? Is poverty the main cause of civil conflict? What is the role of foreign aid in the whole process of rehabilitation …, reconstruction and recovery following conflict? This important book tackles some of the main security challenges facing the …

Modern economics has largely ignored the issue of outright conflict as an alternative way of allocating goods, assuming … peaceful market transactions, conflict exists as an outside option, sometimes constraining the outcomes reached through … voluntary agreement. In this volume, economists offer a crucial rational-choice perspective on conflict, using methodological …

of globalisation, religion and development sparked much interest and debate prompting the conference organisers to make a … collection to fruition. The papers have been arranged in three sections: Globalisation, Religion and Development; Gender and …