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Police for peace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2024

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Hannes Rusch*
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Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands [email protected]
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Abstract

Glowacki's detailed account of small-scale societies’ endogenously emerging tendencies to oscillate between phases of peace and war highlights a need for understanding better the incentives governing “internal” policing for “external” peacekeeping. Here, I sketch some of these incentives and point out a resulting dilemma which Glowacki's account leaves unresolved for the time being.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 47 , 2024 , e26
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