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Understanding Ethnopolitical Conflict
Karabakh, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia Wars Reconsidered
Inbunden, 2013
1130 kr
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This book critically evaluates the growing body of theoretical literature on ethnic conflict and civil war, using empirical data from three major South Caucasian conflicts, evaluating the relative strengths and weaknesses of the available methodological approaches.
Bridging Divides Through Gender-Just Citizenship
Women’s Political Participation, Grassroots Peacebuilding and Transversal Politics in Northern Ireland
Häftad, 2026
442 kr
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This open access book explores how to build a gender-just peace in which women’s political citizenship is foregrounded through a case study of Northern Ireland. It addresses the role that civil society can play in peacebuilding and in political life in deeply divided transitional societies. It …
War and the Transformation of Global Politics
Av V. Jabri
Inbunden, 2007
933 kr
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Drawing on critical social and political thought, the book explores the implications, arguing that late modern wars wars, often referred to as 'liberal', may be interpreted as perpetuating forms of exclusion and domination that render war a tool of control now articulated in global terms.
Constructing Regional Community and Order in Europe and Southeast Asia
Av B. Rumelili
Inbunden, 2007
552 kr
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Focusing on the EU and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, this book demonstrates how collective identity depends on the construction of outsider states, such as Morocco, Turkey, and Australia, as different. It then analyzes how these regional organizations can consequently aggravate …
Critical Humanitarian Intervention Approach
Av K. Butler
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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A Critical Humanitarian Intervention Approach explores ways of reconceptualising security in terms of Ken Booth's Theory of World Security. This approach, focusing on human development more broadly can improve upon the theoretical and practical limitations of solidarist theories on the subject of …
War and Peace in Islam
A Critique of Islamic/ist Political Discourses
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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Mirbagheri traces the revival of Islamic/ist movements, and embarks on a theoretical study of some of the fundamental concepts in Islam and International Relations such as the self, Jihad, peace and universalism. Contemporary cases of conflict in the Middle East are analysed to pose a challenge to …
Aid, Peacebuilding and the Resurgence of War
Buying Time in Sri Lanka
Av S. Holt
Inbunden, 2011
569 kr
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As one of South Asia's oldest democracies Sri Lanka is a critical case to examine the limits of a liberal peace, peacebuilding and external engagement in the settlement of civil wars. Based on nine years of research, and more than 100 interviews with those affected by the war, NGOs, and local and …
War and the Transformation of Global Politics
Av V. Jabri
Häftad, 2007
1031 kr
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Drawing on critical social and political thought, the book explores the implications, arguing that late modern wars wars, often referred to as 'liberal', may be interpreted as perpetuating forms of exclusion and domination that render war a tool of control now articulated in global terms.
Commemoration as Conflict
Space, Memory and Identity in Peace Processes
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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McDowell and Braniff explore the relationship between commemoration and conflict in societies which have engaged in peace processes, attempting to unpack the ways in which the practices of memory and commemoration influence efforts to bring armed conflict to an end and whether it can even …
International Peacebuilding and Local Resistance
Hybrid Forms of Peace
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Roger Mac Ginty m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1097 kr
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Using the case studies of Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, Lebanon and Northern Ireland this book dissects internationally-supported peace interventions. Looking at issues of security, statebuilding, civil society and economic and constitutional reform, it proposes using the concept of hybridity to …
Lost in Transformation
Violent Peace and Peaceful Conflict in Northern Ireland
Av A. Mitchell
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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Peace interventions can promote violence, whilst conflict may be a crucial means for constraining and preventing it. This book explores these statements, re-thinking the relationships between peace, conflict and violence. From this perspective it reinterprets several phenomena that challenge the …
Forces for Good?
Military Masculinities and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan and Iraq
Av C. Duncanson
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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This book utilises the growing phenomenon of British soldier narratives from Iraq and Afghanistan to explore how British soldiers make sense of their role on these complex, multi-dimensional operations. It aims to intervene in the debates within critical feminist scholarship over whether soldiers …
Hybrid Forms of Peace
From Everyday Agency to Post-Liberalism
Av Oliver P. Richmond, Audra Mitchell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1097 kr
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This book examines the role of everyday action in accepting, resisting and reshaping interventions, and the unique forms of peace that emerge from the interactions between local and international actors. Building on critiques of liberal peace-building, it redefines critical peace and conflict …
Making of Informal States
Statebuilding in Northern Cyprus and Transdniestria
Av D. Isachenko
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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Using the cases of Northern Cyprus and Transdniestria, the author examines state-building as practiced by informal states. Exploring symbolic and economic dimensions of state-building projects and using insights from political sociology, she investigates how they function under circumstances of …
Aesthetics and World Politics
Av R. Bleiker
Häftad, 2009
1098 kr
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This book presents one of the first systematic assessments of aesthetic insights into world politics. It examines the nature of aesthetic approaches and outlines how they differ from traditional analysis of politics. The book explores the potential and limits of aesthetics through a series of case …
International Democracy Assistance for Peacebuilding
Cambodia and Beyond
Av Sorpong Peou
Inbunden, 2007
552 kr
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This book explains why international donors may succeed in putting war-torn countries on the path of democratic transition and negative peace, but fail to consolidate the gains they make. Critical of neo-institutionalism, but sympathetic to historical and normative institutionalism, this book …
Conflict Transformation and Social Change in Uganda
Remembering after Violence
Inbunden, 2008
552 kr
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Drawing on the concept of hermeneutics the book argues that the successes and setbacks of conflict transformation in Teso can be understood through analyzing the impact of memory, identity, closure and power on social change and calls for a comprehensive effort of dealing with the past in war-torn …
Liberal Internationalism
The Interwar Movement for Peace in Britain
Av M. Pugh
Inbunden, 2012
569 kr
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The book investigates the role of popular liberal internationalism as a social movement in Britain using Gramscian and Foucauldian ideas of civil society. It addresses the use of force for peace through an examination of the impact of civil society actors in popular liberal internationalism between …
New Politics of Conflict Resolution
Responding to Difference
Av Morgan Brigg
Inbunden, 2008
552 kr
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This book shows that the conflict resolution field often denies difference even as it attempts to implement a progressive and responsive politics. Innovative theoretical analysis suggests ways of responding anew across difference and beyond dominant ways of thinking about political community and …
Politics of Civil-Military Cooperation
Canada in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan
Av C. Ankersen
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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Ankersen examines Canada's civil-military cooperation efforts in Kosovo, Bosnia, and Afghanistan through the lens of Clausewitz's 'Remarkable Trinity'. The book reveals how military action is the product of influences from the government, the armed forces, and the people at home.
Visual Peace
Images, Spectatorship, and the Politics of Violence
Av Frank Möller
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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This book introduces a new research agenda for visual peace research, providing a political analysis of the relationship between visual representations and the politics of violence nationally and internationally. Using a range of genres, from photography to painting, it elaborates on how people can …
Transitional Justice for Child Soldiers
Accountability and Social Reconstruction in Post-Conflict Contexts
Av K. Fisher
Inbunden, 2013
508 kr
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This book examines and offers suggestions for how post-conflict practices should conceptualize and address harms committed by child soldiers for successful social reconstruction in the aftermath of mass atrocity. It defends the use of accountability and considers the agency of youth participants in …
Building States, Building Peace
Global and Regional Involvement in Sri Lanka and Myanmar
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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Sánchez-Cacicedo provides a critique of liberal peacebuilding approaches and of international interventions in statebuilding processes, questioning how 'global' these initiatives are, using case studies from the Asian region including Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
Local Leadership in Democratic Transition
Competing Paradigms in International Peacebuilding
Av Chavanne L. Peercy, Kenneth A. Loparo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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This book provides an in-depth analysis into the ways in which local leaders impact internationally-led democratic transition. Using three key case studies, Burundi, Cambodia and Liberia, it re-evaluates current transition paradigms delivering a new framework for understanding the roles of local …
Local Agency and Peacebuilding
EU and International Engagement in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus and South Africa
Av S. Kappler
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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Investigating local responses to EU peacebuilding, this book develops a relational and spatial concept of agency, helping to understand the processes in which peacebuilding actors engage and interact with one another. The focus on cultural actors reveals the contested nature of local agency and its …
Ethnic Cleansing and the European Union
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Security, Memory and Ethnography
Av L. Tesser
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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This book offers the first multi-case analysis of the politics of ethnic remixing in an expanding EU, including studies on Central Europe, the Balkans and Cyprus. Tesser explains the politics of minority return in a post-national Europe, with particular attention to the long-term aftermath of …
Post-War Statebuilding and Constitutional Reform
Beyond Dayton in Bosnia
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Sofia Sebastian-Aparicio m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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Sebastián explores the experience of statebuilding and constitution making after violent conflict, using the failed reform of Dayton in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a case study to reflect upon the fundamental questions of post-war statebuilding, reform and the role of local and external actors.
European Approach to Peacebuilding
Civilian Tools for Peace in Colombia and Beyond
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Dorly Castañeda m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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Examining peacebuilding through the intersection of security, development and democracy, Castaneda explores how the European Union has employed civilian tools for supporting peacebuilding in conflict-affected countries by working at the same time with CSOs and government institutions.
Partnerships, Power and Peacebuilding
NGOs as Agents of Peace in Aceh and Timor-Leste
Av T. Dibley
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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By highlighting the scope and limitations of local NGO agencies, this book presents a unique perspective of the relationship between peacebuilding theory and its application in practice, outlining how well-educated, well-connected local decision makers and thinkers navigate the uneven power …
African Union's Role in Peacekeeping
Building on Lessons Learned from Security Operations
Inbunden, 2015
1207 kr
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This study examines the African Union's peacekeeping role in managing African conflicts. Based on a qualitative research methodology, it analyses AU peace operations in Burundi and Somalia, and hybrid peacekeeping in Darfur, in order to identify the lessons learned and suggest how future outcomes …
