Bargaining Failures and Civil War

Bargaining, War, and Alliances

The formal literature on the causes of war focuses on a choice by two states between war and a negotiated settlement, while writers on alliances and system stability tend to ignore the possibility of negotiated settlements in order to focus on coalition formation and the effect of the number of states in the system. Thus the literature on the causes of war is unable to investigate alliance form...

Globalization and Civil War

Conditional Relationships and Civil War

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Poverty, Militarism and Civil War

This article summarizes an empirical investigation of the link between poverty and the incidence of civil war. The thesis examined is a simple one: at the individual level, low living standards tend to enhance militaristic nationalism and confidence in the armed forces and therefore, on average, more support for attempting military solutions to social conflicts. At the national level this means...

Civil War and Foreign Influence∗

We use different variations of the canonical bargaining model of civil war to illustrate why a potential alliance with a third (foreign) party that affects the probability of winning the conflict can trigger or prolong an already existing civil war. We explore both political and economic incentives for a third party to intervene. The explicit consideration of political incentives leads to two p...