The defence sector is now at an advanced level, catering to the global scenario, and
countries also invest heavily in research and development. Countries around the world have …

Since 2001, hundreds of academic studies have examined the “political resource curse,”
meaning the claim that natural resource wealth tends to adversely affect a country's …

Proposals for more effective natural resource governance emphasize the importance of
institutions and governance, but say less about the political conditions under which …

Social and political tensions keep on fueling armed conflicts around the world. Although
each conflict is the result of an individual context-specific mixture of interconnected factors …

Resilience has become a central concept in government policy understandings over the last
decade. In our complex, global and interconnected world, resilience appears to be the policy …

Contemporary research on civil war has largely dismissed the role of political and economic
grievances, focusing instead on opportunities for conflict. However, these strong claims rest …

We combine georeferenced data on mining extraction of 14 minerals with information on
conflict events at spatial resolution of 0.5 o× 0.5 o for all of Africa between 1997 and 2010 …

Despite the prevalence of nonviolent uprisings in recent history, no existing scholarship has
produced a generalized explanation of when and where such uprisings are most likely to …

Recognizing that the empirical literature of the past several years has produced an
inconclusive picture, this study revisits the relationship between poverty and terrorism and …

Why did the nation-state emerge and proliferate across the globe? How is this process
related to the wars fought in the modern era? Analyzing datasets that cover the entire world …