Beyond Greed and Grievance: Feasibility and Civil War
A key distinction among theories of civil war is between those that are built upon motivation and those that are built upon feasibility. We analyze a comprehensive global sample of civil wars for the period 1965-2004 and subject the results to a range of robustness tests. The data constitute a substantial advance on previous work. We find that variables that are close proxies for feasibility have powerful consequences for the risk of a civil war. Our results substantiate the ’feasibility hypothesis’ that where civil war is feasible it will occur without reference to motivation.
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2006
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Authors: | Collier, Paul ; Hoeffler, Anke ; Rohner, Dominic |
Institutions: | Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics |
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