自然資源與國內衝突：權力轉移理論的應用

Previous studies failed to link civil conflict to international relations theories, even with concepts borrowed from IR theories. I try to connect power transition theory (PTT) to civil conflict, especially in resource-rich countries. I argue that via the main assumptions from PTT, natural resources perfectly account for, first, how resource curse produces people's grievances, and second, how power parity is achieved. Resulting from those assumptions, people face high risk of civil conflict in such a circumstance in resource-abundant countries. I test time-series and cross-sectional data (TSCS) from 1960- 2013 by a generalized estimation equation model (GEE), and find that except for diamond production, natural resources increase the likelihood of civil conflict.