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Civil-Military Relations in Lebanon - Conflict, Cohesion and Confessionalism in a Divided Society (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017):... Civil-Military Relations in Lebanon - Conflict, Cohesion and Confessionalism in a Divided Society (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Are John Knudsen, Tine Gade
R4,106 Discovery Miles 41 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume examines Lebanon's post-2011 security dilemmas and the tenuous civil-military relations. The Syrian civil war has strained the Lebanese Armed Forces' (LAF) cohesion and threatens its neutrality - its most valued assets in a divided society. The spill-over from the Syrian civil war and Hezbollah's military engagement has magnified the security challenges facing the Army, making it a target. Massive foreign grants have sought to strengthen its military capability, stabilize the country and contain the Syria crisis. However, as this volume demonstrates, the real weakness of the LAF is not its lack of sophisticated armoury, but the fragile civil-military relations that compromise its fighting power, cripple its neutrality and expose it to accusations of partisanship and political bias. This testifies to both the importance of and the challenges facing multi-confessional armies in deeply divided countries.

Institutions and Organizations of Refugee Integration - Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Syrian Refugees in Sweden (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Institutions and Organizations of Refugee Integration - Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Syrian Refugees in Sweden (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Vedran Omanovic, Andrea 'Spehar
R1,644 Discovery Miles 16 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the integration experiences of refugees to Sweden from Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), and more recently from Syria (2014-2018) - two of the largest-scale refugee movements in Europe for the last thirty years. It focuses on refugees' interactions with key institutions of integration including language training, civic orientation, validation of previous educational experience, organizations and multiple labour market initiatives targeting refugees. Drawing on interviews with the refugees themselves, it offers a nuanced analysis of how the institutions of integration operate on a daily basis, and the effects they have on the lives of those who take part in them. The authors' comparative approach highlights the particularities of each refugee movement while also revealing developments and persistent issues within institutions of integration in the intervening years between the Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Syrian conflicts. Its conclusion, which situates the Swedish case within the broader European context, demonstrates the wider significance of this timely study. It will provide a valuable resource for policymakers in addition to students and scholars of migration studies, social policy, and public policy and business administration.

Religion, NGOs and the United Nations - Visible and Invisible Actors in Power (Hardcover): Jeremy Carrette, Hugh Miall Religion, NGOs and the United Nations - Visible and Invisible Actors in Power (Hardcover)
Jeremy Carrette, Hugh Miall
R4,587 Discovery Miles 45 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How do religious groups, operating as NGOs, engage in the most important global institution for world peace? What processes do they adopt? Is there a "spiritual" UN today? This book is the first interdisciplinary study to present extensive fieldwork results from an examination of the activity of religious groups at the United Nations in New York and Geneva. Based on a three and half-year study of activities in the United Nations system, it seeks to show how "religion" operates in both visible and invisible ways. Jeremy Carrette, Hugh Miall, Verena Beittinger-Lee, Evelyn Bush and Sophie-Helene Trigeaud, explore the way "religion" becomes a "chameleon" idea, appearing and disappearing, according to the diplomatic aims and ambitions. Part 1 documents the challenges of examining religion inside the UN, Part 2 explores the processes and actions of religious NGOs - from diplomacy to prayer - and the specific platforms of intervention - from committees to networks - and Part 3 provides a series of case studies of religious NGOs, including discussion of Islam, Catholicism and Hindu and Buddhist NGOs. The study concludes by examining the place of diplomats and their views of religious NGOs and reflects on the place of "religion" in the UN today. The study shows the complexity of "religion" inside one of the most fascinating global institutions of the world today.

Unesco Yearbook on Peace and Conflict Studies 1987 (Hardcover): United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization Unesco Yearbook on Peace and Conflict Studies 1987 (Hardcover)
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization
R2,481 Discovery Miles 24 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This the nineth edition of the Unesco Yearbook focuses on the effects of the arms race. The first section, a product of research undertaken at the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway (PRIO), examines the impact of armaments on areas of special concern to Unesco: education, science and technology, and culture and communication. The second section deals with the effects of the arms race, the arms trade, and technology transfer in developing countries, where armaments are proliferating at a higher rate than in industrially advanced countries. The third section examines the impact of the arms race on national reconstruction in developing countries. The fourth section analyzes the stance the United Nations has taken toward disarmament since its creation, from the concept of general and complete disarmament to a comprehensive program of step-by-step disarmament. Finally, as in previous yearbooks, the final section is a brief summary of Unesco activities in the fields of peace and disarmament and regional developments around the world.

The Political Economy of Robots - Prospects for Prosperity and Peace in the Automated 21st Century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018):... The Political Economy of Robots - Prospects for Prosperity and Peace in the Automated 21st Century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Ryan Kiggins
R4,129 Discovery Miles 41 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection examines implications of technological automation to global prosperity and peace. Focusing on robots, information communication technologies, and other automation technologies, it offers brief interventions that assess how automation may alter extant political, social, and economic institutions, norms, and practices that comprise the global political economy. In doing so, this collection deals directly with such issues as automated production, trade, war, state sanctioned robot violence, financial speculation, transnational crime, and policy decision making. This interdisciplinary volume will appeal to students, scholars and practitioners grappling with political, economic, and social problems that arise from rapid technological change that automates the prospects for human prosperity and peace.

The Changing Ideology of Hezbollah (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Massaab Al-Aloosy The Changing Ideology of Hezbollah (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Massaab Al-Aloosy
R2,628 Discovery Miles 26 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The project discusses Hezbollah's political ideology and how it evolves over time and the conditions that lead to the change of ideology. The author also examines Hezbollah's relationship with the patron states, Syria and Iran. In contrast with major arguments in the literature, the book argues that political ideologies are not fixed and they evolve depending on a number of factors such as the change in context, major events like a civil war in the patron state, and, most importantly, when the change of ideology becomes linked to survival of the insurgency. This monograph will appeal to a wide range of audiences such as researchers, scholars, and graduate students in the fields of Middle Eastern studies, political studies, Islamism, and nationalism.

Peacekeeping in South Sudan - One Year of Lessons from Under the Blue Beret (Hardcover): R Munson Peacekeeping in South Sudan - One Year of Lessons from Under the Blue Beret (Hardcover)
R Munson
R2,746 Discovery Miles 27 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A scholarly perspective of a soldier's own challenges working in the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). This work examines how regional/cultural knowledge and language ability contribute to improved leadership in a UN operation, based on the author's own experiences as a staff officer in South Sudan.

The Politics of International Humanitarian Aid Operations (Hardcover): Eric A. Belgrad, Nitza Nachmias The Politics of International Humanitarian Aid Operations (Hardcover)
Eric A. Belgrad, Nitza Nachmias
R2,794 Discovery Miles 27 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The theories and case studies examined in this volume constitute a thorough study of foreign intervention in civil conflicts for the purpose of rendering humanitarian aid. The classical paradigm of the ethics of intervention forbids the violation of territorial sovereignty. Public international law and the UN charter also mandate nonintervention within the territorial boundaries of a state. Nevertheless, in recent years, as a result of brutal civil conflicts and their violent and inhumane consequences--as in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Cambodia--international aid interventions have become an accepted practice. Still, international humanitarian aid involves unsettled, controversial issues--dilemmas concerning donors, recipients, and international organizations. These issues, as well as the concepts of sovereignty, human rights, coercive interventions, and peacekeeping, are critically evaluated in this volume, which will be of interest to scholars and policymakers in international relations, human rights, and military affairs.

Nuclear Strategy in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover, New): Stephen J Cimbala Nuclear Strategy in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover, New)
Stephen J Cimbala
R2,528 Discovery Miles 25 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The future of nuclear weapons and nuclear strategy in the 21st century is not entirely predictable from the Cold War past. Nor is it easy to foresee on the basis of what has happened since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Cimbala contends that nuclear weapons and the psychology of nuclear deterrence will remain important after 2000, but the character of that importance will change. No longer will nuclear weapons be the dominators of military technology. Instead, advanced technology conventional weapons, based on information and electronics, will supplant nuclear weapons as the instruments of military supremacy in the 21st century.

What, Cimbala asks, can be expected of nuclear weapons in the 21st century, given what we have learned from previous experience in the Cold War and in the 1990s? Cimbala expects that nuclear weapons will spread among currently non-nuclear states, and states with regional grievances or hegemonic aspirations will seek to deploy small nuclear forces as deterrents against neighbors or against outside intervention by the United States in regional conflicts. Regional rogue states may also obtain nuclear weapons. Nonetheless, as Cimbala explains, the international balance of power is unlikely to change. As he makes clear, power will be less dependent on deployed military platforms and more dependent on information warfare. A thoughtful and provocative analysis that will be of particular interest to policy makers, scholars, and other researchers involved with arms control, security studies, and international relations.

International Relations, Music and Diplomacy - Sounds and Voices on the International Stage (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Frederic... International Relations, Music and Diplomacy - Sounds and Voices on the International Stage (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Frederic Ramel, Cecile Prevost-Thomas
R5,127 Discovery Miles 51 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume explores the interrelation of international relations, music, and diplomacy from a multidisciplinary perspective. Throughout history, diplomats have gathered for musical events, and musicians have served as national representatives. Whatever political unit is under consideration (city-states, empires, nation-states), music has proven to be a component of diplomacy, its ceremonies, and its strategies. Following the recent acoustic turn in IR theory, the authors explore the notion of "musical diplomacies" and ask whether and how it differs from other types of cultural diplomacy. Accordingly, sounds and voices are dealt with in acoustic terms but are not restricted to music per se, also taking into consideration the voices (speech) of musicians in the international arena. Read an interview with the editors here: https://www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/en/content/international-relations-music-and-diplomacy-sounds-and-voices-international-stage

Sri Chinmoy - Answers V (Hardcover): Sri Chinmoy Sri Chinmoy - Answers V (Hardcover)
Sri Chinmoy
R1,524 Discovery Miles 15 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beyond Declaring Victory and Coming Home - The Challenges of Peace and Stability Operations (Hardcover, New): Anthony J Joes,... Beyond Declaring Victory and Coming Home - The Challenges of Peace and Stability Operations (Hardcover, New)
Anthony J Joes, Max Manwaring
R2,787 Discovery Miles 27 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The political practice of declaring victory and coming home has provided a false and dangerous domestic impression of great success for U.S. unilateral and multilateral interventions in failing and failed states around the world. The reality of such irresponsibility is that the root causes and the violent consequences of contemporary "intranational" conflict are left to smolder and reignite at a later date with the accompanying human and physical waste. This book discusses why it is incumbent on the international community and individual powers involved in dealing with the chaos of the post-Cold War world to understand that such action requires a long-term, holistic, and strategic approach.

The intent of such an approach is to create and establish the proven internal conditions that can lead to a mandated peace and stability--with justice. The key elements that define those conditions at the strategic level include: (1) the physical establishment of order and the rule of law; (2) the isolation of belligerents; (3) the regeneration of the economy; (4) the shaping of political consent; (5) fostering peaceful conflict resolution processes; (6) achieving a complete unity of effort toward stability; and (7) establishment and maintenance of a legitimate civil society. These essential dimensions of contemporary global security and stability requirements comprise a new paradigm that will, hopefully, initiate the process of rethinking both problem and response.

Ethnographic Peace Research - Approaches and Tensions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Gearoid Millar Ethnographic Peace Research - Approaches and Tensions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Gearoid Millar
R5,607 Discovery Miles 56 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume calls for an empirical extension of the "local turn" within peace research. Building on insights from conflict transformation, gender studies, critical International Relations and Anthropology, the contributions critique existing peace research methods as affirming unequal power, marginalizing local communities, and stripping the peace kept of substantive agency and voice. By incorporating scholars from these various fields the volume pushes for more locally grounded, ethnographic and potentially participatory approaches. While recognizing that any Ethnographic Peace Research (EPR) agenda must incorporate a variety of methodologies, the volume nonetheless paves a clear path for the much needed empirical turn within the local turn literature.

Managing Ambiguity - How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Paperback): Carna... Managing Ambiguity - How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Paperback)
Carna Brkovic
R884 Discovery Miles 8 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Exploring the role of favors in social welfare systems in postwar, postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina, this volume provides a new theoretical angle on links between ambiguity and power. It demonstrates that favors were not an instrumental tactic of survival, nor a way to reproduce oneself as a moral person. Instead, favors enabled the insertion of personal compassion into the heart of the organization of welfare. Managing Ambiguity follows how neoliberal insistence on local community, flexibility, and self-responsibility was translated into clientelist modes of relating and back, and how this fostered a specific mode of power.

The Political Economy of EU Ties with Iraq and Iran - An Assessment of the Trade-Peace Relationship (Hardcover): Amir M. Kamel The Political Economy of EU Ties with Iraq and Iran - An Assessment of the Trade-Peace Relationship (Hardcover)
Amir M. Kamel
R3,486 Discovery Miles 34 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book analyzes the failure of the EU's peace-through-trade policy in Iraq and Iran between 1979 and 2009 from a theoretical and empirical perspective. The author adds to the trade-peace theory debate and provides evidence supporting the need to review the EU's peace-through-trade-policy towards Iraq and Iran, and in general.

Nuclear Proliferation in South Africa - History and Politics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Lucky E. Asuelime, Raquel A. Adekoye Nuclear Proliferation in South Africa - History and Politics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Lucky E. Asuelime, Raquel A. Adekoye
R3,156 R1,904 Discovery Miles 19 040 Save R1,252 (40%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book investigates drivers and trends in nuclear proliferation in the Global South. Based on an in-depth analysis of South Africa's nuclear history, it examines general causes of proliferation, such as technical capabilities and constraints; a country's motivation to build a nuclear bomb; and particular domestic and international situations. It also highlights Britain's role in the development of technological capability in South Africa and explains how nuclear weapons influence international relations. Finally, the study offers effective solutions to the problem of nuclear proliferation in developing countries.

Forgiveness and Power in the Age of Atrocity - Servant Leadership as a Way of Life (Hardcover, New): Shann Ray Ferch Forgiveness and Power in the Age of Atrocity - Servant Leadership as a Way of Life (Hardcover, New)
Shann Ray Ferch
R3,907 R2,751 Discovery Miles 27 510 Save R1,156 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In a fresh rendering of the role of leaders as healers, Forgiveness and Power in the Age of Atrocity considers love and power in the midst of personal, political, and social upheaval. Unexpected atrocity coexists alongside the quiet subtleties of mercy, and people and nations currently encounter a world in which not even the certainties of existence remain even as grace can sometimes arise under the most difficult circumstances. Ultimately, Forgiveness and Power in the Age of Atrocity is a book about the alienation and intimacy at war within us all. Ferch speaks to categorical human transgressions in the hope that readers will be compelled to examine their own prejudices and engage the moral responsibility to evoke in their own personal life, work life, and larger national communities a more humane and life-giving coexistence. In addition to a primary focus on servant leadership, the book addresses three interwoven aspects of social responsibility: 1) the nature of personal responsibility 2) the nature of privilege and the conscious and unconscious violence against humanity often harbored in a blindly privileged stance, and 3) the encounter with forgiveness and forgiveness-asking grounded in a personal and collective obligation to the well-being of humanity. Modernist and postmodernist notions of the will to meaning are considered against the philosophical notion of the will to power. The book examines the everyday existence of human values in a time when we inhabit a world filled as much with unwarranted cruelty as with the disarming nature of authentic and life-affirming love. The book asks the question: Can ultimate forgiveness change the heart of violence? In Forgiveness and Power, people are challenged not only by the work of profound thought leaders such as Mandela, Tutu, but also Simone Weil, Vaclav Havel, Emerson, Mary Oliver, Martin Luther King, Paulo Freire, bell hooks, and Robert Greenleaf. The hope of the book is that people of all ages and creeds come to a deeper understanding and of personal and collective responsibility for leadership that helps heal the heart of the world.

Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Turkey - The New PKK (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Spyridon Plakoudas Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Turkey - The New PKK (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Spyridon Plakoudas
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book seeks to answer the "why" and "how" questions about the insurgency of the PKK, a militant left-wing group of Turkey's Kurds, in Turkey. The PKK has been inter-locked in an intermittent war against Turkey since 1984 in the name of Kurdish nationalism. The author combines insights of Strategy and IR - from strategy and tactics in irregular warfare to peace negotiations between state authorities and insurgents, with data from qualitative research, to achieve two inter-related objectives: first, assess the current state of affairs and predict the future course of the conflict and, secondly, draw general conclusions on how protracted conflicts can end and how.

Prosecution of Politicide in Ethiopia - The Red Terror Trials (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Marshet Tadesse Tessema Prosecution of Politicide in Ethiopia - The Red Terror Trials (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Marshet Tadesse Tessema
R3,402 Discovery Miles 34 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book investigates the road map or the transitional justice mechanisms that theEthiopian government chose to confront the gross human rights violations perpetratedunder the 17 years' rule of the Derg, the dictatorial regime that controlled state powerfrom 1974 to 1991. Furthermore, the author extensively examines the prosecution ofpoliticide or genocide against political groups in Ethiopia. Dealing with the violent conflict, massacres, repressions and other mass atrocities ofthe past is necessary, not for its own sake, but to clear the way for a new beginning.In other words, ignoring gross human rights violations and attempting to close thechapter on an oppressive dictatorial past by choosing to let bygones be bygones, is nolonger a viable option when starting on the road to a democratic future. For unaddressedatrocities and a sense of injustice would not only continue to haunt a nation butcould also ignite similar conflicts in the future. So the question is what choices are available to the newly installed government whenconfronting the evils of the past. There are a wide array of transitional mechanismsto choose from, but there is no "one size fits all" mechanism. Of all the transitionaljustice mechanisms, namely truth commissions, lustration, amnesty, prosecution,and reparation, the Ethiopian government chose prosecution as the main means fordealing with the horrendous crimes committed by the Derg regime. One of the formidable challenges for transitioning states in dealing with the crimes offormer regimes is an inadequate legal framework by which to criminalize and punishegregious human rights violations. With the aim of examining whether or not Ethiopiahas confronted this challenge, the book assesses Ethiopia's legal framework regardingboth crimes under international law and individual criminal responsibility. This book will be of great relevance to academics and practitioners in the areas ofgenocide studies, international criminal law and transitional justice. Students in thefields of international criminal law, transitional justice and human rights will alsofind relevant information on the national prosecution of politicide in particular andthe question of confronting the past in general. Marshet Tadesse Tessema is Assistant Professor of the Law School, College of Law andGovernance at Jimma University in Ethiopia, and Postdoctoral Fellow of the SouthAfrican-German Centre, University of the Western Cape in South Africa.

Peace Versus Justice? - The Dilemma of Transitional Justice in Africa (Paperback): Suren Pillay, Chandra Lekha Sriram Peace Versus Justice? - The Dilemma of Transitional Justice in Africa (Paperback)
Suren Pillay, Chandra Lekha Sriram
R290 R268 Discovery Miles 2 680 Save R22 (8%) In Stock

This title offers fresh insights on the so-called 'justice versus peace' dilemma, examining the challenges and prospects for promoting both peace and accountability, specifically in African countries affected by conflict or political violence. Peace versus Justice? draws on the expertise of many insiders analysts, individuals who are not only authorities on transitional accountability processes, but who have participated in them, whether as legal practitioners or commissioners. While the primary focus is on processes in Africa, many of the contributors also draw on lessons from earlier processes elsewhere in the world, particularly Latin America. The chapters in this volume consider a wide range of approaches to accountability and peacebuilding. These include not only domestic courts and tribunals, hybrid tribunals, or the International Criminal Court, but also truth commissions and informal or non-state justice and conflict resolution processes. Taken together, they demonstrate the wealth of experiences and experimentation in transitional justice processes on the continent.

Locating Urban Conflicts - Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Everyday (Hardcover, New): W. Pullan, B. Baillie Locating Urban Conflicts - Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Everyday (Hardcover, New)
W. Pullan, B. Baillie
R4,282 Discovery Miles 42 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Cities have emerged as the epicentres for many of today's ethno-national and religious conflicts. In twelve multidisciplinary essays, Locating Urban Conflicts: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Everyday brings together key themes that dominate our current political, social and cultural attention: emerging areas of contestation in rapidly changing and modernising cities, the resulting forms of habitation and spatial practice, and the effects of extreme and/or enduring conflicts upon ordinary civilian life. Such problems may be generated by larger state and regional issues to do with national identity, borders and territory, but in all cases, everyday life is regularly affected, with strong consequences for the urban arena. Section themes on Spatial Horizons, Reassessing Divisions, and Being Modern, cross-cut the research on cities in Europe and the Middle East, identifying common concerns against which the examples in this volume can be considered. Together the chapters reveal critical issues affecting ethno-national conflict in cities today.

Trust and Fear in Civil Wars - Ending Intrastate Conflicts (Hardcover): Shanna Kirschner Trust and Fear in Civil Wars - Ending Intrastate Conflicts (Hardcover)
Shanna Kirschner
R3,664 R2,579 Discovery Miles 25 790 Save R1,085 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Why do some civil wars last a long time, while others end relatively quickly? Trust and Fear in Civil Wars examines the conditions under which individuals are willing to lay down their weapons under a settlement agreement. The author argues that wars are easiest to resolve when combatants believe that their adversaries will uphold a deal or that the costs of renewed war will be low. Several key sources of information inform this calculation. Drawing on both cross-national and case study data, including detailed interviews, the book demonstrates that when information suggests either that a peace agreement is likely to break down or that the results of a broken deal will be especially deadly, a settlement leaves combatants too vulnerable to countenance, resulting in wars lasting longer.

The Abe Doctrine - Japan's Proactive Pacifism and Security Strategy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Daisuke Akimoto The Abe Doctrine - Japan's Proactive Pacifism and Security Strategy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Daisuke Akimoto
R4,598 Discovery Miles 45 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book focuses on Prime Minister Abe's policy toward international peace and security proposed in 2013 under the basic principle of 'proactive contribution to peace'. To this end, this book investigates Prime Minister Abe's policy-making process of the Peace and Security Legislation, which transformed Japan's security policy and enabled Japan to exercise the right of 'collective self-defense', which used to be 'unconstitutional'. This book evaluates the implications of the Peace and Security Legislation on three fronts, domestic, bilateral, and international, by analyzing Japan's Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) program, the Japan-US alliance system, and Japan's policy on international peacekeeping operations in South Sudan. This book is one of the first contributions to the research on Japan's foreign and security policy under the Shinzo Abe administration and will be of interest to scholars, policymakers, and students of Japan, Japanese politics and international relations of the Asia-Pacific region.

Between State and Non-State - Politics and Society in Kurdistan-Iraq and Palestine (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): G ulistan G... Between State and Non-State - Politics and Society in Kurdistan-Iraq and Palestine (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
G ulistan G urbey, Sabine Hofmann, Ferhad Ibrahim Seyder
R4,227 Discovery Miles 42 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This edited volume compares the internal dimension, politics and society in Kurdistan-Iraq and Palestine. In particular, it focuses on internal processes in Kurdistan-Iraq and Palestine (Palestinian Territory of the West Bank and Gaza Strip) in their specific shaping, development and transformation. The contributing authors analyze the transformation processes of the internal power structures, the economic basics, and the civil societies and provide an overview of the current political, economic and societal situation and challenges in both regions. The book presents the similarities and differences between both de facto states with regard to a set of guidelines: legitimacy, power relations, transformation of politics and society. It provides empirical explanations and contributes to a better understanding of both de facto states.

Beyond Guns and Steel - A War Termination Strategy (Hardcover): Dominic J Caraccilo Beyond Guns and Steel - A War Termination Strategy (Hardcover)
Dominic J Caraccilo
R1,848 Discovery Miles 18 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work is a doctrinal examination of war termination strategy and conflict resolution as a dependent pair, requiring a plan to achieve both in unison in advance of a fight. The necessity of a plan for conflict resolution should be intuitively obvious for policymakers, yet a survey of recent conflicts, including Afghanistan and Iraq, shows that not to be the case. Beyond Guns and Steel: A War Termination Strategy provides a practical approach to establishing a plan for war termination and conflict resolution before the bullets fly. In explaining the difference between strategy and policy, Colonel Dominic J. Caraccilo clarifies the most important, and often the most constraining, element of a nation's power-its resources. He posits that termination strategy and conflict resolution are interdependent and need to be included in conflict plans from the outset. Caraccilo's book fills a void in current strategy for the development of long-term plans that bring conflicts to timely and acceptable conclusions, providing a methodology that allows interagency requirements and resources for war termination to be defined, allocated, and employed effectively. Examples taken from the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with models of war termination successes and failures to enhance the understanding of scenarios for possible resolution A full array of definitions offering clarity for the reader seeking to grasp the book's methodology for war termination Primary source documentation related to the author's seven combat deployments to the Middle East and over five years of personal involvement in combat and its aftermath. Vignettes from history dating from the Revolutionary War to the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq Sidebars offering relevant charts, graphs, and newspaper articles Examples of conflict resolution to enhance an understanding of war termination outcomes Firsthand accounts from various military officers in the form of Staff College manuscripts A robust listing of books, interviews, documents, and articles on war termination and conflict resolution theories

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