| CODE | DST5209 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Economic Issues and Conflict | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 3 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Centre for the Study and Practice of Conflict Resolution | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The aim of this study-unit is to familiarize students with the economic and financial dimensions of war and armed conflict. It starts out with a discussion of theoretical paradigms on the relationship between war and the economy (such as Mercantilism, Marxism and Liberalism),followed by a historical perspective on this relationship, both in the state-building process (in Europe) as well as in inter-state conflicts and rivalries. The study-unit then turns to the debate on so-called new wars and the relevance of economic factors and interests in shaping contemporary armed conflicts. This includes a consideration of the ‘greed vs. grievance’ debate, the economic interests and strategies which are often involved in contemporary conflicts, as well as the role of natural resources in wars. Particular attention is given to the key commodities of oil and water. The final part of the study unit focuses on measures aimed at preventing and ending resource-fuelled wars, as well as the wider regional dimensions of ‘war economies’ and the challenges which are often associated with peace-building efforts in these contexts. The study-unit will include empirical analysis of case studies in the (wider) Euro-Mediterranean region. List of Required Text Books - Mats Berdal and David M. Malone (eds.), Greed & Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000. - Philippe Le Billon, Fuelling War: Natural Resources and Armed Conflicts, Adelphi Paper No. 357, 2001. - Michael T. Klare, Resource Wars, The New Landscape of Global Conflict, Owl Books, 2002. - Michael Pugh and Neil Cooper, War Economies in a Regional Context: Challenges of Transformation, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004. - Cynthia J. Arnson and I.William Zartman (eds.), Rethinking the Economics of War. The Intersection of Need, Creed, and Greed, John Hopkins University Press, 2005. - Mary Kaldor, New and Old Wars. Organized Violence in a Global Era, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2012. - Tim Eaton et al., Conflict Economies in the Middle East and North Africa, Chatham House Report, 2019. - Nicholas Mulder, The Economic Weapon. The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War, Yale University Press, 2022. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Derek Lutterbeck |
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