Ethnic Conflicts, Civil War and Cost of Conflict (Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development) [Hardcover]

Raul Caruso (Author, Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 25, 2011 | ISBN-10: 1780521308 | ISBN-13: 978-1780521305

This volume of "Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development" includes some of the selected papers presented by scholars in a European Peace Science Network Meeting recently held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Chapters in this volume cover the conflicts in Maoist India, South America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. The authors have employed highly sophisticated quantitative techniques and principles of Economics and Political Science in determining the causes of these ethnic conflicts and effects on human and material resources.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Caruso (U. Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy) presents ten theoretical and empirical research papers from the field of "peace economics," which investigates economic determinants and consequences of intra-state conflicts. Topics include game-theoretic analysis of forced displacement of populations in Colombia, the impact of commodity prices on civil wars in Sub-Saharan Africa, the impact of rural-urban linkages on intensity of Maoist insurgent violence in India, the impact of Mozambique's civil war on the health status of adult women, methodological issues of evaluating the costs of conflicts, and the development of an online simulation module to analyze complex strategic interactions. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR

About the Author

Raul Caruso - Institute of Economic Policy, Universita Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Product Details

• Hardcover: 280 pages
• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing (July 25, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1780521308
• ISBN-13: 978-1780521305
• Product Dimensions: 1 x 6.3 x 9.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,913,485 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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