The Frequency of Wars

Mark Harrison () and Nikolaus Wolf

Chapter 5 in The Economics of Coercion and Conflict, 2014, pp 121-149 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Wars are becoming more frequent. More precisely, the frequency of bilateral militarized conflicts among independent states has risen steadily over 131 years from 1870 to 2001. In this paper we consider how to evaluate this as a fact, how to explain it, and how to respond to it…

Keywords: Defence; Dictatorship; Coercion; Conflict; Procurement; Mobilization; Political Economy; Repression; War (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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