Shadow globalization, ethnic conflicts and new wars a political economy of intra-state war /
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Civil war--Economic aspects.
Globalization.
Ethnic relations.
HB195 / .S425 2003