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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎0192511201 

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780192511201

Author: Topher L. McDougal 

In some cases of insurgency, the combat frontier is contested and erratic, as rebels target cities as their economic prey. In other cases, it is tidy and stable, seemingly representing an equilibrium in which cities are effectively protected from violent non-state actors. What factors account for these differences in the interface between urban-based states and rural-based challengers? To explore this question, this volume examines two regions representing two dramatically different outcomes. In West Africa (Liberia and Sierra Leone), capital cities became economic targets for rebels, who posed dire threats to the survival of the state. In Maoist India, despite an insurgent ideology aiming to overthrow the state via a strategy of progressive city capture, the combat frontier effectively firewalls cities from Maoist violence. This book argues that trade networks underpinning the economic relationship between rural and urban areas – termed ‘interstitial economies’ – may differ dramatically in their impact on (and response to) the combat frontier. It explains rebel predatory tendencies towards cities as a function of transport networks allowing monopoly profits to be made by urban-based traders. It explains combat frontier delineation as a function of the social structure of the trade networks: hierarchical networks permit elite-elite bargains that cohere the frontier. These factors represent what might be termed respectively the ‘hardware’ and ‘software’ of the rural-urban economic relationship. Of interest to any student of political economy and violence, this book presents new arguments and insights about the relationships between violence and the economy, predation and production, core and periphery.

The political economy of rural-urban conflict : predation, production, and peripheries 1st Table of contents:

Part I. The Political Economy of the Rural–Urban Interface
1. Introduction
1.1 The Battle Lines Are Drawn
1.2 Traders and Raiders
1.3 The Stakes
1.4 The Road Less Travelled
1.5 The Road Map
2. Production and Predation
2.1 Town and Country
2.2 Through the Looking Glass
2.3 The Extensification-Intensification Dialectic
2.4 A Simple Model of Rural–Urban Predation
Part II. Violence Acts on Production Networks
3. How Production Networks Adapted to Civil War in Liberia
3.1 Why Study Liberian Industry?
3.2 Qualitative Research of Liberian Firms
3.3 Dispersal Strategies in Production Networks
3.4 Lessons and Leads
4. Stateless State-Led Industrialization
4.1 Overview
4.2 Methods for Examining Conflict Effects on Firms
4.3 The Cloud
4.4 SLI in Historical Context
4.5 Resemblances to SLI in Liberia
4.6 Where the Comparison Breaks Down
4.7 A Case for Postconflict Protectionism
5. Trade Network Splintering and Ethnic Homogenization in Liberia and Sierra Leone
5.1 Overview
5.2 The Dispersal and Homogenization Hypotheses
5.3 Predicting Trade as a Primary Occupation
5.4 Predicting Distance from Ethnic Homeland
5.5 Predicting Traders’ Income
5.6 Radial Trade, Ethnic Homogenization, and Monopoly
Part III. Production Networks Act on Violent Actors
6. Multipolar Trade and Rural–Urban Violence in Maoist India
6.1 Trade or Invade
6.2 Hypothesizing Violence at the Combat Frontier
6.3 Background to the Naxal Conflict
6.4 A Statistical Model of Naxal Violence
6.5 Rural–Urban Strength and Network Reticulation as Violence Moderators
6.6 Theorizing Mechanisms
6.7 Implications for Development Policy
7. Trade Networks and the Management of the Combat Frontier
7.1 The Case of India with a Backward Glance at West Africa
7.2 Rural–Urban Linkages
7.3 Cleavage and Commerce
7.4 Segmentation and Stability
Part IV. Conclusion
8. Interstitial Economies
8.1 Where We Have Come
8.2 Trade Networks and Society in Comparative Perspective
8.3 Managing Coercive Violence
8.4 State Identity and Mass Violence
9. Into an Urban World
9.1 From Dusk to Red Dawn
9.2 Through a Glass, Darkly
9.3 Back to the Future
9.4 Do Not Go Gentle

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