When Do They Stop? Modeling the Termination of War

摘要: This paper deals with war termination. We develop a formal model based on the logic of domestic political accountability. assume that leaders seek to maximize likelihood they will stay in office and their decisions regarding termination are responsive winning coalition's expectations sensitivity costs war. Our generates predictions about when state prefer terminate an ongoing war, given specific terms settlement. By applying these results both sides we can use propositions settlement duration varying expectations, costs, costs.