Globalization Violent Conflict And Self-determination

Presents a comparative study of the causes and consequences of violent conflict that integrates and addresses the issue of self-determination. This book shows that with violent conflict in the developing world as the critical issue for the 21st century, and conflict prevention a central security problem for both the developed and developing world.

This is the first major comparative study of the causes and consequences of violent conflict that integrates and addresses the issue of self-determination. The authors show that with violent conflict in the developing world as the critical issue for the twenty-first century, and conflict prevention a central security problem for both the developed and developing world, self-determination movements can only be understood, and conflict prevented, in the context of global economic and cultural forces, and of local responses to them.