At least since 1750 when Baron de Montesquieu declared “peace is the natural effect of
trade,” a number of economists and political scientists espoused the notion that trade among …

This paper considers the interpretation of the empirical results of the developing literature on
the demand for military spending that specifies a general model with arms race and spill …

Current empirical growth models limit the determinants of country growth to geographic,
economic, and institutional variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the …

We investigate the impact of civil war on foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to developing
countries. We employ a new data-set that disaggregates FDI inflows to primary, secondary …

Conflict economics contributes to an understanding of violent conflict and peace in two
important ways. First, it applies economic concepts and models to help one understand …

This article employs the bootstrap Granger full-sample and subsample rolling window
estimation to explore the time-varying property between bilateral political relations and …

International relations scholarship on intrastate peace and conflict largely conceptualizes
peace as an absence of war and, to some extent, the presence of a minimal degree of …

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict negotiations have been continuing for more than two
decades now, but a settlement still remains elusive. This paper is an exploration of the …

This study examines the effects of China's outward foreign direct investment (FDI) on buying
its state image abroad. We argue that regime survival has motivated China to use FDI to …

In the following months, the COVID-19 pandemic1 hopefully will be under control. In fact,
governments worldwide are elaborating plans and strategies to live with this corona virus as …