Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Naghavi, Alireza - In: European Journal of Political Economy 27 (2011) 4, pp. 740-748
resources, and in particular oil, are an important source of civil war. Allegedly, resource rents attract rent-seekers, which … handing out special favors. The present paper attempts to bridge the gap between the rent-seeking view of resource rents as a … source of conflict and the rentier state view which emphasizes the role of resource rents in promoting peace and stability …