Contributions to conflict management, peace economics and development,
v. 11
1572-8323 ;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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.