How Free Media Protects Energy Infrastructure?

Polivin Oleg ()
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Polivin Oleg: Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse, France

Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy, 2015, vol. 21, issue 4, 523-540

Abstract: Modern warfare is often indirect: rebel groups are normally too weak to fight the state’s army in an open conflict, while the main problem of the government is to find the hideout of the rebels or identify their supporters. In this paper, I argue that if communication channels like free media are missing, rebel groups choose to attack the energy infrastructure. Empirical evidence reveals that countries with freer media experience less attacks against their energy infrastructure.

Keywords: civil war; terrorism; energy infrastructure; media freedom (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1515/peps-2015-0021

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