The Political Economy of Rural-Urban Conflict: Predation, by Topher L. McDougal

By Topher L. McDougal

every now and then of insurgency, the strive against frontier is contested and erratic, as rebels aim towns as their monetary prey. In different instances, it truly is tidy and good, possible representing an equilibrium during which towns are successfully shielded from violent non-state actors. What components account for those adjustments within the interface among urban-based states and rural-based challengers? To discover this question, this quantity examines areas representing two
dramatically assorted results. In West Africa (Liberia and Sierra Leone), capital towns grew to become monetary objectives for rebels, who posed dire threats to the survival of the kingdom. In Maoist India, regardless of an rebel ideology aiming to overthrow the kingdom through a method of revolutionary urban seize, the
combat frontier successfully firewalls towns from Maoist violence.

This booklet argues that alternate networks underpinning the industrial courting among rural and concrete components - termed 'interstitial economies' - may possibly vary dramatically of their effect on (and reaction to) the wrestle frontier. It explains insurgent predatory trends in the direction of towns as a functionality of shipping networks permitting monopoly gains to be made via urban-based investors. It explains wrestle frontier delineation as a functionality of the social constitution of the exchange networks: hierarchical networks
permit elite-elite deals that cohere the frontier. those components symbolize what could be termed respectively the 'hardware' and 'software' of the rural-urban monetary relationship.

Of curiosity to any pupil of political financial system and violence, this booklet offers new arguments and insights in regards to the relationships among violence and the economic climate, predation and construction, middle and periphery.

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