Forthcoming Peace Studies Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Zionist Israel and Apartheid South Africa

   Civil society and peace building in ethnic-national states

   By Amneh Badran

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

   This book is a comparison of two ethnic-national "apartheid" states – South Africa and Israel – which have been in conflict, and how internal dissent has developed. In particular it examines the evolution of effective white protest in South Africa and explores the reasons why comparably powerful...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War

   Just War Theory in the 21st Century

   Edited by Fritz Allhoff, Nicholas G. Evans, Adam Henschke

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   This new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary extensions and alternatives to the just war tradition in the field of the ethics of war. The modern history of just war has typically assumed the primacy of four particular elements: jus ad bellum, jus in bello, the state actor, and...

   To Be Published June 12th 2013 by Routledge
3. Sport and Peace-Building in Divided Societies

   Playing with the Enemy

   By John Sugden

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   Sport is a cultural institution that stands at the interface between political and civil society. In divided communities, sport has been an agent of separation, sectarian hatred and violence, but also a highly effective tool for conflict resolution, reconciliation and peace-building. In this...

   To Be Published June 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. Human Security in East Asia

   Challenges for Collaborative Action

   Edited by Sorpong Peou

   Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

   Since the end of the Cold War the number of interstate wars has remained relatively low, although whilst states may be more secure than ever this does not mean that individual human beings are too. This has led to a growing recognition of the importance of human security, in contrast to the...

   To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
5. Transitional Justice and Rule of Law Reconstruction

   A Contentious Relationship

   By Padraig McAuliffe

   This short and accessible book is the first to focus exclusively on the inter-relation between transitional justice and rule of law reconstruction in post-conflict and post-authoritarian states. In so doing it provides a provocative reassessment of the various tangled relationships between the two...

   To Be Published June 27th 2013 by Routledge
6. Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises

   Everyday Politics of Crisis Response

   Edited by Dorothea Hilhorst

   Series: Routledge Humanitarian Studies

   Humanitarian crises - resulting from conflict, natural disaster or political collapse – are usually perceived as a complete break from normality, spurring special emergency policies and interventions. In reality, there are many continuities and discontinuities between crisis and normality. What...

   To Be Published June 27th 2013 by Routledge
7. EU Foreign Policymaking and the Middle East Conflict

   The Europeanization of national foreign policy

   By Patrick Müller

   Series: CSS Studies in Security and International Relations

   This book examines the interplay between the national and the European levels in EU foreign policymaking, focusing on the Middle East. European engagement in peacemaking in the Middle East dates back to foreign-policy cooperation in the early 1970s. Following the launch of the peace process in...

   To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge
8. Peacebuilding, Memory and Reconciliation

   Bridging Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches

   Edited by Bruno Charbonneau, Genevieve Parent

   Series: Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding

   This book aims to bridge the gap between what are generally referred to as ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approaches to peacebuilding. After the experience of a physical and psychological trauma, the period of individual healing and recovery is intertwined with political and social reconciliation. The...

   To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge
9. Sri Lanka and the Responsibility to Protect

   Politics, Ethnicity and Genocide

   By Damien Kingsbury

   Series: Asian Security Studies

   This book provides a study of the war by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to create a separate state in Sri Lanka. It examines the ways in which this war should, in principle, have invoked ‘Responsibility to Protect’ principles, as well as the political, legal and practical problems involved...

   To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge
10. Reconciliation after Terrorism

    Strategy, possibility or absurdity?

    Edited by Judith Renner, Alexander Spencer

    Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

    Reconciliation after Terrorism brings together scholars from the hitherto disparate fields of terrorism and reconciliation studies, in order to examine whether reconciliation is a possible strategy for dealing with and ending a terrorist conflict. Although terrorist activities often play a role in...

    To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge