production of some goods. Agents split their resource endowment between ‘butter’, ‘guns’ and ‘ice-cream’. The latter denote …

conflict; on the linkages between agriculture, food security, and conflict; on the role of technology for peace; and on the …

conflict; on the linkages between agriculture, food security, and conflict; on the role of technology for peace; and on the …

We estimate the opportunity cost for Iran due to the Islamic revolution and eight years' war with Iraq (1978 … loss is equivalent to 40% of income per capita, which an Iranian could reach at the absence of revolution and war. …

This study examines the causal joint effect of a new political regime and war against Iraq on life expectancy of … Iranians for the period 1978–1988 during the revolution and war. I use a synthetic control approach to construct a synthetic … evolution of the factual Iranian life expectancy during the post-revolution period through the end of the war. I find a sizable …

studying the effects of elimination vis-à-vis survival of Polish elites during World War II. Our focus is on the Polish … local-level economic development, thereby reducing economic hardship and grievances against the regime. …

resolution, management and peace building thus came to define theregion. The destruction left by long years of protracted … expounds, operationalizes and clarifies the concept of human security and development, and how human security issues lead to … development in the sub-region. It highlights details on the developmental crises that have bedevilled the sub-region and at the …

A multi-stage model on the course of war is presented: Individual battles are modeled as private value all-pay auctions … with asymmetric combatants of two opposing teams. These auctions are placed within a multi-stage framework with a tug-of-war … models of militarized conflicts, yields new theoretical justification for existing empirical findings with respect to war, and …

A multi-stage model on the course of war is presented: Individual battles are modeled as private value all-pay auctions … with asymmetric combatants of two opposing teams. These auctions are placed within a multi-stage framework with a tug-of-war … models of militarized conflicts, yields new theoretical justification for existing empirical findings with respect to war, and …