What Do We Know about Natural Resources and Civil War?

By Michael L. Ross. 2004

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Subfields: Building and Construction, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Relative Capability and Rebel Objective in Civil War (2006, background): “Recent investigations into the ethnicity–civil war puzzle (see e.g. Fearon & Laitin, 2003; Sambanis, 2004) have been unsuccessful in uncovering a strong and robust relationship, but this may well be because they have failed to distinguish between territorial and governmental conflict.”
It’s the Local Economy, Stupid! Geographic Wealth Dispersion and Conflict Outbreak Location (2011, background): “The distorting effects of national resource wealth on the state and political institutions are likely to be especially large in developing countries and can further fuel dissatisfaction with the central government and promote violent rebellion (see Ross 2004).”
Challenges and Opportunities for Resource Rich Economies (2006, neutral): “The effect of natural resources on the incidence and duration of civil wars features strongly in the political science literature (e.g., Ross, 2004; Fearon and Laitin, 2004; Collier, Hoeffler and Sodbom, 2004).”
Aid Under Fire: Development Projects and Civil Conflict (2010, background): “It has been associated with the spread of pandemics (Elbe 2002; Murray, King, Lopez, Tomijima, and Krug 2002; Ghobarah, Huth, and Russett 2004); the degradation of the rule of law (Reno 1998; Collier, Hoeffler, and Soderbom 2004; Fearon 2004; Ross 2004; Angrist and Kugler 2008) and the forced displa”
Aggravating the Resource Curse: Decentralisation, Mining and Conflict in Peru (2011, background): “…includes the negative impact on different governance domains: diminished democracy and the reinforcement of authoritarian modes of rule (Ross, 2001), increase in poverty and inequality (Ross, 2004b, 2007), and the outbreak of conflict and civil war (Collier and Hoeffler, 2004, 2005; Ross, 2004a).”
The Pungent Smell of 'Red Herrings': Subsoil Assets, Rents, Volatility and the Resource Curse (2010, neutral): “…6 Brunnschweiler and Bulte (2009) also argue that the detrimental effect of natural resources on war and conflict established and further evaluated by Collier and Hoeffler (1998, 2004, 2005), Reynal-Querol (2002), Ross (2004), Ron(2005) and Fearon (2005) among others, is also a “red herring”.”