty traps with self …-fulfilling expectations about conflict and we derive implications for peace building strategies. -- Conflict ; investments ; trust …

We analyse rural household livelihood and children’s school enrolment decisions in a post-conflict setting in the … show that heightened subjective perceptions of future violence and past actual experiences of conflict influences current … theories of risk. Furthermore, a post-conflict household-level Phoenix or economic revival factor may be in operation, based in …

conflict and more intense fighting. -- conflict ; contest ; alliance ; endogenous internal conflict ; hold-up problem ; non …

In many situations there is a potential for conflict both within and between groups. Examples include wars and civil … wars and distributional conflict in multitiered organizations like federal states or big companies. This paper models such … situations with a logistic technology of conflict. If individuals decide simultaneously and independently about the amount of …