We examine the effect of economic globalisation on income redistribution and hypothesise that it depends on ethnic fractionalisation. In highly fractionalised countries, powerful ethnicities are able to extract globalisation-induced benefits, whereas their governments face substantial political...

Analyses the complexities of current warfare by zooming in from the global sphere to local spots of organised violence. Raises questions about the idea of intra-state wars and shows that these wars are inseparably linked to the global economy