Armed conflict

Conflicts in Africa, Asia and Latin America have become a common focus of advocacy by Western celebrities and NGOs.

Post-war democratization has been identified as a crucial mechanism to build peace in war-ridden societies, supposedly allowing belligerents to compete through ballots rather than bullets.

Post-war democratization has been identified as a crucial mechanism to build peace in war-ridden societies, supposedly allowing belligerents to compete through ballots rather than bullets.

Wars from Within brings together an international and multidisciplinary group of academics and practitioner-researchers specializing in the study of insurgent movements in order to provide a deeper understanding of the violent manifestations of insurgencies in different parts of the world.

Through the concept of "e;social navigation,"e; this book sheds light on the mobilization of urban youth in West Africa.

Mythologies and narratives of victimization pervade contemporary Croatia, set against the backdrop of militarized notions of masculinity and the political mobilization of religion and nationhood.

For three decades, Sri Lanka's civil war tore communities apart.

In the middle of one of the worst civil wars in Syria's history, Louise Monaghan crossed a heavily guarded border to save her six-year-old daughter from the father who had callously snatched her from her home in Cyprus.

Large-scale displacement - whether caused by war, state-related political or development projects, different forms of political violence, structural crisis, or even natural disasters - evokes many stereotyped assumptions about those forcibly displaced or emplaced.

Large-scale displacement - whether caused by war, state-related political or development projects, different forms of political violence, structural crisis, or even natural disasters - evokes many stereotyped assumptions about those forcibly displaced or emplaced.

In this hugely influential book, originally published in 2001 but just as - if not more - relevant today, Mark Duffield shows how war has become an integral component of development discourse.

In this hugely influential book, originally published in 2001 but just as - if not more - relevant today, Mark Duffield shows how war has become an integral component of development discourse.

During the 1990s the drive of liberal peace efforts in the form of humanitarian intervention transformed the ways in which traditional development assistance operated in war and post-war situations.

The armed struggle waged by the ANCs military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was the longest sustained insurgency in South African history.

The armed struggle waged by the ANCs military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was the longest sustained insurgency in South African history.

Exploring why, when and under which circumstances individuals decide to take up arms mobilizing for pro-government militias, Huseyn Aliyev draws on insights from long-standing ethnographic fieldwork among former and active members of Ukraine's pro-government volunteer battalions, and an original database of militias' obituaries, to offer this complex and in-depth explanation of the phenomenon of pro-government mobilization.

For centuries, Russian imperialism has shaped the fate of its neighbours, from the tsarist conquests to Soviet domination and today's relentless aggression.

Núremberg y Vietnam: una tragedia americana es un ejercicio en defensa del Derecho Internacional, de lealtad cívica y de compromiso con los valores constitucionales estadounidenses, pero sobre todo constituye la aseveración de una convicción jurídica y ética: las normas y principios del Derecho Internacional Humanitario se deben aplicar y exigir, sin excepción, a todos los actores involucrados en un conflicto armado.

In Kashmir, folktales often begin with the worddapaanit is said.

Never before has such damning evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity been revealed in the midst of a conflict.

After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent.

Will tomorrow's wars be dominated by autonomous drones, land robots and warriors wired into a cybernetic network which can read their thoughts?

America's war on terror is widely defined by the Afghanistan and Iraq fronts.

Today, it is estimated there are over 200,000 volunteers in police work throughout the United States.

Jairus Victor Grove contends that we live in a world made by war.

'A profound memoir' Daily Telegraph'As revealing as the writing of Oliver Sacks' Mark CousinsOutside the Asylum is Lynne Jones's personal and highly acclaimed exploration of humanitarian psychiatry and the changing world of international relief.

Ohne den Krieg von 1870/71 gäbe es keinen deutschen Nationalstaat.

AS HEARD ON DESERT ISLAND DISCSAS SEEN ON THE CHANGEMAKERS, a Paramount+ docuseries profiling activists fighting for changeA WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR'A riveting story of loss, exile, and rebirth.

Originally published in 1896, "e;The Political Situation"e; is a work of political commentary on the governance of South Africa.

A magnificent visual survey of how conflict was recorded and planned, using maps produced at the time to reveal how warfare and its documentation has changed through the centuries.

A magnificent visual survey of how conflict was recorded and planned, using maps produced at the time to reveal how warfare and its documentation has changed through the centuries.

The Battle of the Somme is the most famous battle of World War I in the English-speaking world.

The Battle of the Somme is the most famous battle of World War I in the English-speaking world.

War destroys, but it also inspires, stimulates, and creates.

In May 1861, Virginian Thomas Henry Carter (18311908) raised an artillery battery and joined the Confederate army.

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Studying the flagship New York City Police Department is critical to understanding policing and democratic society.

Why has social peace been preserved in some new, nationalizing countries in Eastern Europe and broken down in others?

Born and raised in Essex, Maajid Nawaz was recruited into politicised Islam as a teenager.

** Richard Lloyd Parry is the winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize **In the last years of the twentieth century, Richard Lloyd Parry found himself in the vast island nation of Indonesia, one of the most alluring, mysterious and violent countries in the world.

The definitive history of warfare told by Britain's foremost military historian.

In 1949, the People's Liberation Army of China sent troops into Tibet.

DOES TERRORISM WORK?

This book explores how nationalism surrounding territorial sovereignty requires a domestic nationalist ecosystem, aka the Nationalist Industrial Complex, to sustain public interest.

One is usually conscious of tyranny and oppression; domination is more subtle.

The British North America Act of 1867 fashioned a Canadian federation which was intended to be a highly centralized union led by a powerful national government.

This is an examination of how embassies work and cope during wartime, with a focus on the experiences of the British, American, and Indian embassies.