Abstract. The role of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) to integrate, update or complement authoritative datasets released by governments has become increasingly important. This work analyses the contribution OpenStreetMap (OSM), most popular VGI project, as one input sources that Military Institute (IGM), Italian governmental mapping agencies, used for producing National Summary Databas...

How does the domestic political climate within democratic states affect the duration of their foreign military engagements? To answer this question we combine a rationalist model of war termination with a theory about how partisan politics affects the policy preferences of national leaders to predict the duration of democratic military interventions. Specifically, we examine how changes in a ch...

The mission of Anti-Tamper (AT) is to deter reverse engineering of critical military technology to impede technology transfer, alteration of system capability, and prevent development of countermeasures. AT is important because governments are investing billions of dollars to develop sophisticated weapon systems and technologies. However, weapons that are vulnerable to tampering can weaken a mi...

The goal of my thesis is to analyze the military in a game theoretical framework as an independent interest group. The military is a fundamental institution of the state because it maintains internal law and order, and protects the state from external threats. But, it also has its own interests, which sometimes motivate it to intervene in political processes. Pakistan is a classical example of ...

In common with many Asian governments, Myanmar’s military junta makes frequent appeals to harmony. However, incessant demands that the nation cultivate a narrowly conceived and centrally imposed unity make this a degenerate case of governance for harmony in which militaristic calls for discipline, strength, and vigilance hold sway.

Immigration may adversely affect political stability if conflict becomes endemic among heterogeneous groups of people living in close proximity due to the process of migration. If so, the governments could respond by preventive militarisation. The results from two-stage-least squares estimation indicate that higher immigrant share significantly reduces political stability. In addition, higher i...

Conventional wisdom suggests that biased military interventions in civil conflicts should increase the probability that the supported side will win. However, while this is the case for rebel groups, the same is not true for governments. The explanation for this surprising finding becomes clear once one considers the decision of a third party intervener. Since interveners want to impact the outc...