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- ↑ "Benjamin Smith".
- ↑ Hard Times in the Lands of Plenty: Oil Politics in Iran and Indonesia. Cornell University Press. 2007-08-02. ISBN 9780801472770.
- ↑ Smith, Benjamin (2004). "Oil Wealth and Regime Survival in the Developing World, 1960-1999". American Journal of Political Science. 48 (2): 232–46. doi:10.1111/j.0092-5853.2004.00067.x.
- ↑ Smith, Benjamin (2006). "The Wrong Kind of Crisis". Studies in Comparative International Development. 40 (4): 55–76. doi:10.1007/BF02686303. S2CID 55381253.
- ↑ "Resource Wealth as Rent Leverage: Rethinking the Oil-Stability Nexus". Conflict Management and Peace Science.
- ↑ Smith, Benjamin (2013). "Separatist Conflict in the Former Soviet Union and Beyond: How Different Was Communism?". World Politics. 65 (2): 350–81. doi:10.1017/s0043887113000087. S2CID 144720333.
- ↑ Smith, Benjamin (2005). "Life of the Party: The Origins of Regime Persistence and Breakdown Under Single-Party Rule". World Politics. 57 (3): 421–51. doi:10.1353/wp.2006.0004. S2CID 15529113.
- ↑ Slater, Dan; Smith, Benjamin; Nair, Gautam (2014). "Economic Origins of Democratic Breakdown? The Redistributive Model and the Postcolonial State". Perspectives on Politics. 12 (2): 353–74. doi:10.1017/s1537592714000875. S2CID 73626964.
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