Crude Conspiracies? Data Suggest Nations Do Go to War Over Oil (Op-Ed)

The “thirst for oil” is often put forward as a near self-evident explanation behind military interventions in Libya, for instance, or Sudan. Oil, or the lack of oil, is also said to be behind the absence of intervention in Syria now and in Rwanda in 1994.



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