Hanson, Robert Jeon, Joo Young
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Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy
The relationship between government defence expenditure and economic growth is a debated topic. This study uses UK data for the period of 1960–2012 and applies two of the most prevailing theories used within the literature, the ‘Feder-Ram’ and the ‘augmented Solow’ models, to assess this question. We utilise traditional model specifications, alongs...
de Soysa, Indra Finseraas, Henning Vadlamannati, Krishna
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Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy
Recent scholarship claims that group grievances due to political exclusion and discrimination drive civil wars. The grievance perspective suggests that socio-psychological factors allow groups to overcome collective action problems. We argue that the grievance perspective (over)focuses on the ends and not means, which are critical to explain how gr...
Han, Sungil Kim, Wukki Gordon, Quinn
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Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy
After 9/11, contemporary debates on security often place civil liberties and security at opposite ends of the same spectrum, requiring the loss of one for the maintenance of the other. In addition, public concerns about terrorism determine or at least color public perception about government counterterrorism activities. Thus, the current study empi...
Mukherjee, Puja
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Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy
In real life, winning a conflict sometimes does not end the conflict. Revenge motivations can stay and provide momentum to the conflict, thus leading to further escalation of the conflict. This is known as the value effect or vengeance effect of revenge. However, the presence of revenge can lead to de-escalation of the conflict out of self-deterren...
Ben Hamouda, Abderrazek
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Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy
This study examines the triangular relationship between public debt, economic growth, and political risks, shedding light on the complex underlying dynamics of these factors. Using a Panel Vector Autoregressive (PVAR) model, we analyze this relationship from multiple angles across 117 countries. The study considers the impact of different political...
Harichandan, Aishwarya
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The two ideas of the rationality of terrorist organisations and the costly leader game are used in this paper to construct a game theoretic model. It is an addition to the literature on terrorism and leader-follower games, in which the government and a terrorist organisation are the two players. Terrorist group can be rational or irrational. In cas...
Zagare, Frank C.
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This essay explores a deterrence relationship between one defender and two challengers that are interconnected game-theoretically but are otherwise acting independently. In the double deterrence game model, the primary challenger makes the first move, defender, the second, and the secondary challenger makes its move only after the defender and the ...
Elveren, Adem Yavuz
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Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy
This study addresses the underexplored dimension of the relationship between military expenditures and gender inequality, drawing upon the insights of feminist security and international relations scholars. The influence of militarization on gender inequality is profound, manifesting itself significantly in both conflict and peacetime situations. T...
Olarinde, Muftau Olaiya Osabohien, Romanuns Osabuohien, Evans
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Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy
This study extends the existing literature on the relationship between armed conflicts and the socioeconomic status of households in Lake Chad Basin (LCB) countries by adopting a random coefficient model to analyse micro-panel data covering the 1997–2020 periods. The random coefficient approach allows for country-specific effects in explaining vari...
Raifu, Isiaka Akande Afolabi, Joshua Adeyemi
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Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy
Military expenditures constitute a large chunk of the United States’ annual budget and its macroeconomic implications had been modelled using the Granger causality test, which suffers power loss when variables are subjected to structural breaks. This study explored alternative approaches by applying both traditional VAR-based Granger causality and ...
