Since 2001, hundreds of academic studies have examined the “political resource curse,”
meaning the claim that natural resource wealth tends to adversely affect a country's …

This article reviews the existing theoretical arguments and empirical findings linking
renewable and non-renewable natural resources to the onset, intensity, and duration of …

This book argues that political and economic inequalities following group lines generate
grievances that in turn can motivate civil war. Lars-Erik Cederman, Kristian Skrede …

Abstract From Angola to Iraq, wars have taken place in resource rich countries full of poor
people. Wars of Plunder explores the interplay of natural resources and armed conflicts, and …

This revised and updated second edition introduces students of violent conflict to a variety of
prominent theoretical approaches, and examines the ontological stances and …

This article presents ViEWS–a political violence early-warning system that seeks to be
maximally transparent, publicly available, and have uniform coverage, and sketches the …

The resource curse literature has necessarily evolved in a rather fragmented way. While
economists, political economists and political scientists have largely focused on the role of …

If a civil war begins, it is more likely to be initiated by an ethnic group than any other type of
group. We argue that ethnic groups, on average, are likely to have more grievances against …

Previous research has focused primarily on how ethnicity may trigger civil war, and its effect
on conflict duration remains disputed. Rather than treating conflict as a direct consequence …

This article reviews the literature on civil war. We focus on the most recent period of
scholarly activity, beginning in the early 2000s when the publication of prominent …