Conflict dynamics and costs in the Greek Civil War 1946–1949

Nicos Christodoulakis

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Abstract: Using a new set of data from Greek Army sources, US military archives, and Communist Party documents, the paper provides a quantitative analysis of the armed confrontation that took place in Greece during 1946–1949. A dynamic Lotka–Volterra model is estimated, pointing to the existence of a conflict trap that explains the prolongation of the civil war and its dire consequences for the country. A regional analysis finds that the mobilization of guerrilla forces was crucially affected by morphology and the local persecutions of political rivals. Using neoclassical growth-accounting, the economic cost of the conflict is estimated to surpass an annual GDP, in line with similar findings in contemporary civil wars. The same framework is employed to assess the outcome in counterfactual situations discussed in this paper.

Keywords: Civil war; Greece; Equilibrium and stability conditions; Production function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C62 E23 N44 O52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-09-02
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Published in Defence and Peace Economics, 2, September, 2016, 27(5), pp. 688-717. ISSN: 1024-2694

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