Economic Incentives, Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa

By J. Herbst. 2000

157 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. E. Papyrakis
2. Erwin H. Bulte
3. E. Gilberthorpe
4. Christa N. Brunnschweiler
5. F. van der ploeg
6. Michael L. Ross
7. J. Azam
8. A. Mesnard

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Michael L. Ross
2. Erwin H. Bulte
3. Christa N. Brunnschweiler
4. J. Azam
5. E. Papyrakis
6. A. Mesnard
7. E. Gilberthorpe
8. Jonathan K. Hanson

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Erwin H. Bulte
2. Christa N. Brunnschweiler
3. E. Papyrakis
4. E. Gilberthorpe
5. Michael L. Ross
6. J. Azam
7. A. Mesnard
8. F. van der ploeg

Citations in the corpus

• Natural Resources and Violent Conflict: Resource Abundance, Dependence and the Onset of Civil Wars (2009, background): “Also, see Herbst (2000) for a treatment of incentives and rebel motivations.”
• The extractive industries and development: The resource curse at the micro, meso and macro levels (2015, background): “Countries that are more ethnically homogenous are more likely to avoid conflict in the presence of mineral resources (Bjorvatn and Naghavi, 2011; Brunnschweiler and Bulte, 2009; Esteban et al., 2012; Herbst, 2000; Hodler, 2006).”
• African Militaries and Rebellion: The Political Economy of Threat and Combat Effectiveness (2004, background): “Similarly, Herbst (2000a) finds that the degree of threat post by the armed forces of the state is a critical determinant of how rebels will structure their own forces.”
• Civil War and the Social Contract (2003, background): “Herbst (2000) has recently produced an illuminating political analysis of the means used by guerrilla leaders to enhance this efficiency, in Africa.”
• A Closer Look at Oil, Diamonds, and Civil War (2006, background): “…2004a; Collier & Sambanis 2005); a special concern for Africa, where a rising fraction of the world’s civil wars are found (Elbadawi & Sambanis 2000, Herbst 2000, Azam 2001, Collier & Hoeffler 2002, Leonard & Strauss 2003) the development of better civil war datasets (Gleditsch et al. 2002, Fearon…”
• Resource Wealth and the Risk of Civil War Onset: Results from a New Dataset of Natural Resource Rents, 1970—1999 (2007, unknown): “…reached, a government’s control over natural resources enables it to outbid rebels for labor and raise the costs of rebellion prohibitively (Collier, 2000b).3 Others argue instead that resources affect conflict via state capacity (Fearon & Laitin, 2003; Herbst, 2000; Humphreys, 2003; Snyder, 2002).”