New Approaches to Conflict Analysis – serie
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Proxy war in Afghanistan
The politics of state-wrecking
Inbunden, 2025
1227 kr
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This book provides a compelling analysis of proxy warfare and its far-reaching implications for statehood, focusing on the conflict in Afghanistan. Introducing the innovative concept of 'state-wrecking', it bridges theory and practice to unravel how external support for insurgent actors fuels …
Death and Security
Memory and Mortality at the Bombsite
Inbunden, 2016
1227 kr
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Making a bold intervention into critical security studies literature, this book explores the ontological relationship between mortality and security. It considers the mortality theories of Heidegger and Bauman alongside literature from the sociology of death, before undertaking a comparative …
Relational Peace Practices
Av Anna Jarstad, Johanna Söderström m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1290 kr
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This book presents a new approach for studying peace beyond the absence of war. As war ends, the varying nature of the peace that ensues has been the object of much debate. Through in-depth case studies, including Cyprus, Cambodia, South Africa, Abkhazia, Transnistria/Russia, Colombia, Sri Lanka, …
Human Rights and the Borders of Suffering
The Promotion of Human Rights in International Politics
Häftad, 2010
371 kr
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This book, newly available in paperback, argues for greater openness in the ways we approach human rights and international rights promotion, and in so doing brings some new understanding to old debates. Starting with the realities of abuse rather than the liberal architecture of rights, it casts …
United Nations, Intra-State Peacekeeping and Normative Change
Av Esref Aksu
Häftad, 2010
633 kr
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This study, available for the first time in paperback, explores the normative dimension of the evolving role of the United Nations in peace and security and, ultimately, in governance. What is dealt with here is both the UN's changing raison d'être and the wider normative context within which the …
Naming Security - Constructing Identity
‘Mayan-Women’ in Guatemala on the Eve of ‘Peace’
Av Maria Stern
Inbunden, 2005
1227 kr
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How do people seek security in relation to their sense of ‘who they are’? How can one make sense of insecurity at the intersection of competing identity claims? Based on the voices of Mayan women, Stern critically re-considers the connections between security, subjectivity and identity. By engaging …
Writing the war on terrorism
Language, politics and counter-terrorism
Häftad, 2005
371 kr
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'Writing the war on terrorism' examines the public language of the war on terrorism, and the way that rhetoric has been used to justify the global counter-terrorism offensive as a response to 9/11. It discusses how language has been used to deliberately manipulate public anxiety about terrorist …
social construction of Swedish neutrality
Challenges to Swedish identity and sovereignty
Häftad, 2012
371 kr
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Since the end of the Cold War, and particularly in the post-9/11 international environment, neutrality has been conceptualised as a problematic subject. With the end of bipolarity, neutrality as a foreign and security policy lost much of its justification, and in the ongoing ‘War on Terror’, no …
Critical security in the Asia-Pacific
Av Anthony Burke, Matt McDonald
Häftad, 2007
517 kr
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In the wake of 9/11, the Asian crisis and the 2004 tsunami, traditional analytical frameworks are increasingly unable to explain how individuals and communities are rendered insecure, or advance individual, global or environmental security. In the Asia-Pacific, the accepted wisdom of realism has …
ethics of researching war
Looking for Bosnia
Häftad, 2007
371 kr
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Developed through a series of encounters with a Bosnian Serb soldier, The ethics of researching war is a meditation on the possibilities and limitations of responding to the extreme violence of the Bosnian war. The book explores the ethics of confronting the war criminal and investigates the …
Intervention and State-Building in the Pacific
The Legitimacy of 'Cooperative Intervention'
Av Greg Fry, Tarcisius Kabutaulaka
Inbunden, 2008
1298 kr
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State-building intervention in weak, war-torn or failing states has become a priority for the international community. However, the question of how to legitimately engage in the shaping of national governance remains, at the very least, a vexed one. This book explores this key issue through a …
In/Security in Colombia
Writing Political Identities in the Democratic Security Policy
Inbunden, 2010
1227 kr
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Based on geo- and biopolitical analyses, this book reconsiders how security policies and practices legitimate state and non-state violence in the Colombian conflict.Using the case study of the official Democratic Security Policy (DSP), Echavarría examines how security discourses write the political …
Culture and international conflict resolution
A critical analysis of the work of John Burton
Häftad, 2009
359 kr
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This book re-examines conflict resolution – and partcualry problem-solving conflict resolution – from a new perspective. The book is a critical study of John Burton’s work, and outlines an alternative framework for the study of international conflict. It provides an insight into the problems of …
Building a Peace Economy?
Liberal Peacebuilding and the Development-Security Industry
Inbunden, 2014
1156 kr
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This book critically examines the range of policies and programmes that attempt to manage economic activity that contributes to political violence. It offers a new framework for understanding both the problem of economic activity in conflict zones as well as programmes aimed at managing these and …
Violence and the State
Av Matt Killingsworth, Matthew Sussex m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1188 kr
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In providing a counterweight to the notion that political violence has irrevocably changed in a globalised world, Violence and the state offers an original and innovative way in which to understand political violence across a range of discipline areas. It explores the complex relationship between …
Conspiracy Theory and American Foreign Policy
Av Tim Aistrope
Inbunden, 2016
1227 kr
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Conspiracy theory and American foreign policy examines the relationship between secrecy, power and interpretation around international controversy, where foreign policy orthodoxy comes up hard against alternative interpretations. It does so in the context of US foreign policy during the War on …
Building a Peace Economy?
Liberal Peacebuilding and the Development-Security Industry
E-bok, 2015
56 kr
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This book critically examines the range of policies and programmes that attempt to manage economic activity that contributes to political violence. It offers a new framework for understanding both the problem of economic activity in conflict zones as well as programmes aimed at managing these and …
Syria and the Chemical Weapons Taboo
Exploiting the Forbidden
Inbunden, 2016
1227 kr
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This book analyses the Syria crisis and the role of chemical weapons in relation to US foreign policy. The Syrian government's use of such weapons and their subsequent elimination has dominated the US response to the conflict, where these are viewed as particularly horrific arms - a repulsion known …
Syria and the chemical weapons taboo
Exploiting the forbidden
Häftad, 2016
341 kr
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This book analyses the Syria crisis and the role of chemical weapons in relation to US foreign policy. The Syrian government's use of such weapons and their subsequent elimination has dominated the US response to the conflict, where these are viewed as particularly horrific arms - a repulsion known …
Syria and the Chemical Weapons Taboo
Exploiting the Forbidden
E-bok, 2016
243 kr
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This book analyses the Syria crisis and the role of chemical weapons in relation to US foreign policy. The Syrian government's use of such weapons and their subsequent elimination has dominated the US response to the conflict, where these are viewed as particularly horrific arms - a repulsion known …
Security/Mobility
Politics of Movement
Av Matthias Leese, Stef Wittendorp
Inbunden, 2017
1298 kr
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Mobility and security are key themes for students of international politics in a globalised world. This book brings together research on the political regulation of movement - its material enablers and constraints. It explores aspects of critical security studies and political geography in order to …
Security/Mobility
Politics of Movement
Av Matthias Leese, Stef Wittendorp
E-bok, 2017
55 kr
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Mobility and security are key themes for students of international politics in a globalised world. This book brings together research on the political regulation of movement - its material enablers and constraints. It explores aspects of critical security studies and political geography in order to …
Security/Mobility
Politics of Movement
Av Matthias Leese, Stef Wittendorp
E-bok, 2017
55 kr
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Mobility and security are key themes for students of international politics in a globalised world. This book brings together research on the political regulation of movement - its material enablers and constraints. It explores aspects of critical security studies and political geography in order to …
Everyday Resistance, Peacebuilding and State-Making
Insights from 'Africa's World War'
Inbunden, 2017
1227 kr
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Everyday resistance, peacebuilding and state-making addresses debates on the liberal peace and the policies of peacebuilding through a theoretical and empirical study of resistance in peacebuilding contexts. Examining the case of 'Africa's World War' in the DRC, it locates resistance in the …
Everyday Resistance, Peacebuilding and State-Making
Insights from 'Africa's World War'
E-bok, 2017
55 kr
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Everyday resistance, peacebuilding and state-making addresses debates on the liberal peace and the policies of peacebuilding through a theoretical and empirical study of resistance in peacebuilding contexts. Examining the case of 'Africa's World War' in the DRC, it locates resistance in the …
Everyday Resistance, Peacebuilding and State-Making
Insights from 'Africa's World War'
E-bok, 2017
55 kr
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Everyday resistance, peacebuilding and state-making addresses debates on the liberal peace and the policies of peacebuilding through a theoretical and empirical study of resistance in peacebuilding contexts. Examining the case of 'Africa's World War' in the DRC, it locates resistance in the …
Justifying Violence
Communicative Ethics and the Use of Force in Kosovo
Av Naomi Head
Häftad, 2017
443 kr
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When is the use of force for humanitarian purposes legitimate? The book examines this question through one of the most controversial examples of humanitarian intervention in the post Cold War period: the 1999 NATO intervention in Kosovo. Justifying Violence applies a critical theoretical approach …
Human Rights and the Borders of Suffering
The Promotion of Human Rights in International Politics
E-bok, 2010
54 kr
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This study of human rights argues for a greater openness in the ways we approach human rights and international rights promotion. Starting with the realities of abuse rather than the liberal architectures of rights, it casts human rights as a language for probing the political dimensions of …
Securitisation of Islam
Covert Racism and Affect in the United States Post-9/11
E-bok, 2019
1115 kr
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This book is a timely analysis of the securitisation of Islam since 9/11 and presents an original study of Islamophobia and White fragility in a context where far-right extremism is rising in Europe and the US. It unpacks how it is possible for various U.S. governments to impose discriminatory …
Securitisation of Islam
Covert Racism and Affect in the United States Post-9/11
E-bok, 2019
1115 kr
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This book is a timely analysis of the securitisation of Islam since 9/11 and presents an original study of Islamophobia and White fragility in a context where far-right extremism is rising in Europe and the US. It unpacks how it is possible for various U.S. governments to impose discriminatory …