WP 4 : Economic factors of conflict and violence

This section's articles

• Economic profiles of general border security and their opportunity costs

  14 May 2009, by Lock Peter
  This paper focuses on the economic implications of border security policies within the European Union and the-Schengen-area in particular. As countless national and international agencies claim to take part in the execution of these policies, which are handled with high priority in the political arena, accounting for the direct and indirect costs becomes a rather complex exercise. Not least because the execution of controls is often externalised and thus may actually shift the location of the physical and legal borders.

• Economic Factors of Conflict and Violence

  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.