INTERNATIONAL PATRONAGE DURING CONFLICTS AND WAR

African Conflicts, Development and Regional Organisations in the Post-Cold War International System

double standards of criminalization of war crimes in international conflicts and internal disputes

the international criminal court , which is part of the fourth generation of the criminal courts, plays a prominent role in the institutionalization of international humanitarian law (ihl). hence, it was expected that negotiators utilized from previous criminal tribunals experiences and they terminated in the distinctions between gross breaches of international humanitarian law. it was expected...

The war puzzle: Contradictory effects of international conflicts on stock markets

We study a number of large international military conflicts since World War II where we establish a news analysis as a proxy for the estimated likelihood that the conflict will result in a war. We find that in cases when there is a pre-war phase, an increase in the war likelihood tends to decrease stock prices, but the ultimate outbreak of a war increases them. In cases when a war starts as a s...

War size distribution: Empirical regularities behind conflicts

This paper analyses the statistical distribution of war sizes. Using the method recently proposed by Clauset, Shalizi, and Newman (2009), we find moderate support for a Pareto-type distribution (power law), using data from different sources (COW and UCDP) and periods. A power law accurately describes not only the size distribution of all wars, but also the distribution of the sample of wars in ...

Patronage by Credit: International Sources of Patronage Spending in Developing Countries∗

To what extent do international financial fluctuations influence patronage politics in developing countries? While many scholars have analyzed the sources of patronage and how it can be detrimental for both economic development and democracy, patronage politics has been analyzed as a purely domestic phenomenon. This ignores, however, the consequences of international markets fluctuations, and i...