Peace science: theory and cases
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Main Author: Gangopadhyay, Partha (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley, UK Emerald 2009
Edition:1st ed
Series:Contributions to conflict management, peace economics and development v. 11
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
The process of globalisation has its own dynamics and several serious flaws that have resulted in significant economic, political and social imbalances in the global political economy. Peace Science: Theory and Cases examines the implications of these imbalances for achieving lasting global peace. The poorer regions of the current global system are beset with serious non-mutuality of interests, rivalry and potential conflicts over scarce resources, fragile environment, alternative energy sources and due to declining agricultural productivity and food shortages, contracting markets and owing to
Chapter 1. A study of endogenous fragmentation of states as deterrence to peace -- Chapter 2. An economic study of ethnic heterogeneity and its implications for conflicts and peace -- Chapter 3. Cycles of violent conflicts and peace in a dynamic model of the global system -- Chapter 4. Politics of defence spending and endogenous inequality -- Chapter 5. Regional integration, development and peace process -- Chapter 6. Snares and quicksand on the pathway to peace: role of international tension in local conflicts -- Chapter 7. Food entitlements, public policy and conflicts in backward societies -- Chapter 8. Costly peace: a study of the dynamics of negotiations for peace and disarmament
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxxv, 369 pages)
ISBN:1848552009
1848552017
1848558953
9781848552005
9781848552012
9781848558953