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Political Science Quarterly
The notion that wars might have economic dimensions is not new. Plundering and looting of the battleground has always provided needed resources to finance a war. What is new is the scholarly focus on this practice in examining civil wars. For years, the only publication with this focus was David Keen's 1998 Adelphi Paper, The Economic Functions of Violence. Keen presented the first systematic, general analysis of how civil war might be conducted for the accumulation of wealth, as opposed to winning. Now that the World Bank has devoted much-needed resources and brainpower to the issue, the question of how economic factors play into the course of civil wars has received far greater attention, including the publication of the edited volume, Greed and Grievance.
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