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 … opposite effects can be explained by a fighting capacity mechanism, whereby the government can use offshore oil income to …

data on the oil and gas industry, we show that contracts between the oil majors and petro-rich economies with weak … interventions to back up the enforcement of the contracts of their oil firms. Fading of (military) enforcement, together with the …

proposing a new resource policy for the oil-rich southern Italian region of Basilicata. The policy proposal is to establish a …

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 natural gas and some debatable issues about the management and operation of …

resources, and in particular oil, are an important source of civil war. Allegedly, resource rents attract rent seekers, which …