{"id":4943,"date":"2015-01-28T07:01:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T12:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2015-01-28T07:01:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T12:01:36","slug":"study-foreign-countries-intervene-in-civil-wars-100-times-more-often-when-afflicted-countries-have-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4943","title":{"rendered":"Study: Foreign Countries Intervene in Civil Wars 100 Times More Often when Afflicted Countries Have Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Study: Foreign Countries Intervene in Civil Wars 100 Times More Often when Afflicted Countries Have Oil<\/a><\/h3>\n

The Independent\u00a0reports\u00a0<\/a>that a new study conducted in the\u00a0Universities of Portsmouth, Warwick and Essex, and published in the\u00a0Journal of Conflict Resolution, finds that \u201chydrocarbons play an even bigger role in conflicts\u201d than \u201cconspiracy theorists\u201d ever imagined.<\/p>\n

\u2026foreign intervention in a civil war is 100 times more likely when the afflicted country has high oil reserves than if it has none.<\/p>\n

\u2026a third party is 100 times more likely to intervene when the country at war is a big producer and exporter of oil\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026suggesting hydrocarbons were a major reason for the [US\/UK] military intervention in Libya \u2026\u00a0and the current US campaign against Isis in northern Iraq.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a rigorous and systematic analysis, we found that the role of economic incentives emerges as a key factor in intervention,\u201d said co-author Dr Vincenzo Bove, of the University of Warwick. \u201cBefore the Isis forces approached the oil-rich Kurdish north of Iraq, Isis was barely mentioned in the news. But once Isis got near oil fields, the siege of Kobani in Syria became a headline and the US sent drones to strike Isis targets<\/strong>,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

[The study]\u00a0found that the decision to intervene was dominated by the third-party\u2019s need for oil, far more than historical, geographic or ethnic ties.<\/p>\n

The US maintains troops in Persian Gulf oil producers and has a history of supporting conservative autocratic states\u2026<\/p>\n

David Cameron was instrumental in setting up the coalition that intervened in Muammar Gaddafi\u2019s Libya in 2011, a country with sizeable oil reserves.<\/p>\n

It is also important to remember that often\u00a0control over resources<\/a>, rather than mere access, is more important to a\u00a0regime seeking\u00a0an\u00a0illegal\u00a0<\/a>stranglehold over international affairs:<\/p>\n

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Study: Foreign Countries Intervene in Civil Wars 100 Times More Often when Afflicted Countries Have Oil The Independent\u00a0reports\u00a0that a new study conducted in the\u00a0Universities of Portsmouth, Warwick and Essex, and published in the\u00a0Journal of Conflict Resolution, finds that \u201chydrocarbons play an even bigger role in conflicts\u201d than \u201cconspiracy theorists\u201d ever imagined. \u2026foreign intervention in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[920,2974,2976,2975,588,1810],"class_list":["post-4943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-civil-war","tag-foreign-intervention","tag-geopolitical-conflict","tag-interventionist-policies","tag-oil","tag-oil-reserves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4944,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions\/4944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}