Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2013. — 318 p. — ASIN: B017QCCZ1Q Examining international water allocation policies in different parts of the world, this book suggests that they can be used as a platform to induce cooperation over larger political issues, ultimately settling conflicts. The main premise is that water can and should be used as a catalyst for peace and cooperation rather...
Interest in conflict prevention blossomed throughout the 1990s, and so did the literature on the subject. Moreover, conflict prevention is rapidly becoming a prominent focus of the new global security and global governance agenda with advocacy of preventive policies by international and regional organizations and nongovernmental actors, and the implementation of conflict...
New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2013. — 119 p. — ISBN10: 1137306645; ISBN13: 978-1137306647. Political conflict in Western democracies has traditionally emerged from politics rooted in competing ideologies and interests. With the rise of politics of identity, political conflict is morphing as political parties align themselves with identities, rather than ideologies or interests....
New York George H. Doran Company, 1923. — 405 p. Language: English. This book is in no sense an autobiography. Nor does it include within its scope a review of the conduct of the War, of the Armistice, or of the Peace negotiations, and the Treaties which resulted from them. Its purpose is to trace the genesis of the war through all the antecedent stages up to its actual...
Third HEIRS Colloquium Department of International History and Politics, GIIS, Geneva March 16-17, 2007 The following papers are the result of a graduate conference held at Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva in March 2007. The conference was an initiative of the History of European Integration Research Society (HEIRS), an informal network of young researchers...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 218 p. “Bates has laid bare the reasons that violence has been so prevalent in Africa in the late 20th century. It was not ethnic divisions, nor simply available resource wealth, though both are implicated. Rather, African states, buffeted by adverse impacts of globalization, lacked the revenues to administer their fractious societies. When...
This paper looks at how violent ethnic conflicts are managed. The paper separates ethnic civil wars from the more general class of ethnic conflicts. More specifically, we examine these conflicts, and seek to understand the extent to which mediation can play an effective role in managing such conflicts, and which factors have the most impact on its performance and effectiveness....
Phoenix, AZ: Jewish Voice Ministries International, 2011. — 11 p. Israel declared its independence on May 14, 1948. That same night, the combined armies of Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, along with troops from Saudi Arabia and Yemen invaded Israel. Their stated aim was to create a United States of Palestine in place of the Jewish nation established by the UN vote. The...
The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics Faisal Devji Columbia University Press, 2009. x + 223 p. Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty Paul W. Kahn University of Michigan Press, 2008. 178 pp In the weeks after the attacks of September 11, 2001, it has become easy to forget, large parts of the world were grappling sympathetically with...
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, trends in seven different regions converged to change the political landscape of the world: 1) the fall of right-wing authoritarian regimes in Southern Europe in the mid- 1970s; 2) the replacement of military dictatorships by elected civilian governments across Latin America from the late 1970s through the late 1980s; 3) the decline...
Between 1900-2006, campaigns of nonviolent civil resistance were twice as successful as violent campaigns. Erica will talk about her research on the impressive historical record of civil resistance in the 20th century and discuss the promise of unarmed struggle in the 21st century. She will focus on the so-called "3.5% rule"—the notion that no government can withstand a...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 314 p. International conflict is neither random nor inexplicable. It is highly structured by antagonisms between a relatively small set of states that regard each other as rivals. Examining the 173 strategic rivalries in operation throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book identifies the differences rivalries make in the...
University of Georgia Press, 2017. — 232 p. — (Studies in Security and International Affairs Series). — ISBN10: 0820338338, 13 978-0820338330. Conflict Dynamics presents case studies of six nation-states: Sierra Leone, the Republic of Congo, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indonesia, and Peru. In the book, Alethia H. Cook and Marie Olson Lounsbery examine the evolving nature of violence in...
Publication details not specified. Foreign Policy Institute, Ankara, 2002, 102 p. Legal Foundations: The Validity and Scope of the 1959 – 1960 Cyprus Treaties The Interest of United Nations: United Nations Resolutions on Cyprus UNFICYP and the Problem of Consent Inequality of Status Impediment to a Solution in Cyprus Solutions Juridiques Pour Un Chypre Viable Basées Sur Le...
New York University Press, 2003. — 337 p. A book on the history of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. Black Garden is the definitive study of how Armenia and Azerbaijan, two southern Soviet republics, got sucked into a conflict that helped bring them to independence, bringing to an end the Soviet Union, and plaguing a region of great strategic importance. It cuts between a careful...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — xii, 259 p. Concise introduction to an important region that has been at the center of a geopolitical storm, contextualizes the recent Russia/Georgia clash through an accessible history of the region in modern times. Author is a noted expert on the region, having written two acclaimed books on it — Black Garden and Chechnya. In The Caucasus, de...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 292 p. This book presents empirical research on the nature and structure of political violence. While most studies of social movements focus on single - nations, Donatella della Porta uses a comparative research design to analyze movements in two countries - Italy and Germany - from the 1960s to the 1990s. Through extensive usage of official...
London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 nter-Communal Discord and British Rule 1878–1954 olence and a Settlement 1955–1960 Constitutional Breakdown 1960–1964 Holding Back Turkey 1964–1967 Negotiations and the Greek Junta 1968–1974 Turkish Intervention and the Geneva Conferences 1974 From Guide Lines to the First UN Plan 1975–1987 The Set of Ideas and Confidence-Building 1988–1994 The...
Emerald group publishing limited, 2013. — 212 p. This special issue is a key text in the current study of social movements. It introduces new analytical concepts for understanding visuals in social movements and examines case studies from across the globe; such as analysis of the symbols used in the Egyptian uprising, and contested images from anti-surveillance protests in Europe.
Humanity Vol. 2, Issue 1 In 2000, Mali’s Ministry for the Promotion of Women, Children, and the Family asked donors for 824 million West African Francs (CFA; $1.7 million) to fight child trafficking in neighboring Cote d’Ivoire. The question of child trafficking quickly drew so much attention from state and privately owned media that it submerged other issues, such as AIDS or...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 588 p. This first-of-its-kind compendium unites perspectives from artists, scholars, arts educators, policymakers, and activists to investigate the complex system of values surrounding artistic-educational endeavors. Addressing a range of artistic domains-including music, dance, theater, visual arts, film, and poetry-contributors explore and...
Loyola University, Chicago, p. 235-250 Intensification of revolutionary activity in twentieth-century tsarist Russia expressed itself in the formation of the great parties of the revolution: the Social Democratic and Social Revolutionary parties.’ It had long been recognized that an organized party was needed to lead an aroused people against the governmental power, and many...
Princeton University Press, 2016. - 209 p. The violent actions of a few extremists can alter the course of history, yet there persists a yawning gap between the potential impact of these individuals and what we understand about them. In Engineers of Jihad, Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog uncover two unexpected facts, which they imaginatively leverage to narrow that gap: they...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 359 p. Since September 11, Al Qaeda has been portrayed as an Islamist front united in armed struggle, or jihad, against the ChristianWest.However, as the historian and commentator Fawaz A. Gerges argues, the reality is rather different and more complex. In fact, Al Qaeda represents aminority within the jihadist movement, and its strategies...
World Politics, Volume 58, Number 2, January 2006, pp. 276-310 (Article) In the early 1990s Russia stood at the precipice of state failure. Demands for autonomy radiated from Russia’s ethnic republics, threatening to split the federation along ethnic lines as had happened to the Soviet Union before it. Russia’s republics had begun appropriating power from Moscow during the late...
US Mill.Press, 2008. — 185 p. — Joint Publication 3-57. — for administrative use (Pentagonus.ru) This publication provides joint doctrine for the planning and conduct of civil-military operations (CMO) by joint forces, the use of civil affairs forces, the conduct of civiaffairs operations, and the coordination with other capabilities contributing to the execution of CMO to...
Univ Pr of Kansas; 1 edition (February 2002). 394 p. The War in Afghanistan (1979-1989) has been called "the Soviet Union's Vietnam War," a conflict that pitted Soviet regulars against a relentless, elusive, and ultimately unbeatable Afghan guerrilla force (the mujahideen). The hit-and-run bloodletting across the war's decade tallied more than 25,000 dead Soviet soldiers plus a...
Routledge, 2011. — 440 p. "Why Men Rebel" was first published in 1970 after a decade of political violence across the world. Forty years later, serious conflicts continue in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Ted Robert Gurr reintroduces us to his landmark work, putting it in context with the research it influenced as well as world events. Why Men Rebel remains highly relevant...
Routledge, 2011. — 440 p. "Why Men Rebel" was first published in 1970 after a decade of political violence across the world. Forty years later, serious conflicts continue in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Ted Robert Gurr reintroduces us to his landmark work, putting it in context with the research it influenced as well as world events. Why Men Rebel remains highly relevant...
Routledge, 2008. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 0415170974 ISBN13: 9780415170970 (eng) The Extreme Right in Western Europe is a concise introduction to one of the most persistent facets of late twentieth-century history, politics and society. The legacy of the Nazi era and the increasingly unacceptable face of extremism all militated against the success of far right-wing parties after...
As observed by many scholars, a renaissance of religious traditions is taking place virtually all over the globe.1 Contrary to once widespread expectations that religion would gradually disappear as a political force in modernising societies, religious communities have been getting stronger in most nations over the last two decades or so. Their leaders put forward grievances...
Hellenic Observatory European Institute, 2011. — 40 p. — (GreeSE Paper No.51). The Greek-Turkish dyad is one of the oldest rivalries between neighbours. Since 1999 Greek-Turkish relations are in a state of détente and there have been many attempts to resolve their outstanding differences (Aegean, Cyprus, minority issues) but until now little has come out of these efforts...
Routledge, 2007. — 256 p. This book examines and interprets a wide range of approaches to the causes of violence and conflict. The causes of violence and conflict are often left untheorized, or they are discussed as an existent problem assumed to be an inevitable part of human interaction. Adopting an accessible approach, this volume presents readers with a clear understanding...
University of Minnesota Pres, 1995. — 381 p. state to center stage. Because it is primarily concerned with the politics of social protest movements in the Western democracies, it focuses on the fourway interaction between citizens, social movements, the political representation system, and the state. The primary focus is the three-way struggle between social movements,...
Authors not specified. Michael Lacewing The aggression involved in war is at odds with basic values of civilization. It attacks people’s rights to life, security, subsistence, peace and liberty. However, just war theory claims that war can, under certain conditions, be morally justified. Pacifism argues that war is never morally justified. Realism says that moral concepts...
Cambridge University Press,2006. — 508 p. By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that such violence is an instance of impenetrable madness, the book demonstrates that there is logic to it and that it has much less to do with collective emotions, ideologies, and cultures than...
THE decline of interstate armed conflict and perceived rise in the frequency of civil wars since the end of the cold war1 — especially in Europe2 — have contributed to a new wave of interest in civil wars.3 This interest focuses on ethnic competition as a source of conflict and widely regards civil wars of the post–cold war era (new civil wars) as fundamentally different from...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 485 p. By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that such violence is an instance of impenetrable madness, the book demonstrates that there is logic to it and that it has much less to do with collective emotions, ideologies, and cultures than...
Unwin Hyman, 1988. — 704 p. Yale historian Kennedy surveys the ebb and flow of power among the major states of Europe from the 16th century when Europe's preeminence first took shapethrough and beyond the present erawhen great power status is devolving again upon the extra-European states. Stressing the interrelationships among economic wealth, technological innovation, and the...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 254 p. Territorial disputes have defined modern politics, but political theorists and philosophers have said little about how to resolve such disputes fairly. Is it even possible to do so? If historical attachments or divine promises are decisive, it may not be. More significant than these largely subjective claims are the ways in which...
Inhaltsverzeichnis iii Vorbemerkungen vii Erster Teil 1 Erstes Buch: Über die Natur des Krieges Was ist der Krieg? Zweck und Mittel im Kriege Der kriegerische Genius on der Gefahr im Kriege on der körperlichen Anstrengung im Kriege Nachrichten im Kriege Friktion im Kriege Schlußbemerkungen zum ersten Buch Zweites Buch: Über die Theorie des Krieges Einteilung der Kriegskunst...
Springer, 2010. — 155 p. The Caucasus region, situated on a natural isthmus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, has long been a border zone and a melting pot for a diverse range of cultures and peoples. As the intersection between Europe and Asia, and also - tween Russia and the Ottoman and Persian Empires, it has featured in the strategic plans of numerous great powers...
Strategic Studies Institute; U.S. Army War College Press, 2014. — 59 p. Bosnia-Herzegovina, once thought to be on the way to joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU), is instead falling behind, mired in political bickering, economic stalemate, and governmental dysfunction. In this difficult situation, Islamism poses a significant threat...
3rd ed. — Cornell University Press, 2006. — 80 p. — (Cornell University Peace Studies Program Occasional Paper #29). Research for the portions of this study concerning the events in Somalia, Rwanda, and Bosnia were carried out under a Research and Writing Grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Program on Peace and International Cooperation, awarded in...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1989. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 134910261X; ISBN13: 978-1349102617. This study aims to show that current thinking about the role of resources in war, and as a component of military potential in peacetime, relies on notions derived from historical experience and changes in the nature of warfare, not least the advent of nuclear weapons. Developments to 1945...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. — 648 p. The Oxford Handbook on War is the definitive analysis of war in the twenty-first century. With over forty senior authors from academia, government and the armed forces world-wide the Handbook explores the history, theory, ethics and practice of war. It first considers the fundamental causes of war, before reflecting on the moral...
14th Ed. — CQ Press, 2016. — 1638 p. — (Middle East). — ISBN10: 1506329284. — ISBN13: 978-1506329284 The fourteenth edition of The Middle East brings important new coverage to this comprehensive, balanced, and superbly researched text. There is intensive coverage of major developments such as the ongoing conflict in Syria, continuing tensions between Israel and Palestine and...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 296 p. This book examines how ruling elites manage and manipulate their political opposition in the Middle East. In contrast to discussions of government–opposition relations that focus on how rulers either punish orco-opt opponents, this book focuses on the effect of institutional rules governing the opposition. It argues that rules...
The University of Chicago Press, 1997. — 514 p. In The Art of Moral Protest, James Jasper integrates diverse examples of protest — from nineteenth-century boycotts to recent movements — into a distinctive new understanding of how social movements work. Jasper highlights their creativity, not only in forging new morals but in adopting courses of action and inventing...
The recent accounts of the new war paradigm have been thoroughly scrutinized in a variety of disciplines from security studies and international relations to political economy. The general trend is to focus on the scope, methods, tactics, strategies, forms of war, and ⁄ or the level of atrocity. However, there has been little sustained attempt to assess structural causes and...
Palgrave Macmillan, August 2016. — 293 p. — ISBN10: 3319325299. This book is the first full-spectrum analysis of Russian and European norms of political action, ranging from international law, ethics, and strategy, to the specific norms for the use of force. It brings together leading scholars from these various fields, examining the differences in norm understanding between...
Yale University Press, 2009. — 257 p. — ISBN: 978-0-300-12281-7. 'What is so striking about Morris's work as a historian is that it does not flatter anyone's prejudices, least of all his own', David Remnick remarked in a New Yorker article that coincided with the publication of Benny Morris's '1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War'. With the same commitment to...
Two phenomena have been recently utilised to explain conflict onset among rational choice analysts: greed and grievance. The former reflects elite competition over valuable natural resource rents. The latter argues that relative deprivation and the grievance it produces fuels conflict. Neither the presence of greed or grievance is sufficient for the outbreak of violent...
Ed. Wiley, 2010. A Guide to Decision-Making in a Conflictology Curriculum. Notes on the Contributors ix About the Editors xxi crucial Trends and Issues in Strategic Decision-Making Paul C. Nutt and David C. Wilson research on Strategic Decisions: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead Assilis papadakis, Ioannis thanos, And patrick barwise key theoretical perspectives decision-Making:...
Sixth edition. Harvard University. Longman Classics in Political Science, 2004. — 288 p. This text grows out of the course on international conflicts in the modem world that I taught as part of the Harvard core curriculum for more than a decade. It is also informed by five years of experience as a policy maker at the assistant secretary level in three national security...
Pearson, 2014. — 352 p. — (Pearson New International Edition). Language: English. Written by celebrated scholar Joseph Nye and new co-author David Welch, Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation is a concise and penetrating introduction to world politics in an era of complex interdependence. This text employs lessons from theory and history to examine conflict and...
Routledge, 2009. — 403 p. Political protest and social movements are ubiquitous phenomena. This book focuses on the current theoretical approaches that aim at explaining them: the theory of collective action, the resource mobilization perspective, political opportunity structure theory, the identity approach, the framing perspective, and the dynamics of contention approach. The...
O n e of the challenges facing the international community in the post-Cold War era is the increasingly pervasive problem of civil conflict.' Indeed, all of the thirty major armed conflicts fought in the world in 1995 were intrastate wars.' Devising ways of responding to this violence has been a topic of considerable debate among policymakers and students of conflict management...
Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd, 2015. — 233 p. Contemporary protest, often presented in media forms as a dramatic ritual played out in an iconic public space, has provided a potent symbol of the widespread economic and social discontent that is a feature of European life under the rule of ‘austerity’. Yet, beneath this surface activity, which provides the headlines and...
University of Minnesota Press, 2005. — 362 p. This book hopes to prove useful to three main types of readers. For students and general readers new to the subject, it presents an introduction to social movements through the rich, kaleidoscopic lens of artistic and cultural expression. For scholars of social movements, it offers intriguing observations on particular movements and...
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988. — 345 p. — ISBN: 0-520-06278-7. Theories of Civil Violence provides both a new look at the origins of civil upheaval and a critical examination of social theory itself. Rule develops an incisive historical analysis of theories of civil violence, beginning with the classic views of Hobbes and Marx and continuing to...
Routledge, 2015. - 719 p. The self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia in December 2010 heralded the arrival of the ‘Arab Spring,’ a startling, yet not unprecedented, era of profound social and political upheaval. The meme of the Arab Spring is characterized by bottom-up change, or the lack thereof, and its effects are still unfurling today. The Routledge Handbook of the...
Teoriler Işığında Güvenlik, Savaş, Barış ve Çatışma Çözümleri. Bilgesam Yayınları, İstanbul, 2012. — 552 p. Turkish-language book. The book aims to contribute to the need of qualified publications in Turkish in the field of international relations. Therefore, the book modestly attempts to enrich the literature in Turkish in the security, war, peace and conflict resolution...
Bilgesam Publications. Report No: 40, Istanbul, February 2012, 31 p. Iran at the Center of Chaos Scenarios focuses on paradigms which direct Iran’s geopolitical features and foreign policy, paying particular attention to elements of continuity, drastic differences and ruptures in Iran. There are certain scenarios on how Iran, which feels under threat, will evaluate and make use...
Routledge, 2008. — 570 p. This major Handbook comprises cutting-edge essays from leading scholars in the field of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (CAR). The volume provides a comprehensive overview of the core concepts, theories, approaches, processes, and intervention designs in the field. The central theme is the value of multidisciplinary approaches to the analysis and...
Basic Books , 2007 — 254 p. In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the 'constrained' vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and selfish, and the 'unconstrained' vision, in which human nature is malleable and perfectible. He describes how these two radically...
Cornell University Press, 2015. - 328 p. For the last two decades, Sidney Tarrow has explored "contentious politics"―disruptions of the settled political order caused by social movements. These disruptions range from strikes and street protests to riots and civil disobedience to revolution. In War, States, and Contention, Tarrow shows how such movements sometimes trigger,...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. — 372 p. — ISBN: 0-19-924309-9. The Kosovo Report is a final product of the work by the Independent International Commission on Kosovo, established to examine key developments prior to, during, and after the Kosovo war, including systematic violations of human rights in the region. The report assesses effectiveness of diplomatic efforts to...
The most intractable civil wars in the last half of the twentieth century were not ethnic civil wars or ideological civil wars. The most intractable conflicts were those fought over territory. Between 1940 and 1996, combatants fighting territorial civil wars were 70 percent less likely to initiate peace negotiations than combatants fighting any other type of civil war (Walter...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 430 p. Some rebel groups abuse noncombatant populations, while others exhibit restraint. Insurgent leaders in some countries transform local structures of government, while others simply extract resources for their own benefit. In some contexts, groups kill their victims selectively, while in other environments violence appears...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 375 p. This book provides a new approach to the history of social con¯ict, popular politics and plebeian culture in the early modern period. Based upon a close study of the Peak Country of Derbyshire between c. 1520 and 1770, it has implications for understandings of class identity, popular culture, riot, custom and social relations. A...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 256 p. This book explores social movements by analyzing an escalating spiral of tension between the Patriot movement and the state centered on the mutual framing of conflict as 'warfare'. By examining the social construction of 'warfare' as a principal script or frame defining the movement-state dynamic, Stuart A. Wright explains how this...
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