Publication

This paper analyzes both interstate and intrastate conflict in the period 1989-1999, reviewing six independent variables which affect interstate and intrastate conflict. A testing of the liberal peace argument in the Middle East and comparing it with global trends in a post-Cold War era finds that the Middle East did not differ much from the rest of the world with oil exporting countries being more involved in conflict. The author shows that high economic development reduces the likelihood for conflict globally, but is not significant in the Middle East and North Africa.