This paper studies the oil‐violence link in the Niger Delta, systematically taking into consideration domestic and international contextual factors. The case study, which focuses on explaining the increase in violence since the second half of the 1990s, confirms the differentiated interplay of resource‐specific and non‐resource‐specific causal factors. With regard to the key contextual conditions responsible for violence, the results underline the basic relevance of cultural cleavages and political‐institutional and socioeconomic weakness that existed even before the beginning of the “oil era.” Oil has indirectly boosted the risk of violent conflicts through a further distortion of the national economy. Moreove...
While in an initial legal and academic anti-corruption wave corruption itself was at the center of a...
South America’s security agenda demands the simultaneous management of domestic crises, interstate c...
Natural resources are often held responsible for intrastate conflicts. As a consequence, both nation...
The literature on institutional determinants of intra‐state violence commonly asserts that the...
This paper explores the use of hydrocarbon revenues in post‐conflict Algeria. While the bloody...
This paper studies the causal factors that make the oil-state Venezuela, which is generally characte...
This paper studies the oil-violence link in the Niger Delta, systematically taking into consideratio...
Algeria’s intrastate war in the 1990s, during which militant Islamists and the state fought fiercely...
The Iranian revolution still appears to be a puzzle for theoretical approaches linking political ins...
Little attention has been paid to the factual effect of the state’s security forces on the security ...
Despite a growing interest in African political parties, no comparative analyses of political ideolo...
According to quantitative studies, oil is the only resource that is robustly linked to civil war ons...
This paper analyzes the declining importance of political parties in the Central African Republic (C...
In post‐conflict societies, security is provided by a broad range of actors including the stat...
This paper argues that trade and capital account reforms within autocracies underlie the primacy of ...
While in an initial legal and academic anti-corruption wave corruption itself was at the center of a...
South America’s security agenda demands the simultaneous management of domestic crises, interstate c...
Natural resources are often held responsible for intrastate conflicts. As a consequence, both nation...
The literature on institutional determinants of intra‐state violence commonly asserts that the...
This paper explores the use of hydrocarbon revenues in post‐conflict Algeria. While the bloody...
This paper studies the causal factors that make the oil-state Venezuela, which is generally characte...
This paper studies the oil-violence link in the Niger Delta, systematically taking into consideratio...
Algeria’s intrastate war in the 1990s, during which militant Islamists and the state fought fiercely...
The Iranian revolution still appears to be a puzzle for theoretical approaches linking political ins...
Little attention has been paid to the factual effect of the state’s security forces on the security ...
Despite a growing interest in African political parties, no comparative analyses of political ideolo...
According to quantitative studies, oil is the only resource that is robustly linked to civil war ons...
This paper analyzes the declining importance of political parties in the Central African Republic (C...
In post‐conflict societies, security is provided by a broad range of actors including the stat...
This paper argues that trade and capital account reforms within autocracies underlie the primacy of ...
While in an initial legal and academic anti-corruption wave corruption itself was at the center of a...
South America’s security agenda demands the simultaneous management of domestic crises, interstate c...
Natural resources are often held responsible for intrastate conflicts. As a consequence, both nation...