Essays on Civil War, Inequality and Underdevelopment

Syed Mansoob Murshed is Professor of the Economics of Peace and Conflict at the International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University in the Netherlands and Professor of Economics at Coventry University in the UK.

• 1. 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

Essential 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.