Urs Luterbacher, Graduate Institute of International and Development StudiesCarmen Sandi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

The author considers the role of emotions and rationality in conflict and cooperation between groups and countries. He discusses behavioral neuroscience research on the topic and examines various models of conflict, including interest-based approaches, a model that synthesizes behavioral neuroscience and interest-based explanations, the rank dependent expected utility model, and an agent-based model, and addresses the role of economic conditions and examples of civil wars.

• 1. Conflicts: What Drives Them? Emotional Versus Interest-Based Explanations2. the Neuroscience Evidence on Emotional Aspects of Conflict and Cooperation3. Interest-Based Approaches4. Toward a Synthesis: Developing New Models of Conflict and Cooperation5. Defining New Models: the Importance of Rank-Dependent Expected Utility6. Cooperative Stability7. Empirically Oriented Models8. Basic Model9. Historical Examples10. Data Generations and Its Problems11. Empirical Analyses of Given Conflicts and Ends of Conflicts12. General Considerations on Conflict and Cooperation and Conclusions

Urs Luterbacher, Graduate Institute of International and Development StudiesCarmen Sandi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

The author considers the role of emotions and rationality in conflict and cooperation between groups and countries. He discusses behavioral neuroscience research on the topic and examines various models of conflict, including interest-based approaches, a model that synthesizes behavioral neuroscience and interest-based explanations, the rank dependent expected utility model, and an agent-based model, and addresses the role of economic conditions and examples of civil wars.

• 1. Conflicts: What Drives Them? Emotional Versus Interest-Based Explanations2. the Neuroscience Evidence on Emotional Aspects of Conflict and Cooperation3. Interest-Based Approaches4. Toward a Synthesis: Developing New Models of Conflict and Cooperation5. Defining New Models: the Importance of Rank-Dependent Expected Utility6. Cooperative Stability7. Empirically Oriented Models8. Basic Model9. Historical Examples10. Data Generations and Its Problems11. Empirical Analyses of Given Conflicts and Ends of Conflicts12. General Considerations on Conflict and Cooperation and Conclusions

Urs Luterbacher, Graduate Institute of International and Development StudiesCarmen Sandi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

The author considers the role of emotions and rationality in conflict and cooperation between groups and countries. He discusses behavioral neuroscience research on the topic and examines various models of conflict, including interest-based approaches, a model that synthesizes behavioral neuroscience and interest-based explanations, the rank dependent expected utility model, and an agent-based model, and addresses the role of economic conditions and examples of civil wars.

• 1. Conflicts: What Drives Them? Emotional Versus Interest-Based Explanations2. the Neuroscience Evidence on Emotional Aspects of Conflict and Cooperation3. Interest-Based Approaches4. Toward a Synthesis: Developing New Models of Conflict and Cooperation5. Defining New Models: the Importance of Rank-Dependent Expected Utility6. Cooperative Stability7. Empirically Oriented Models8. Basic Model9. Historical Examples10. Data Generations and Its Problems11. Empirical Analyses of Given Conflicts and Ends of Conflicts12. General Considerations on Conflict and Cooperation and Conclusions