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Armed conflicts in the economic, social and legal context of the present: causes, regularities and contradictions

Economic Annals-XXI

Economic Annals-ХХI: Volume 175, Issue 1-2, Pages: 4-9

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Pyrih, I., Bidniak, H., & Pletenets, V. (2019). Armed conflicts in the economic, social and legal context of the present: causes, regularities and contradictions. Economic Annals-XXI (2019), 175(1-2), 4-9. doi: https://doi.org/10.21003/ea.V175-01

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Ihor Pyrih
D.Sc. (Law),
Professor,
Department of Criminalistics, Forensic Medicine and Psychiatry,
Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs
26 Gagarin Ave., Dnipro, 49005, Ukraine
igorpurih333@ukr.net
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8391-067X

Hanna Bidniak
PhD (Law),
Senior Lecturer,
Department of Criminalistics, Forensic Medicine and Psychiatry,
Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs
26 Gagarin Ave., Dnipro, 49005, Ukraine
an.of@ukr.net
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0515-9761

Viktor Pletenets
PhD (Law),
Associate Professor,
Department of Criminalistics, Forensic Medicine and Psychiatry,
Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs
26 Gagarin Ave., Dnipro, 49005, Ukraine
viktor_plet@i.ua
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3619-8624

Abstract. The authors of the article attempt to abstract from the partial and focus on the key dimensions in addressing the problems of armed conflicts of the day, namely causes, consequences and the legal context. The unit weight of the most common causes of armed conflicts has been researched and the authors’ typology of the causes has been presented. The futility of the search for the primary factor in the «poverty – war» dyad has been proved and, based on statistical data, some laws in the economic development of the countries where armed confrontations have taken place or are still ongoing have been substantiated. The contradictions in the legal dimension of settlement of the armed conflicts that arose as a result of the globalisation of economy and the collapse of the bipolar world system have been analysed.

Keywords: Armed Conflict; Globalisation; Typology of Causes of Conflicts; Poverty; Economic Development in Conflict; Legal Aspects of Conflict Resolution

JEL Сlassification: D74; F29; F42; H56; K33; K42

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21003/ea.V175-01

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