Natural Resources, Weak States and Civil War : Can Rents Stabilize Coup Prone Regimes?
This paper argues that state weakness is broader than implied previously in the civil war literature, and that particular types of weakness in interaction with natural resources have aggravating or mitigating consequences for the risk of civil war. While in anocracies or unstable regimes natural res...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/05/16271733/natural-resources-weak-states-civil-war-can-rents-stabilize-coup-prone-regimes http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9350 |