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Zusatztext The form and function of armed conflict is changing in the twenty-first century. So too are explanations of how wars start! why they endure! and what makes them end. Topher McDougal is in the vanguard of a new generation of economists committed to explaining the drivers of these so-called new wars. In The Political Economy of Rural-Urban Conflict! McDougal takes readers beyond the greed and grievance debates that dominated the 1990s and 2000s. In hisrivetting new book he explains how violent predation in settings as diverse as West Africa and South Asia are a function of trade networks at the core and periphery of city systems. This is essential reading for scholars and practitioners alike. Informationen zum Autor Topher McDougal is Associate Professor in Economic Development & Peacebuilding at the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego. He is also Research Affiliate at the Centre on Conflict, Development, & Peacebuilding (CCDP) at the Graduate Institute for International & Development Studies and a Principal of the Small Arms Data Observatory (SADO). His research focuses broadly on the microeconomic causes and consequences of armed violence, including rural-urban trade patterns in conflict-affected societies; detection and quantification of illicit trades, especially in small arms; and costs of conflict. Klappentext Why do some rebel insurgencies target cities as economic prey, whilst others are content to trade with them? This volume examines how the trade networks underpinning the economic relationship between rural and urban areas differ in their impact on (and response to) the combat frontier. Zusammenfassung Why do some rebel insurgencies target cities as economic prey, whilst others are content to trade with them? This volume examines how the trade networks underpinning the economic relationship between rural and urban areas differ in their impact on (and response to) the combat frontier. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: Production and Predation 3: How Production Networks Adapted to Civil War in Liberia 4: Stateless State-Led Industrialization 5: Trade Network Splintering and Ethnic Homogenization in Liberia and Sierra Leone 6: Multipolar Trade and Rural-Urban Violence in Maoist India 7: Trade Networks and the Management of the Combat Frontier 8: Interstitial Economies 9: Into an Urban World Appendix A: Supply-chain management in a predatory environment Appendix B: Multiplication of trade routes Appendix C: Methodology and regression tables for Chapter 5 Appendix D: Technical details of Chapter 6 Derivation of select variables Regression tables ...
