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Rent seekers in rentier states : when greed brings peace

Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Naghavi, Alireza - 2010

Are natural resources a source of conflict or stability? Empirical studies demonstrate that rents from natural resources, and in particular oil, are an important source of civil war. Allegedly, resource rents attract rent seekers, which destabilize society. However, there is a large literature...

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Climate-induced international migration and conflicts

Cattaneo, Cristina; Bosetti, Valentina - 2016

Population movements will help people facing the impact of climate change. However, the resulting large scale displacements may also produce security risks for receiving areas. The objective of this paper is to empirically estimate if the inflows of climate-induced migrants increase the risk of...

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On the timing of political regime changes : theory and application to the Arab spring

Boucekkine, Raouf; Prieur, Fabien; Puzon, Klarizze - 2014

We develop a continuous time dynamic game to provide with a benchmark theory of Arab Spring-type events. We consider a resource-dependent economy with two interacting groups, the elite vs. the citizens, and two political regimes, dictatorship vs. a freer regime. Transition to the freer regime...

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Why are the stakes so high? : misconceptions and misunderstandings in China's global quest for energy security

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2012

China's global quest for resources, in particular oil and natural gas, has received unprecedented worldwide attention and scrutiny. This is partly because of China's own high-profile, active energy diplomacy, its national oil companies' acquisitions in the key exporting regions of oil and...

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Environmental security and its implications for China's foreign relations

Mochizuki, Junko; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2011 - This version: February 2011

China's emerging standing in the world demands a major rethinking of its diplomatic strategies. Given its population size, geographical scale, economic power and military presence, China is poised to play a larger political role in the twenty-first century, and is thus perceived by the...

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Oil and civil conflict : on and off (shore)

Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Nordvik, Frode Martin; Tesei, Andrea - 2017

We reconsider the relationship between oil and conflict, focusing on the location of oil resources. In a panel of 132 countries over the period 1962-2009, we show that oil windfalls increase the probability of conflict in onshore-rich countries, while they decrease this probability in...

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Trade liberalization, democratization and technology adoption

Cervellati, Matteo; Naghavi, Alireza; Toubal, Farid - 2014

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Democracy does not cause growth : the importance of endogeneity arguments

Ruiz Pozuelo, Julia; Slipowitz, Amy; Vuletin, Guillermo - 2016

positive association between democracy and economic growth is driven by endogenous democratization episodes (i.e., due to …This article challenges recent findings that democracy has sizable effects on economic growth. As extensive political … paper focuses on this endogeneity concern. Using a worldwide survey of 165 country-specific democracy experts conducted for …

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Defender, not promoter : the limits to the African Union's pursuit of democratic consolidation

Friel, Eleanor - 2014

Independently of the fact that the replacement of overtly authoritarian regimes in many African countries appeared to presage fundamental political change, a closer examination of democratic trends since the establishment of the African Union (AU) paints a less promising picture. In this paper,...

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Third-party interest, resource value, and the likelihood of conflict

Battiston, Giacomo; Bizzarri, Matteo; Franceschin, Riccardo - 2021

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