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Harrison, Mark and Wolf, Nikolaus (2011) The frequency of wars. Working Paper. Coventry, UK: Department of Economics, University of Warwick. CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Volume 2011 (Number 38).
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Abstract
Wars are increasingly frequent, and the trend has been steadily upward since 1870. The
main tradition of Western political and philosophical thought suggests that extensive
economic globalization and democratization over this period should have reduced appetites
for war far below their current level. This view is clearly incomplete: at best, confounding
factors are at work. Here, we explore the capacity to wage war. Most fundamentally, the
growing number of sovereign states has been closely associated with the spread of
democracy and increasing commercial openness, as well as the number of bilateral conflicts.
Trade and democracy are traditionally thought of as goods, both in themselves, and because
they reduce the willingness to go to war, conditional on the national capacity to do so. But
the same factors may also have been increasing the capacity for war, and so its frequency.
| Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions U Military Science > U Military Science (General) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | War -- Economic aspects, Business and politics, Democracy -- Economic aspects, National security -- Finance, Military history, Modern | ||||
| Series Name: | CAGE Online Working Paper Series | ||||
| Publisher: | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | ||||
| Place of Publication: | Coventry, UK | ||||
| Official Date: | 10 February 2011 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 2011 | ||||
| Number: | Number 38 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 36 | ||||
| Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||
| Version or Related Resource: | Harrison, M. (2008). The fequency of wars. [Coventry] : University of Warwick, Economics Department. (Warwick economic research papers, no.879). http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/1338 | ||||
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