Strategic Sovereignty: A Model of Non-state Goods Provision and Resistance in Regions of Natural Resource Extraction. (December 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Steinberg, Jessica
• Is Part Of: Journal of conflict resolution. Volume 60:Number 8(2016)
• Page Start: 1503
• Page End: 1528
• Publication Date: 2016-12
• Subjects: natural resource extraction -- local conflict -- environmental externalities -- formal model; War and society -- Periodicals; Peace -- Periodicals; Arbitration (International law) -- Periodicals; 327.16
• DOI: 10.1177/0022002714564429
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0022-0027

Abstract

In some regions of natural resource extraction, embedded local populations receive transfers that compensate them for environmental consequences of extraction; while in others, these populations receive no benefits and endure negative environmental externalities, which can lead to violent protest. This article develops a formal model of the strategic dynamics among a government, a natural resource extraction firm, and a local population in an extractive region to understand the variation in extractive outcomes. The model specifies the conditions under which firms will provide promised transfers to a local population, distributive conflict will occur, and how the government will respond.