Topher L McDougal

Political Economy of Rural-Urban Conflict

Predation, Production, and Peripheries

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780198792598
• ISBN-10: 019879259X
• Artikelnr.: 47871199

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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