Black Markets and Militants Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa
Seeking to understand the political and socio-economic factors that explain why some youth join militant organizations while others choose ethnic-based networks, this book shows how economic globalization results in different outcomes in domestic politics using three comparative cases. Available as...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2022.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009673636706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. The Framework: Introduction; Black markets and militants: informal networks in the Middle East and Africa; Part II. The Institutional Context in an Era of Abundance: 1. The house the boom built: the informal economy and Islamist politics in Egypt; 2. Investing in Islamism: labor remittances, Islamic banking and the rise of political Islam in Sudan; 3. Islamist versus clan networks: labor remittances, Hawwala banking and the predatory state in Somalia; Part III. Globalization and Institutional Change in an Era of Scarcity: 4. Economic crisis, informal institutions, and the transformation of Islamist politics in Egypt; 5. From remittance economy to rentier state: the rise and fall of an Islamist authoritarian regime in Sudan; 6. State collapse, informal networks and the dilemma of state building in Somalia; 7. The political economy of radicalization: informal networks and the rise of an urban militant Islamism in Cairo; Conclusions. Informal markets and the politics of identity; failed states, the criminalization of informal networks and the global war on terrorism.
