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This book is set against the burning issue of ethnic uprisings in the Madhes region of Nepal and analyses debates on the idea of contemporary Nepal. The limited view of Nepal as a primarily hill nation with Nepali-speaking people ignores the vast ethnic and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-03-20
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Diasporas in Dialogue is an indispensable guide for those leading or participating in dialogue processes, especially in ethnically diverse communities. The text offers both a theoretical and practical framework for dialogue, providing insight into the needs, assets and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-01-30
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This book is about Japan-China power politics in the military, economic and propaganda domains. The post-2012 standoff over the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands has unveiled the antagonistic quality to Sino-Japanese relations, with an important addition: a massive...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-16
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This book examines and explains the dialectic of war and peace between the outbreak of WWI and the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014. The theoretical inspiration is built upon Galtung’s concept of negative and positive peace, Aron´s distinction between strategy and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-09
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In this book, Tale Steen-Johnsen explains how religious peacebuilders are limited by both formal and more subtle political strategies aimed at regulating civil society. Political authorities have a vested interest in keeping social and religious movements under...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-16
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This book discusses the moral and legal issues relating to military drones, focusing on how these machines should be judged according to the principles of just war theory. The author analyses existing drones, like the Predator and Reaper, but also evaluates the many...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-26
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This book engages with the Chinese mediation of wars and conflicts in the global environment.Proposing a new cascading media and conflict model, it applies this to the studyof war correspondents from six levels: media-policy relations, journalistic objectivity,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-19
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This book presents post-peace agreement violence as a serious, yet predictable and manageable, political phenomenon. Negotiating an end to a civil war is extremely difficult, and many signed peace agreements subsequently unravel, ushering in renewed conflict. In...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-19
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This volume explores how religious leaders can contribute to cultures of peace around the world. The essays are written by leading and emerging scholars and practitioners who have lived, taught, or worked in the areas of conflict about which they write. Connecting...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-09
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The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or since. Yet the Romans were first and foremost conquerors, imperialists who took by force a vast empire stretching from the Euphrates in the east to the...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2016-08-11
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Writing from a variety of contexts, the contributors to this volume describe the ways that conflict and their efforts to engage it constructively shape their work in classrooms and communities. Each chapter begins with a different experience of conflict—a physical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-08
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After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them and what were their main characteristics? And what did the world's governments do to stop...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-06-23
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This book compares police reform operations in Kosovo and Afghanistan, addressing the internal machinery that makes peace operations work—or not. Recognizing that the chances for effective peacebuilding vary widely across contexts, this book investigates the impact of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-16
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In this book, the authors explore the controversial Iranian nuclear
programme through the conceptual lens of nuclear hedging.
In 2002, revelations regarding undeclared nuclear facilities thrust
Iran’s nuclear activities under the spotlight and prompted concerns that
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Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-08
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A singular development in the post-Cold War era is the use of military force to protect human beings. From Rwanda to Kosovo, Sierra Leone to East Timor, and Libya to Côte d?Ivoire, soldiers have rescued civilians in some of the world's most notorious war zones. But what...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-05-17
Collection :
War and Conflict in the Modern World
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This study examines the relevance of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in responding to humanitarian challenges across the world. In proposing a number of revisionist alternatives, Ercan proposes a way forward for R2P, particularly regarding its Second and Third...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-17
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War is a paradox. On the one hand, it destroys bodies and destroys communities. On the other hand, it is responsible for some of the strongest human bonds and has been the genesis of many of our most fundamental institutions. War and Society addresses these paradoxes...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-03-31
Collection :
Political Sociology
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Strategy is not a modern invention. It is an essential and enduring feature of human history that is here to stay. In this original essay, Colin S. Gray, world-renowned scholar of strategic thought, discusses the meaning of strategy and its importance for politicians...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-02-01
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Ever since the revival of Kant's Perpetual Peace thesis, the linkages between democracy and peace has been a central topic in international relations research, with sustained debate over whether it exists and if it does, why it does. In this stimulating volume, two...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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Will tomorrow's wars be dominated by autonomous drones, land robots and warriors wired into a cybernetic network which can read their thoughts?Will war be fought with greater or lesser humanity?Will it be played out in cyberspace and further afield in Low Earth Orbit?...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-11-12
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