Rebel Economies: Warlords, Insurgents, Humanitarians

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As a pervasive occurrence in the contemporary world, wars and their economic sources are defining social and political processes in a variety of national and transnational contexts. Rebel Economies: Warlords, Insurgents, Humanitarians explores historical, anthropological and political dimensions of war economies by non-state actors across different periods and regions, while presenting their multiple manifestations as a unified, congruent phenomenon. Through a variety of conceptual and disciplinary approaches, the authors investigate, in the past and present and across three continents, the nexuses between economy, war, social transformation and state-building, revealing in the process differences and similarities that would otherwise remain hidden. Through this broad-gauge approach, the book aims, first, to rethink much of the debate around "non-state war economies," and, secondly, to expand the conversation by consciously treating this theme as a conspicuous and distinct aspect of both economy and war. This is not just a different approach but a fundamental departure from the ways in which current discussions over the economy of wars, civil conflicts, and revolutions, have informed research orientations over several decades. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Revisiting Non-States War Economies • Nicola Di Cosmo, Didier Fassin, and Clémence Pinaud PART I: FRAMEWORKS 1 What Are Non-State War Economies? Prefatory Remarks • Didier Fassin 2 War Economies and War Economics • Christopher Cramer 3 War Economies and Humanitarian Action • Gilles Carbonnier 4 Rebel Taxation: Between the Moral and Market Economy • Zachariah Mampilly PART II: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 5 The War Economy of Nomadic Empires • Nicola Di Cosmo 6 Non-State War Economy in Renaissance Italy • William Caferro 7 The Economy of Warlordism in Early Twentieth-Century China • Edward A. McCord PART III: CONTEMPORARY WORLDS 8 Friend, Foe, or in Between? Humanitarian Action and the Soviet–Afghan War • Jonathan Benthall 9 War Economy, Warlordism, and Social Class Formation in South Sudan • Clémence Pinaud 10 Resource Wars, Oil, and the Islamic State • Philippe Le Billon Conclusion: New Perspectives on Warring Societies • Nicola Di Cosmo, Didier Fassin, and Clémence Pinaud Index About the Contributors