How Do Natural Resources Influence Civil War? Evidence from Thirteen Cases

By Michael L. Ross. International Organization, 2004

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Coal Mining and the Resource Curse in the Eastern United States (2015, neutral): “Natural resource abundance has been linked to an increased risk of conflict by Collier (2010) and Ross (2004).”
“GOOD GOVERNANCE” AND THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (2008, background): “Ross (2004a) also notes that in non-conflict situations, lootable resources generally produce more widespread benefits for local people and the poor than unlootable commodities.”
Natural Resources, Conflict, and Conflict Resolution (2005, background): “…and West Africa states as well as work by scholars who have studied a wider set of cases and identified relevant mechanisms (notably, Le Billon 2001; Snyder 2002; Ross 2002, 2003, 2004a), I catalogue a series of mechanisms that may link natural resources to conflict onset and conflict duration.”
Contesting resources – rent seeking, conflict and the natural resource curse (2006, background): “Similarly, Ross (2004b) shows that pointy resources trigger and prolong conflicts whereas diffuse resources do not.”
Diamonds, Blood, and Taxes (2005, background): “…conflict, lengthening civil wars by generating discipline problems within the ranks of both government forces and rebel groups.56 A study by Michael Ross (2004a) of civil wars in the 1990s in gemstone-producing countries supports this argument with its finding that in most cases “the gemstone…”
Does Lootable Wealth Breed Disorder? (2006, background): “In a study of thirteen cases of civil war, Ross (2004b) found evidence of cooperative extraction among combatants in eight cases.”
Resource Wealth and the Risk of Civil War Onset: Results from a New Dataset of Natural Resource Rents, 1970—1999 (2007, background): “Recent scholarship finds that natural resource wealth is a cause of civil war (Ballentine & Sherman, 2003; Berdal & Malone, 2000; Collier et al., 2003; Fearon, 2005; Fearon & Laitin, 2003; Klare, 2001; Ross, 2003; Ross, 2004).”