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Acar, Sevil 2017. The Curse of Natural Resources.
Acar, Sevil 2017. The Curse of Natural Resources.
Azam, Jean-Paul and Bhatia, Kartika 2017. Provoking insurgency in a federal state: theory and application to India. Public Choice, Vol. 170, Issue. 3-4, p. 183.
Bowersox, Zack 2017. Does social spending add substance to formal rights?. Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 16, Issue. 1, p. 44.
Braithwaite, Alex and Kucik, Jeffrey 2017. Does the Presence of Foreign Troops Affect Stability in the Host Country?. Foreign Policy Analysis, p. orw058.
Brown, Davis 2017. The Influence of Religion on Interstate Armed Conflict: Government Religious Preference and First Use of Force, 1946-2002. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion,
Calì, Massimiliano and Mulabdic, Alen 2017. Trade and civil conflict: Revisiting the cross-country evidence. Review of International Economics, Vol. 25, Issue. 1, p. 195.
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Cederman, Lars-Erik and Wucherpfennig, Julian 2017. Inequalities Between Ethnic Groups, Conflict, and Political Organizations. Ethnopolitics, Vol. 16, Issue. 1, p. 21.
Chaudoin, Stephen Peskowitz, Zachary and Stanton, Christopher 2017. Beyond Zeroes and Ones. Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 61, Issue. 1, p. 56.
Cheibub, José A. and Hays, Jude C. 2017. Elections and Civil War in Africa. Political Science Research and Methods, Vol. 5, Issue. 01, p. 81.
Chenoweth, Erica and Ulfelder, Jay 2017. Can Structural Conditions Explain the Onset of Nonviolent Uprisings?. Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 61, Issue. 2, p. 298.
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Costalli, Stefano Moretti, Luigi and Pischedda, Costantino 2017. The economic costs of civil war. Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 54, Issue. 1, p. 80.
D’Amato, Silvia and Del Panta, Gianni 2017. Does rentierism have a conditional effect on violence? Regime oil dependency and civil war in Algeria. The Extractive Industries and Society,
Elbra, Ainsley 2017. Governing African Gold Mining.
Gangopadhyay, Partha and Nilakantan, Rahul 2017. Estimating the Effects of Climate Shocks on Collective Violence: ARDL Evidence from India. The Journal of Development Studies, p. 1.
An influential conventional wisdom holds that civil wars proliferated rapidly with the end of the Cold War and that the root cause of many or most of these has been ethnic and religious antagonisms. We show that the current prevalence of internal war is mainly the result of a steady accumulation of protracted conflicts since the 1950s and 1960s rather than a sudden change associated with a new, post-Cold War international system. We also find that after controlling for per capita income, more ethnically or religiously diverse countries have been no more likely to experience significant civil violence in this period. We argue for understanding civil war in this period in terms of insurgency or rural guerrilla warfare, a particular form of military practice that can be harnessed to diverse political agendas. The factors that explain which countries have been at risk for civil war are not their ethnic or religious characteristics but rather the conditions that favor insurgency. These include poverty—which marks financially and bureaucratically weak states and also favors rebel recruitment—political instability, rough terrain, and large populations.
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