Motivated by recent examples of collective effort on the war terror, we examine incentives that retaliation may produce for endogenous formation an international counterterror coalition. We show there are quite reasonable circumstances under which any nation is a target terrorist attack finds it desirable to be member coalition, holding choices all other nations as given. The join coalition gro...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of structural design code development in Mexico, as an example of how code evolution has taken place in many countries, and to discuss the challenges faced in improving code compliance and reducing vulnerability. Design/methodology/approach – All building codes for Mexico City (1920-2004) and current codes in Mexico were analyzed and...