"Economic Geography, Trade, and War"  (with David H. Bearce), forthcoming in the Journal of Conflict Resolution

This paper uses computational techniques to explore the relationship between trade and war. It develops and simulates an agent-based model in which economic exchange and military conflict are emergent processes. The model of exchange is an applied analysis of the economics of trading networks. The model of conflict treats war as a breakdown in inter-state bargaining due to incomplete information. The simulations explore how initial economic geography, state revisionism, defensive advantage, and technological advancement akin to globalization affect both trade and war. They show that same factors promoting trade may also facilitate military conquest, thus revealing an important qualification to the conventional wisdom that there should be an inverse relationship between war and trade.