WP 4 : Economic factors of conflict and violence
Latest addition – Tuesday 30 November 2004.
This work package conceives of globalisation as a complex web of intertwined parallel dynamics, which determine both the regular economy and the rapidly expanding shadow economy. It aims at identifying the growing numbers of social groups developing transnational identities in the twilight of shadow globalisation. Social and economic spheres beyond state control and outside the rule of law appear to be expanding and transforming into dynamic transnational networks. New forms of social control emerge alongside shrinking states whose monopoly of legitimate violence is weakening. For (...)
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30 November 2004, by Lock Peter
This work package conceives of globalisation as a complex web of intertwined parallel dynamics, which determine both the regular economy and the rapidly expanding shadow economy. It aims at identifying the growing numbers of social groups developing transnational identities in the twilight of shadow globalisation. Social and economic spheres beyond state control and outside the rule of law appear to be expanding and transforming into dynamic transnational networks. New forms of social control emerge alongside shrinking states whose monopoly of legitimate violence is weakening. For systemic reasons the economic spheres of shadow globalisation are not fully accounted for in official statistics. As a result methodological descriptions of emerging patterns on the basis of diverse, widely scattered information form the main building blocks of this research.