Rebel Economies

Warlords, Insurgents, Humanitarians

Nicola Di Cosmo, Didier Fassin, Clémence Pinaud

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2021
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978756281
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Economic Theory
• Index: Economics

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Revisiting Non-States War Economies
• Part I: Frameworks
• Chapter 1: What Are Non-State War Economies?: Prefatory Remarks
• Chapter 2: War Economies and War Economics
• Chapter 3: War Economies and Humanitarian Action
• Chapter 4: Rebel Taxation: Between the Moral and Market Economy
• Part II: Historical Perspective
• Chapter 5: The War Economy of Nomadic Empires
• Chapter 6: Non-State War Economy in Renaissance Italy
• Chapter 7: The Economy of Warlordism in Early Twentieth-Century China
• Part III: Contemporary Worlds
• Chapter 8: Friend, Foe, or in Between? Humanitarian Action and the Soviet–Afghan War
• Chapter 9: War Economy, Warlordism, and Social Class Formation in South Sudan
• Chapter 10: Resource Wars, Oil, and the Islamic State
• Conclusion: New Perspectives on Warring Societies
• Index
• About the Contributors