Robert J. Muscat

Investing in Peace (eBook, ePUB)

How Development Aid Can Prevent or Promote Conflict

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this text Muscat examines international intervention in internal wars. He reviews the accrued insights into the causes of internal conflict and examines nine cases in with the work of development agencies exacerbated or ameliorated the root causes of conflict.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317467298
• Artikelnr.: 42901717

Autorenporträt

Robert J. Muscat is a development economist with experience as a practitioner and scholar. He has worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Thailand, Brazil, and Kenya. As the agency's chief economist, he was economic adviser to the Thai development planning agency and the Malaysian Ministry of Finance and was planning director for the U.N. Development Programme. He has consulted for U.N. agencies and the World Bank. Among his publications are books and monographs on reconstruction, technical assistance, food aid, nutrition and development, population, and other subjects. He has been a visiting scholar at Columbia's East Asian Institute and at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Conflicts, Causes, and Economic Development
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Conflicts Fought, Conflicts Avoided Nine Cases
Chapter 3 Development and Conflict
Part 2 Toward an Agenda for Conflict Prevention
Chapter 4 Relevance and Assessment
Chapter 5 Inducing Nonviolent Politics and Conflict Management
Chapter 6 Economic and Sector Policies
Chapter 7 Persuasion, Leverage, and Sanctions