Shadow Globalization, Ethnic Conflicts and New Wars: A Political Economy of Intra-state War

✍ Scribed by Dietrich Jung

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Series: New International Relations
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Focusing on the political economy of so-called new wars, this book presents a series of studies that analyse the complexities of current warfare by moving from the global sphere to local spots of organised violence. It thus raises questions about the very idea of intra-state wars and shows that these wars are inseparably linked to the global economy and the world political order. In this way, this study also offes a unique contribution to understanding the post-September 11 world. This will be topical and controversial reading for students and scholars of international relations and international political economy, as well as experts in foreign policy, peace and conflict studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors......Page 8
Series editor's preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: towards global civil war?......Page 14
Theories of war-making and state-making under global constraints......Page 20
A political economy of intra-state war: confronting a paradox......Page 22
State formation and the economy of intra-state wars......Page 40
Policies of reconstruction and punishment......Page 58
Protectorates and spoils of peace: political economy in south-east Europe......Page 60
Suspended reality: historical perspectives on the political economy of northern Iraq......Page 83
The War on Drugs in the creation of the new world (dis)order......Page 106
Cases of war economies......Page 130
Profiting from war: economic rationality and war in Lebanon......Page 132
Between ethnic collision and mafia collusion: the ~Balkan route~ to state-making......Page 153
Assisting structures of violence? Humanitarian assistance in the Somali conflict......Page 176
Conclusions: the political economy of war-making and state-making in a globalizing world......Page 197
Index......Page 205

✦ Subjects

Конфликтология;Политическая конфликтология;Научные статьи и сборники