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Globalization and the Distribution of Wealth

The Latin American Experience, 1982-2008

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Globalization and the Distribution of Wealth

The Latin American Experience, 1982-2008

By: Arie M. Kacowicz

This book links theoretical discussions about globalization and the distribution of wealth with a rich empirical analysis of Latin America.

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1107027845

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Zones of Peace in the Third World

South America and West Africa in Comparative Perspective

By: Arie M. Kacowicz

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Zones of Peace in the Third World

South America and West Africa in Comparative Perspective

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Provides a critique and an extention of the "democratic peace" theory by focusing on the regional level and by offering alternative explanations for the maintenance of democratic and non-democratic "zones of peace.

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SUNY Press

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0791439585

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9780791439586

The Unintended Consequences of Peace

Peaceful Borders and Illicit Transnational Flows

By: Arie Marcelo Kacowicz,Exequiel Lacovsky,Keren Sasson,Daniel F. Wajner

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The Unintended Consequences of Peace

Peaceful Borders and Illicit Transnational Flows

By: Arie Marcelo Kacowicz,Exequiel Lacovsky,Keren Sasson,Daniel F. Wajner

A rigorous global examination of the links between peaceful borders and illicit transnational flows of crime and terrorism.

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1316518825

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The Unintended Consequences of Peace

Peaceful Borders and Illicit Transnational Flows

By: Arie Marcelo Kacowicz,Exequiel Lacovsky,Keren Sasson,Daniel F. Wajner

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The Unintended Consequences of Peace

Peaceful Borders and Illicit Transnational Flows

By: Arie Marcelo Kacowicz,Exequiel Lacovsky,Keren Sasson,Daniel F. Wajner

Scholars of international relations generally consider that under conditions of violent conflict and war, smuggling and trans-border crime are likely to thrive. In contrast, this book argues that in fact it is globalisation and peaceful borders that have enabled transnational illicit flows conducted by violent non-state actors, including transnational criminal organizations, drug trafficking organizations, and terrorist cells, who exploit the looseness and demilitarization of borderlands. Empirically, the book draws on case studies from the Americas, compared with other regions of the world experiencing similar phenomena, including the European Union and Southeast Europe (the Western Balkans), Southern Africa, and Southeast Asia. To explain the phenomenon in itself, the authors examine the type of peaceful borders and regimes involved in each case; how strong each country is in the governance of their borderlands; their political willingness to control their peaceful borders; and the prevailing socio-economic conditions across the borderlands.

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1009007742

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Globalization and the Distribution of Wealth

The Latin American Experience, 1982–2008

By: Arie M. Kacowicz

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Globalization and the Distribution of Wealth

The Latin American Experience, 1982–2008

By: Arie M. Kacowicz

The effects of globalization on poverty and inequality are a key issue in contemporary international politics, yet they have been neglected in international relations and comparative politics literatures. Arie M. Kacowicz explores the complex relationships between globalization and the distribution of wealth as a political problem in international relations, analyzing them through the prism of poverty and inequality. He develops a political framework (an 'intermestic model') which captures the interaction between the international and the domestic domains and explains those effects with a particular emphasis upon the state and its relations with society. He also specifies the different hypotheses about the possible links between globalization and the distribution of wealth and tests them in the context of Latin America during the years 1982–2008, with a particular focus on Argentina and the deep crisis it experienced in 2001–2.

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1139620142

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Zones of Peace in the Third World

South America and West Africa in Comparative Perspective

By: Arie M. Kacowicz

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Zones of Peace in the Third World

South America and West Africa in Comparative Perspective

By: Arie M. Kacowicz

International relations scholars have traditionally focused on explaining war rather than peace, resulting in the concept of peace being understudied and underemphasized. This book in contrast explains the maintenance of extensive periods of international peace in two regions of the Third World: South America and West Africa. The term "zones of peace" has been used in reference to the Cold War (1945–1989) and to separate peace among the democracies developed progressively throughout the last two hundred years. In this book, however, Kacowicz moves beyond a European focus to consider the theoretical and historical significance of the term in the context of the Third World. He argues that there have been periods of "long peace," so that zones of peace, characterized by the absence of interstate war, have developed in South America since the late 1880s and among the West African countries since their independence in the early 1960s. Kacowicz explores how regional peace is maintained in South America and West Africa through the distilling of alternative explanations, including Realism, Liberalism, and satisfaction with the territorial status quo. He also examines how peace can be maintained among states that usually do not sustain Western democratic regimes by offering a critique (and improvement) upon the "democratic peace" theory. Peace can indeed be maintained, he asserts, among nondemocratic states, although there is a direct relationship between the quality of the regional peace and the type of political regimes sustained by the countries in any given region.

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State University of New York Press

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1438408137

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Book's by Arie M. Kacowicz

Globalization and the Distribution of Wealth

Globalization and the Distribution of Wealth

Zones of Peace in the Third World

Zones of Peace in the Third World

The Unintended Consequences of Peace

The Unintended Consequences of Peace

The Unintended Consequences of Peace

The Unintended Consequences of Peace

Globalization and the Distribution of Wealth

Globalization and the Distribution of Wealth

Zones of Peace in the Third World

Zones of Peace in the Third World

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