Defense Spending, Natural Resources, and Conflict

Christos Kollias is Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Thessaly, Department of Economics, Greece. He is also Editor of Defence and Peace Economics, External Research Associate of the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy, Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied Research, co-edits the book series Science & Society (in Greek). Hamid E. Ali is Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, The American University in Cairo, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. He formerly taught at Southern Methodist University and Texas State University, USA. He was an auditor for the US Government Accountability Office and served on the editorial boards of many academic journals. He authored the book Darfur Political Economy: A Quest for Development by Routledge.

1. Introduction: Defense Spending, Natural Resources, and Conflict Hamid E. Ali 2. Military Expenditures and Natural Resources: Evidence from Rentier States in the Middle East and North Africa Hamid E. Ali and Omnia A. Abdellatif 3. Military Expenditure, Economic Growth and Heterogeneity J. Paul Dunne and Nan Tian 4. Does Military Spending Crowd Out Social Welfare Expenditures? Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries Eric S. Lin, Hamid E. Ali and Yu-Lung Lu 5. Military Expenditures, Income Inequality, Welfare and Political Regimes: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis Ünal Töngür and Adem Y. Elveren 6. The Shifting Determinants of Defense Spending Preferences between 1980 and 2008 Sencer Ecer and Nicholas J. Veasey 7. Resource Rents, Institutions, and Violent Civil Conflicts Ibrahim Ahmed Elbadawi and Raimundo Soto 8. Resource Dependence and Armed Violence: Impact on Sustainability in Developing Countries Gilles Carbonnier and Natascha Wagner