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This book utilizes a systems thinking perspective to propose a
holistic framework of analysis and practice for the regional
security community ("RSC") arrangement in Africa. In responding to
the challenge of improving effectiveness of response to peace and
security threats, African states tend to rely on ad hoc mechanisms.
However, this approach has been mired with a myriad of structural
limitations. The holistic framework reconfigures the traditional
"RSC" into a simplified tool kit of "resources", making this text
book ideal for students and advanced researchers in international
relations, and all those concerned with regional security and
strategic studies.
This book utilizes a systems thinking perspective to propose a
holistic framework of analysis and practice for the regional
security community ("RSC") arrangement in Africa. In responding to
the challenge of improving effectiveness of response to peace and
security threats, African states tend to rely on ad hoc mechanisms.
However, this approach has been mired with a myriad of structural
limitations. The holistic framework reconfigures the traditional
"RSC" into a simplified tool kit of "resources", making this text
book ideal for students and advanced researchers in international
relations, and all those concerned with regional security and
strategic studies.
This handbook integrates a range of conceptual and empirical
approaches to diplomacy in the context of ongoing technological and
societal change. Technological and societal disruptions
affect modern diplomacy, altering its character and reforming its
way. In light of such changes, this book offers both
historical foundations and contemporary perspectives in the field.
By doing so, it demonstrates how contemporary change impacts the
work of diplomats representing sovereign states. Global diplomatic
services will forever be affected by the digitalization of
engagement between states during and after the COVID-19
pandemic. In this rapidly changing culture, with burgeoning
geopolitical and geostrategic realignment among global powers, the
tools of diplomacy have changed. The state’s foreign
policy astuteness and responses to these changes could have
long-term impacts. All this culminates in opportunities for
improving the management of diplomatic services and efficiency of
the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) of various states.Â
This book provides useful insights into how modern diplomacy
works, especially the integration
of informalities into formal diplomatic practices in
complex peace and security environments, within such a
framework of change.
The Fourth Geneva Convention, signed on 12th August 1949, defines
necessary humanitarian protections for civilians during armed
conflict and occupation. One-hundred-and-ninety-six countries are
signatories to the Geneva Conventions, and this particular facet
has laid the foundations for all subsequent humanitarian global
law. How did the world - against seemingly insurmountable odds -
draft and legislate this landmark in humanitarian international
law? The Fourth Geneva Convention for Civilians draws on archival
research across seven countries to bring together the Cold War
interventions, founding motives and global idealisms that shaped
its conception. Gilad Ben-Nun draws on the three key principles
that the convention brought about to consider the recent events
where its application has either been successfully applied or
circumvented, from the 2009 Gaza War, the war crimes tribunal in
the former Yugoslavia and Nicaragua vs. the United States to the
contemporary conflict in Syria. Weaving historical archival
research, a grounding in the concepts of international law, and
insightful analysis of recent events, this book will appeal to a
broad range of students, academics and legal practitioners.
Contemporary Africa and the Foreseeable World Order sheds light on
the place of "Africa Agency” in the competitive and changing
global system. This book provides scholars, policymakers, and other
stakeholders studying and working on African issues with innovative
solutions, strategies, knowledge, insights, case studies, and
analyses to support decision-making on how best African states
should position themselves in the dynamic global system in order to
influence key decisions. Featuring themes such as the African Union
(AU) and the consequences of the discovery of oil in the
non-traditional oil exporting countries, the editors and
contributors have demonstrated why and how Africa’s position in
the foreseeable world order is largely dependent on the influence
of both existing and emerging world powers. .
The Fourth Geneva Convention, signed on 12th August 1949, defines
necessary humanitarian protections for civilians during armed
conflict and occupation. One-hundred-and-ninety-six countries are
signatories to the Geneva Conventions, and this particular facet
has laid the foundations for all subsequent humanitarian global
law. How did the world – against seemingly insurmountable odds
– draft and legislate this landmark in humanitarian international
law? The Fourth Geneva Convention for Civilians draws on archival
research across seven countries to bring together the Cold War
interventions, founding motives and global idealisms that shaped
its conception. Gilad Ben-Nun draws on the three key principles
that the convention brought about to consider the recent events
where its application has either been successfully applied or
circumvented, from the 2009 Gaza War, the war crimes tribunal in
the former Yugoslavia and Nicaragua vs. the United States to the
contemporary conflict in Syria. Weaving historical archival
research, a grounding in the concepts of international law, and
insightful analysis of recent events, this book will appeal to a
broad range of students, academics and legal practitioners.
Contemporary Africa and the Foreseeable World Order sheds light on
the place of "Africa Agency" in the competitive and changing global
system. This book provides scholars, policymakers, and other
stakeholders studying and working on African issues with innovative
solutions, strategies, knowledge, insights, case studies, and
analyses to support decision-making on how best African states
should position themselves in the dynamic global system in order to
influence key decisions. Featuring themes such as the African Union
(AU) and the consequences of the discovery of oil in the
non-traditional oil exporting countries, the editors and
contributors have demonstrated why and how Africa's position in the
foreseeable world order is largely dependent on the influence of
both existing and emerging world powers. .
Since 2005, approximately 70,000 asylum-seeking refugees from Sudan
and Eritrea have entered Israel. This, along with the highly
publicised anti-African immigrant riots in Israel in 2012 and 2014
and the current global refugee crisis, has meant that the issue of
African migration has become increasingly controversial. Here Gilad
Ben-Nun looks at this phenomenon in its historical and contemporary
contexts, and compares it to the wider debates surrounding the
Palestinian refugees in the region and the concept of their right
of return. He argues that this newer, African migration issue has
forced Israel to move from conceiving of itself as an 'exceptional'
state and now has to view itself as a more 'normal' and 'universal'
entity. Ranging as far back as Israel's important role in the the
ratification drafting of the 1951 Refugee Convention and drawing on
a variety of methodologies and sources, Ben-Nun offers a
wide-ranging legal, social and historical examination of asylum in
Israel, that sheds timely light onto themes of migration and
identity across the Middle East. This is essential reading for
legal historians and lawyers, as well as scholars working on
migration studies and the history and politics of the Middle East.
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