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Neighborhood effects of civil conflict. (1990 -2012)

Edwin Esteban Torres Gómez (), Sebastián Giraldo González () and Jhonny Moncada ()

Perfil de Coyuntura Económica, 2013, issue 21, 7-16

Abstract: Abstract: There have been many papers which have studied the causes of conflict, taking into account causes like natural resources, ethnicity, political problems, and commitment problems, among others. This paper focus on the Law of Universal Gravity of Newton (1687) for trying to see if there could be a neighboring country effect on the probability of a conflict or civil war onset and continuity in a given country, and the effect of the size of the border, and find significant evidence about the distance between countries in the probability of onset a conflict. This may suggest that peaceful countries must be very careful with the relationships with neighbors that are having an armed conflict. Resumen: Existe una cantidad considerable de trabajos que analizan de las causas del conflicto. Entre estas causas encontramos los recursos naturales, las diferencias étnicas y los problemas políticos, etc. Este artículo toma como punto de partida la ley universal de la gravedad propuesta por Newton (1687), con el fin de identificar la existencia de un efecto país vecino y un efecto distancia, en la probabilidad de que un país pueda entrar en guerra civil o tener un conflicto armado. Se demuestra que la distancia entre los países juega un papel en la probabilidad de entrar en guerra. Concluimos que un país en paz debe ser muy cuidadoso en sus relaciones diplomáticas con los países vecinos que tienen conflictos armados.

Keywords: Guerra Civil; Modelo Gravitacional; Efecto Vecino; Efecto Distancia. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 C29 D74 F12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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