African Militaries and Rebellion: The Political Economy of Threat and Combat Effectiveness
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1 War in Africa, and in other parts of the world, has recently attracted significant attention given the cost of those conflicts in human lives and damage to national and regional economies. A growing and p roductive literature has emerged focussing on the motivations of rebels during these wars. Important econometric work has attempted to explain the economic and political motivations of rebels (Collier and Hoeffler: 1998); there have been case studies
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