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Meirowitz, Adam, Morelli, Massimo, Ramsay, Kristopher W. and Squintani, Francesco (2019) Dispute resolution institutions and strategic militarization. Journal of Political Economy, 127 (1). pp. 378-418. doi:10.1086/700761 ISSN 0022-3808.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/700761
Abstract
Engagement in a costly and destructive war can be understood as the punishment for entering into a dispute. Institutions that reduce the chance that disputes lead to war make this punishment less severe. This may incentivize hawkish political choices like militarization, and potentially offset the benefits of peace-brokering institutions. We analyze a simple model in which unmediated peace talks are effective at improving the chances of peace for a given distribution of military strength. But, once the effects on militarization are considered the presence of unmediated talks leads to a higher incidence of war. Not all conflict resolution institutions suffer from this drawback. We identify a form of third-party mediation, inspired by the work of Myerson, and show that it can effectively broker peace in disputes once they emerge, and also minimize the level of equilibrium militarization.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | K Law [Moys] > KC International Law U Military Science > U Military Science (General) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | War -- Mathematical models, War (International law) | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Political Economy | ||||||||
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0022-3808 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | February 2019 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 127 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 378-418 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1086/700761 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 10 October 2018 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 20 September 2019 | ||||||||
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