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Why Is There So Much Conflict in

the Middle East?


 Conflicts by region and time

 Political Institutions

 Economic development

 Religion

 Dependent Variable; Armed Civil Conflict

 Independent Variables; GDP per capita, economic


growth, natural resource dependence, ethnic
dominance.
 Is it Islam?

 Is it Oil?

 Is it authoritarianism?

 Is it Oil and authoritarianism


combined?
 A missing Piece

 Peace in Middle East

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