This article reviews the literature at the intersection of war, armed conflict, and food security,
focusing on intergroup violent conflicts such as interstate conflict, civil war, insurgencies …

Does foreign aid build peace? The answer is of paramount importance for policy makers
and practitioners, given that the world's poor are growing increasingly concentrated in …

We study the effect of US food aid on conflict in recipient countries. Our analysis exploits
time variation in food aid shipments due to changes in US wheat production and cross …

" Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest
barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being …

Most nations have experienced an internal armed conflict since 1960. Yet while civil war is
central to many nations' development, it has stood at the periphery of economics research …

This article offers a unified approach for studying political violence whether it emerges as
repression or civil war. We formulate a model where an incumbent or opposition can use …

China's provision of development finance to other countries is sizable but reliable
information is scarce. We introduce a new open-source methodology for collecting project …

In this study we resolve part of the confusion over how foreign aid affects armed conflict. We
argue that aid shocks—severe decreases in aid revenues—inadvertently shift the domestic …

Does foreign military assistance strengthen or further weaken fragile states facing internal
conflict? Aid may strengthen the state by bolstering its repressive capacity vis-à-vis armed …

I use data covering 267 prefectures over four centuries to investigate two questions about
historical China. To what extent did weather shocks cause civil conflict? And to what extent …