Books
Bates, Robert. 2010. Prosperity and Violence: The Political Economy of Development. New York: W.W. Norton. July 2009
Bates, Robert. 2008. When Things Fell Apart. State Failure in Late Century Africa. Cambridge University Press.
Chenoweth, Erica and Maria J. Stephan. 2012. Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare) Columbia University Press; Reprint edition
Wagner, R.H., 2010. War and the State: The Theory of International Politics. University of Michigan Press.
Downloadable articles, books and other texts
You can search the articles and e-books in the e-journal database available at the University of Oslo Library. This requires having access to and being logged onto the UiO system. Contact the Reference Services at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library if you have problems finding the literature.
Andvig, Jens Christopher & Scott Gates, 2009. ‘Recruiting Child soldiers’. Child Soldiers: Children and Armed Conflict in the Age of Fractured States,” Edited by Scott Gates and Simon Reich, University of Pittsburgh Press. 2009.
Beber, Bernd, and Christopher Blattman. 2013. "The Logic of Child Soldiering and Coercion." International Organization 67(01): 65-104.
Cederman, Lars-Erik, Nils B. Weidmann, and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch. 2011. Horizontal inequalities and ethnonationalist civil war: A global comparison. American Political Science Review, 105(03), 478-495.
Collier, Paul & Anke Hoeffler. 2004. ‘Greed and Grievance in Civil War’. Oxford Economic Papers 56: 563–595.
The Economist. 2013. “Civil Wars: How to Stop the Fighting Sometimes” Nov 9th 2013: pp.
The Economist. 2013. “Defining Conflicts: What Makes a Civil War” Nov 9th 2013: p.
Fearon, J.D., 1995. Rationalist explanations for war. International Organization, 49(03), pp.379-414.
Fearon, James and David Laitin. 2003. ‘Ethnicity, Insurgency and Civil War’ American Political Science Review 97(1): 75--90.
Fearon, Jim and David Laitin. “Neotrusteeship and the Problem of Weak States”. International Security. 28(4, Spring 2004): 5–43.
Gartzke, Erik, 2007. “The Capitalist Peace”, American Journal of Political Science 51 (1), pp. 166-191.
Gates, S., Graham, B.A., Lupu, Y., Strand, H. and Str?m, K.W., 2016. Journal of Politics (forthcoming).
Gates, S., Hegre, H., Nyg?rd, H.M. and Strand, H., 2012. Development consequences of armed conflict. World Development, 40(9), pp.1713-1722.
Gates, Scott, and Simon Reich. 2009. "Think again: child soldiers." Foreign Policy: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php
Gleditsch, Kristian & Andrea Ruggeri, 2010. 'Political Opportunity Structures, Democracy and Civil war', Journal of Peace Research, 47(3) 299-310.
Hegre, H?vard; Tanja Ellingsen, Scott Gates & Nils Petter Gleditsch. 2001. 'Toward a Democratic Civil Peace?', American Political Science Review 95(1): 33--48.
Hoelscher, Kristian, Jason Miklian, and Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati. 2012. "Hearts and Mines: A district-level analysis of the Maoist conflict in India." International Area Studies Review 15(2): 141-160.
Humphreys, Macartan and Jeremy M. Weinstein. 2007. ‘Demobilization and Reintegration’ Journal of Conflict Resolution, 51(4): 531-567.
Humphreys, Macartan and Jeremy Weingast. 2008. “Who Fights? The Determinants of Participation in Civil War,” American Journal of Political Science. 52 (2, April): 436–455.
Kalyvas, Stathis, 2001. ‘“New” and “Old” Civil Wars: A Valid Distinction?’, World Politics 54: 99-118.
Kalyvas, Stathis N., & Balcells, Laia. 2010. International System and Technologies of Rebellion: How the End of the Cold War Shaped Internal Conflict. American Political Science Review, 104(03): 415-429.
Murshed, S. Mansoob and Scott Gates. 2005. ‘Spatial-Horizontal Inequality and the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal’. Review of Development Economics, 9(1): 121 -- 134.
Regan, Patrick. 2002. ‘Third Party Intervention and the Duration of Intrastate Conflicts’. Journal of Conflict Resolution 46(1): 55-73.
Rosecrance, Richard, 1986. The Rise of the Trading State: Commerce and Conquest in the Modern World. New York: Basic Books, pp. 22-43.
Russett, Bruce and John Oneal. Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations. London, New York: W.W.Norton, pp. 81-155.
Themnér, Lotta and Peter Wallensteen. 2013. ‘Armed Conflicts, 1946—2012’ Journal of Peace Research 50(4): 509-521.
Zakaria, Fareed, 1997. ‘The Rise of Illiberal Democracy’, Foreign Affairs 76(6): 22–43.
?stby, Gudrun. 2013. “Inequality and political violence”, International Area Studies Review, 16(2): 206-231.
Recommended readings
Rosecrance, Richard, 1986. The Rise of the Trading State: Commerce and Conquest in the Modern World. New York: Basic Books.
Russett, Bruce and John Oneal. 2001. Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations. London, New York: W.W.Norton.