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Beyond greed and grievance: feasibility and civil war
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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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- Authors
- Collier, P., Hoeffler, A., & Rohner, D.
- Venue
- Oxford Economic Papers
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2008-03-28
- Volume
- 61
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-27
- ISSN
- 0030-7653 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-3812
- OpenAlex
- W2149681902
- Cited by
- 879
- References
- 7
- FWCI
- 168.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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