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Recent work on the origins and causes of war highlights two issues. First, formal and nonformal analyses see uncertainty as a fundamental cause. But the latter typically emphasizes uncertainty over the distribution of power whereas the former focuses on uncertainty over the costs of fighting. Second, most formal studies model going to war as a game-ending move. These issues pose important questions: Do the conclusions derived from formal analyses with uncertainty over costs hold with uncertainty about the distribution of power? Is modeling war as a game-ending move a "neutral" simplification or does it yield misleading results? And, even if neutral, can this simplification be relaxed to illuminate intra-war bargaining?
This analysis models conflict as a costly process during which the states continue to bargain and may be uncertain of the costs about fighting or the distribution of power. The game-ending-move assumption is generally neutral. The dynamics of intra-war bargaining are broadly similar regardless of the source of uncertainty -- the bargaining is a screening process -- but important differences arise when states can make offers more rapidly than they can fight battles. |
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Name: American Political Science Association
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| Powell, Robert. "Bargaining While Fighting" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2002 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p65669_index.html> |
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| Powell, R. , 2002-08-28 "Bargaining While Fighting" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p65669_index.html |
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Abstract: Recent work on the origins and causes of war highlights two issues. First, formal and nonformal analyses see uncertainty as a fundamental cause. But the latter typically emphasizes uncertainty over the distribution of power whereas the former focuses on uncertainty over the costs of fighting. Second, most formal studies model going to war as a game-ending move. These issues pose important questions: Do the conclusions derived from formal analyses with uncertainty over costs hold with uncertainty about the distribution of power? Is modeling war as a game-ending move a "neutral" simplification or does it yield misleading results? And, even if neutral, can this simplification be relaxed to illuminate intra-war bargaining?
This analysis models conflict as a costly process during which the states continue to bargain and may be uncertain of the costs about fighting or the distribution of power. The game-ending-move assumption is generally neutral. The dynamics of intra-war bargaining are broadly similar regardless of the source of uncertainty -- the bargaining is a screening process -- but important differences arise when states can make offers more rapidly than they can fight battles. |
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| Bargaining While Fighting* Robert Powell October 2001 Department of Political Science 210 Barrows Hall 1950 University of California Berkeley CA 94720-1950 *I am grateful to Leo Simon for many helpful comments and criticisms. This work was assisted by a grant from the National Science Foundation (SES-9911075). Bargaining While Fighting Abstract Recent work on the origins and causes of war highlights two issues. First formal and nonformal analyses see uncertainty as a fundamental cause. But the latter typically emphasizes uncertainty |
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