Contributions to the quantitative civil war literature increasingly rely on geo-referenced data
and disaggregated research designs. While this is a welcome trend, it necessitates …

Does economic inequality breed political violence? For almost half a century, scholars have
tried to test this assumption, finding little empirical support for a statistical relationship …

To date, the research community has failed to reach a consensus on the nature and
significance of the relationship between climate variability and armed conflict. We argue that …

We examine whether shared collective experiences help build a national identity, by looking
at the impact of national football teams' victories in sub-Saharan Africa. We find that …

Contemporary research on civil war has largely dismissed the role of political and economic
grievances, focusing instead on opportunities for conflict. However, these strong claims rest …

We combine georeferenced data on mining extraction of 14 minerals with information on
conflict events at spatial resolution of 0.5 o× 0.5 o for all of Africa between 1997 and 2010 …

How do development projects influence the geographic distribution of economic activity
within low-income and middle-income countries? Existing research focuses on the effects of …

This paper introduces the Non-State Actors in Armed Conflict Dataset (NSA), which contains
detailed information on the state–rebel group dyads included in the Uppsala Conflict Data …

Why did the nation-state emerge and proliferate across the globe? How is this process
related to the wars fought in the modern era? Analyzing datasets that cover the entire world …

This paper draws on research in geography, linguistics, and political science to explain the
incidence of language regions and their effect on regional authority. It conjectures a chain of …