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Book SynopsisSyed Mansoob Murshed has been at the forefront of research in the rational choice approach to conflict. His pioneering work over many years has demonstrated that armed conflict is inseparable from inequality and economic development.
This book brings together Murshed’s key economic writings on conflict and includes work on conflict causation, sustaining peace agreements, the relationship of conflict and economic progress, the trade–conflict nexus, the effects of conflict on financial deepening and fiscal capacity, as well as case studies of everyday violence and transnational terrorism. The essays cover both theoretical ideas, critical literature reviews, mathematical modelling, and crossnational and subnational econometric empirical analysis.
The enduring nature of war and conflict and uneven economic outcomes make Murshed’s work of lasting significance.
Trade ReviewEssential reading for scholars interested in the economics of conflict. It covers a large variety of research questions, includes both theoretical and empirical papers, presents both country case studies and cross-national studies, and provides policy implications... This book is a must-read for both experienced scholars and PhD students and it deserves to be hugely influential.
-- Journal of Peace Research
Table of Contents1. Conflict, civil war and underdevelopment2. Revisiting the greed and grievance explanations for violent conflict3. Greed, grievance and globalization4. Economic dimensions of the liberal peace and its implications for conflict in developing countries5. Enforcing peace agreements through commitment technologies6. The conflict-growth nexus and the poverty of nations7. Conflict and fiscal capacity8. Does civil war hamper financial development?9. The clash of civilizations and the interaction between fear and hatred10. Transnational terrorism as a spillover of domestic disputes in other countries11. Quantitative restrictions on the flow of narcotics: supply and demand restraints in a North-South macro-model12. Spatial-horizontal inequality and the Maoist conflict in Nepal13. Socioeconomic determinants of everyday violence in Indonesia: an empirical investigation of Javanese districts, 1994–200314. Not loving thy neighbour as thyself: trade, democracy and military expenditure explanations underlying India–Pakistan rivalry
