Cover; The Political Economy of Rural-Urban Conflict; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Part I: The Political Economy of the Rural-Urban Interface; 1: Introduction; 1.1 The Battle Lines Are Drawn; 1.2 Traders and Raiders; 1.3 The Stakes; 1.4 The Road Less Travelled; 1.5 The Road Map; References; 2: Production and Predation; 2.1 Town and Country; 2.2 Through the Looking Glass; 2.3 The Extensification-Intensification Dialectic; 2.3.1 Production, Predation, and the State; 2.3.2 The Stateś Economic (Un)doing; 2.3.3 Non-State Armed Actors 2.3.4 A Note on Epistemology2.4 A Simple Model of Rural-Urban Predation; 2.4.1 A Two-Region, Two-Sector Model; 2.4.2 The Formal Model; 2.4.3 Multiple Equilibria; References; Part II: Violence Acts on ProductionNetworks; 3: How Production Networks Adapted to Civil War in Liberia; 3.1 Why Study Liberian Industry?; 3.1.1 The Importance of Production Firms; 3.1.2 What We Can Glean from Past Studies; 3.2 Qualitative Research of Liberian Firms; 3.2.1 The Liberian Case; 3.2.2 Methods; 3.3 Dispersal Strategies in Production Networks; 3.3.1 Determinants of Predation Levels Proximity to the Combat FrontierRebel and Civilian Behavior; Value of the Targeted Good; 3.3.2 A Typology of Dispersal Strategies and Their Competitors; Increased Materials Throughput; Property Rights Investments; Accommodation with Predatory Groups; Dispersal Strategies; 3.3.3 The Balancing Act; Production as Nerve Center; The Role of Information; 3.4 Lessons and Leads; Acknowledgment; References; 4: Stateless State-Led Industrialization; 4.1 Overview; 4.2 Methods for Examining Conflict Effects on Firms; 4.3 The Cloud; 4.4 SLI in Historical Context; 4.4.1 Infant Industry Protection 4.4.2 Dependency Theory4.4.3 Tacit Knowledge; 4.5 Resemblances to SLI in Liberia; 4.5.1 Import Tariffs; 4.5.2 Local Content; 4.5.3 Staff and Firm Localization; 4.5.4 Knowledge Accumulation; 4.5.5 SLI Mimicry in Summary; 4.6 Where the Comparison Breaks Down; 4.7 A Case for Postconflict Protectionism; Acknowledgment; References; 5: Trade Network Splintering and Ethnic Homogenization in Liberia and Sierra Leone; 5.1 Overview; 5.2 The Dispersal and Homogenization Hypotheses; 5.3 Predicting Trade as a Primary Occupation; 5.4 Predicting Distance from Ethnic Homeland; 5.5 Predicting Traders ́Income 5.6 Radial Trade, Ethnic Homogenization, and MonopolyReferences; Part III: Production Networks Acton Violent Actors; 6: Multipolar Trade and Rural-Urban Violence in Maoist India; 6.1 Trade or Invade; 6.2 Hypothesizing Violence at the Combat Frontier; 6.3 Background to the Naxal Conflict; 6.4 A Statistical Model of Naxal Violence; 6.4.1 Variables for Inclusion; 6.4.2 Building a Control Model; 6.5 Rural-Urban Strength and Network Reticulation as Violence Moderators; 6.6 Theorizing Mechanisms; 6.7 Implications for Development Policy; Acknowledgment; References.