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A cautionary tale on polygyny, conflict and gender inequality

Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura - 2018

Kanazawa (J of Politics, 2009) claims that polygyny may be the "first law of intergroup conflict (civil wars …)". Gleditsch et al. (J of Politics, 2011) reject this claim by showing that the effect of polygyny on civil war onset disappears … once misogyny is controlled for. Our paper recapitulates this theoretical and empirical debate. We explore further …

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Investigating the "curious" case of civil war and foreign direct investment : evidence from Sudan

Maher, David - In: Review of international political economy 30 (2023) 4, pp. 1510-1534

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International sanctions and internal conflict : the case of Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Gutmann, Jerg - 2024

This study investigates the case of Iran to evaluate how changes in the intensity of international sanctions affect internal conflict in the target country. Estimating a vector autoregressive model for the period between 2001q2 and 2020q3 with quarterly data on internal conflict and its three...

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International sanctions and internal conflict : the case of Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Gutmann, Jerg - 2024

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Resource concentration and civil wars

Morelli, Massimo; Rohner, Dominic - 2013

This paper highlights the importance of natural resource concentration and ethnic group regional concentration for ethnic conflict. A new type of bargaining failure due to multiple types of potential conflicts (and hence multiple threat points) is identified. The theory predicts war to be more...

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Recent patterns of post-conflict aid : did donors help sustain peace?

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016

Donor reactions to recent settlements of internal conflicts have been highly diverse, in terms of both overall aid and its sectoral composition. The allocation of post-conflict aid tends to be needs-based by favoring particularly poor countries. There is no conclusive evidence, however, that the...

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Tracking under-reported financial flows : China’s development finance and the aid-conflict nexus revisited

Strange, Austin M.; Parks, Bradley; Tierney, Michael J.; … - 2015

China’s provision of development finance to other countries is sizable but reliable information is scarce. We introduce a new open source methodology for collecting project-level development finance information and create a database of Chinese official finance to Africa from 2000 - 2011. We...

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Apocalypse now? : climate change and war in Africa

Weezel, Stijn van - 2018

There is a large empirical literature trying to quantify the potentially adverse affects of climate change on the risk of violent armed conflict, which focuses almost exclusively on linking annual variation in climatic conditions to violence. A major shortcoming of this approach is that it...

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Economics of civil conflict : evidence from the Punjab insurgency

Prakarsh Singh - 2016

The Punjab Insurgency in India (1978-1993) took the lives of over 20,000 people. Yet, there has been little research on the economic causes and consequences of the conflict in Punjab, which has been classified as a civil war and also an insurgency. In this article, I delve into some of the...

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Civic legacies of wartime governance

Justino, Patricia; Stojetz, Wolfgang - 2019

In conflict zones around the world, both state and non-state actors deliver governance at local levels. This paper explores the long-term impact of individual exposure to 'wartime governance' on social and political behaviour. We operationalize wartime governance as the local policy choices and...

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