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Shadow globalization, ethnic conflicts and new wars : a political economy of intra-state war

Author: Dietrich Jung
Publisher: London : Routledge, 2003.
Series: New international relations series.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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,  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Dietrich Jung
ISBN: 0415282039 9780415282031 9780203216965 0203216962
OCLC Number: 50653933
Description: xii, 196 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction: towards global civil war? --
Theories of war-making and state-making under global constraints --
A political economy of intra-state war: confronting a paradox --
State formation and the economy of intra-state wars --
Policies of reconstruction and punishment --
Protectorates and spoils of peace: political economy in south-east Europe --
Suspended reality: historical perspectives on the political economy of northern Iraq --
The War on Drugs in the creation of the new world (dis)order --
Cases of war economies --
Profiting from war: economic rationality and war in Lebanon --
Between ethnic collision and mafia collusion: the "Balkan route" to state-making --
Assisting structures of violence? Humanitarian assistance in the Somali conflict --
Conclusions: the political economy of war-making and state-making in a globalizing world.
Series Title: New international relations series.
Responsibility: edited by Dietrich Jung.
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"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."--Jacket.

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