Temper and Temperature: The Missing Link of Climate on Armed Conflicts.
We investigate the causes of an internal conflict by adding ambient climate factors to the existing bundle of most significant variables. It turns out that – controlling for possible associations – temperature could actually induce a conflict. We emphasise that temperature could not be a dominant reason in starting a conflict; however, it could escalate the chances when other factors are present. This paper mentions some of the related psychological studies to support this claim. We also show that grievance factors could actually be rightfully effective in starting an internal conflict alongside greed based reasons. In the end, we believe that it could be constructive to study ambient factors more often in economics.
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2014-12
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Authors: | Shiva, Mehdi ; Kwiatkowski, Andrzej |
Institutions: | Department of Economics Studies, University of Dundee |
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Extent: | application/pdf |
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Series: | Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics. - ISSN 1473-236X. |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Notes: | Number 282 42 pages |
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011155388
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