Do natural resources matter for interstate and intrastate armed conflict?

Journal of Peace Research

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 227-243

  Koubi, Vally ^a   Spilker, Gabriele ^b   Böhmelt, Tobias ^c   Bernauer, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

interstate conflict; intrastate c.; resource a.; resource s

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897763559     PISSN: 00223433     EISSN: 14603578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022343313493455     Document Type: Review

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