Civil War and Uncivil Development

David Maher is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Salford, UK. His research employs a political economy framework to analyse the links between political violence (particularly civil war and terrorism) and processes of economic development, including processes of economic globalisation such as international trade and foreign direct investment.

• Chapter 1: Civil War, Development and Economic Globalisation.- Chapter 2: Civil War as Development in Reverse or a Case of Historical Amnesia.- Chapter 3: Colombia: Globalisation, Economic Growth and Civil War.- Chapter 4: The Fatal Attraction of Civil War: Violence and the Oil Sector in Arauca.- Chapter 5: Rooted in Violence: The Expansion of Palm Oil in Meta.- Chapter 6: Conflict, Development and the Fluidity of Violence: Colombia and Beyond.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

“The book speaks to students, scholars, practitioners and human rights activists interested in the relationship between political violence, development and globalization. … Scholars and students of civil war will find the book a theoretically sound and empirically rich source as it advances knowledge on a particularly relevant yet overlooked area in civil war studies through the lenses of critical theory and historical materialism.” (Ervjola Selenica, Interdisciplinary Political Studies, Vol. 5 (1), 2019)