Globalization, Self-Determination and Violent Conflict

ISBN-13: 9781349541768 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 270 str.

V. FitzGerald;F. Stewart;R. Venugopal

Opis

The authors show that with violent conflict in the developing world as the critical issue for the twenty-first century, and conflict prevention a central security problem for the developed and developing world, self-determination movements can only be understood, and conflict prevented, in the context of global economic and cultural forces

Spis treści

Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction; V.FitzGerald, F.Stewart & R.Venugopal Global Economic Influences and Policies Towards Violent Self-Determination Movements: An Overview; F.Stewart Global-Local Cultural Links: Diaspora, Transnationalism, Solidarities and the Media; S.Dudley and C.Lloyd Global Financial Information, Compliance Incentives and Conflict Funding; V.FitzGerald Self-Determination in the Global Context; R.Venugopal Why Congo Persists: Sovereignty, Globalization and the Violent Reproduction of a Weak State; P.Englebert Somalia: State Failure and Self-determination in the Shadow of the Global Economy; W.Reno Multiple Causes of Conflict in Algeria: Inequalities, National Identity, Inequality and Political Islam; C.Lloyd 'External' Aspects of Self-Determination Movements in Burma; S.Dudley Sri Lanka: The Global Dimensions of Conflict; R.Venugopal Conclusions; V.FitzGerald, F.Stewart and R.Venugopal Index

O autorze

SANDRA DUDLEY Lecturer in the Department of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, UK PIERRE ENGLEBERT Associate Professor of Politics at Pomona College, California , USA CATHIE LLOYD Senior Research Officer at the Department of International Development, Oxford University, UK WILL RENO Associate Professor of Politics at Northwestern University, Illinois, USA