Resource concentration and civil wars

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Morelli, Massimo; Rohner, Dominic
• 署名单位: Bocconi University; University of Lausanne
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2015.06.003
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 32-47
• 关键词: Natural resources; Civil war; CONFLICT; SECESSION; Bargaining failure

摘要

This paper highlights the importance of natural resource concentration and ethnic group regional concentration for ethnic conflict. The existence of multiple conflict terrains (and hence multiple threat points) is the source of bargaining failure, similar to the one determined by the presence of offensive advantages. The theory predicts war to be more likely when resource concentration and group concentration are high, and the empirical analysis, both at the country level and at the ethnic group level, confirms the essential role of geographic concentration variables for civil war. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.