VALPY FITZGERALD is Reader in International Economics and Finance in the Department of International Development, Oxford University, UK. FRANCES STEWART is Director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) at Oxford University, UK, and Professor of Development Economics. She was Director of the University's International Development Centre from 1993 until 2003. RAJESH VENUGOPAL is a Research Associate in the Department of International Development, Oxford University, UK. The editors' multidisciplinary approach to conflict in developin

• Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction; V.FitzGerald, F.Stewart & R.Venugopal Global Economic Influences and Policies Towards Violent Self-Determination Movements: An Overview; F.Stewart Global-Local Cultural Links: Diaspora, Transnationalism, Solidarities and the Media; S.Dudley and C.Lloyd Global Financial Information, Compliance Incentives and Conflict Funding; V.FitzGerald Self-Determination in the Global Context; R.Venugopal Why Congo Persists: Sovereignty, Globalization and the Violent Reproduction of a Weak State; P.Englebert Somalia: State Failure and Self-determination in the Shadow of the Global Economy; W.Reno Multiple Causes of Conflict in Algeria: Inequalities, National Identity, Inequality and Political Islam; C.Lloyd 'External' Aspects of Self-Determination Movements in Burma; S.Dudley Sri Lanka: The Global Dimensions of Conflict; R.Venugopal Conclusions; V.FitzGerald, F.Stewart and R.Venugopal Index