Rethinking the economics of war : the intersection of need, creed, and greed / edited by Cynthia J. Arnson and I. William Zartman.
This collection of essays questions the adequacy of explaining today's internal armed conflicts purely in terms of economic factors and re-establishes the importance of identity and grievances in creating and sustaining such wars. Countries studied include Lebanon, Angola, Colombia and Afghanis...
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Washington, D.C. : Baltimore :
Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- The political economy of war : situating the debate / Cynthia J. Arnson
- Trafficking, rents, and diaspora in the Lebanese war / Elizabeth Picard
- The evolution of internal war in Peru : the conjunction of need, creed, and organizational finance / Cynthia McClintock
- The criminalization of the RUF insurgency in Sierra Leone / Jimmy D. Kandeh
- Resource wealth and Angola's uncivil wars / Philippe Le Billon
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo : structures of greed, networks of need / Erik Kennes
- Economic resources and internal armed conflicts : lessons from the Colombian case / Marc Chernick
- Surviving state failure : internal war and regional conflict in Afghanistan's neighborhood / Paula R. Newberg
- Economic factors in civil wars : policy considerations / David M. Malone and Jake Sherman
- Need, creed, and greed in intrastate conflict / I. William Zartman.