The Tyranny of Supply: Natural Resources and Rebel Territorial Control in Civil Conflicts.
The logic of territorial control is central to the study of internal conflict. Existing studies consider the consequences of territorial control without answering a critical question: what motivates rebel territorial control in the first place? Territorial control requires careful explanation. While...
| Publicado en: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 68; no. 3; pp. 1 - 15 |
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Sep2024
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