Globalisation and Intrastate Conflict: An Empirical Analysis

Sorens, Jason; Ruger, William

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“…6 Quantitative studies explore the breadth of firms operating in conflict; 7 and the economic conditions that may facilitate peace. 8 Case literature includes how firms and business associations have attempted to create peace dividends. 9 Studies on particular sectors, such as private security, have uncovered vast changes sweeping through the way multinational corporations' (MNCs) operational presence relates to peace and conflict dynamics.…”

Section: Business and Peace-building: An Emerging Fieldmentioning

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Broadening ‘business’, widening ‘peace’: a new research agenda on business and peace-building

Miklian

Schouten

2019

Conflict, Security & Development

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Broadening ‘business’, widening ‘peace’: a new research agenda on business and peace-building

Miklian

Schouten

2019

Conflict, Security & Development

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“…While it is important to note the invaluable efforts invested in examining the contributing political economic factors prior to conflict (see, for example, Cunningham and Lemke 2014, Schulz 2015, De Soysa 2016, as well as the political economy of war and dynamics during conflict (Le Sage 1998, Lu and Thies 2011, Richani 2016, Siroky and Hechter, 2016Sorens and Ruger, 2014), this special issue is positioned firmly in the study of the post-conflict everyday. As such, it draws on Mani's (2002) criticism of international interveners who have mainly focused on addressing the effects of conflicts rather than their underlying causes, which includes socio-economic inequalities and scarcity of resources.…”

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Economies of Peace: Economy Formation Processes and Outcomes in Conflict-Affected Societies

2018

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Looking beyond and beneath the macro level, this special issue is interested in the processes and outcomes of the interaction of economic reforms, socioeconomic peacebuilding programmes and international interventions with people's lived realities. Despite decades of international involvement, many of the debates about peacebuilding and conflict prevention are still detached from the basic livelihoods and everyday concerns of citizens in conflict-affected societies. While the formerly strict distinction between conflict-related and development efforts has been problematised and rethought in recent decades (Duffield 2007, Mac Ginty and Williams 2009), the (socio-)economic aspects of peace formation still remain on the margins of the discussion. For instance, the 2016 report of the joint United Nations Development Programme/Department of Political Affairs Programme on Building National Capacities for Conflict Prevention 1 barely mentions economic aspects of peace, entirely omitting any mention of the word 'economy' (UNDP 2017). This is puzzling considering the strong focus of the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development on socioeconomic matters, including poverty, hunger, decent work, economic growth, reduced inequalities and their intersection with peace and justice. 2 This special issue begins to fill this research gap. We argue that disregarding socioeconomic aspects of peace and how they relate to people's everyday lives leaves a vacuum in our understanding of peace, particularly a just and sustainable peace, and the formation of post-conflict economies. We define 'postconflict economy formation' as a multifaceted phenomenon, including both formal and informal processes that occur in the post-conflict period and contribute to the introduction, adjustment or abolition of economic practices, institutions and rules that inform the transformation of the socioeconomic fabric of the society. It is influenced by socioeconomic legacies from before CONTACT Birte Vogel

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“…Empirical research is key to illustrating the potential link between globalisation and conflict. In recent years, several studies have investigated this relationship empirically, paying particular attention to the impact of international trade and financial liberalisation on civil conflict (e.g., Bussmann & Schneider, ; Martin et al., ; Sorens & Ruger, ). These analyses are doubtless useful to examine the effect of economic globalisation on internal conflict, but they do not provide any information on the role played by social and political globalisation in this context.…”

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“…Against this background, numerous studies have been published in recent years on the impact of globalisation on economic development and growth (Dreher, ; Frankel & Romer, ), income inequality and poverty (Dollar & Kraay, ; Milanovic, ), labour markets (Dreher & Gaston, ; Tomohara & Takii, ), environmental quality (Antweiler, Copeland, & Taylor, ; Frankel & Rose, ), or democracy and human rights (Dreher, Gassebner, & Siemers, ; Rudra, ). Likewise, there are various contributions that examine the potential link between globalisation and civil conflict using different indicators of trade openness and foreign direct investment to measure the relevance of globalisation (e.g., Bussmann & Schneider, ; Martin, Mayer, & Thoenig, ; Sorens & Ruger, ). From a policy perspective, the relationship between these variables and civil conflict is clearly important, as it provides information on the role that economic integration plays in this context.…”

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Is there a link between globalisation and civil conflict?

Ezcurra

Manotas

2017

World Economy

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This paper investigates the empirical relationship between globalisation and civil conflict in a sample of 159 countries over the period 1972–2009. To that end, we use a measure of globalisation that distinguishes the social and political dimensions of integration from the economic dimension, thus allowing us to adopt a broader perspective than in most of existing studies. The results show that the inclusion of country fixed effects removes the statistical association between the degree of integration with the rest of the world and the incidence of internal conflict. We present instrumental variables estimates that also show no causal effect of globalisation on civil conflict. These findings do not depend either on the specific dimension of globalisation considered or the measure of conflict used in the analysis. Likewise, the absence of a relationship between globalisation and civil conflict is not driven by countries located in the most conflictive regions in the world.

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Globalisation and Intrastate Conflict: An Empirical Analysis

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Broadening ‘business’, widening ‘peace’: a new research agenda on business and peace-building

Broadening ‘business’, widening ‘peace’: a new research agenda on business and peace-building

Economies of Peace: Economy Formation Processes and Outcomes in Conflict-Affected Societies

Is there a link between globalisation and civil conflict?

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