spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent …

partly spills over into the next period, by affecting relative conflict efficiency. Our model generates non …-monotone evolution of both conflict and distribution. Results suggest that external interventions, when effective in reducing current … conflict and protecting weaker groups, may end up sowing the seeds of greater future conflict …

In recent debates, morality or social norms have been proposed as an instrument to reduce conflict behavior. As the … discriminate between these different conflict efforts, strategic effects due to a one-sided increase in morality might actually … lead to total increased conflict effort in the economy …

data on public opinion about Chechen conflict is consistent with theoretical predictions …

We study the effect of divisions within the elite on the probability of internal conflict in the Papal States between … the time of the election. We exploit this variation to analyze the causal effect of a divided conclave on conflict. We … find that an increase of one standard deviation in our measure of polarization raised the likelihood of internal conflict …

polarization, a key mechanism theorized as increasing the chances of violent conflict, remains less understood. We argue that …