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This book looks into the role and effects of public apologies in
international relations. It focuses on two major questions - why
and when do states issue apologies for historic crimes and how and
under what conditions are these apologies successful in remedying
conflictive relationships? In recent years, we have witnessed an
unseen popularity of apologies, with numerous politicians, managers
and clergymen being eager to apologise and atone for the
wrong-doings of their countries or institutions. Public apologies,
thus, are a new and highly interesting, while nevertheless still
puzzling phenomenon, the precise role and meaning of which in
international politics remains to be explored. This book sets out
to do exactly this. Focusing in particular on state apologies, it
assembles twelve detailed empirical case studies which deal with
the two questions raised above. In the first part, the case studies
reconstruct the processes in which state representatives react to
calls for public atonement, and in the second part the case studies
explore the reactions to the apology and evaluate signs for its
success or failure. All case studies are based on a theoretical
framework which is outlined in the introduction to the book and
helps develop tentative assumptions about the emergence and the
effects of state apologies, drawing on different strands of
literature, such as political science, philosophy, sociology or
psychology. This work will be of great interest to students and
scholars of conflict reconciliation, international relations and
transitional justice.
This book looks into the role and effects of public apologies in
international relations. It focuses on two major questions - why
and when do states issue apologies for historic crimes and how and
under what conditions are these apologies successful in remedying
conflictive relationships? In recent years, we have witnessed an
unseen popularity of apologies, with numerous politicians, managers
and clergymen being eager to apologise and atone for the
wrong-doings of their countries or institutions. Public apologies,
thus, are a new and highly interesting, while nevertheless still
puzzling phenomenon, the precise role and meaning of which in
international politics remains to be explored. This book sets out
to do exactly this. Focusing in particular on state apologies, it
assembles twelve detailed empirical case studies which deal with
the two questions raised above. In the first part, the case studies
reconstruct the processes in which state representatives react to
calls for public atonement, and in the second part the case studies
explore the reactions to the apology and evaluate signs for its
success or failure. All case studies are based on a theoretical
framework which is outlined in the introduction to the book and
helps develop tentative assumptions about the emergence and the
effects of state apologies, drawing on different strands of
literature, such as political science, philosophy, sociology or
psychology. This work will be of great interest to students and
scholars of conflict reconciliation, international relations and
transitional justice.
This book brings together scholars from the hitherto disparate
fields of terrorism and reconciliation studies, to examine whether
reconciliation is a possible strategy for dealing with and ending a
terrorist conflict. Traditionally, terrorism research has revolved
around such questions as: What is terrorism? What causes it? How
can it be dealt with? Reconciliation research tries to find ways to
overcome deep societal rifts after civil conflict, to deal with
injustices and to re-establish social and political peace and
stability. The central questions raised here are: (a) what
constitutes reconciliation' as a process and an outcome; and (b)
how can reconciliation be facilitated in a situation of social
conflict. All these questions play a part in the idea of
reconciliation with terrorists'. Reconciliation efforts are taken
into consideration after state terror but not usually in situations
of conflict with sub-state terrorist actors. Similar to state
terror, sub-state terrorism is a sign of a deep societal rift which
reconciliation measures may help to overcome. In addition, even
though terrorist activities often play a role in situations of
conflict and transition, terrorists' are generally not taken into
consideration as active, or relevant, participants by researchers
and practitioners. In some cases, the terrorists' turn into
political actors during the reconciliation process and their past
is not an issue anymore, as it was the case with the ANC in South
Africa. In other cases terrorist groups are considered as spoilers
of reconciliation and are therefore excluded from the societal
reconciliation process, as was the case with ETA in Spain. This
book will be of much interest to students of terrorism studies,
transitional justice, conflict resolution, peace and conflict
studies and IR in general.
Die Politikwissenschaft thematisiert seit geraumer Zeit in den
verschiedensten Zusammenhängen die diskursive Konstitution
politischer Realität. Die Erkenntnis, dass Politik wesentlich eine
diskursive Dimension hat, führt in fast allen Teildisziplinen zu
einer ganzen Reihe von intensiv verfolgten Anschlussfragen. Im
Kontext dieses Interesses an der diskursiven Konstruktion des
Politischen wendet sich der vorliegende Band besonders der
narrativen Dimension des Politischen und den Formen ihrer
Erforschung zu. Er bietet eine erste Annäherung an das noch junge
Forschungsfeld der narrativen Politiken und diskutiert den Mehrwert
der Analyse narrativer Strukturen und des politischen Erzählens
für die verschiedenen Teildisziplinen der Politikwissenschaft.
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 situations of conflict
and transition, terrorists are generally not taken into
consideration as active participants by researchers and
practitioners. In some cases, the terrorists turn into political
actors during the reconciliation process and their past is not an
issue anymore, as it was the case with the ANC in South Africa.
This book examines the notion of reconciliation with terrorists
from a theoretical and empirical perspective. The notion of
engagement and reconciliation with terrorist groups is generally
seen as problematic, if not impossible. This is somewhat
surprising, given that the idea of societal reconciliation has
become a common response to state terror- although not usually in
situations of conflict with sub-state terrorist actors. Similar to
state terror, sub-state terrorism is a sign of a deep societal rift
which reconciliation measures may help to overcome. The text
investigates the reconciliatory process further, raising the
central questions: (a) what constitutes 'reconciliation' as a
process and an outcome; and (b) how can reconciliation be
facilitated in a situation of social conflict. This book will be of
much interest to students of terrorism studies, transitional
justice, conflict resolution, peace and conflict studies and IR in
general. * * *Reconciliation after Terrorism was featured in the
Terrorism Bookshelf: Top 150 Books on Terrorism and
Counterterrorism, selected and reviewed by Joshua Sinai.
-Perspectives on Terrorism , Vol. 6, No 2, 2012* * *
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