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Bargaining toward Pareto-Efficiency: Relative Gains, Simultaneity and the Case of South Tyrol / Castelli, Emanuele

Castelli, Emanuele	Journal Article
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Building on bargaining theory literature, I outline an original rationalist model that takes in consideration the problem of relative gains to explain why bargaining failures may lead to escalation in an open civil war and when negotiations in civil disputes are more likely to lead to Pareto-efficient solutions. I apply the model to the South Tyrol case, a relatively unknown identity-based dispute that emerged in Italy in the aftermath of the Second World War and was defused before it could produce a real escalation in violence. I show that direct and indirect compensations may help to overcome the problem of issue indivisibility, and that third-party intervention in domestic disputes may work as a functional substitute for simultaneity between the agreement and the enforcement phase.

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Bargaining ; Relative Gains ; Civil War ; Pareto-Efficiency ; Compensations ; Simultaneity

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Lost in transition: the myth of Mao and the origins of COIN / Castelli, Emanuele; Dossi, Simone; Zambernardi, Lorenzo

Zambernardi, Lorenzo	Journal Article
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Mao’s military teachings have greatly affected the development of modern counterinsurgency. Although the influence of Mao’s doctrine on modern counterinsurgency has been examined, scholarship has failed to highlight that the reception of Mao’s writings and deeds is based on a misreading of his theory and strategy. In the transition from Maoist people’s war to COIN, two aspects of the former were lost. Firstly, for Mao the use of force remained the decisive instrument in war. Secondly, whereas for COIN the security of the population is a crucial goal, for Mao the population was a mere instrument that could be sacrificed if the conditions of the conflict so required.

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Insurgency ; COIN ; Mao ; People’s War

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