Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Strategic Aspects of Fighting in Alliances -- 2 Fiscal Equalization and Political Conflict -- 3 Natural Resources, Social Conflict, and Poverty Trap -- 4 A Game of Thrones: Power Structure and the Stability of Regimes -- 5 The Probability of Military Rule in Africa, 1970 to 2007 -- 6 Sociopolitical Conflict and Economic Performance in Bolivia -- 7 Occupational Choices and Insurgency in Afghanistan's Provinces -- 8 Social Unrest in the Wake of IMF Structural Adjustment Programs -- 9 Social Preferences of Ex-Combatants: Survey and Experimental Evidence from Postwar Tajikistan -- Contributors -- Index.