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Current scholarship on civil wars and transitions from war to peace has made significant progress in understanding the political dimensions of internal conflict. However, the economic motivations spurring political violence have been comparatively neglected. This pathbreaking book identifies the economic and social factors underlying the perpetuation of civil wars, exploring as well the economic incentives and disincentives available to international actors seeking to restore peace to war-torn societies.

The authors consider the economic rationality of conflict for belligerents, the economic strategies that elites use to sustain their position, and in what situations elites find war to be more profitable that peace. Throughout, the authors strive consistently for policy relevance in both their analysis and their prescriptions.

THE AUTHORS

Mats Berdal is Research Fellow at St Anthony's College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.

David Malone is President of the International Peace Academy, New York, NY, USA.

CONTENTS

Introduction — Mats Berdal and David Malone

I. Approaches to the Political Economy of Civil Wars

• Incentives and Disincentives for Violence — David Keen
• Shadow States and the Political Economy of Civil Wars — William Reno
• Globalization, Transborder Trade, and War Economies — Mark Duffield
• Doing Well out of War: An Economic Perspective — Paul Collier
• The Resource Curse: Are Civil Wars Driven by Rapacity or Paucity? — Indra de Soysa
• The View from Below — Musifiki Mwanasali

• Arms, Elites, and Resources in the Angolan Civil War — Virginia Gamba and Richard Cromwell
• Targeted Financial Sanctions — Samuel D. Porteous
• Aiding or Abetting?: Humanitarian Aid and Its Economic Role in Civil War — David Shearer
• Shaping Agendas in Civil Wars: Can International Criminal Law Help? — Tom Farer

Bibliography

About the Authors

Index

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