Honors Theses
Date of Award
5-8-2026
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
Political Science
First Advisor
Timothy Nordstrom
Second Advisor
Lauren Ferry
Third Advisor
Kenneth Rich
Relational Format
Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract
There are many provisions that post-civil war states may include in peace treaties. This paper seeks to analyze the inclusion of three specific provisions– political power sharing and political institutions, rule of law/property rights, and infrastructure and reconstruction– and their impact on the resulting foreign direct investment inflows into a post-conflict nation over the course of ten years. I hypothesize that states that include one or more of these provisions will subsequently experience higher FDI inflows. To test this theory, I used the peace agreement information from the PA-X Peace Agreements dataset and FDI inflow information from the United Nations’ Trade and Development dataset. Using this data, a regression of ordinary least squares was used to investigate the correlation between each peace agreement provision/the ‘bundle’ of all three provisions and the resulting FDI inflows. To isolate this relationship, I control for the level of democracy within a country, GDP per capita, region, issue type, and the number of peace agreements signed. My analysis revealed no significant relationship between the independent variable and the dependent variable. Overall, the data showed that the null hypothesis holds, and there is no correlation between the inclusion of these provisions and the resulting FDI inflows.
Recommended Citation
Sheehan, Wendi M., "Peace Agreements, Provisions, and Profit: How Peace Agreement Provisions Impact Foreign Direct Investment Inflows" (2026). Honors Theses. 3528.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/3528
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