Overview
- The first book to integrate two emerging research techniques for the study of civil war - process tracing methods and micro-level analysis
- Includes unique datasets to provide novel insights into Colombia’s conflict
- Suggests a set of causal mechanisms that can result in economic growth in civil wars and types of mechanisms that ultimately lead to economic decline
Part of the book series: Rethinking Political Violence (RPV)
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This book challenges the conventional wisdom that civil war inevitably stymies economic development and that ‘civil war represents development in reverse’. While some civil wars may have adverse economic effects, Civil War and Uncivil Development posits that not all conflicts have negative economic consequences and, under certain conditions, civil war violence can bolster processes of economic development. Using Colombia as a case study, this book provides evidence that violence perpetrated by key actors of the conflict – the public armed forces and paramilitaries – has facilitated economic growth and processes of economic globalisation in Colombia (namely, international trade and foreign direct investment), with profoundly negative consequences for large swathes of civilians. The analysis also discusses the ‘development in reverse’ logic in the context of other conflicts across the globe.
This book will be an invaluable resource for scholars, practitioners and students in the fields of security and development, civil war studies, peace studies, the political economy of conflict and international relations.Similar content being viewed by others
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“The book speaks to students, scholars, practitioners and human rights activists interested in the relationship between political violence, development and globalization. … Scholars and students of civil war will find the book a theoretically sound and empirically rich source as it advances knowledge on a particularly relevant yet overlooked area in civil war studies through the lenses of critical theory and historical materialism.” (Ervjola Selenica, Interdisciplinary Political Studies, Vol. 5 (1), 2019)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
David Maher is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Salford, UK. His research employs a political economy framework to analyse the links between political violence (particularly civil war and terrorism) and processes of economic development, including processes of economic globalisation such as international trade and foreign direct investment.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Civil War and Uncivil Development
Book Subtitle: Economic Globalisation and Political Violence in Colombia and Beyond
Authors: David Maher
Series Title: Rethinking Political Violence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66580-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66579-5Published: 23 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09775-2Published: 08 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66580-1Published: 15 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2752-8588
Series E-ISSN: 2752-8596
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 313
Topics: Globalization, Conflict Studies, Emerging Markets/Globalization, Terrorism and Political Violence, Development and Social Change, Development Economics