Peace Studies Books

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121. Understanding Conflict and Violence

     Theoretical and Interdisciplinary Approaches

     By Tim Jacoby

     This book examines and interprets a wide range of approaches to the causes of violence and conflict. The causes of violence and conflict are often left untheorized, or they are discussed as an existent problem assumed to be an inevitable part of human interaction. Adopting an accessible approach,...

     Published July 4th 2007 by Routledge
122. Global Security and the War on Terror

     Elite Power and the Illusion of Control

     By Paul Rogers

     Series: Contemporary Security Studies

     As the ‘War on Terror’ evolves into the ‘Long War’ against Islamo-fascism, it demands an enduring commitment to ensuring the security of the United States and its allies. This policy is based on the requirement to maintain control in a fractured and unpredictable global environment, while paying...

     Published June 27th 2007 by Routledge
123. The India-Pakistan Nuclear Relationship

     Theories of Deterrence and International Relations

     Edited by E. Sridharan

     Conflict resolution and promotion of regional cooperation in South Asia has assumed a new urgency in the aftermath of the nuclear tests by India and Pakistan in 1998, and underlined by the outbreak of fighting in Kargil in 1999, full mobilization on the border during most of 2002, and continued...

     Published March 6th 2007 by Routledge India
124. Conflict and Peace Building in Divided Societies

     Responses to Ethnic Violence

     By Anthony Oberschall

     This groundbreaking book provides an integrated account of ethnic, nationality and sectarian conflicts in the contemporary world including the role of collective myths, the mass media and the ethnification of identities as contributors to ethnic conflicts and wars. In addition to many examples from...

     Published February 14th 2007 by Routledge
125. Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence

     War Against the Other

     By Anthony Burke

     In a world plagued by war and terror, Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence sounds a warning: not only are global patterns of insecurity, violence and conflict getting ever more destructive and out of hand, but the ways we understand and respond to them will only prolong the crisis. When security is...

     Published December 6th 2006 by Routledge
126. Peacekeeping and the International System

     By Norrie MacQueen

     A comprehensive, clearly presented and accessible text covering the totality of the peacekeeping experience since the early twentieth century. This is essential reading for all undergraduates on politics, international relations and contemporary history programmes. It is also an excellent...

     Published June 28th 2006 by Routledge
127. Confronting Past Human Rights Violations

     By Chandra Lekha Sriram

     Series: Cass Series on Peacekeeping

     This book examines what makes accountability for previous violations more or less possible for transitional regimes to achieve. It closely examines the other vital goals of such regimes against which accountability is often balanced. The options available are not simply prosecution or pardon, as...

     Published April 30th 2006 by Routledge
128. Ethnic Conflict and Terrorism

     The Origins and Dynamics of Civil Wars

     By Joseph L. Soeters

     Series: Contemporary Security Studies

     In the early 1990s a number of violent civil wars and large-scale ethnic crises shocked the world. In Rwanda, Bosnia, Chechnya and elsewhere atrocities were committed that led to hundreds of thousands of dead and displaced people. Explaining the origins and dynamics of such inhuman actions...

     Published August 3rd 2005 by Routledge
129. Peace Studies

     Edited by Matthew Evangelista

     Series: Critical Concepts in Political Science

     The academic field of peace studies emerged during the Cold War to address the nature and sources of interstate and internal conflict, as well as the methods to prevent this conflict and deal with its consequences.Peace studies, much like political science itself, is an interdisciplinary field,...

     Published April 13th 2005 by Routledge
130. International Sanctions

     Between Wars and Words

     Edited by Carina Staibano, Peter Wallensteen

     Series: Cass Series on Peacekeeping

     The main theme of the book is that the new types of sanctions constitute a challenge to the international system. First, there are more of the targeted sanctions, including financial, travel, aviation, special commodity and arms sanctions. Furthermore, there are considerable but varied practices in...

     Published March 16th 2005 by Routledge