Books
Cederman, Lars-Erik, Kristian Gleditsch, and Halvard Buhaug. 2013. Inequalities, Grievances, and War. 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 ISBN-10: 0231156839; ISBN-13: 978-0231156837.
Robert Bates. 2008. When Things Fell Apart. State Failure in Late Century Africa. Cambridge University Press
Robert Bates. 2009. Prosperity and Violence: The Political Economy of Development, 2nd Edition. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN: 978-0-393-93383-3
Books (recommended):
Russett, Bruce and John Oneal. 2001. Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations. London, New York: W.W.Norton.
Wagner, R.H., 2010. War and the State: The Theory of International Politics. University of Michigan Press
Articles:
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.
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. http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21589431
The Economist. 2013. “Defining Conflicts: What Makes a Civil War” Nov 9th 2013: p. http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21589432-some-say-killing-25-people-year-enough-others-suggest-1000-what-makes-it-war
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. Conflict Resolution. 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, Scott; Benjamin A. T. Graham, Yonatan Lupu, Håvard Strand, and Kaare W. Strøm. 2016. Power Sharing, Protection, and Peace. The Journal of Politics 78(2): 512-526.
Gates, S., Hegre, H., Nygård, 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: https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/05/22/think-again-child-soldiers/
Gleditsch, Kristian & Andrea Ruggeri. 2010. Political Opportunity Structures, Democracy and Civil war, Journal of Peace Research, 47(3) 299-310.
Hegre, Håvard; 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. (http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/world_politics/v054/54.1kalyvas.pdf)
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.
O.A. (Oliver August). 2013. “Civil Wars: The Picture in Africa”, The Economist online, 13 November 2013. http://www.economist.com/blogs/baobab/2013/11/civil-wars
Olson, Mancur. 1993. Dictatorship, democracy, and development. American Political Science Review 87(3 ): 567-576.
Pettersson, Therése and Kristine Eck. 2018. Organized violence, 1989–2017. Journal of Peace Research 55(4): 535–547.
Regan, Patrick. 2002. Third Party Intervention and the Duration of Intrastate Conflicts. Journal of Conflict Resolution 46(1): 55-73.
Russett, Bruce and John Oneal. Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations. London, New York: W.W.Norton, pp. 81-155.
Tilly, Charles. 1985. War Making and State Making as Organized Crime. In Bringing the State back in, edited by Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 169-191.
Zakaria, Fareed, 1997. The Rise of Illiberal Democracy, Foreign Affairs 76(6): 22–43.
Østby, Gudrun. 2013. Inequality and political violence, International Area Studies Review, 16(2): 206-231.