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CONFLICT MANAGEMENT AND PEACE SCIENCE
Volume 28, Issue 2, Pages 91-110Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0738894210396629
Keywords
diversion; conflict; group cohesion effect; war
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This article presents a new theoretical perspective on the diversionary use of force. Players are partitioned into groups and choose how to allocate their resources to production, fighting against other groups, and fighting internally. The model gives a rationalist explanation of the group cohesion effect: when there is a lot of fighting between groups, there is less internal fighting. In equilibrium, players choose sufficiently high external conflict in order to avoid internal conflict. In contrast with the existing literature, this diversionary use of force takes place even though there is no asymmetric or incomplete information.
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