Contact Us

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

  1. Home
  2. >>
  3. Political Science
  4. >>
  5. Political Theory and Philosophy
  6. >>
  7. Power, Alliance, and Hegemony
  8. >>
  9. Globalization/Post-Cold War Power Balance
  10. >>
  11. Market Forces, Political Violence,...
Market Forces, Political Violence, and War: The End of Nation-States, the Rise of Ethnic and Global Sovereignties?
Author(s)Ifeka, Caroline
AbstractIn 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.
IssueNo1
Pages97-108
ArticleAccess to Article
SourceSocial Analysis
VolumeNo48
PubDateSpring 2004
ISBN_ISSN0155-977X


Boston University | ECI | Contact Us

Copyright Notification: The Social Science Library (SSL) is for distribution in a defined set of countries. The complete list may be found here. Free distribution within these countries is encouraged, but copyright law forbids distribution outside of these countries.