Governance, development and conflict [electronic resource] / edited by Manas Chatterji, Darvesh Gopal, Savita Singh.

Includes indexes.

Introduction / Lloyd J. Dumas -- Does the capitalist peace exist? : yes, it did! but will it apply to China and the West? / Erich Weede -- The governance of conflicts and partnerships in knowledge and innovation networks / Riccardo Cappellin -- Macroprudential monitoring of financial crisis : an empirical framework / Biswa Nath Bhattacharyay -- A systemic perspective on multi-stakeholder sustainable development strategies / Aliye Ahu Akgün, Eveline van Leeuwen, Peter Nijkamp -- Conflicts and convergence in the southwestern-European border : Spain, south-Spain and the Maghreb / Fernando Barreiro-Pereira -- Facilitators and inhibitors of political mass killing / Sheldon G. Levy -- On the economics of Arab economic integration / Partha Gangopadhyay, Mohamed Elafif -- Not all quiet on the Middle Eastern fronts / Riad A. Attar -- Afghan War : global jihad and sectarian conflict in Pakistan : internal and external links / Riaz Ahmed Shaikh -- Conflict prevention in Japan / Seifudein Adem -- Nuclear India and Pakistan and quest for peaceful dialogue -- Mohammed Badrul Alam -- Multidimensional changes in 'ripeness' in Angola around the 1989 Gbadolite Peace Accords / Ricardo Sousa -- Conflict, environment, and the dynamics of fear : the examples of Rwanda and Nepal / Urs Luterbacher.

Over the last three decades, a considerable amount of work has been conducted in the field of peace studies, conflict management, peace science in economics, sociology, anthropology and management. This volume presents up-to-date, cutting-edge research by respected scholars with an emphasis on theoretical and mathematical constructs in the area of peace economics & peace science.