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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Beyond greed and grievance: feasibility and civil war |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Journal Title | Oxford Economic Papers |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 0030-7653 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Number | 1 |
| Page Range | 1 - 27 |
| Date | 2009 |
| Abstract Text | A key distinction among theories of civil war is between those that are built upon motivation and those that are built upon feasibility. We analyze a comprehensive global sample of civil wars for the period 1965-2004 and subject the results to a range of robustness tests. The data constitute a substantial advance on previous work. We find that variables that are close proxies for feasibility have powerful consequences for the risk of a civil war. Our results substantiate the 'feasibility hypothesis' that where civil war is feasible it will occur without reference to motivation. |
| Official URL | http://oep.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/61/1/1 |
| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1093/oep/gpn029 |
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