Peace studies and conflict resolution

This book frames the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh in the context of European and international security.

This book presents a cogent but comprehensive review of Taiwan's socio-economic transformation from a Japanese colony to a thriving East Asian mini-state.

This book provides an in-depth introduction to, and analysis of, the issues relating to the implementation of the recent Responsibility to Protect principle in international relationsThe Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) has come a long way in a short space of time.

This book undertakes an exploratory exercise in decolonizing criminology through engaging postcolonial and postdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies.

  This volume explores the repercussions of a changing world order on regional security in Latin America.

Conflict prevention and crisis management has become a key activity for the EU since the creation of the Common Security and Defence Policy in 1999.

This book provides a critical assessment of the impact of UN Resolution 1325 by examining the effect of peacebuilding missions on increasing gender equality within conflict-affected countries.

This book examines the history of Bosnia and post-conflict Bosnian education in the setting of a society very much still politically divided.

Despite for many years receiving the highest per capita aid worldwide, the economies of the West Bank and Gaza Strip have failed to achieve any lasting developmental outcomes and suffer from major weaknesses which undermine their very survival.

This book examines how gendered agency emerges in peacebuilding contexts.

Making War and Building Peace examines how well United Nations peacekeeping missions work after civil war.

This volume looks at the forms and functions of counterspeech as well as what determines its effectiveness and success from multidisciplinary perspectives.

State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan.

This book is the most comprehensive collection available explaining what the military industrial complex (MIC) is, where it comes from, what damage it does, what further destruction it threatens, and what can be done and is being done to chart a different course.

In this path-breaking study, Fr.

At the outbreak of World War I, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, military commander of Germany's East African Colony, planned to divert British troops from Europe to East Africa.

World War I began in August 1914--the United States did not enter the conflict until April 1917.

By 1915, the Western Front was a 450-mile line of trenches, barbed wire and concrete bunkers, stretching across Europe.

Motivated by patriotism, 21-year old Everard Bullis of St.

This book presents what numerous reviewers have called the best existing argument for the abolition of war, demonstrating that war can be ended, war should be ended, war is not ending on its own, and that we must end war.

In the final year of World War I, Germany made its first attempt to wage submarine warfare off faraway shores.

The early 20th century saw the founding of the National Security League, a nationalistic nonprofit organization committed to an expanded military, conscripted service and meritocracy.

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Immigrant American soldiers played an important, often underrated role in World War I.

Virginia played an important role during World War I, supplying the Allied forces with food, horses and steel in 1915 and 1916.

Focusing on Ireland's literary and artistic response to World War I, this book explores works from a range of perspectives that intervened in Irish political and cultural discourse.

World War I is regarded as the first modern war, driven by fearful new technologies of mechanized combat.

John Reed was one of America's most dynamic journalists during the World War I decade.

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World War I was a global cataclysm that toppled centuries-old dynasties and launched "e;the American century.

There was more to World War I than the Western Front.

This first ever biography of Antarctic explorer Sir Raymond Priestley (1886-1974) covers his full (at times life-threatening) involvement with Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1907-1909 Nimrod Expedition and Robert Scott's 1910-1913 Terra Nova Expedition.

This book examines the dynamics of oil and gas conflicts within the context of federalism in Canada, an older federation with broadly a decentralized institutional design governing oil and gas, and Nigeria, a newer federation with a largely centralized design.

This volume examines the many dimensions of dialogue as a key driver of peaceful personal and social change.

Trust, but Verify uses trust-with its emotional and predictive aspects-to explore international relations in the second half of the Cold War, beginning with the late 1960s.

Atomic Steppe tells the untold true story of how the obscure country of Kazakhstan said no to the most powerful weapons in human history.

The Ottoman Empire was unprepared for the massive conflict of World War I.

What remains anti-democratic in our criminal justice systems, and where does it come from?

In contemporary accounts of the Shining Path insurgency and Peru's internal war, the Upper Huallaga Valley has largely been overlooked-despite its former place as the country's main cocaine-producing region.

In Negotiating Peace, Shimreingam L.

At no time in Northern Ireland's history did so many significant political initiatives occur as between 1972 and 1975, the most violent and polarised years of the region's conflict.

What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses?

Did you know that a soldier's armor has historic lessons to tell, too?

Over the course of his long and storied career, George Mitchell proved to be much more than just that senator from Maine.

Of the approximately seven million Palestinian refugees around the world, more than 650,000 are living in camps along the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

If your compassionate instincts are greater than the time or energy you can spare, The Difference a Day Makes is all you need to turn your good intentions into powerful action.

Beginning with the achievements of Mahatma Gandhi, and following the legacy of nonviolence through the struggles against Nazism in Europe, racism in America, oppression in China and Latin America, and ethnic conflicts in Africa and Bosnia, Michael Nagler unveils a hidden history.

Today, we live in a world where we are less exposed to violence than at any other time in history.

There isn't anything good about war except for the lessons that can be learned from each of them.

Let's meet and greet some of history's greatest war commanders!