Globalisation has spread neoliberal political economies worldwide, but is the globalising of this economic system a tool for spreading peace and prosperity, or a harbinger of conflict and war?
The authors examine the effect of neoliberalism on violent conflict and war-making in Sudan, the Ivory Coast, Peru and Colombia. Through quantitative and qualitative analyses they challenge advocates and opponents of neo-liberal reforms, revealing that the shift to neoliberal policies has produced widely diverging outcomes in different contexts; proving that the notion of global neoliberal homogeneity is flawed.
Introduction
1. War, Peace and Liberalism: A Quantitative Approach to the Relation between Economic Globalisation and Armed Conflict
by Jairo Baquero Melo
2. Economic Liberalisation and Politics in Uganda by Frederick Golooba-Mutebi
3. Ivory Coast: The Political Economy Of A Citizenship Crisis by Richard Banégas
4. The Multiple Uses of Neo-liberalism
War, New Frontier and Reconfiguration of the State in Sudan by Roland Marchal and Einas Ahmed
5. Colombia: The re-structuring of violence by Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín
6. War and Neoliberal Transformation:The Peruvian Experience by Ramón Pajuelo-Teves
7. Conclusions by Gerd Schönwälder and Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín
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