Globalization, Self-Determination and Violent Conflict

by V. FitzGerald (Editor), F. Stewart (Editor), R. Venugopal (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349541768
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2006
Series:	St Antony's Series
Edition description:	1st ed. 2006
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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