Why is there so much violence in the developing countries? What does it have to
do with economic development? What does it have to do with globalisation? In add
ressing these and other questions, Christopher Cramer takes a broad comparative
approach, from recent wars, insurgencies and violence in Angola, Brazil, and Ira
q to the American Civil War, showing how wars have been paid for throughout hist
ory. He also compares post-conflict reconstruction efforts in Mozambique and Ira
q with how nineteenth-century America and twentieth-century Europe rebuilt their
shattered societies and economies.
