Beyond greed and grievance: feasibility and civil war
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 subst...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:cb923804-9624-4346-977b-00cd2c1db83e2022-03-27T07:15:45ZBeyond greed and grievance: feasibility and civil warWorking paperhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_8042uuid:cb923804-9624-4346-977b-00cd2c1db83eEconomicsConflictEnglishOxford University Research Archive - Valet2006Collier, PHoeffler, ARohner, DA 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. |
| spellingShingle | Economics Conflict Collier, P Hoeffler, A Rohner, D Beyond greed and grievance: feasibility and civil war |
| title | Beyond greed and grievance: feasibility and civil war |
| title_full | Beyond greed and grievance: feasibility and civil war |
| title_fullStr | Beyond greed and grievance: feasibility and civil war |
| title_full_unstemmed | Beyond greed and grievance: feasibility and civil war |
| title_short | Beyond greed and grievance: feasibility and civil war |
| title_sort | beyond greed and grievance feasibility and civil war |
| topic | Economics Conflict |
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