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This revised and updated second edition introduces students of
violent conflict to a variety of prominent theoretical approaches,
and examines the ontological stances and epistemological traditions
underlying these approaches. Theories of Violent Conflict takes the
centrality of the 'group' as an actor in contemporary conflict as a
point of departure, leaving us with three main questions: * What
makes a group? * Why and how does a group resort to violence? * Why
and how do or don't they stop? The book examines and compares the
ways by which these questions are addressed from a number of
perspectives: primordialism/constructivism, social identity theory,
critical political economy, human needs theory, relative
deprivation theory, collective action theory and rational choice
theory. The final chapter aims to synthesize structure and
agency-based theories by proposing a critical discourse analysis of
violent conflict. With new material on violence, religion,
extremism and military urbanism, this book will be essential
reading for students of war and conflict studies, peace studies,
conflict analysis and conflict resolution, and ethnic conflict, as
well as security studies and IR in general.
This new collection critically examines the new global policy of
'good governance'. This catchphrase of aid policy and development
thinking has been the subject of too little analysis to date. This
book redresses the balance. It places the prefix 'good', and
exactly what that means, under the microscope and examines the
impact of neoliberal governance in a wide range of countries and
territories, including Chile, Russia, Argentina and Indonesia.
This new collection critically examines the new global policy of
'good governance'. This catchphrase of aid policy and development
thinking has been the subject of too little analysis to date. This
book redresses the balance. It places the prefix 'good', and
exactly what that means, under the microscope and examines the
impact of neoliberal governance in a wide range of countries and
territories, including Chile, Russia, Argentina and Indonesia.
This revised and updated second edition introduces students of
violent conflict to a variety of prominent theoretical approaches,
and examines the ontological stances and epistemological traditions
underlying these approaches. Theories of Violent Conflict takes the
centrality of the 'group' as an actor in contemporary conflict as a
point of departure, leaving us with three main questions: * What
makes a group? * Why and how does a group resort to violence? * Why
and how do or don't they stop? The book examines and compares the
ways by which these questions are addressed from a number of
perspectives: primordialism/constructivism, social identity theory,
critical political economy, human needs theory, relative
deprivation theory, collective action theory and rational choice
theory. The final chapter aims to synthesize structure and
agency-based theories by proposing a critical discourse analysis of
violent conflict. With new material on violence, religion,
extremism and military urbanism, this book will be essential
reading for students of war and conflict studies, peace studies,
conflict analysis and conflict resolution, and ethnic conflict, as
well as security studies and IR in general.
"Power to the imagination " is a famous May 1968 rallying cry. But
today, many of those who invoke the masses--Berlusconi, the Tea
Party, Geert Wilders and others--have intentions of a quite
different nature. This issue of "Open" addresses myth in the
political arena.
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