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Essays on Civil War, Inequality and Underdevelopment

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Cover -- Half-title -- Series -- Title page -- Dedication -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Tables and Figures -- 1 Conflict, civil war and underdevelopment -- 2 Revisiting the greed and grievance explanations for violent conflict -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The greed or natural resource-based explanation for conflict -- 2.2.1 The theory of greed -- 2.2.2 Empirical issues in connection with the greed mechanism -- 2.3 Grievances and horizontal inequality as conflict drivers -- 2.3.1 Theories of grievance -- 2.3.1.1 Relative deprivation -- 2.3.1.2 Polarization -- 2.3.1.3 Horizontal inequality -- 2.3.2 Measurement of grievance -- 2.3.2.1 Relative deprivation -- 2.3.3 Some empirical findings -- 2.4 Synthesis and social contract -- 2.5 Conclusions -- 3 Greed, grievance and globalization -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 A model of social contract and civil conflict -- 3.2.1 The government side -- 3.2.2 The rebel side -- 3.2.3 Solving the model -- 3.2.3.1 Non-cooperative behaviour -- 3.2.3.2 International aid, diaspora finance, greed and grievance -- 3.2.3.3 Globalization, growth and internal conflict -- 3.3 Conclusions -- 4 Economic dimensions of the liberal peace and its implications for conflict in developing countries -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Ideal theories of the liberal peace -- 4.3 Economic theories of the liberal peace -- 4.4 Globalization and internal conflict in developing countries -- 4.4.1 The gains from trade -- 4.4.2 Globalization and conflict -- 4.5 Conclusions and policy implications -- 5 Enforcing peace agreements through commitment technologies -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The imperfect credibility of peace agreements -- 5.3 Commitment technologies for the rebel group -- 5.4 The finance and production of sanctions -- 5.5 Conclusions -- 6 The conflict-growth nexus and the poverty of nations -- 6.1 Introduction.