Does rentierism have a conditional effect on violence? Regime oil dependency and civil war in Algeria

This paper intends to shed new light on an established debate within the academic literature concerning the role of oil dependency on regime (in)stability and eventually, civil wars. It does so by focusing on the events that led to the Algerian civil war (1988-1992). The core contribution this paper offers stands on the unveiling of a chain of micro-level events through a Process Tracing (PT) approach. Other than assessing the enabling conditions and the explicative factors associated to the onset of a civil war in a rentier state, we present the results of a dynamic interplay between structure and agency.