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4 produkter
Del 27 - Comparative Social Research
Troubled Regions and Failing States
The Clustering and Contagion of Armed Conflict
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
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Is the phenomenon of state failure better understood through a focus on the regional context? To what extent may studies of regional security benefit from a focus on the capacities and vulnerabilities of the states involved? These are the questions addressed in this volume of "Comparative Social Research". Substantially, this special issue operates at the intersection of the larger debates on state failure and on regional (in-) security, relating to various perspectives within each of these. State failure, manifesting itself in the inability of a state to maintain its monopoly of violence, has become a widespread phenomenon in several regions of the world. While the weakness of the institutions of the state in question is an obvious dimension of state failure, there is also an important international dimension. In many of these cases, conflicts are interwoven and violence spills across borders.
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This volume takes stock of the present state of Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA), looking at lessons that have been learned with the aim of further strengthening policies and practices in the future. Among the contributors are academics, decision-makers and practitioners.
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This volume takes stock of the present state of Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA), looking at lessons that have been learned with the aim of further strengthening policies and practices in the future. It draws on the most recent findings from scholarly research and field programmes. Among the contributors are academics, decision makers and practitioners.KERRY BRINKERT Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining, Switzerland J MARSHALL BEIER Assistant Professor of Political Science, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada BERNT A SKRA International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway RUTH BOTTOMLEY Anthropologist, Cambodia KJELL ERLING KJELLMAN University of Oslo, Norway ANANDA S MILLARD Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining, Switzerland ARNE STRAND Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway NEIL ANDERSSON Founding Executive Director, CIET group of NGOs, institutes and foundations, Norway APARNA SWAMINATHAN Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland CHARLIE WHITAKER CIET International, worldwide MELISSA ROCHE University of North Carolina, USA BOB EATON Executive Director, Survey Action Center, USA BELINDA GOSLIN Mine Action Unit, Cranfield University, UK CHRISTOPHER HORWOOD UN Assistance Mission for Afghanistan, Afghanistan
Del 36 - Comparative Social Research
Comparative Historical and Typological Approach to the Middle Eastern State System
Taking Stein Rokkan’s Ambitions Beyond Europe
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
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The study of state formation and nation building is a proud tradition. Currently, however, it is difficult to discern a unified research frontier in this field, due to a persistent gap between the more case-based historical focus seen in area studies, and more generalizing approaches inspired by the natural sciences.Showcasing the legacy of Norwegian political scientist and sociologist Stein Rokkan, this volume explores the potential of his work to address this gap. Featuring Rokkan’s lecture skeleton methodology, given in Paris 1976, but included here as the first ever English language translation, this collection brings into sharp focus how Rokkan developed a set of methodological tools that allowed the construction of regional models and typological maps for guiding paired or clustered comparisons of state formation and nation building in any world region. Acknowledging Rokkan’s key argument that relevant models and maps need to be developed through knowledge about a region’s history rather than through formal concepts alone, contributors draw on the full potential of Rokkan’s innovations by calibrating them with empirical material from a world region not analysed by Rokkan himself: the Middle East.Thoughtfully reconstructing and upgrading Rokkan’s methodology, A Comparative Historical and Typological Approach to the Middle Eastern State System ushers in a new vision in the field of state formation and nation building.