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Article Excerpt
RETHINKING THE ECONOMICS OF WAR: THE INTERSECTION OF NEED, CREED, AND GREED
edited by Cynthia J. Arnson and I. William Zartman
Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Baltimore, MD: The John Hopkins University Press, 2005
300 pages, paper, $22.95
The chapters in this anthology contain descriptions and analysis of various civil wars. The 7 examined civil wars were all in progress in the post-Cold War period. The editors are experts on Latin America and Africa and most of the cases come from these two regions. A reference to the economics of each war appears in every case, but its discussion is on mechanisms that keep the internal conflicts active. The economic analysis tends to be highly qualitative.
The studied conflicts are in Angola, Afghanistan, Columbia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lebanon, Peru, and Sierra Leone. The authors are, respectively, Philippe Le Billon, Paula Newburg, Marc Chernick, Erik Kennes, Elizabeth Picard, Cynthia McClintock and Jimmy Kandeh. The cases provide an interesting and useful vantage point to view these conflicts. The wars in central Africa, for example, have been quite large by any number of measures, number of deaths, or refugees, but have not been well reported in the American press. I have...
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