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Market Forces, Political Violence, and War: The End of Nation-States, the Rise of Ethnic and Global Sovereignties?

Author(s)	King, Leslie
Abstract	In the post-Cold War era, political violence associated with wars of gain is key to economic and political transformations across nation-states. I outline below elements of a new framework for exploring, critically, discourses and practices of political violence and state reformation in geopolitical locations dominated by extractive industries. In what follows I focus on a major philosophical, anthropological, and political issue–the origins of violence, its relationship to power and economy, and contribution to the contemporary formation of new states–in the context of armed struggles between multinational corporations, communities, and nation-states for control over oil at the point of intersection of the global and the local in the southern Sudan and the Niger Delta.
IssueNo	1
Pages	97-108
Article	Access to Article
Source	Social Analysis
VolumeNo	48
PubDate	Spring 2004
ISBN_ISSN	0155-977X

Market Forces, Political Violence, and War: The End of Nation-States, the Rise of Ethnic and Global Sovereignties?