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The Strategy and Technology of Conflict

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  • Sandeep Baliga
  • Tomas Sjöström

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Using a simple bargaining game, we investigate how strategic interactions are shaped by preferences, technology, and endowments. We study whether changes in relative military capabilities make conflicts more likely and find a nonmonotonic relationship between the cost of conflict and the probability of conflict. The game has strategic complements if the cost of conflict is small and there is a large first-mover advantage and has strategic substitutes otherwise. This characterization generates predictions regarding the use of strategic investments—for example, in defense systems. An extension of the model shows how expanding one’s territory today may increase the risk of conflict tomorrow.

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  • Sandeep Baliga & Tomas Sjöström, 2020. "The Strategy and Technology of Conflict," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 128(8), pages 3186-3219.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jpolec:doi:10.1086/707767
    DOI: 10.1086/707767
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    1. Srinivas Arigapudi & Yuval Heller & Amnon Schreiber, 2021. "Sampling dynamics and stable mixing in hawk-dove games," Papers 2107.08423, arXiv.org, revised Jun 2022.
    2. Arigapudi, Srinivas & Heller, Yuval & Schreiber, Amnon, 2021. "Sampling Dynamics and Stable Mixing in Hawk–Dove Games," MPRA Paper 108819, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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