Causes of Political Violence

Týden 4

Week 4: Economic Development and Intrastate Conflict, 14.3.2016
 
Mandatory literature: 
Hegre, Havard, “Civil Conflict and Development," in: Oxford University Press Handbook on the Politics of Development. Ed. by Nicholas van de Walle & Carol Lancaster, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
 
James Fearon,“Economic Development, Insurgency, and Civil War,” in Elhanan Helpman ed., Institutions and Economic Performance (Harvard University Press, 2008).
 
Paul, Collier, “Doing Well Out of War: An Economic Perspective," in: Greed & Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars. Ed. by Mats Berdal and David M. Malone (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000): 91-111.
 
Presentations:
  1. Wayne E. Nafziger and Juha Auvinen, “Economic Development, Inequality, War, and Sate Violence,” World Development Vol. 30, No. 2 (2002): 153-163.
  2. Murshed, S. Mansoob & Scott Gates,  “Spatial-Horizontal Inequality and the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal,” Review of Development Economics Vol. 9, No.1 (2005): 121-134.
  3. Edward Miguel, Shanker Satyanath, and Ernest Sergenti, “Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: An Instrumental Variables Approach,” Journal of Political Economy Vol. 112 (August 2004): 725-753.
  4. Eli Berman, Joseph H. Felter, and Jacob N. Shapiro, “Do Working Men Rebel: Unemployment and Violence in Iraq and the Philippines,” Working Paper (2009).