Current scholarship on civil wars and transitions from war to peace has made significant progress in understanding the political dimensions of internal conflict, but the economic motivations spurring political violence have been comparatively neglected. This pathbreaking volume identifies the...

This chapter addresses questions that are primarily microeconomic in nature. Investment is required to accomplish a particular technological change, which depends critically on two things: (1) the degree of external participation in its accomplishment, and (2) the internal technological...