Back to search

What Do We Know about Natural Resources and Civil War?

Data up to Jan 2025

Published2004
Citations1,312
References88

Total Citations Per Year

Abstract

References (88)

Greed and grievance in civil war

2004 • 5,712 citations

Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War

2003 • 5,582 citations

Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth

1995 • 3,932 citations

The curse of natural resources

2001 • 3,718 citations

Armed Conflict 1946-2001: A New Dataset

2002 • 3,584 citations

Does Oil Hinder Democracy?

2001 • 3,209 citations

On economic causes of civil war

1998 • 2,469 citations

Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy

2003 • 2,401 citations

Natural resources, education, and economic development

2001 • 1,993 citations

Toward a Democratic Civil Peace? Democracy, Political Change, and Civil War, 1816–1992

2001 • 1,598 citations

The political ecology of war: natural resources and armed conflicts

2001 • 1,422 citations

Why Do Some Civil Wars Last So Much Longer than Others?

2004 • 1,235 citations

International Peacebuilding: A Theoretical and Quantitative Analysis

2000 • 1,158 citations

Warlord politics and African states

1998 • 1,009 citations

Warlord Politics and African States

1998 • 985 citations

Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association

1917 • 976 citations

American Economic Review

2009 • 970 citations

Ethnicity, Political Systems, and Civil Wars

2002 • 955 citations

Fighting for the Rain Forest: War, Youth and Resources in Sierra Leone

1996 • 936 citations

Natural resources, rent seeking and welfare

2002 • 871 citations

Resource Abundance and Economic Development

2004 • 846 citations

Does Mother Nature Corrupt? Natural Resources, Corruption, and Economic Growth

2001 • 843 citations

How Do Natural Resources Influence Civil War? Evidence from Thirteen Cases

2004 • 773 citations

British journal of political science

1982 • 773 citations

Resource Abundance and Economic Development

2002 • 699 citations

Do Ethnic and Nonethnic Civil Wars Have the Same Causes?

2001 • 693 citations

On the Duration of Civil War

2004 • 643 citations

Greed and Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars

2000 • 560 citations

Corruption and state politics in Sierra Leone

1996 • 550 citations

Armed Conflict and The Environment: A Critique of the Literature

1998 • 516 citations

Corruption and State Politics in Sierra Leone

1997 • 492 citations

The economic functions of violence in civil wars

1998 • 491 citations

How Much War Will we see?

2002 • 475 citations

Does Taxation Lead to Representation?

2004 • 471 citations

Paradise is a Bazaar? Greed, Creed, and Governance in Civil War, 1989-99

2002 • 471 citations

The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War

2000 • 445 citations

Cross-National Variation in Political Violence

1990 • 431 citations

The Geography of Civil War

2002 • 425 citations

Power in Numbers

1985 • 410 citations

Natural Resources and Violent Conflict

2003 • 388 citations

Greed and Grievance

2000 • 354 citations

Natural resource abundance and human capital accumulation

2006 • 351 citations

Congo-Paris: Transnational Traders on the Margins of the Law

2001 • 311 citations

Burma In Revolt: Opium And Insurgency Since 1948

2019 • 294 citations

Secession and the Limits of Taxation: Toward a Theory of Internal Exit

2016 • 265 citations

Does Lootable Wealth Breed Disorder?

2006 • 259 citations

Angola's political economy of war: The role of oil and diamonds, 1975–2000

2001 • 250 citations

The Political Ecology of Transition in Cambodia 1989–1999: War, Peace and Forest Exploitation

2000 • 236 citations

Does mother nature corrupt

1999 • 226 citations

Does Mother Nature Corrupt? Natural Resources, Corruption, and Economic Growth

1999 • 187 citations

Apartheid's contras: an inquiry into the roots of war in Angola and Mozambique

1995 • 174 citations

Rawan Is as Rawan Does: The Origins of Disorder in New Order Aceh

1998 • 168 citations

Natural Resources and Violent Conflict: Options and Actions

2003 • 168 citations

Fuelling War: Natural Resources and Armed Conflicts

2006 • 155 citations

Ecoviolence: Shrinking Pie, or Honey Pot?

2002 • 136 citations

3 Oil, Drugs, and Diamonds: The Varying Roles of Natural Resources in Civil War

2003 • 130 citations

Causes and course of the Bougainville conflict

1998 • 129 citations

Global resources and international conflict : environmental factors in strategic policy and action

1986 • 127 citations

Global resources and international conflict: environmental factors in strategic policy and action

1987 • 122 citations

Angola from Afro-Stalinism to Petro-Diamond Capitalism

2001 • 120 citations

Natural resources and civil strife: a two-stage process

2004 • 116 citations

International organization

2012 • 113 citations

The Political Economy of Secession

2011 • 111 citations

Trade Shocks in Developing Countries

2001 • 110 citations

Oil and the political economy of conflict in Colombia and beyond: a linkages approach

2004 • 107 citations

Civil War: Academic Research and the Policy Community

2002 • 107 citations

Development policies in natural resource economies

1999 • 105 citations

Western Sahara: The Roots of a Desert War

1984 • 98 citations

Congo-Paris: Transnational Traders on the Margins of the Law

2001 • 91 citations

Correlates of War Project: International and Civil War Data, 1816-1992

1994 • 83 citations

The Political Economy of Third World Intervention: Mines, Money, and U.S. Policy in the Congo Crisis

1992 • 72 citations

Drug Trafficking in the Americas

1996 • 64 citations

The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War

2000 • 62 citations

Trade Shocks in Developing Countries

1999 • 59 citations

Angola from Afro-Stalinism to Petro-Diamond Capitalism

2001 • 55 citations

Environment, development, and military activity: Towards alternative security doctrines

1982 • 48 citations

Cambodia Confounds the Peacemakers, 1979-1998

2019 • 38 citations

The Political Economy of Third World Intervention

1991 • 38 citations

Dictatorships as a Political Dutch Disease

1999 • 32 citations

Natural Resource Abundance and Human Capital Accumulation

2001 • 25 citations

Sudan, Civil War and Terrorism, 1956–99

2000 • 17 citations

9 Burma: Lessons from the Cease-Fires

2003 • 15 citations

Sudan, Civil War and Terrorism, 1956-1999

2001 • 13 citations

Drug Trafficking in the Americas.

1996 • 10 citations

Development and Crisis in Bougainville: A Bibliographic Essay

1992 • 8 citations

Introduction: History, Politics, and Shining Path in Peru

1994 • 7 citations

Sudan in Crisis

1998 • 7 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations

Cited By (0)

Loading...