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 systematically considers domestic and international contextual factors. To test the results of the systematic analysis, two periods with a moderate increase in internal violence in Venezuela are subsequently analyzed, in the second part of the paper, from a comparative‐historical perspective. The findings demonstrate that oil, in interaction with fluctuating non‐resource‐specific contextual conditions, has had ambiguous effects: On the one hand, oil has explicitly served as a conflict‐r...
According to quantitative studies, oil is the only resource that is robustly linked to civil war ons...
How can weaker states influence stronger ones? This article offers a case study of one recent exerci...
In Bolivia, rights to increased political participation and the recognition of indigenous political ...
This paper studies the causal factors that make the oil-state Venezuela, which is generally characte...
The literature on institutional determinants of intra‐state violence commonly asserts that the...
This paper studies the oil‐violence link in the Niger Delta, systematically taking into consid...
Algeria’s intrastate war in the 1990s, during which militant Islamists and the state fought fiercely...
This paper explores the use of hydrocarbon revenues in post‐conflict Algeria. While the bloody...
The Iranian revolution still appears to be a puzzle for theoretical approaches linking political ins...
Natural resources are often held responsible for intrastate conflicts. As a consequence, both nation...
This paper builds on institutional analysis to generate new conclusions about the economic viability...
South America’s security agenda demands the simultaneous management of domestic crises, interstate c...
This paper argues that trade and capital account reforms within autocracies underlie the primacy of ...
Bolivia and Chile live in a culture of rivalry as a consequence of the Nitrate War (1879‐1883)...
In post‐conflict societies, security is provided by a broad range of actors including the stat...
According to quantitative studies, oil is the only resource that is robustly linked to civil war ons...
How can weaker states influence stronger ones? This article offers a case study of one recent exerci...
In Bolivia, rights to increased political participation and the recognition of indigenous political ...
This paper studies the causal factors that make the oil-state Venezuela, which is generally characte...
The literature on institutional determinants of intra‐state violence commonly asserts that the...
This paper studies the oil‐violence link in the Niger Delta, systematically taking into consid...
Algeria’s intrastate war in the 1990s, during which militant Islamists and the state fought fiercely...
This paper explores the use of hydrocarbon revenues in post‐conflict Algeria. While the bloody...
The Iranian revolution still appears to be a puzzle for theoretical approaches linking political ins...
Natural resources are often held responsible for intrastate conflicts. As a consequence, both nation...
This paper builds on institutional analysis to generate new conclusions about the economic viability...
South America’s security agenda demands the simultaneous management of domestic crises, interstate c...
This paper argues that trade and capital account reforms within autocracies underlie the primacy of ...
Bolivia and Chile live in a culture of rivalry as a consequence of the Nitrate War (1879‐1883)...
In post‐conflict societies, security is provided by a broad range of actors including the stat...
According to quantitative studies, oil is the only resource that is robustly linked to civil war ons...
How can weaker states influence stronger ones? This article offers a case study of one recent exerci...
In Bolivia, rights to increased political participation and the recognition of indigenous political ...