I Short Answer Essays (40%)
Provide answers for five of the following six terms
Define and briefly discuss significance
- Stationary bandits
- The commitment problem
- Capitalist peace
- Democratic peace
- Horizontal inequality
- Illiberal democracy
II Essays (60%)
Answer two of the following three questions:
- Why are some countries more prone to experience civil war than others? What factors account for the outbreak of civil war?
- What role does violence play in state development? How does political violence lead to state fragility?
- Why would a person take up arms against their governments? How can the motives that induced an individual to join a rebel group differ from the reasons he would remain in the group?