Shadow globalization, ethnic conflicts and new wars : a political economy of intra-state war / edited by Dietrich Jung.
"This book addresses questions about the interrelation of armed conflict, international economic flows and organized crime in the post-Cold War era. Where many books exploring current warfare do so in terms of identity and ethnicity, this book looks at the economic sides of these intra-state wa...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2003]
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| Series: | New international relations.
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| Summary: | "This book addresses questions about the interrelation of armed conflict, international economic flows and organized crime in the post-Cold War era. Where many books exploring current warfare do so in terms of identity and ethnicity, this book looks at the economic sides of these intra-state wars. In contrast to the public image of so-called intra-state wars, this book reveals a complex interplay between global, regional and local forces that are behind ethnic conflicts and civil wars. In this way, it is also a unique contribution to understanding the post-September 11 world." "Subdivided in three parts, the book leads from more general inquiries to particular case studies, at the same time maintaining a view that tries to bridge the global, regional and local divides. The first part of the book takes up several prominent theoretical perspectives about the relationship between war and state-making. The second part examines how international policies of peacemaking and peace-enforcement are reflected in the local realities of Bosnia and northern Iraq. Together with the cases studies in the third part - Lebanon, the former Yugoslavia, and Somalia, these essays underline that policy schemes of reconstruction and punishment, which are implemented by international powers in order to foster the establishment of market structures and democracy, can lead to the opposite of what they pretend. Mafia-style economies, warlordism and protracted internal warfare are often the unintended outcome of international interventions."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 196 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0415282039 9780415282031 |