Globalization and external support for civil conflict governments
PS9-5
Presented by: Brian Phillips
The civil conflict literature stresses the effects of international intervention on conflict duration and conflict outcomes. Recent studies show that economic interventions -- funding, as opposed to strictly military interventions -- have important consequences. This paper studies the determinants of foreign economic support for states during civil conflict. The literature usually focuses on funding for rebels, overlooking the substantial variation in foreign support to governments fighting civil conflict. We theorize that different degrees of globalization affect the likelihood that the government receives external support. More specifically, using global data since 1975, we show that integration in global trade and financial networks is positively related to foreign economic support for governments waging civil conflict. Additional tests examining specific senders show more nuanced findings.