Natural Resource Distribution and Multiple Forms of Civil War

War and Natural Resource Exploitation

Although the relationship between natural resources and civil war has received much attention, little is known about the underlying mechanisms. Controversies and contradictions in the stylized facts persist because resource extraction is treated as exogenous while in reality fighting affects extraction. We study endogenous fighting, armament, and extraction method, speed and investment. Rapacio...

How Does Natural Resource Wealth Influence Civil War? Evidence from 13 Case Studies

Several large-N studies have found that a country’s natural resource dependence is correlated with either the likelihood it will suffer from civil war, or the duration of a civil war once it begins. What accounts for these natural resource-civil war correlations? The causal mechanisms behind the correlations are neither obvious, nor wellexplained by the large-N studies. It is important to ident...

Globalization and Civil War

Conditional Relationships and Civil War

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Poverty, Militarism and Civil War

This article summarizes an empirical investigation of the link between poverty and the incidence of civil war. The thesis examined is a simple one: at the individual level, low living standards tend to enhance militaristic nationalism and confidence in the armed forces and therefore, on average, more support for attempting military solutions to social conflicts. At the national level this means...