Since the late 1990s, there has been a flood of research on natural resources and civil war.
This article reviews 14 recent cross-national econometric studies, and many qualitative …

Conflict over scarce resources, such as minerals, fish, water, and particularly territory, is a
traditional source of armed struggle. Recently, wideranging claims have been made to the …

From late 2019 to the first half of 2020, the world has witnessed the epic spread and
destruction of the novel coronavirus which was discovered in Wuhan, China. The huge …

For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more
than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By …

Countries that are rich in petroleum have less democracy, less economic stability, and more
frequent civil wars than countries without oil. What explains this oil curse? And can it be …

The goal of this article is to place the role that social media plays in collective action within a
more general theoretical structure, using the events of the Arab Spring as a case study. The …

This article provides a new conceptualization of regime transformation that allows scholars
to address democratization and autocratization as related but obverse processes. We …

Why do some countries emerge from civil war more democratic than when they entered into
it, while others remain staunchly autocratic? Observers widely depict internal conflict as a …

Why do Muslim-majority countries exhibit high levels of authoritarianism and low levels of
socio-economic development in comparison to world averages? Ahmet T. Kuru criticizes …

We address the strengths and weaknesses of the main available measures of political
regime and extend the dichotomous regime classification first introduced in Alvarez et …