Dr David Maher D.J.Maher@salford.ac.uk
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Rooted in violence: civil war, international trade and the expansion of palm oil in Colombia
Maher, DJ
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Abstract
Internal armed conflict severely inhibits economic growth according to a prominent set of civil war literature. Similarly, emerging scholarship finds that civil war inhibits processes of economic globalisation which are argued to produce economic growth. A case in point is international trade, which is reportedly stymied by intra-state war. In contrast, this article employs a critical theoretical framework which acknowledges the often violent tendencies of globalised capitalism. By analysing Colombia’s palm oil industry, this article argues that civil war violence can facilitate international trade. In the case study which is presented, violence perpetrated by Colombia’s public armed forces and right-wing paramilitaries has enabled the palm oil sector to enter and compete in the globalised economy. This includes processes of forced displacement, which have acquired land for palm oil cultivation, and violence directed at civil groups deemed inimical to the interests of the palm oil sector. By employing a micro-level approach, this article attempts to isolate violent trends related to palm oil cultivation in Meta, the largest African palm growing region in Colombia. An attempt is therefore made to give an empirically informed account of how violence in Colombia’s civil war is facilitating palm oil exports.
Citation
Maher, D. (2015). Rooted in violence: civil war, international trade and the expansion of palm oil in Colombia. New Political Economy, 20(2), 299-330. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2014.923825
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | Jul 15, 2014 |
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2015 |
Deposit Date | Aug 15, 2014 |
Publicly Available Date | Apr 5, 2016 |
Journal | New Political Economy |
Print ISSN | 1356-3467 |
Electronic ISSN | 1469-9923 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 20 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 299-330 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2014.923825 |
Keywords | civil war, Colombia, disaggregation, economic development, international trade, palm oil, political economy of conflict |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2014.923825 |
Related Public URLs | http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cnpe20/current |
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