Wartime periods have frequently been treated as natural macroeconomic experiments, but the international pooled time series evidence presented here shows that the literature has overemphasized the experience of the United States and the United Kingdom. Wars fought exclusively on foreign soil do have marginally higher real output growth than peacetime periods, but real growth during all other wa...

This paper reports the characteristics of suicides which occurred during the existential and the non-existential wars in Israel. It provides a first approximation of whether the suicide patterns in each war are consistent with the findings of Morselli and Durkheim, and whether their theoretical interpretations can serve as a preliminary guideline to explaining the Israeli case, which is charact...

A model of the economic effects of civil war and the post-war period is developed. A key feature is the adjustment of the capital stock through capital flight. Post-war this flight can either be reversed or continue, depending partly upon how far the capital stock has adjusted to the war. The model is tested on data for all civil wars since 1960. After long civil wars the economy recovers rapid...

struggles would transform the world during the twentieth century. Instead, it turned out to be the age of ethnonationalist conflicts. Wars fought in the name of national liberation or ethnic autonomy comprise only one fifth of the wars between the Congress of Vienna (1814) and the Treaty of Versailles (1919). From Versailles to 2001, however, the share of ethnonationalist wars rose to 45 percen...

Referring to the classical tenets of “just war” theory, author also analyses its modern versions. While research arrives at conclusion that some political scientists have modernized theory “a just according times. For instance, due existence new actors on international arena, there were created a version, which allows include non-state for analysis (which consequently led abolition such princip...

The article is devoted to the collective monograph “War, Politics, Memory: Napoleonic Wars and World War I in Space of Anniversaries”. Prepared by a large team academics under leadership Olga Porshneva, Nikolai Baranov, Vladimir Zemtsov (professors at Ural Federal University), it first generalizing work dedicated historical memory politics surrounding these wars. uses complex documents from arc...

The paper discusses the changes in forest legislation on different levels of early modern administration Hungary. By using a wide variety sources—laws, decrees, instructive documents, and letters—it explains how forests were regarded handled period Ottomans’ presence Carpathian Basin. In analyzing sources, shows importance protecting taking care at can be attested, what goal this for wooded are...

The literature on civil wars is extensive and growing. Past studies have focused on a series of questions, most notably: what are the causes of civil wars, why do some conflicts last longer than others, what causes civil wars to end, and finally why do some civil wars recur, at times repeatedly? In answering these questions, previous studies have treated each of these problems as discrete and i...