Investing in peace : how development aid can prevent or promote conflict / / Robert J. Muscat

• Autore: Muscat Robert J.
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.91
• Soggetto topico: Economic assistance; Economic development; Ethnic conflict; Conflict management
• Note generali: First published 2002 by M.E. Sharpe.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover ""; ""Half Title ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Dedication ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Preface ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Part I: Conflicts, Causes, and Economic Development ""; ""1. Introduction: Conflict and the International Development Agencies""; ""The Focus of International Attention: Full-Blown Crises and Their Aftermath""; ""The Search for More Effective Prevention""; ""The Many Forms of Internal Conflict""; ""International Terrorism""; ""The Scope for Early Prevention""; ""Mandates and Competence for an Overdue Responsibility"" ; ""2. Conflicts Fought, Conflicts Avoided: Nine Cases""""Conflicts Fought: Aid Complicity""; ""Pakistan: Complicity of Donor Advice""; ""Rwanda: Donor Culpability""; ""Sri Lanka: Opportunities Taken, and Missed""; ""Yugoslavia: Economic Rights and IMF Responsibility""; ""Conflicts Contained, Conflicts Avoided: Some Aid Assists""; ""Malaysia: Conflict Prevention as the Political-Economic Core""; ""Thailand: Learning and Foresight""; ""Bhutan: Accommodation""; ""Mozambique: Preventing Conflict Recurrence""; ""Mauritius: Ethnic Power-Sharing and Economic Equity Without Preferences"" ; ""3. Development and Conflict: Connections and Precursors""""Development, Aid, and Conflict: The Peace Presumption""; ""Development-Conflict Connections: Exacerbation or Amelioration?""; ""Democratic Optimism""; ""Some Development Particulars: Illustrations of Conflict Effects""; ""Conflict Modeling and Prediction""; ""Getting from Causes to Interventions: Dense Reality versus Salient Focus""; ""The Fallibility of Conflict Forecasting""; ""Illusive but Real: Nonmaterial Motivations""; ""Conclusion: Multiple Causes Call for Multiple Interventions"" ; ""Part II: Toward an Agenda for Conflict Prevention """"4. Relevance and Assessment""; ""Conflict Assessment""; ""5. Inducing Nonviolent Politics and Conflict Management""; ""Top-Down: Reengineering Politics""; ""Development of Civil Society""; ""Bottom-Up: Behavior Change and Civil Society""; ""6. Economic and Sector Policies: Reforms, Preferences, and Harmonization of Interests""; ""Across-the-Board Reform""; ""Privatization: Transfer of State Assets to Private Ownership""; ""Labor Market Liberalization""; ""Changes in Group Economic Rights""; ""Preference Policies""; ""Taxation"" ; ""Internal Resource Allocation""""Regional Preferences""; ""Choosing Among Alternative Projects""; ""Formal Education""; ""Language Policy""; ""Agriculture""; ""Civil Service Reform and Modernization""; ""Conclusion""; ""Postscript: Demobilization""; ""7. Persuasion, Leverage, and Sanctions""; ""The Role of Ideas: Against Utopianism, Triumphalism, and Ignorance""; ""Ordinary Development Research: Illuminating Frictions and Fictions""; ""Persuasion and Leverage""; ""Resource Allocation Among Countries: From Support to Withdrawal""; ""When Nothing Else Works: Sanctions"" ; ""Donor Coordination: Practical Obstacles""
• Sommario/riassunto: International intervention in internal wars has gained rhetorical legitimacy in the post-cold war period, but in practice it has remained problematic. Response to these conflicts has remained mainly diplomatic and military - and belated. Is there anything international actors can do to prevent, or at least ameliorate, such conflicts? Are conflict-prevention measures already being attempted, and sometimes succeeding so well that we are unaware of their effectiveness? If so, what can we learn from them? In this book, Robert J. Muscat, a veteran international development expert who has worked in
• Titolo autorizzato: Investing in peace
• ISBN: 1-315-70325-4; 0-7656-0978-9; 1-317-46729-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811474303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II