Battles and Capitals

Kitamura, Shuhei; Lagerlöf, Nils-Petter

Battles and Capitals

Kitamura, Shuhei; Lagerlöf, Nils-Petter

Institute of Social and Economic Research Discussion Papers, 2025, 1290

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固定URL: https://hdl.handle.net/11094/102139

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タイトル	Battles and Capitals
著者	NRID 1000090812090 1000090812090 著者名 Kitamura, Shuhei
著者	著者名 Lagerlöf, Nils-Petter
キーワード等	Conflict
	battles
	state fragmentation
	cities
JEL分類コード (JEL)	F52
	H56
	N43
	N90
抄録	The location of cities is linked to access to trade, but security also matters, in particular for capitals. Here we document this phenomenon, and explore its implications, in the context of Europe’s Great Power era. First we show that Great Power battles tend to occur in shortest-distance corridors between belligerent powers’ capitals, except where those corridors are intercepted by seas, mountains, and marshes. Then we show that capitals locate closer to each other when they have more of these types of geography between them. Finally, we show that city pairs are less likely to belong to the same state if they have more of this geography between them, allowing us to use geography to predict the territorial size and shape of Europe’s Great Powers. In sum, our results suggest that terrain which slows down military incursions makes capitals safer, allowing them to locate closer to each other; given all capitals’ locations, the surrounding geography then shapes the associated state territories.
出版者	The Institute of Social and Economic Research, The University of Osaka
収録物名	Institute of Social and Economic Research Discussion Papers
巻(号)	1290
刊行年月	2025-06
言語	英語
ハンドルURL	https://hdl.handle.net/11094/102139
PISSN	0473453X
eISSN	24350982
関連情報 (references)	URI https://www.iser.osaka-u.ac.jp/static/resources/docs/dp/DP1290.pdf
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カテゴリ	ディスカッション／ワーキング・ペーパー DP/WP
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