| Reviews |
| - 'This work may well be opening up a new research arena. By explicitly framing the analysis in a political economy approach, and by visualizing various forms of state failure and institutional collapse, these studies raise troublesome questions for the international community.' - Development and Change
- 'This major two volume study on a subject of increasing importance, deserves wide attention.' - Development Policy Review
- 'Everyone interested in the issues and regions discussed will find considerable value in these books, which deserve a place in any serious library.' - Martin Shaw, Journal of Development Studies
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| Description | | - Twenty-three specialists explain why civil wars start and how to prevent them
| Civil wars in developing countries are amongst the most significant sources of human suffering in the world today. Although there are many political analyses of these emergencies, this two-volume work is the first comprehensive study of the economic, social, and political roots of humanitarian emergencies, identifying early measures to prevent such disasters.
Nafziger, Stewart, and
Väyrynen draw on a wide range of specialists on the political economy of war and on major conflicts to show the causes of conflict. The first volume provides a general overview of the nature and causes of the emergencies, including economic, political, and environmental factors. The second volume provides detailed case studies of thirteen conflicts (including Rwanda, Burundi, the Congo,
Afghanistan, and the Caucasus) that originated in the weakness of the state or where economic factors predominate. The volumes emphasize the significance of protracted economic stagnation and decline, government exclusion of distinct social groups, state failure, predatory rule, and high and increasing inequality, especially horizontal inequalities, or inequality among groups in access to
political, economic, and social resources. They criticize beliefs recurrent in the literature that emergencies are the result of deteriorating environmental conditions or structural adjustment, or arise from ethnic animosities alone. Violent conflicts and state violence arise from the interaction of cultural, economic, and political factors. Following this analysis of the causes of war and
genocide, the work points to policies that would help to prevent humanitarian emergencies in developing countries, which would be much less costly than the present strategy of the world community of spending millions of dollars annually to provide mediation, relief, and rehabilitation after the conflict occurs. |
Readership: Students and specialists on peace research, military affairs, development economics and the politics of developing nations, and international economics; international and non-governmental organizations.
| Contents |
Volume 1. The Origins of Humanitarian Emergencies: War and Displacement in Developing Countries
1.
The Root Causes of Humanitarian Emergencies
,
Frances Stewart
2.
Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Concepts and Issues
,
Raimo Väyrynen
3.
The Economic Causes of Humanitarian Emergencies
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E. Wayne Nafziger and Juha Auvinen
4.
The Conflict Over Natural and Environmental Resources
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James Fairhead
5.
Water Scarcity as a Source of Crises
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Ashok Swain
6.
Stabilization Programmes, Social Costs, Violence, and Humanitarian Emergencies
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Christian Morrisson
7.
Political Causes of Humanitarian Emergencies
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Kalevi J. Holsti
8.
War, Crime, and Access to Resources
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David Keen
9.
Ethnicity and the Politics of Conflict: The Case of Matabeleland
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Jocelyn Alexander, JoAnn McGregor, and Terence Ranger
Volume 2. Weak States and Vulnerable Economies: Humanitarian Emergencies in Developing Countries
1.
Case Studies of Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: An Introduction
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E. Wayne Nafziger, Frances Stewart, and Raimo Väyrynen
2.
Afghanistan: The Last Cold War Conflict, the First Post-Cold War Conflict
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Barnett R. Rubin
3.
Cambodia: Genocide, Autocracy, and the Overpolitized State
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Philippe Le Billon and Karen Bakker
4.
Iraq: Economic Embargo and Predatory Rule
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Abbas Alnasrawi
5.
Burundi: The Long Sombre Shadow of Ethnic Instability
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Patrick D. Gaffney
6.
Rwanda: The Social Roots of Genocide
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Peter Uvin
7.
Somalia: The Struggle for Resources
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Juha Auvinen and Timo Kivimäki
8.
Liberia and Sierra Leone: The Competition for Patronage in Resource-Rich Economies
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William Reno
9.
Congo (Zaire): Corruption, Disintegration, and State Failure
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Kisangani N. F. Emizet
10.
Kenya: Economic Decline and Ethnic Politics
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Jeni Klugman
11.
Haiti: Towards the Abyss? Poverty, Dependence, and Resource Depletion
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Mats Lundahl
12.
El Salvador: Economic Disparities, External Intervention, and Civil Conflict
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Manuel Pastor and James K. Boyce
13.
The South Caucasus: The Breakdown of the Soviet Empire
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Raimo Väyrynen and Leila Alieva
14.
Weak States and Humanitarian Emergencies: Failure, Predation, and Rent-Seeking
,
Raimo Väyrynen
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by E. Wayne Nafziger, University Distinguished Professor of Economics, Kansas State University,
Frances Stewart, Director, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University; Professor of Development Economics and Fellow, Somerville College, Oxford, and
Raimo Väyrynen, Professor, Department of Government and Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
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