This paper studies the oil-violence link in the Niger Delta, systematically taking into consideration domestic and … and political-institutional and socioeconomic weakness that existed even before the beginning of the “oil era.” Oil has … oil theft helps to explain the perpetuation of the violent conflicts at a low level of intensity. …

Resource curse theory claims that resource abundance encourages violent conflict. A study of 37 oil …-producing developing countries, however, reveals that oil states with very high levels of oil revenue are remarkably stable. An analysis of … the ways in which governments spend oil revenues identifies two distinct types of rentier systems – the large …

internal violence. This paper uses a novel dataset on oil and natural gas property rights covering 40 countries during the … hydrocarbon production and civil conflict onset – often found in previous studies – only applies to countries in which oil and gas …

According to conventional wisdom, strategic natural resources like oil are harmful to international peace. Nonetheless … impact of oil on militarized interstate disputes on a monadic level of analysis, this paper shows that oil in fact influences … the conflict potential between countries. Results of logistic regressions suggest that a high absolute oil production is …

oil and gas have both had an effect on the scope of these measures and reveal their limits. Moreover, some of the critical …

-specific conditions such as the amount and the use of oil income, sudden oil-price drops, and external interference aimed mainly at the … domination of the oil sector. It was the specific interplay of these and other contextual conditions—as much resource-specific as …

This paper studies the causal factors that make the oil-state Venezuela, which is generally characterized by a low … level of violence, an outlier among the oil countries as a whole. It applies a newly elaborated “context approach” that … a comparative-historical perspective. The findings demonstrate that oil, in interaction with fluctuating non …

The present article aims to analyze the effects of high oil prices since 2003 on … Iran. The theoretical basis of the analysis is the rentier state approach, the basic element of which is that rents are at the free disposal of the rentier. Empirically, the paper examines the issue areas of foreign policy, domestic policy and economic policy. After proving that the oil … since it provoked sanctions whose costs were initially balanced only by high rent income. Yet, in his first term, Ahmadinejad failed to prepare Iran for the situation that has occurred as a result of the global financial crisis: the redistributive policy of the regime has meant that an oil price below US$70 or US$75 now constitutes a severe challenge for the Iranian state budget. …