Power

Jun Xiang (), Xiaohong Xu and George Keteku
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Xiaohong Xu: Department of Political Science Binghamton University, New York
George Keteku: Department of Political Science Binghamton University, New York

Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2007, vol. 51, issue 4, 646-663

Abstract: We join the debate on trade interdependence and conflict with a reexamination of Barbieri's (1996) intriguing empirical results showing that under certain circumstances, trade interdependence causes conflict. We argue that these findings resulted from a specification that was missing a variable. We return to Barbieri's models and introduce two independent power measures for countries within each dyad. When a correctly specified trade-conflict regression model incorporating the new power variables is performed, the constraining effect of interdependence becomes evident, and the results obtained are the reverse of Barbieri's.

Keywords: trade interdependence; military power; conflict; omitted variable bias; trade measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1177/0022002707302802

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