Globalisation and Local Conflicts in Africa and Asia

Yukiko Nishikawa

Mar 2022 · Evidence-Based Approaches to Peace and Conflict Studies Book 7 · Springer Nature

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This edited book is written by six authors from Asia and Africa. The individual authors focus on their own country's case or cases that they have been working on. The book features local conflicts in six countries in Asia and Africa and identifies how the local conflicts are affected by the forces of globalization. Cases include Nigeria's oil-related conflicts, the Democratic Republic of Congo's timber conflicts, continuing instability in Mozanbique, Thailand's conflict with regard to AIDS medicine, Myanmar's local conflicts after its reforms, and the Afghanistan’s conflicts over minerals. From these diverse case studies, the book examines how globalization and international politics affect local politics and conflicts, and vice versa. Even seemingly internal conflicts are shown to be significantly influenced by globalization forces and to create new dynamism in local politics. While there are other books that explore globalization and conflicts, many of them are conceptuallyorganized with a small number of case studies. The present volume examines local conflicts in relation to globalization and demonstrates how structural inequality vis-a-vis weak stateness and statehood are significantly affected by global political economy.

About the author

Nishikawa, Yukiko Ph.D., is a professor in the Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. Nishikawa obtained a Ph.D. in peace studies from the University of Bradford, U.K. Her main publications include "The Reality of Protecting the Rohingya: An Inherent Limitation of the Responsibility to Protect” (Asian Security, 2020); Political Sociology of Japanese Pacifism (Routledge, 2018); Human Security in Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2010); “Human security in Southeast Asia: viable solution or empty slogan?” (Security Dialogue, 2009); Japan’s Changing Role in Humanitarian Crises (Routledge, 2005). Her research interests include peace and conflict in Southeast Asia and security and international relations in the Indo–Pacific region.

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