Rebel Economies: Warlords, Insurgents, Humanitarians

As a pervasive occurrence in the contemporary world, wars and their economic sources are defining social and political processes in a variety of national and transnational contexts. Rebel Economies: Warlords, Insurgents, Humanitarians explores historical, anthropological and political dimensions of war economies by non-state actors across different periods and regions, while presenting their multiple manifestations as a unified, congruent phenomenon. Through a variety of conceptual and disciplinary approaches, the authors investigate, in the past and present and across three continents, the nexuses between economy, war, social transformation and state-building, revealing in the process differences and similarities that would otherwise remain hidden. Through this broad-gauge approach, the book aims, first, to rethink much of the debate around "non-state war economies," and, secondly, to expand the conversation by consciously treating this theme as a conspicuous and distinct aspect of both economy and war. This is not just a different approach but a fundamental departure from the ways in which current discussions over the economy of wars, civil conflicts, and revolutions, have informed research orientations over several decades.

Author: Nicola Di Cosmo
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 05/18/2021
Pages: 290
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9781793635198

About the Author
Nicola Di Cosmo is the Henry Luce Foundation Professor of east Asian Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study Didier Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and annual chair of public ealth at the Collège de France. Clémence Pinaud is assistant professor at the department of international studies of Indiana University, Bloomington.