Conquering Alone: Rent Addiction and Territorial Conquest

• In Event: Economic Factors and Conflict

Brief Overview

We argue that regime type and land-rent dependence conditions states’ war aims. We develop a novel measure of land-rent dependence, with 200 years of data, to evaluate the empirical linkages between land-dependence, regime type, and war aims.

Authors

• Jonathan Markowitz, University of Southern California

• Benjamin Graham, University of Southern California

• Christopher J. Fariss, University of Michigan

• Suzie Caldwell Mulesky, USC