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Modeling Interstate Conflict: The Role of Economic Interdependency for Maintaining Peace

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This chapter assumes that peace is a necessary condition for healthy economic activities. It explores the role of trade in maintaining peace and, therefore, healthy economic activities. This is done by constructing the relationship between independent variables Allies, Contingency, Distance, Major Power, Capability, Democracy, as well as Economic Interdependency and the dependant variable Interstate Conflict. The chapter applies artificial intelligence techniques to study the sensitivity of the variable Economic Interdependency on driving peace and thus a healthy economic environment.

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Marwala, T. (2013). Modeling Interstate Conflict: The Role of Economic Interdependency for Maintaining Peace. In: Economic Modeling Using Artificial Intelligence Methods. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5010-7_13

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