Armed conflict Books
The University of Chicago Press Good Fences Bad Neighbors Border Fixity and
Book SynopsisArgues that the process of state building has long been influenced by external territorial pressures and competition, with the absence of border fixity contributing to the evolution of strong states - and its presence to the survival of weak ones.Trade Review"Boaz Atzili presents a very interesting, well-researched, and counterintuitive argument that carries important policy implications and should be emphasized in the literature about international security." (Idean Salehyan, University of North Texas)"
£30.40
John Wiley & Sons Small Stories of War Children Youth and Conflict
Book SynopsisSmall Stories of War offers important new knowledge about the lived experiences of children in wartime through case studies from Canada, Australia, the former Yugoslavia, Germany, Rwanda, and northern Uganda.Trade Review“In this innovative study the authors use oral history, material culture, letters, and art to centre children’s voices and experiences. Each chapter is well researched and sensitive to difficult subject matter. Collectively they make important contributions to the history of children and youth, war and society, memory and oral history, and the history of emotion and affect theory.” Nancy Janovicek, University of Calgary
£27.90
Columbia University Press India Pakistan and the Bomb
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur give us an unusually productive dialogue between deeply informed scholars who disagree about an issue of great theoretical interest and policy relevance. The stability of the South Asian nuclear balance is debated with such a fruitful combination of analytical rigor and empirical evidence that students of both the region and the general topic of proliferation will learn a great deal. -- Robert Jervis, Columbia University This is a great book for learning about the India-Pakistan conflict as well as nuclear deterrence theory. Sumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur, both first-class strategists, examine the effects of nuclear weapons on the rivalry between Islamabad and New Delhi and reach carefully reasoned yet opposing conclusions. -- John J. Mearsheimer, University of Chicago These eminent scholars of nuclear proliferation achieve a masterful blend of policy-relevant theory, empirical research, and rigorous analysis. In doing so, they drive the optimism/pessimism debate to a refreshing new level of subtlety and sophistication. Policymakers and professors alike will be delighted to have this compelling book at hand. -- Devin T. Hagerty, University of Maryland Did the spread of nuclear weapons to India and Pakistan deter war or provoke aggression? Two prominent scholars of South Asian politics address this important question in a debate filled with insight and wit. Some readers will agree with Sumit Ganguly's optimistic assessment, and some will agree with S. Paul Kapur's more pessimistic appraisal. All will come away with a more nuanced understanding of the complex political effects of nuclear weapons. -- Scott D. Sagan, The Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science, Stanford University A lucid and compact... distillation of an important policy debate. Booklist [The] combination of analytical rigour and empirical evidence makes this book a wonderful read as well as taking the optimist-pessimist debate to a new level of sophistication. -- Harsh Pant International Affairs Their able and articulate treatments of these issues do the reader a service by crisply laying out the competing perspectives. National Security Policy Proceedings Ganguly and Kapur provide a thoughtful analysis that enhances our understanding of nuclear dynamics in a vitally important region.Political Science Quarterly Political Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsAbbreviations 1. Introduction 2. The History of Indo-Pakistani Conflict 3. Competing Arguments About South Asian Proliferation 4. South Asia's Nuclear Past 5. South Asia's Nuclear Present and Future 6. Three Points of Agreement Notes Index
£16.19
Columbia University Press American Force
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHighly recommended for aficionados of foreign-policy and national-security issues. Kirkus Reviews a lucid and insightful guide to the use of armed force as an instrument of U.S. power. American Conservative Betts combines serious thought, common sense, and deep historical knowledge, rather than simply applying abstract theories, and his conclusions are expressed in plain English -- Lawrence D. Freedman Foreign Affairs This volume is instructive for policy makers and would be engaging and provocative in the classroom... Recommeded. Choice American Force deserves to be widely read and debated. -- Scott A. Silverstone H-Diplo Roundtable Richard Betts has written an extremely important book that is probably the best critique of the prevalent bipartisan thinking on post-Cold War foreign policy produced to date... [Betts] has already written four or five classics in the field, and this book adds another to that remarkable list. -- Michael O'Hanlon Political Science Quarterly Betts provides a sobering and bluntly honest critique of US force. He does so through clear writing and argument. -- David Ryan International Affairs American Force is a well-reasoned and thoughtful critique of the current U.S. national security environment, one that policymakers should not ignore. -- Thomas Meagher H-War Richard K. Betts is an extraordinarily clear thinker and writer. SurvivalTable of ContentsPreface Part I. The Post-Cold War Hiatus 1. Introduction: From Cold War to Hot Peace 2. Policy Milestones: Cold War Roots of Consensus 3. Confused Interventions: Puttering with Primacy 4. New Threats of Mass Destruction: Capabilities Down, Intentions Up Part II. History Strikes Back 5. Terrorism: The Soft Underbelly of Primacy 6. Striking First: Well-Lost Opportunities 7. Big Small Wars: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam 8. The Main Events: The Rise of China and Resurgence of Russia Part III. Decision and Implementation 9. Civil-Military Relations: A Special Problem? 10. Plans and Results: Is Strategy an Illusion? 11. A Disciplined Defense: Regaining Strategic Solvency 12. Conclusion: Selecting Security Notes Index
£87.40
Columbia University Press American Force
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHighly recommended for aficionados of foreign-policy and national-security issues. Kirkus Reviews a lucid and insightful guide to the use of armed force as an instrument of U.S. power. American Conservative Betts combines serious thought, common sense, and deep historical knowledge, rather than simply applying abstract theories, and his conclusions are expressed in plain English -- Lawrence D. Freedman Foreign Affairs This volume is instructive for policy makers and would be engaging and provocative in the classroom... Recommeded. Choice American Force deserves to be widely read and debated. -- Scott A. Silverstone H-Diplo Roundtable Richard Betts has written an extremely important book that is probably the best critique of the prevalent bipartisan thinking on post-Cold War foreign policy produced to date... [Betts] has already written four or five classics in the field, and this book adds another to that remarkable list. -- Michael O'Hanlon Political Science Quarterly Betts provides a sobering and bluntly honest critique of US force. He does so through clear writing and argument. -- David Ryan International Affairs American Force is a well-reasoned and thoughtful critique of the current U.S. national security environment, one that policymakers should not ignore. -- Thomas Meagher H-War Richard K. Betts is an extraordinarily clear thinker and writer. SurvivalTable of ContentsPreface Part I. The Post-Cold War Hiatus 1. Introduction: From Cold War to Hot Peace 2. Policy Milestones: Cold War Roots of Consensus 3. Confused Interventions: Puttering with Primacy 4. New Threats of Mass Destruction: Capabilities Down, Intentions Up Part II. History Strikes Back 5. Terrorism: The Soft Underbelly of Primacy 6. Striking First: Well-Lost Opportunities 7. Big Small Wars: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam 8. The Main Events: The Rise of China and Resurgence of Russia Part III. Decision and Implementation 9. Civil-Military Relations: A Special Problem? 10. Plans and Results: Is Strategy an Illusion? 11. A Disciplined Defense: Regaining Strategic Solvency 12. Conclusion: Selecting Security Notes Index
£28.50
Columbia University Press New BattlefieldsOld Laws
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNew Battlefields/Old Laws makes a huge contribution to literature regarding the so-called 'war on terror.' -- Wayne McCormack, University of Utah, author of Understanding the Law of Terrorism Banks has in this invaluable book put together a set of essays that will educate and enlighten any intelligent reader on the issues related to the future of international security. It covers the full spectrum of issues with solid, informative writings. A great reservoir of useful information. -- Abraham D. Sofaer, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsFigures and Tables Introduction: Toward an Adaptive International Humanitarian Law: New Norms for New Battlefields, by William C. Banks Critical Debate I: Threshold Issues in Defining Twenty-first-Century Armed Conflicts 1. Extraterritorial Law Enforcement or Transnational Counterterrorist Military Operations: The Stakes of Two Legal Models, by Geoffrey S. Corn 2. Preventive Detention of Individuals Engaged in Transnational Hostilities: Do We Need a Fourth Protocol Additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions?, by Gregory Rose Critical Debate II: Status and Liabilities of Nonstate Actors Engaged in Hostilities 3."Jousting at Windmills": The Laws of Armed Conflict in an Age of Terror-State Actors and Nonstate Elements, by David M. Crane and Daniel Reisner 4. Direct Participation in Hostilities: A Concept Broad Enough for Today's Targeting Decisions, by Eric Talbot Jensen 5. Nonstate Actors in Armed Conflicts: Issues of Distinction and Reciprocity, by Daphne Richemond-Barak Critical Debate III: Changing Twenty-first-Century Battlefields and Armed Forces 6. Children as Direct Participants in Hostilities: New Challenges for International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law, by Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen 7. Private Military Contractors and Changing Norms for the Laws of Armed Conflict, by Renee de Nevers Critical Debate IV: Military Necessity and Humanitarian Priorities in International Humanitarian Law: Productive Tension or Irreconcilable Differences? 8. The Principle of Proportionality Under International Humanitarian Law and Operation Cast Lead, by Robert P. Barnidge Jr. 9. Humanizing Irregular Warfare: Framing Compliance for Nonstate Armed Groups at the Intersection of Security and Legal Analyses, by Corri Zoli Notes Contributor Bios Index
£90.00
Columbia University Press New BattlefieldsOld Laws
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNew Battlefields/Old Laws makes a huge contribution to literature regarding the so-called 'war on terror.' -- Wayne McCormack, University of Utah, author of Understanding the Law of Terrorism Banks has in this invaluable book put together a set of essays that will educate and enlighten any intelligent reader on the issues related to the future of international security. It covers the full spectrum of issues with solid, informative writings. A great reservoir of useful information. -- Abraham D. Sofaer, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsFigures and Tables Introduction: Toward an Adaptive International Humanitarian Law: New Norms for New Battlefields, by William C. Banks Critical Debate I: Threshold Issues in Defining Twenty-first-Century Armed Conflicts 1. Extraterritorial Law Enforcement or Transnational Counterterrorist Military Operations: The Stakes of Two Legal Models, by Geoffrey S. Corn 2. Preventive Detention of Individuals Engaged in Transnational Hostilities: Do We Need a Fourth Protocol Additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions?, by Gregory Rose Critical Debate II: Status and Liabilities of Nonstate Actors Engaged in Hostilities 3."Jousting at Windmills": The Laws of Armed Conflict in an Age of Terror-State Actors and Nonstate Elements, by David M. Crane and Daniel Reisner 4. Direct Participation in Hostilities: A Concept Broad Enough for Today's Targeting Decisions, by Eric Talbot Jensen 5. Nonstate Actors in Armed Conflicts: Issues of Distinction and Reciprocity, by Daphne Richemond-Barak Critical Debate III: Changing Twenty-first-Century Battlefields and Armed Forces 6. Children as Direct Participants in Hostilities: New Challenges for International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law, by Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen 7. Private Military Contractors and Changing Norms for the Laws of Armed Conflict, by Renee de Nevers Critical Debate IV: Military Necessity and Humanitarian Priorities in International Humanitarian Law: Productive Tension or Irreconcilable Differences? 8. The Principle of Proportionality Under International Humanitarian Law and Operation Cast Lead, by Robert P. Barnidge Jr. 9. Humanizing Irregular Warfare: Framing Compliance for Nonstate Armed Groups at the Intersection of Security and Legal Analyses, by Corri Zoli Notes Contributor Bios Index
£28.80
Columbia University Press Mission Revolution
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTaw's tightly argued analysis should be of interest to all readers...highly recommended. Choice Well-researched and well-written... A job well done. Marine Corps HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction. Mission Creep Writ Large: The U.S. Military's Embrace of Stability Operations 1. Stability Operations in Context 2. Doctrine and Stability Operations 3. Practical Adjustments to Achieve Doctrinal Requirements 4. Explaining the Military's Mission Revolution 5. Implications of Mission Revolution 6. A New World Order? Notes Bibliography Index
£72.00
Columbia University Press Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy
Book SynopsisTrade Review[A] rich, useful, and important book. -- Thomas Powers New York Times Book Review A thoroughly documented, cogently argued work by an author with vast personal experience of his topic. Kirkus Reviews A vigorous and hard-hitting insider's account, -- Lawrence D. Freedman Foreign Affairs Pillar provides a telling and comprehensive new perspective from the inside. -- Steve Coll New York Review of Books This is a well-written effort by a former intelligence offer and academician. Hopefully, members of the national security community and their staffs will read and benefit from it. Choice Pillar's book is extremely detailed and informative, providing a better understanding of just how hard it is to be an intelligence professional in a world where all that matters is being wrong... once. -- James M. Burcalow Military Review Important and highly readable... This is a book that should be widely read by both the public and policymakers. -- Richard Harris The Manhattan MercuryTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Preface 1. Introduction: A Comforting Explanation for Calamity 2. Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Iraq War 3. Alternative Visions of the Iraq War 4. Congress and the Politics of the Iraq War 5. Great Decisions and the Irrelevance of Intelligence 6. Politicization 7. Scapegoats and Spectator Sport 8. The Never-Ending Issue 9. Catharsis and 9/11 10. Responses to Catharsis 11. The Illusion of Reform 12. Real Reform 13. Adapting Policy to Uncertainty Notes Index
£84.00
Columbia University Press Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy
Book SynopsisTrade Review[A] rich, useful, and important book. -- Thomas Powers New York Times Book Review A thoroughly documented, cogently argued work by an author with vast personal experience of his topic. Kirkus Reviews A vigorous and hard-hitting insider's account, -- Lawrence D. Freedman Foreign Affairs Pillar provides a telling and comprehensive new perspective from the inside. -- Steve Coll New York Review of Books This is a well-written effort by a former intelligence offer and academician. Hopefully, members of the national security community and their staffs will read and benefit from it. Choice Pillar's book is extremely detailed and informative, providing a better understanding of just how hard it is to be an intelligence professional in a world where all that matters is being wrong... once. -- James M. Burcalow Military Review Important and highly readable... This is a book that should be widely read by both the public and policymakers. -- Richard Harris The Manhattan MercuryTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Preface 1. Introduction: A Comforting Explanation for Calamity 2. Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Iraq War 3. Alternative Visions of the Iraq War 4. Congress and the Politics of the Iraq War 5. Great Decisions and the Irrelevance of Intelligence 6. Politicization 7. Scapegoats and Spectator Sport 8. The Never-Ending Issue 9. Catharsis and 9/11 10. Responses to Catharsis 11. The Illusion of Reform 12. Real Reform 13. Adapting Policy to Uncertainty Notes Index
£25.00
University of Illinois Press Becoming the Story War Correspondents since 911
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Palmer] is on to something as she as she examines how Western audiences and readers are encouraged to empathize with war correspondents as heroes, victims, or martyrs."--The New York Review of Books "A worthy contribution to the scholarly literature on media, war, and conflict. It should be required reading for scholars and students of journalism and political communication. It adds significant depth to our understanding of how reporters are affected by nationalistic and neoliberal business motives in their reporting of international events." --Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly "Becoming the Story is a valuable addition to the field of critical media studies, journalism history, and twenty-first-century military history." --H-Net Reviews"In most academic studies of post-9/11 war reporting, the challenges and risks that the ‘conflict correspondents’ face often get insufficient attention. Lindsay Palmer’s pioneering and commendable study fills a gap in journalism scholarship. Highly recommended."--Daya Kishan Thussu, author of News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment"Covering a war means going to places torn by chaos, destruction and death,' the late foreign correspondent Marie Colvin observed, 'and trying to bear witness' in order to 'find the truth in a sandstorm of propaganda.' Lindsay Palmer’s book honors this commitment, offering us a rigorously perceptive assessment of war reporting over the first decade since the September 11 attacks. Its case studies draw upon analyses of the news coverage, as well as extensive interviews with correspondents and their editors, to present important insights into what gets reported, how and why. Essential reading."--Stuart Allan, author of Photojournalism and Citizen Journalism: Co-operation, Collaboration and Connectivity
£77.35
MO - University of Illinois Press Becoming the Story
Book SynopsisThe September 11 attacks produced great changes in journalism and the lives of the people who practiced it. Foreign reporters felt surrounded by the hate of American colleagues for the enemy. Americans in combat areas became literal targets of antiU.S. sentiment. Behind the lines, editors and bureau chiefs scrambled to reorient priorities while feeling the pressure of sending others into danger. Becoming the Story examines the transformation of war reporting in the decade after 9/11. Lindsay Palmer delves into times when print or television correspondents themselves received intense public scrutiny because of an incident associated with the work of war reporting. Such instances include Daniel Pearl's kidnapping and murder; Bob Woodruff's near-fatal injury in Iraq; the expulsions of Maziar Bahari and Nazila Fathi from Iran in 2009; the sexual assault of Lara Logan; and Marie Colvin's 2012 death in Syria. Merging analysis with in-depth interviews of Woodruff and others, Palmer shows whatTrade Review"[Palmer] is on to something as she as she examines how Western audiences and readers are encouraged to empathize with war correspondents as heroes, victims, or martyrs."--The New York Review of Books "A worthy contribution to the scholarly literature on media, war, and conflict. It should be required reading for scholars and students of journalism and political communication. It adds significant depth to our understanding of how reporters are affected by nationalistic and neoliberal business motives in their reporting of international events." --Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly "Becoming the Story is a valuable addition to the field of critical media studies, journalism history, and twenty-first-century military history." --H-Net Reviews"In most academic studies of post-9/11 war reporting, the challenges and risks that the ‘conflict correspondents’ face often get insufficient attention. Lindsay Palmer’s pioneering and commendable study fills a gap in journalism scholarship. Highly recommended."--Daya Kishan Thussu, author of News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment"Covering a war means going to places torn by chaos, destruction and death,' the late foreign correspondent Marie Colvin observed, 'and trying to bear witness' in order to 'find the truth in a sandstorm of propaganda.' Lindsay Palmer’s book honors this commitment, offering us a rigorously perceptive assessment of war reporting over the first decade since the September 11 attacks. Its case studies draw upon analyses of the news coverage, as well as extensive interviews with correspondents and their editors, to present important insights into what gets reported, how and why. Essential reading."--Stuart Allan, author of Photojournalism and Citizen Journalism: Co-operation, Collaboration and Connectivity
£18.99
The University of Michigan Press Torture Humiliate Kill
Book SynopsisArgues that the use of camps and detention facilities has been a ubiquitous practice in countless wars and genocides in order to achieve the wartime objectives of perpetrators. Although camps have been used for different strategic purposes, their essential functions are always the same: to inflict torture and lasting trauma on the victims.Trade Review“Hikmet Karcic has produced a vivid, moving, and sensitive account of Bosnian Serb camp system, shedding light on how the camps were not only instruments of death, but thoroughly genocidal instruments of social-psychological terror. Placing Bosnian Serb camps in their local historical and global context, Torture, Humiliate, Kill significantly advances our critical knowledge of the Bosnian Genocide.”- Douglas Irvin-Erickson, Assistant Professor and Director of the Raphaël Lemkin Genocide Prevention Program, the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason UniversityTable of Contents LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: HISTORY OF ETHNIC RELATIONS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA CHAPTER 2: COLLECTIVE TRAUMATIZATION CHAPTER 3: VIŠEGRAD CHAPTER 4: PRIJEDOR CHAPTER 5: BIJELJINA CHAPTER 6: BILECA CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES
£73.10
University Press of Kansas Taliban Safari One Day in the Surkhagan Valley
Book SynopsisIn crisp prose and sharp detail Major Paul Darling offers a moment-by-moment account of a one-day mission to track down and kill Taliban insurgents in the Zabul Province of southeastern Afghanistan. A rare day-in-the-life narrative that is also a page-turner, his story captures the mundane realities of deployment.Trade ReviewWhat is it really like to fight on the ground in Afghanistan? In the tradition of David Halberstam's Vietnam War classic One Very Hot Day, Major Paul Darling takes you along on a perilous mission in treacherous Zabul Province. He's been there. He knows. When you read Taliban Safari, you'll know too."" - Daniel P. Bolger, US Army lieutenant general, retired, veteran of Afghanistan and author of Our Year of War: Two Brothers, Vietnam, and a Nation Divided and Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars""I led a platoon in combat in a different war, in a different country. Yet I know this voice. It rings familiar and true. Major Darling appreciates the complexity of his situation but writes straightforwardly about it. He strikes a fine balance between an officer engaged in a mission, focused on the task at hand, and one reflecting on the experience. Taliban Safari tells us what it was like to be there coordinating a motley collection of soldiers and police as well as the moral calculus of the leader on the ground."" - Alex Vernon, author of Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien and coauthor of The Eyes of Orion: Five Tank Lieutenants in the Persian Gulf War""A gripping account of modern close combat in an ancient, far-off land. Paul Darling provides a gritty, close-up, and personal account of a day in the life of an infantry adviser to Afghan forces as they hunt and finally corner their Taliban foe. Provides the personal reality of modern counterinsurgency better than any other book out there."" - Lester W. Grau, author of Operation Anaconda: America's First Major Battle in Afghanistan and The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War
£32.36
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict
Book Synopsis* A new volume in Polity s successful War and Conflict in the Modern World series. * Offers a comprehensive analysis of the causes and consequences of sexual violence across a range of conflict zones.Trade Review"An impressive and important book, gripping but very readably written in a clear style. It should be read by all interested in international politics and human rights." Medicine, Conflict and Survival "Because of its clear and accessible style, gripping content, and intersectional focus, this book should be required reading for scholars and policy-makers as well as students in a number of different areas. While it seems targeted at peace and conflict courses, it would also be excellent in gender studies (clearly introducing gender in the context of armed conflict), human rights (highlighting women's human rights), and international relations generally, (addressing the 'new wars')."Journal of Women, Politics and Policy "An excellent introduction to the broad issues around gender-based violence and armed conflict which will appeal to readers in political science, sociology, development, criminology, peace-building/war studies."Sociological Review "Using richly detailed case studies, Janie Leatherman's Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict presents an important examination of sexual violence in conflict and suggests new ways of conceptualizing and understanding the complex causes and implications of such violence." Journal of the American Medical Association "An important read for researchers and students alike interested in understanding the causes and consequences of wartime sexual violence."Acta Politica"The argument is clear and concise, moving from simple binaries towards a more complex analysis of the causes of sexual violence in armed conflict. Despite the difficult content that is addressed, the book is accessible and would be useful for anyone interested or working in conflict areas."Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict "An essential work dealing with sexual violence in armed conflict, as its argumentation is very strong and does not leave much space for doubting the danger of the phenomenon and the necessity of action." Central European Journal of International and Security Studies "An impressive piece of work. This book deserves its position as the megaphone helping those working in the field to give it its voice."Kelvingrove Review "An important provocation for academics and practitioners working on issues associated with organised political violence." Global Change, Peace and Security "A nuanced, readable and compelling account."Resilience"Leatherman not only reframes our concept of war, but of politics in general. She offers innovative insights in her explorations of legal accountability and social responsibility, of prevention and healing for sexual violence. A must-read book: courageous, groundbreaking, riveting, essential."Carolyn Nordstrom, University of Notre Dame "This is international relations at its best. Conceptually sophisticated, Janie Leatherman's book elucidates the factors that lie behind sexual violence in armed conflict: inequalities, structural injustices, and hyper-masculinity. I recommend it highly."Valentine Moghadam, Purdue University "This book makes a valuable contribution to understanding the complexity of sexual violence in modern war and to countering the silence and denial associated with it."Patrick W. Kelley, Director, Boards on Global Health and African Science Academy Development, Institute of MedicineTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1. Ending the Silence2. Dimensions of Sexual Violence in Conflict3. Sexual Violence and the Onset of Armed Conflict 4. Seeking Safe Space 5. Sexual Violence and the Global Political Economy of War6. From Protection and Accountability to an Ethic of Caring Notes Selected ReadingsIndex
£45.00
University of British Columbia Press Fighting with the Empire
Book SynopsisCanadians often characterize their military history as a march toward nationhood, but in the first eighty years of Confederation they were fighting for the British Empire.From 1867 to 1947, war or threat of war forced Canadians to define and redefine their relationship to Britain and to one another. As French Canadians, Indigenous peoples, and those with roots in Continental Europe and beyond mobilized in support of imperial war efforts, their participation challenged the imagined homogeneity of Canada as a British nation.From soldiers overseas to workers on the home front and from the cultural ties of imperial pageantry to the bonds of race and class Fighting with the Empire examines the paradox of a national contribution to an imperial war effort. This insightful collection of connected case studies explores the middle ground between narratives that celebrate the emergence of a nation through warfare and those that equate Canadian nationalism with British Trade ReviewFighting with the Empire is a wonderful piece of scholarship and should appeal to a broad range of academic interests. -- Katelyn Stieva, University of New Brunswick * Canadian Military History *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Steve Marti and William John PrattPart 1: Mobility and Mobilization1 Fathers and Sons of Empire: Domesticity, Empire, and Canadian Participation in the Anglo-Boer War / Amy Shaw2 Daughter in My Mother’s House, but Mistress in My Own: Questioning Canada’s Imperial Relationship through Patriotic Work, 1914–18 / Steve Marti3 Postal Censorship and Canadian Identity in the Second World War / William John PrattPart 2: Persons and Power4 Guardians of Empire? Imperial Officers in Canada, 1874–1914 / Eirik Brazier5 Francophone-Anglophone Accommodation in Practice: Liberal Foreign Policy and National Unity between the Wars / Robert J. Talbot6 Claiming Canada’s King and Queen: Canadians and the 1939 Royal Tour / Claire L. HalsteadPart 3: Hardly British7 For King or Country? Quebec, the Empire, and the First World War / Geoff Keelan8 Anti-fascist Strikes and the Patriotic Shield? Canadian Workers and the Employment of “Enemy Aliens” in the Second World War / Mikhail Bjorge9 First Nations and the British Connection during the Second World War / R. Scott SheffieldConclusion / Steve MartiSelected Bibliography; Index
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press Fighting with the Empire
Book SynopsisCanadians often characterize their military history as a march toward nationhood, but in the first eighty years of Confederation they were fighting for the British Empire.From 1867 to 1947, war or threat of war forced Canadians to define and redefine their relationship to Britain and to one another. As French Canadians, Indigenous peoples, and those with roots in Continental Europe and beyond mobilized in support of imperial war efforts, their participation challenged the imagined homogeneity of Canada as a British nation.From soldiers overseas to workers on the home front and from the cultural ties of imperial pageantry to the bonds of race and class Fighting with the Empire examines the paradox of a national contribution to an imperial war effort. This insightful collection of connected case studies explores the middle ground between narratives that celebrate the emergence of a nation through warfare and those that equate Canadian nationalism with British Trade ReviewFighting with the Empire is a wonderful piece of scholarship and should appeal to a broad range of academic interests. -- Katelyn Stieva, University of New Brunswick * Canadian Military History *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Steve Marti and William John PrattPart 1: Mobility and Mobilization1 Fathers and Sons of Empire: Domesticity, Empire, and Canadian Participation in the Anglo-Boer War / Amy Shaw2 Daughter in My Mother’s House, but Mistress in My Own: Questioning Canada’s Imperial Relationship through Patriotic Work, 1914–18 / Steve Marti3 Postal Censorship and Canadian Identity in the Second World War / William John PrattPart 2: Persons and Power4 Guardians of Empire? Imperial Officers in Canada, 1874–1914 / Eirik Brazier5 Francophone-Anglophone Accommodation in Practice: Liberal Foreign Policy and National Unity between the Wars / Robert J. Talbot6 Claiming Canada’s King and Queen: Canadians and the 1939 Royal Tour / Claire L. HalsteadPart 3: Hardly British7 For King or Country? Quebec, the Empire, and the First World War / Geoff Keelan8 Anti-fascist Strikes and the Patriotic Shield? Canadian Workers and the Employment of “Enemy Aliens” in the Second World War / Mikhail Bjorge9 First Nations and the British Connection during the Second World War / R. Scott SheffieldConclusion / Steve MartiSelected Bibliography; Index
£23.39
Cornell University Press Blue Helmets and Black Markets
Book SynopsisA major contribution to our understanding of contemporary urban warfare, war economies, and the political repercussions of humanitarian action.Trade ReviewBlue Helmets and Black Markets provides a template for analyzing international interventions, suggesting that looking beyond the standard actors and actions yields some significant insights. * International Studies Review *Andreas does not deny the suffering or the heroism of those caught in the siege of Sarajevo or the deadly earnestness of those who maintained it. But he wants to make this savage tale whole by exposing corruption's part in exploiting and sustaining the violence. Andreas, with prose as lean as his analysis is rich, avoids moral judgments and focuses instead on the two-sided aspects of this sort of war: the illicit commerce between the warring parties, the profiteering by politicians struggling to save a community, the indulgences of outside agencies sent to help the victims. * Foreign Affairs *In this provocative study, Andreas examines the unexpected consequences of humanitarian intervention.... Drawing on extensive interviews, diaries, and memoirs of participants, and newspaper accounts, among other sources, Andreas argues that the internationalization of the siege paradoxically prolonged the conflict. Humanitarian assistance the international community provided to the people of Sarajevo became incorporated into the criminalized war economy that flourished in the besieged city.... The study also reveals the much more complex social dynamics that emerged and flourished during the conflict. In particular, far from severing ties between ethnic groups, the war economy sustained informal contacts and cross-ethnic collaboration in the midst of conflict. Andreas argues that the example of Sarajevo strongly suggests that uncovering the hidden dynamics of war economies is important because their legacies outlast a conflict's end and continue to shape postconflict reconstruction. Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface1. The Longest Siege Sarajevo on Center Stage The Cast of Characters Front Stage and Backstage: Formal and Informal Roles Conflict Narratives Criminalized Conflict Narratives Preview2. Imposing the Siege The Road to Siege Warfare The Start of the Siege and the Criminally Aided Defense The International Response3. Sustaining the Siege Diverting and Manipulating Humanitarian Aid Exploiting the Privileges of Mobility and Access The UN-Controlled Airport as Smuggling Hub Tunneling under the Siege: Lifeline and Profit Center Trading with the Enemy The Media and Its Dependence on the Black Market The Money Letter Smuggling System The Smugglers' Markets and Cigarettes as Currency4. The Siege Within Criminal Defenders as Predators Political Corruption, Abuse, and Opportunism Obstructing Access to Water5. Lifting the Siege Front Stage:Triggering NATO Air Strikes Backstage: Shifting the Military Balance by Evading the UN Arms Embargo6. Aftermath The Criminalized Aftermath of War The Criminalized New Elite Sarajevo as Transit Point for Migrant Smuggling Sex Trafficking and Peacekeeping The Arizona Market: Peace through Illicit Trade?7. Extensions Srebrenica Leningrad Grozny FallujaConclusions Revisiting Sarajevo Lessons from SarajevoNotes Index
£20.89
Cornell University Press Networks of Rebellion
Book SynopsisInsurgent cohesion is central to explaining patterns of violence, the effectiveness of counterinsurgency, and civil war outcomes. Cohesive insurgent groups produce more effective war-fighting forces and are more credible negotiators; organizational cohesion shapes both the duration of wars and their ultimate resolution. In Networks of Rebellion, Paul Staniland explains why insurgent leaders differ so radically in their ability to build strong organizations and why the cohesion of armed groups changes over time during conflicts. He outlines a new way of thinking about the sources and structure of insurgent groups, distinguishing among integrated, vanguard, parochial, and fragmented groups. Staniland compares insurgent groups, their differing social bases, and how the nature of the coalitions and networks within which these armed groups were built has determined their discipline and internal control. He examines insurgent groups in Afghanistan, 1975 to the present day, KTrade ReviewNetworks of Rebellion is a tour de force, providing a new theory for understanding why rebel groups have different types of internal organization, and why some hold up to the pressures of war while other collapse. The organization of rebellion is critical for understanding both patterns of violence and the ways that wars end.... It is elegantly written, well argued, and thoroughly researched. Staniland has clearly made a significant contribution to our understanding of rebellion. Moreover, this book is among the most policy-relevant works in political science at this juncture. It is not only a must read for scholars, but for practitioners trying to grasp the intricacies of insurgency, multiparty civil wars, and conflict resolution more generally. -- Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham * H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Reviews *Paul Staniland is emerging as one of the most creative and influential scholars of political violence. His Networks of Rebellion will cement that reputation.... the book is a model of cogent theorization, inventive but systematic research design, and effective writing. It constitutes a substantial contribution to the scholarship on political violence and a milestone for field-based, comparative research.... Staniland's work is seminal. To understand civil war we need to understand insurgents, and to understand insurgents we need to look at the social foundations of insurgent organizations.... Networks of Rebellion is impressive empirically. The writing is clear and compelling. The book deserves the recognition it has received and is likely to continue to receive. -- Scott Strauss * Perspectives on Politics *Paul Staniland's Networks of Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesionand Collapse is an important contribution to the analysis ofterror networks and their motivations.It deals with a varietyof conflicts, many of which Staniland acknowledges as being under-researched, and presents clear, understandable explanations of eachorganization under review.Through detailed case studies, Staniland highlights the subtle differences between the groups, which in other studies might be discussed collectively under particular titles such as religious extremist or maynot be discussed at all if they are smaller or do not pose the largest threat—and illustrates how subtle differences can have significant implications. -- Patrick Finnegan * Parameters *Staniland's project is diligent in its methodological rigour, impressive in its empirical findings, and assertive and compelling in the theory it builds accordingly. Staniland's contribution to insurgency studies is reminiscent to how the field of critical terrorism studies emerged from scholarly dissatisfaction with the pre-existing quality of work in terrorism studies, particularly in terms of its epistemology, ontology, ethics, and praxis. His mission is ambitious, but Networks of Rebellion delivers against it and has laid the foundations of a new research agenda. -- Will Carter * Small Wars and Insurgencies *With the reported emergence of some 1,000 rebel groups in the spreading Syrian civil war and the stark contrast of those that seem organized and formidable as opposed to transitory, a careful study of insurgents' structures and networks is most timely. Staniland... focuses on whether the groups are 'horizontally' or 'vertically' integrated or relatively isolated across/within locations, collaborators, and subsidiaries.... This book nicely presents a coherent overall typology complete with extenuating circumstances of contextual and political environments within which groups operate. * Choice *Staniland's three case studies serve as comparative evidence to test the author's theory. Additionally, the case studies make valuable contributions to the study of Kashmir, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka. The author's personal field research supports each of the three case studies, which adds to their overall value and lends support to his argument. Serious students of insurgency, irregular warfare, strategy, international relations, and Southern Asia will value this groundbreaking study. Staniland's work is very much worth reading, especially for those who wish to understand insurgent organizations, particularly insurgent organizations in Kashmir, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka. -- Lt. Col. Jonathan P. Klug * Military Review *Table of Contents1. Organizing Insurgency Part I. Theorizing Rebellion 2. Insurgent Origins 3. Insurgent Change Part II. Comparative Evidence from South Asia 4. Azad and Jihad: Trajectories of Insurgency in Kashmir 5. Organizing Rebellion in Afghanistan 6. Explaining Tamil Militancy in Sri Lanka Part III. Extensions and Implications 7. "Peasants and Commissars": Communist Tides in Southeast Asia 8. Insurgency, War, and Politics
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Cornell University Press Modern Hatreds
Book SynopsisWhat is it about ethnicity that breaks countries apart and drives people to acts of savage violence against their lifelong neighbors? Stuart Kaufman finds the roots of ethnic violence in myths and symbols, the stories ethnic groups tell about who they are.Trade ReviewModern Hatreds is an excellent and timely contribution to scholarship on ethnic war.... Kaufman manages to combine a thoroughly researched and detailed analysis of the case studies and the construction of a hypothesis that may explain, to some extent, the emergence of ethnic war. * Journal of International Studies *Convincing in arguing that ethnic violence is not the result of 'ancient hatreds,' and that contemporary politics and the struggle for power among individuals and elite groups largely determine who will engage in violence and who, ultimately, will get killed. * New York Review of Books *This detailed work on the history of hatred provides a thoughtful perspective of events and motivations that should fascinate any serious reader. * Political Science Quarterly *While providing excellent background of ethnic wars, Modern Hatreds is not simply a historical text. It offers a modern interpretation of the many recent individual conflicts, and helps knit together the broader themes that are relevant to them all. * National Journal *Table of Contents1. Stories about Ethnic War2. The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War3. Karabagh and the Fears of Minorities4. Georgia and the Fears of Majorities5. Elite Conspiracy in Moldova's Civil War6. Government Jingoism and the Fall of Yugoslavia7. The Power of SymbolsNotesIndex
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University of Pennsylvania Press Hutu Rebels
Book SynopsisIn 1994, almost one million ethnic Tutsis were killed in the genocide in Rwanda. In the aftermath of the genocide, some of the top-echelon Hutu officers who had organized it fled Rwanda to the eastern Congo (DRC) and set up a new base for military operation, with the goal of retaking power in Kigali, Rwanda. More than twenty years later, these rebel forces comprise a diverse group of refugees, rebel fighters, and civilian dependents who operate from mountain areas in the Congo forests and have a long and complex history of war and violence. While media and human rights reports typically portray this rebel group as one of the most brutal rebel factions operating in the eastern Congo region, Hutu Rebels paints a more complex picture.Having conducted ethnographic fieldwork in a rebel camp located deep in the Congo forest, Anna Hedlund explores the micropolitics and practices of everyday life among a community of Hutu rebel fighters and their families, living under the harsTrade Review"[A]n authoritative ethnographic study of life in a military camp controlled by the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda...Important in its scope, empirics, and insight." * H-Genocide *"A fabulous book. Hutu Rebels is the first to provide an in-depth analysis of Hutu rebels and to present their own perspectives on the war and on their own situations. Anna Hedlund handily refutes stereotypes of rebel life as one defined by chaos and violence while also highlighting the boredom, normalcy, and everydayness that accompanies such a life. It is based on extraordinary ethnographic research and firsthand material, and the analysis is as nuanced as it is convincing and insightful." * Séverine Autesserre, author of The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Preface Introduction. Conflict and Violence in the Congo Chapter 1. Rwandan Rebels in the Congo War: Power, Politics, and Exile Chapter 2. Rainbow Brigade: Life in a Rebel Camp Chapter 3. Politics in the Forest: Retelling History in Exile Chapter 4. Captivity and Commitment Chapter 5. The Forest of Volcanoes: Rebel-Civilian Interactions Chapter 6. From Bare Life to Bare Violence References Notes Index Acknowledgments
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Collateral Damage Women Write about War
Book SynopsisTells the stories of those who struggle on the margins of armed conflict or who attempt to rebuild their lives after a war. Bringing together the writings of female authors from across the world, this collection animates the wartime experiences of women as military mothers, combatants, supporters, war resisters, and victims.
£65.70
MP-SYR Syracuse University P We Are Iraqis Aesthetics and Politics in a Time
Book SynopsisShowcases written and visual contributions by Iraqi artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, photographers, and activists. Contributors explore the way Iraqis retain, subvert, and produce art and activism as ways of coping with despair and resisting chaos and destruction.
£26.96
The University of Alabama Press Secrecy and Insurgency Socialities and Knowledge
Book SynopsisSecrecy and Insurgency deals with the experiences of guerrilla combatants of the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Rebel Armed Forces) in the aftermath of the peace accords signed in December 1996 between the Guatemalan government and guerrilla insurgents. Drawing on a broad field of contemporary theory, Silvia Posocco's Secrecy and Insurgency presents a vivid ethnographic account of secrecy as both sociality and a set of knowledge practices. Informed by multi-sited anthropological fieldwork among displaced communities with experiences of militancy in the guerrilla organisation Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes, the book traces the contours of dispersed and intermittent guerrilla social relations, unravelling the gendered dimensions of guerrilla socialities and subjectivities in a local context marked by violence and rapid social change. The chapters chart shifting regimes of governance in the northern departamento of Petén; the inception of violence and insurgency; guerrilla practices of naming and se
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Conflict Dynamics Civil Wars Armed Actors and
Book SynopsisPresents case studies of Sierra Leone, the Congo, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indonesia, and Peru. The authors examine the evolving nature of violence in intrastate conflicts, as well as the governments and groups involved, by focusing on the context of the relationships involved, the capacities of the conflict's participants, and the actors' goals.
£33.98
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Advanced Introduction to Conflict Resolution
£21.00
Bristol University Press Experiences in Researching Conflict and Violence
Book SynopsisThis collection explores the roles of emotion, violence, uncertainty, identity and positionality in doing research in and on conflict zones, as well as the complexity of methodological choices. It presents a nuanced view of conflict research that addresses the uncomfortable spaces of conflict research and the need for reflection on these issues.Trade Review“Experiences in Researching Conflict and Violence is both unsettling and empowering at the same time. A must read for all students and scholars interested in the world `out there'.'' Nicolas Lemay-Hébert, University of BirminghamTable of ContentsForeword ~ Robin Luckham Introduction ~ Althea-Maria Rivas and Brendan Browne Section I: Violence; On conducting unleashing interviews where control means life or death ~ Rose Løvgren; Qualitative Research in the Shadow of Violent Conflict ~ Patrick James Christian; Vignette 1 - The Play I could not Write ~ Laurel Borisenko Section II: Uncertainty; Ambivalent Reflections on Violence and Peace-Building Activist Research in the Post-Yugoslav Space ~ Paul Stubbs; Intervention, Autonomy and Power in Polarised Societies ~ Corinna Jentzsch; Vignette 2 - Packing for Kabul ~ Henri Myrttinen; Section III: Identity and Power; Formidable Fieldwork: Experiences of a Lesbian Researcher in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland ~ Sandra McEvoy; Insider-Outsider Reflections on Terrorism Research in the Coastal region of Kenya ~ Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen; Vignette 3 - Thinking about race and gender in conflict research ~ Althea-Maria Rivas; Bodies of Cyberwar: Violence and Knowledge Beyond Corporeality ~ Fabio Cristiano; Fields of Insecurity: Responding to flows of Information ~ Meike de Goede and Inge Ligtvoet; Vignette 4 - Visual ethnographic encounters and Silence in post-conflict Banda Aceh ~ Marijaana Jauhola; Section V: Methods; Writing the wrongs: Keeping diaries and reflective practice ~ Brendan Ciarán Browne; Abetting Atrocities? Reporting the Perspectives of Perpetrators in Research on Violence ~ Michael Broache; Empathy as a critical methodological tool for peace research ~ Sinéad Walsh; Vignette 5 - Land Grabbers in Kyrgyzstan ~ John Heathershaw.
£27.54
Duke University Press Savage Ecology
Book SynopsisJairus Victor Grove offers an ecological theorization of geopolitics in which he contends that contemporary global crises are better understood when considered within the larger history of geopolitical practice, showing how political violence is the principal force behind climate change, mass extinction, slavery, genocide, extractive capitalism, and other catastrophes.Trade Review“In Savage Ecology Jairus Victor Grove gives us a weirdly hopeful eco-pessimism. ‘We broke the planet,’ he writes, and ‘now it is our planet.’ Agree or not, the breadth of his archive (neuro-torture, algorithmic warfare, drone strikes, and cybernetic nation-building) and audacity of his thinking (biopolitics is now ‘almost quaint,’ he says, given the geopolitics of the Anthropocene) are simply exhilarating. Your thinking cannot survive this book unchanged. Fortunately, Grove says, ‘the end of the world is never the end of everything’ (though it may well be the end of us).” -- Bonnie Honig, author of * Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair *“What Beck did for risk society, Hardt and Negri for empire, and Barad for technoscience, Jairus Victor Grove does brilliantly for global violence, delivering an ecology of warfare that is not only a corrosive critique of the three horsemen of our now daily apocalypse—geopolitics, biopolitics, and cybernetics—but a creative strategy for sustaining life now and thereafter. Grove is a philosopher with a hammer, writer with a stiletto, and artist with a spray can.” -- James Der Derian, Michael Hintze Chair of International Security Studies, the University of Sydney“Savage Ecology is an extraordinarily rich text. . . . Wading through Savage Ecology uncovers a wondrous diversity of thought.” -- Chase Hobbs-Morgan * Theory & Event *"Grove offers one of the most robust and erudite examples of a critical ethos of pessimism I have read to date. . . . Rather than distancing total destruction from our current moment in order to propose a redemptive, critical utopia, Grove is immersed in catastrophe as an immanent condition of critique." -- Davide Panagia * Public Books *“In an oddly provocative manner Jairus Victor Grove has provided an eloquent and impassioned tribute to war and its savage ecology. This book is a twofer, a thoughtful intervention in current policy debate and a scorching critique of mainstream IR theory, with its arrogant pretensions and its plenitude of crucial failures and catastrophic consequences. It will be tragic if activists and the discipline’s leading practitioners fail to read it.” -- John Buell * Informed Consent *“Grove takes a postmodern approach to the study of ecology in global politics, penning an engrossing if brooding and pessimistic book that is itself a unique expression of this theoretical tradition in IR theory.... [H]e offers an honest realism, one could say, whose rendering is brutal only because the current predicament facing us bears the brutality of the martial logic that brought us here in the first place. -- Shannon Brincat * Perspectives on Politics *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Aphorisms for a New Realism 29 Part I. The Great Homogenization 1. The Anthropocene as a Geopolitical Fact 35 2. War as a Form of Life 59 3. From Exhaustion to Annihilation: A Martial Ecology of the Eurocene 79 Part II. Operational Spaces 4. Bombs: An Insurgency of Things 113 5. Blood: Vital Logistics 139 6. Brains: We Are Not Who We Are 159 7. Three Images of Transformation as Homogenization 191 Part III. Must We Persist to Continue? 8. Apocalypse as a Theory of Change 229 9. Freaks or the Incipience of Other Forms of Life 249 Conclusion. Ratio feritas: From Critical Responsiveness to Making New Forms of Life 273 The End: Visions of Los Angeles, California, 2061 281 Notes 285 Bibliography 317 Index 341
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Cornell University Press Rape during Civil War
Book SynopsisRape is common during wartime, but even within the context of the same war, some armed groups perpetrate rape on a massive scale while others never do. In Rape during Civil War Dara Kay Cohen examines variation in the severity and perpetrators of rape using an original dataset of reported rape during all major civil wars from 1980 to 2012. Cohen also conducted extensive fieldwork, including interviews with perpetrators of wartime rape, in three postconflict counties, finding that rape was widespread in the civil wars of the Sierra Leone and Timor-Leste but was far less common during El Salvador''s civil war.Cohen argues that armed groups that recruit their fighters through the random abduction of strangers use rapeand especially gang rapeto create bonds of loyalty and trust between soldiers. The statistical evidence confirms that armed groups that recruit using abduction are more likely to perpetrate rape than are groups that use voluntary methods, even controlling for other Trade ReviewBrilliant, groundbreaking.... [Cohen’s] ability to address this difficult subject in a way that is analytical and sensitive, and to point to clear policy prescriptions that could apply her findings to very practical solutions to the problem of wartime rape is admirable. Cohen’s approach to generating new data through innovative and careful methodologies is one that future scholars who want to study rape and other sensitive topics should follow. Rape During Civil War is an agenda-setting book, a model of high-quality scholarship and a must-read for anyone interested in stopping rape in conflict before it happens. * The Washington Post *[Cohen's] achievement is to shift the debate away from the question of whether rape most often occurs as a result of a deliberate military strategy, ethnic hatred, or simple opportunism and to instead focus on what she calls 'combatant socialization.' * Foreign Affairs *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Puzzle of Rape in Civil War1. The Logic of Wartime Rape2. Research Strategy, Cross-National Evidence (1980-2012), and Statistical Tests3. Mass Rape by Rebel Actors: Sierra Leone (1991-2002)4. Mass Rape by State Actors: Timor-Leste (1975-1999)5. Less Frequent Rape in Wartime: El Salvador (1980-1992)Conclusion: Understanding and Preventing Rape during Civil War
£97.20
Cornell University Press Rebel Politics
Book SynopsisRebel Politics analyzes the changing dynamics of the civil war in Myanmar, one of the most entrenched armed conflicts in the world. Since 2011, a national peace process has gone hand-in-hand with escalating ethnic conflict. The Karen National Union (KNU), previously known for its uncompromising stance against the central government of Myanmar, became a leader in the peace process after it signed a ceasefire in 2012. Meanwhile, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) returned to the trenches in 2011 after its own seventeen-year-long ceasefire broke down. To understand these puzzling changes, Brenner conducted ethnographic fieldwork among the KNU and KIO, analyzing the relations between rebel leaders, their rank-and-file, and local communities in the context of wider political and geopolitical transformations. Drawing on Political Sociology, Rebel Politics explains how revolutionary elites capture and lose legitimacy within their own movements and how these internal cTrade Review"Rebel Politics is underpinned by years of extraordinary fieldwork, including unprecedented access to the leaders of some of Myanmar's ethnic-minority rebel groups. It is a pathbreaking book, essential reading not only for Myanmar-watchers but also anyone interested in insurgencies and state formation." -- Lee Jones, Queen Mary University of London, author of Societies Under SiegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Note on Citation Introduction: Playing the Long Game 1. Teaching Revenge: Social Aspirations and the Fragmented Subject of Early Modern Conduct Books 2. Feeling Revenge: Emotional Transmission and Contagious Vengeance in Donne's Deaths Duell 3. Fantasizing about Revenge: Vagrancy and the Formation of the Social Body in Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI and Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller 4. Commemorating Revenge: Mourning, Memory, and Retributive Alternatives in the English Interregnum Afterword: What Remains of Civil Vengeance? Bibliography Index
£97.20
Cornell University Press Rebel Politics
Book SynopsisRebel Politics analyzes the changing dynamics of the civil war in Myanmar, one of the most entrenched armed conflicts in the world. Since 2011, a national peace process has gone hand-in-hand with escalating ethnic conflict. The Karen National Union (KNU), previously known for its uncompromising stance against the central government of Myanmar...Trade Review"Rebel Politics is underpinned by years of extraordinary fieldwork, including unprecedented access to the leaders of some of Myanmar's ethnic-minority rebel groups. It is a pathbreaking book, essential reading not only for Myanmar-watchers but also anyone interested in insurgencies and state formation." -- Lee Jones, Queen Mary University of London, author of Societies Under SiegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Note on Citation Introduction: Playing the Long Game 1. Teaching Revenge: Social Aspirations and the Fragmented Subject of Early Modern Conduct Books 2. Feeling Revenge: Emotional Transmission and Contagious Vengeance in Donne's Deaths Duell 3. Fantasizing about Revenge: Vagrancy and the Formation of the Social Body in Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI and Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller 4. Commemorating Revenge: Mourning, Memory, and Retributive Alternatives in the English Interregnum Afterword: What Remains of Civil Vengeance? Bibliography Index
£21.59
John Wiley and Sons Ltd War and Conflict in Africa
Book SynopsisAfter the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them and what were their main characteristics? And what did the world's governments do to stop them? In this fully revised and updated second edition of his popular text, Paul Williams offers an in-depth and wide-ranging assessment of more than six hundred armed conflicts which took place in Africa from 1990 to the present day - from the continental catastrophe in the Great Lakes region to the sprawling conflicts across the Sahel and the web of wars in the Horn of Africa. Taking a broad comparative approach to examine the political contexts in which these wars occurred, he explores the major patterns of organized violence, the key ingredients that provoked them and the major international responses undertaken to deliver lasting peace. Part I, Contexts provides an overview of the most important attempts to measure the number, scale and location of Africa's armed conflicts and provides a conceptual and political sketch of the terrain of struggle upon which these wars were waged. Part II, Ingredients analyses the role of five widely debated features of Africa's wars: the dynamics of neopatrimonial systems of governance; the construction and manipulation of ethnic identities; questions of sovereignty and self-determination; as well as the impact of natural resources and religion. Part III, Responses, discusses four major international reactions to Africa's wars: attempts to build a new institutional architecture to help promote peace and security on the continent; this architecture's two main policy instruments, peacemaking initiatives and peace operations; and efforts to develop the continent. War and Conflict in Africa will be essential reading for all students of international peace and security studies as well as Africa's international relations.Trade Review�War and Conflict in Africa is a fantastic resource for all those who want to learn about the causes, consequences, and solutions to African conflicts. Superbly researched, written, and documented, it manages to cover and synthesize the major debates on war and peace in Africa in a single book.�Séverine Autesserre, Barnard College, Columbia University�Paul Williams knows the politics of conflict and its resolution backwards and forwards. In this bold second edition, he expands his analysis to explain a worrisome upswing in violence in Africa. Full of helpful insights and mastery of the wide literature, Williams explains how the survival strategies of authoritarian regimes are linked to highly fragmented and complex war zones. Superbly revised and expanded, this brilliant book is a landmark in the literature on the politics of conflict.�William Reno, Northwestern University�This impressive book provides a comprehensive overview of wars and conflicts in modern Africa, the ideas that have been used to explain them, and the means that have been deployed in the attempt to overcome them. It is absolutely essential reading for anyone concerned with these issues. The central conclusion that �most of the keys required to unlock the secret of building stable peace on the continent are held by local actors� is one that I wholeheartedly endorse.�Christopher Clapham, Centre of African Studies, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Part I Contexts 1 Counting Africa's Conflicts (and their Casualties) 2 The Terrain of Struggle Part II Ingredients 3 Neopatrimonialism 4 Resources 5 Sovereignty 6 Ethnicity 7 Religion Part III Responses 8 Organization-Building 9 Peacemaking 10 Peace Operations 11 Aid Conclusion Appendix Notes References Index
£58.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd War and Conflict in Africa
Book SynopsisAfter the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them and what were their main characteristics? And what did the world's governments do to stop them? In this fully revised and updated second edition of his popular text, Paul Williams offers an in-depth and wide-ranging assessment of more than six hundred armed conflicts which took place in Africa from 1990 to the present day - from the continental catastrophe in the Great Lakes region to the sprawling conflicts across the Sahel and the web of wars in the Horn of Africa. Taking a broad comparative approach to examine the political contexts in which these wars occurred, he explores the major patterns of organized violence, the key ingredients that provoked them and the major international responses undertaken to deliver lasting peace. Part I, Contexts provides an overview of the most important attempts to measure the number, scale and location of Africa's armed conflicts and provides a conceptual and political sketch of the terrain of struggle upon which these wars were waged. Part II, Ingredients analyses the role of five widely debated features of Africa's wars: the dynamics of neopatrimonial systems of governance; the construction and manipulation of ethnic identities; questions of sovereignty and self-determination; as well as the impact of natural resources and religion. Part III, Responses, discusses four major international reactions to Africa's wars: attempts to build a new institutional architecture to help promote peace and security on the continent; this architecture's two main policy instruments, peacemaking initiatives and peace operations; and efforts to develop the continent. War and Conflict in Africa will be essential reading for all students of international peace and security studies as well as Africa's international relations.Trade ReviewWar and Conflict in Africa is a fantastic resource for all those who want to learn about the causes, consequences, and solutions to African conflicts. Superbly researched, written, and documented, it manages to cover and synthesize the major debates on war and peace in Africa in a single book. Séverine Autesserre, Barnard College, Columbia University“Paul Williams knows the politics of conflict and its resolution backwards and forwards. In this bold second edition, he expands his analysis to explain a worrisome upswing in violence in Africa. Full of helpful insights and mastery of the wide literature, Williams explains how the survival strategies of authoritarian regimes are linked to highly fragmented and complex war zones. Superbly revised and expanded, this brilliant book is a landmark in the literature on the politics of conflict.”William Reno, Northwestern University“This impressive book provides a comprehensive overview of wars and conflicts in modern Africa, the ideas that have been used to explain them, and the means that have been deployed in the attempt to overcome them. It is absolutely essential reading for anyone concerned with these issues. The central conclusion that “most of the keys required to unlock the secret of building stable peace on the continent are held by local actors” is one that I wholeheartedly endorse.”Christopher Clapham, Centre of African Studies, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Part I Contexts 1 Counting Africa's Conflicts (and their Casualties) 2 The Terrain of Struggle Part II Ingredients 3 Neopatrimonialism 4 Resources 5 Sovereignty 6 Ethnicity 7 Religion Part III Responses 8 Organization-Building 9 Peacemaking 10 Peace Operations 11 Aid Conclusion Appendix Notes References Index
£33.24
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Operation Caesar: At the Heart of the Syrian
Book SynopsisNever before has such damning evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity been revealed in the midst of a conflict. As civil war raged in Syria, we owe the disclosure of this evidence to one man. He goes under the codename of Caesar. This military police photographer was required to document the murder and torture of thousands of Syrian civilians in the custody of the Assad regime. Over the course of two years he used a police computer to copy the photos, and in 2013 he risked his life to smuggle out 53,000 photos and documents that show prisoners tortured, starved and burned to death. In January 2015, in the American magazine Foreign Affairs, President Bashar al-Assad claimed that this military photographer didn’t exist. “Who took the pictures? Who is he? Nobody knows. There is no verification of any of this evidence, so it’s all allegations without evidence.” Caesar exists. The author of this book has spent dozens of hours with him. His testimony is extraordinary, his photos shocking. The uncovering of the workings of the Syrian death machine that underpins his account is a descent into the unspeakable. In 2014 Caesar testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and his testimony provided crucial evidence for a bipartisan bill, the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, that was presented to Congress in 2016. Caesar’s photos have also been shown in the United Nations Headquarters in New York and at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. For the first time, this book tells Caesar’s story.Trade ReviewThe winner of the Geschwister Scholl Prize'The images conjure memories of some of history's worst atrocities.'The New York Times'The Syrian defector known as 'Caesar'… helped expose some of the worst war crimes of our generation.'The Washington Post'Shocking evidence of torture out of Assad's dungeons'The GuardianTable of Contents Prologue Locations where the witnesses of this book were detained List of Syrians who bear witness in this book Foreword – Steven Heydeman Preface 1. Revelation. Testimony. Accusation 2. Profession Corpse Photographer 3. The Routine Turns to Horror 4. The Archives of Death 5. Communities and Religions 6. Caught in the Crossfire 7. With the Families of the Disappeared 8. A Duty to Get Out Alive 9. The Failure of Gradual Diplomacy 10. Testimony in Washington Appendices Acknowledgements Select Bibliography
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Islam and the Law of Armed Conflict: Essential
Book SynopsisThis important collection reveals a multiplicity of perspectives on the Islamic law of war and peace. Prefaced by an original introduction, the carefully selected works demonstrate how the concept of Jihad is interpreted or misinterpreted. They also examine the rules applicable during the conduct of armed conflict and the significance of peace and security within Islamic tradition. The collection provides valuable insights into the compatibility of the Islamic law of war and peace and the law of armed conflict, demonstrating how the former could minimise unnecessary human suffering during armed conflict. This book is an essential source of reference for everyone interested in this vital relationship.Trade Review‘The collection provides valuable insights into the compatibility of the Islamic law of war and peace and the law of armed conflict, demonstrating how the former could minimize unnecessary human suffering during armed conflict. Islam and the Law of Armed Conflict is an essential source of reference for everyone interested in this vital relationship.’Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Niaz A. Shah PART I JIHAD: THE USE OF FORCE UNDER ISLAMIC LAW 1. Imam Mahmoud Muhammad Shaltut (2012), ‘The Verses of Combat (Ayaatul Qitaal)’, in The Qur’an and Combat. English Monograph Series, No. 18, (translated by Lamya Al-Khraisha), Chapter 4, Amman, Jordan: The Royal Aal Al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, 33–47 2. Imam Mahmoud Muhammad Shaltut (2012), ‘The Verses that Organise Combat’, in The Qur’an and Combat. English Monograph Series, No. 18, (translated by Lamya Al-Khraisha), Chapter 6, Amman, Jordan: The Royal Aal Al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, 53–76 3. Niaz A. Shah (2013), ‘The Use of Force under Islamic Law’, European Journal of International Law, 24 (1), February, 343–65 4. M. Cherif Bassiouni (2007), ‘Evolving Approaches to Jihad: From Self-defense to Revolutionary and Regime-Change Political Violence’, Chicago Journal of International Law, 8 (1), Summer, 119–46 5. Noor Mohammad (1985), ‘The Doctrine of Jihad: An Introduction’, Journal of Law and Religion, 3 (2), 381–98 6. Mahmood Ahmad Ghazi (2008), ‘The Law of War and Concept of Jihad in Islam’, Policy Perspectives, 5 (1), January–June 7. Noor ul Haq (2007), ‘Misperception about Violence in Islam: Causes and Remedies’, Islamabad Policy Research Institute Journal, VII (1), Winter, 59–76 8. Abdul Ghafur Hamid @ Khin Maung Sein (2009), ‘Islamic International Law and the Right of Self-Defense of States’, Journal of East Asia and International Law, 2 (1), 67–101 9. Nelly Lahoud (2011), ‘The Pitfalls of Jihad as an Individual Duty (Fard ‘Ayn)’, in M. Cherif Bassiouni and Amna Guellali (eds), Jihad and its Challenges to International and Domestic Law, Part One, The Hague, The Netherlands: Hague Academic Press, 87–106 10. Shaheen Sardar Ali and Javaid Rehman (2005), ‘The Concept of Jihad in Islamic International Law’, Journal of Conflict and Security Law, 10 (3), Winter, 321–43 11. Onder Bakircioglu (2010), ‘A Socio-Legal Analysis of the Concept of Jihad’, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 59 (2), April, 413–40 12. Hilmi M. Zawati (2001), ‘Theory of War in Islamic and Public International Law’, in Is Jihad Just War? War, Peace and Human Rights under Islamic and Public International Law, Chapter One, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 9–47 13. Hilmi M. Zawati (2001), ‘Jihad and International Relations’, in Is Jihad Just War? War, Peace and Human Rights under Islamic and Public International Law, Chapter Two, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 49–84 14. HE Shaykh Ali Gomaa (2013), ‘A Fatwa on Jihad’, in HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, Ibrahim Kalin and Mohammad Hashim Kamali (eds), War and Peace in Islam: The Uses and Abuses of Jihad, Chapter 6, Amman, Jordan: MABDA (The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre), 153–64 15. Niaz A. Shah (2012), ‘The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: A Layeha [Rules and Regulations] for Mujahidin’, Studies and Conflict in Terrorism, 35 (6), 456–70 PART II ISLAMIC LAW OF QITAL (ARMED CONFLICT) 16. Niaz A. Shah (2011), ‘The Islamic law of qital’, in Islamic Law and the Law of Armed Conflict: The Armed Conflict in Pakistan, Chapter 2, Abingdon, UK and New York, NY: Routledge, 31–59 17. Matthias Vanhullebusch (2006–2007), ‘General Principles of Islamic Law of War: A Reassessment’, Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, 13 (1), 37–56 18. Troy S. Thomas (2002–2003), ‘Jihad’s Captives: Prisoners of War in Islam’, USAF Journal of Legal Studies, 12, 87–101 19. Muhammad al-Hasan al-Shaybani (2004), Kitab Al-Siyar Al-Saghir: The Shorter Book on Muslim International Law (translated by Mahmood Ahmad Gazi), New Delhi: Adam Publishers & Distributors, 43–110 20. Maryam Elahi (1987–1988), ‘The Rights of the Child Under Islamic Law: Prohibition of the Child Soldier’, Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 19 (2), Spring, 259–79 21. Anke I. Bouzenita (2011), ‘The Principle of Neutrality and “Islamic International Law” (Siyar)’, Global Jurist, 11 (1), i, 1–34 22. Mohammad Hashim Kamali (2013), ‘Dhimmi and Musta’min: A Juristic and Historical Perspective’, in HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, Ibrahim Kalin and Mohammad Hashim Kamali (eds), War and Peace in Islam: The Uses and Abuses of Jihad, Chapter 12, Amman, Jordan: MABDA (The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre), 304–14 PART III ARMED CONFLICT AMONG MUSLIMS: INTERNAL ARMED CONFLICT 23. Niaz A. Shah (2011), ‘The Islamic law of qital among Muslims’, in Islamic Law and the Law of Armed Conflict: The Armed Conflict in Pakistan, Chapter 2, Abingdon, UK and New York, NY: Routledge, 60–70 24. Khaled Abou El Fadl (2001), ‘The Doctrinal Foundations of the Laws of Rebellion’, in Rebellion and Violence in Islamic Law, Chapter 2, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 32–61 25. Ahmed Al-Dawoody (2011), ‘Internal Hostilities and Terrorism’, in The Islamic Law of War: Justifications and Regulations, Chapter 5, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 147–96 26. Sadia Tabassum (2011), ‘Combatants, not Bandits: The Status of Rebels in Islamic Law’, International Review of the Red Cross, 93 (881), March, 121–39 27. Frank E. Vogel (2002), ‘The Trial of Terrorists Under Classical Islamic Law’, Harvard International Law Journal, 43 (1), Winter, 53–64 28. Naveed Sheikh (2013), ‘Body Count: A Comparative Quantitative Study of Mass Killings in History’, in HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, Ibrahim Kalin and Mohammad Hashim Kamali (eds), War and Peace in Islam: The Uses and Abuses of Jihad, Chapter 7, Amman, Jordan: MABDA (The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre), 165–214 PART IV PEACE AND SECURITY IN ISLAM 29. Ibrahim Kalin (2013), ‘Islam and Peace: A Survey of The Sources of Peace in the Islamic Tradition’, in HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, Ibrahim Kalin and Mohammad Hashim Kamali (eds), War and Peace in Islam: The Uses and Abuses of Jihad, Chapter 8, Amman, Jordan: MABDA (The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre), 217–49 30. Karim Douglas Crow (2013), ‘The Concept of Peace / Security (Salm) in Islam’, in HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, Ibrahim Kalin and Mohammad Hashim Kamali (eds), War and Peace in Islam: The Uses and Abuses of Jihad, Chapter 9, Amman, Jordan: MABDA (The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre), 250–68 31. Mohamed Elewa Badar (2013), ‘Ius in Bello under Islamic International Law’, International Criminal Law Review, 13 (3), 593–625 PART V ISLAMIC LAW AND THE LAW OF ARMED CONFLICT 32. James Cockayne (2002), ‘Islam and International Humanitarian Law: From a Clash to a Conversation Between Civilizations’, International Review of the Red Cross, 84 (847), September, 597–626 33. Adam L. Silverman (2002), ‘Just War, Jihad, and Terrorism: A Comparison of Western and Islamic Norms for the Use of Political Violence’, Journal of Church and State, 44 (1), Winter, 73–92 Index
£397.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Civilization and War
Book SynopsisCivilization and War is an exceptionally erudite and timely meditation on the close relationship between civilization, progress and war in modern political thought and policy from the Enlightenment to the war on terror. It is a fitting complement to Dr. Bowden's path-breaking study, The Empire of Civilization (2009).'- James Tully, University of Victoria, Canada'Civilization and War addresses a concern of all thinking persons in elegant language with erudition to match. Bowden's readers will profit by stretching their minds, learn much to mull over and discuss with their friends.'- William H. McNeill, University of Chicago, US'A lucid, wide-ranging and fascinating discussion of how 'civilization' has given rise to ideals of peace and progress and is - perhaps inescapably - prone to technologically-advanced, destructive warfare.'- Andrew Linklater, Aberystwyth University, UK'Following his award-winning The Empire of Civilization, Brett Bowden's Civilization and War is a much-needed corrective to Kantian hopes for cosmopolitan governance. Short as it may be, this is an eminently readable book that rightfully poses uncomfortable questions with regard to the inextricable link between 'civilization' and 'barbarism.' It is also a reminder, however, to political realists to take the ethical questions of armed conflict more seriously. Such violence is overcome less by normative moral frameworks than by the actual practices of migration and cooperation as much as by exchanges of goods and ideas.'- Christian Emden, Rice University, USCivilization and war were born around the same time in roughly the same place they have effectively grown up together. This challenges the belief that the more civilized we become, the less likely the resort to war in order to resolve differences and disputes. The related assumption that civilized societies are more likely to abide by the rules of war is also in dispute. Where does terrorism fit into debates about civilized and savage war? What are we to make of talk about an impending 'clash of civilizations'? In a succinct yet wide ranging survey of history and of ideas that calls in to question a number of conventional wisdoms, Civilization and War explores these issues and more whilst outlining the two-way relationship between civilization and war.Providing an alternative perspective to conventional thinking, this book will appeal to a wide interdisciplinary audience across all regions of the globe. The material is both original and highly topical and is written in a sharp, snappy style that makes it accessible to a wide readership, including upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, academic specialists and informed general readers. Civilization and War makes important contributions to the fields of international relations, peace and conflict studies, political theory and the history of ideas, and will be of interest to people with a curiosity about world history and current affairs.Contents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Civilization and Peace 3. Civilization and War 4. Civilization and Savagery 5. Civilization, War, and Terror 6. Us and Them at War 7. Civilizations at War? Bibliography IndexTrade Review‘This book may well suit every reader. It covers a very broad topic by taking a closer look at the relationship between civilization and war. Brett Bowden offers in fewer than 210 pages much of what one needs to reflect on the largely neglected relationship between civilization and war. As is the case with any good book, this one raises more questions than answers and offers through numerous chapter notes and its? ?bibliography the opportunity for readers to explore further the many topics addressed. The writing style makes it possible to reach an? ?audience broader than just academic. Although the book is physically small in size, the creation of a single synthesis of ideas makes it? ?worthwhile for anyone who wishes to approach, with the critical distance required, the important issues of the relationship between? ?civilization and war.?'? -- Bruno André Giraudon?, Journal of Conflict Management?‘Bowden raises many salient points in his book. War in all its fury certainly remains a persistent feature of human relations. The amounts of money societies devote to war preparation demonstrate the high priority placed on violent activity. Certainly, the ongoing violence in Iraq, Syria, and Nigeria show the persistence of war despite international efforts to contain such conflicts. Bowden's observations clearly remain poignant for today's world.’ -- The Historian‘Civilization and War is an exceptionally erudite and timely meditation on the close relationship between civilization, progress and war in modern political thought and policy from the Enlightenment to the war on terror. It is a fitting complement to Dr. Bowden’s path-breaking study, The Empire of Civilization (2009).’ -- James Tully, University of Victoria, Canada‘Civilization and War addresses a concern of all thinking persons in elegant language with erudition to match. Bowden’s readers will profit by stretching their minds, learn much to mull over and discuss with their friends.’ -- William H. McNeill, University of Chicago, US‘A lucid, wide-ranging and fascinating discussion of how “civilization” has given rise to ideals of peace and progress and is – perhaps inescapably – prone to technologically-advanced, destructive warfare.’ -- Andrew Linklater, Aberystwyth University, UK‘Bowden clearly identi?es the constellation of concepts that coalesce around civilization and war. . . The paradox of civilization and war at the heart of this book is not a new discovery, but it is an important one. Simply stated, it notes that as civilization has grown so has war-making such that these two go and grow together. The paradoxical nature of this relationship, of growing civilization leading to an increase in militarization and con?icts, is a sharp contrast to the rhetoric of peace that emerges from liberal democratic states. Identifying this contrast is important, and Bowden does this very well.’ -- Mark Erickson, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology‘Following his award-winning The Empire of Civilization, Brett Bowden’s Civilization and War is a much-needed corrective to Kantian hopes for cosmopolitan governance. Short as it may be, this is an eminently readable book that rightfully poses uncomfortable questions with regard to the inextricable link between “civilization” and “barbarism.” It is also a reminder, however, to political realists to take the ethical questions of armed conflict more seriously. Such violence is overcome less by normative moral frameworks than by the actual practices of migration and cooperation as much as by exchanges of goods and ideas.’ -- Christian Emden, Rice University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Civilization and Peace 3. Civilization and War 4. Civilization and Savagery 5. Civilization, War, and Terror 6. Us and Them at War 7. Civilizations at War? Bibliography Index
£90.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Civilization and War
Book SynopsisCivilization and War is an exceptionally erudite and timely meditation on the close relationship between civilization, progress and war in modern political thought and policy from the Enlightenment to the war on terror. It is a fitting complement to Dr. Bowden's path-breaking study, The Empire of Civilization (2009).'- James Tully, University of Victoria, Canada'Civilization and War addresses a concern of all thinking persons in elegant language with erudition to match. Bowden's readers will profit by stretching their minds, learn much to mull over and discuss with their friends.'- William H. McNeill, University of Chicago, US'A lucid, wide-ranging and fascinating discussion of how 'civilization' has given rise to ideals of peace and progress and is - perhaps inescapably - prone to technologically-advanced, destructive warfare.'- Andrew Linklater, Aberystwyth University, UK'Following his award-winning The Empire of Civilization, Brett Bowden's Civilization and War is a much-needed corrective to Kantian hopes for cosmopolitan governance. Short as it may be, this is an eminently readable book that rightfully poses uncomfortable questions with regard to the inextricable link between 'civilization' and 'barbarism.' It is also a reminder, however, to political realists to take the ethical questions of armed conflict more seriously. Such violence is overcome less by normative moral frameworks than by the actual practices of migration and cooperation as much as by exchanges of goods and ideas.'- Christian Emden, Rice University, USCivilization and war were born around the same time in roughly the same place they have effectively grown up together. This challenges the belief that the more civilized we become, the less likely the resort to war in order to resolve differences and disputes. The related assumption that civilized societies are more likely to abide by the rules of war is also in dispute. Where does terrorism fit into debates about civilized and savage war? What are we to make of talk about an impending 'clash of civilizations'? In a succinct yet wide ranging survey of history and of ideas that calls in to question a number of conventional wisdoms, Civilization and War explores these issues and more whilst outlining the two-way relationship between civilization and war.Providing an alternative perspective to conventional thinking, this book will appeal to a wide interdisciplinary audience across all regions of the globe. The material is both original and highly topical and is written in a sharp, snappy style that makes it accessible to a wide readership, including upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, academic specialists and informed general readers. Civilization and War makes important contributions to the fields of international relations, peace and conflict studies, political theory and the history of ideas, and will be of interest to people with a curiosity about world history and current affairs.Contents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Civilization and Peace 3. Civilization and War 4. Civilization and Savagery 5. Civilization, War, and Terror 6. Us and Them at War 7. Civilizations at War? Bibliography IndexTrade Review‘This book may well suit every reader. It covers a very broad topic by taking a closer look at the relationship between civilization and war. Brett Bowden offers in fewer than 210 pages much of what one needs to reflect on the largely neglected relationship between civilization and war. As is the case with any good book, this one raises more questions than answers and offers through numerous chapter notes and its? ?bibliography the opportunity for readers to explore further the many topics addressed. The writing style makes it possible to reach an? ?audience broader than just academic. Although the book is physically small in size, the creation of a single synthesis of ideas makes it? ?worthwhile for anyone who wishes to approach, with the critical distance required, the important issues of the relationship between? ?civilization and war.?'? -- Bruno André Giraudon?, Journal of Conflict Management?‘Bowden raises many salient points in his book. War in all its fury certainly remains a persistent feature of human relations. The amounts of money societies devote to war preparation demonstrate the high priority placed on violent activity. Certainly, the ongoing violence in Iraq, Syria, and Nigeria show the persistence of war despite international efforts to contain such conflicts. Bowden's observations clearly remain poignant for today's world.’ -- The Historian‘Civilization and War is an exceptionally erudite and timely meditation on the close relationship between civilization, progress and war in modern political thought and policy from the Enlightenment to the war on terror. It is a fitting complement to Dr. Bowden’s path-breaking study, The Empire of Civilization (2009).’ -- James Tully, University of Victoria, Canada‘Civilization and War addresses a concern of all thinking persons in elegant language with erudition to match. Bowden’s readers will profit by stretching their minds, learn much to mull over and discuss with their friends.’ -- William H. McNeill, University of Chicago, US‘A lucid, wide-ranging and fascinating discussion of how “civilization” has given rise to ideals of peace and progress and is – perhaps inescapably – prone to technologically-advanced, destructive warfare.’ -- Andrew Linklater, Aberystwyth University, UK‘Bowden clearly identi?es the constellation of concepts that coalesce around civilization and war. . . The paradox of civilization and war at the heart of this book is not a new discovery, but it is an important one. Simply stated, it notes that as civilization has grown so has war-making such that these two go and grow together. The paradoxical nature of this relationship, of growing civilization leading to an increase in militarization and con?icts, is a sharp contrast to the rhetoric of peace that emerges from liberal democratic states. Identifying this contrast is important, and Bowden does this very well.’ -- Mark Erickson, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology‘Following his award-winning The Empire of Civilization, Brett Bowden’s Civilization and War is a much-needed corrective to Kantian hopes for cosmopolitan governance. Short as it may be, this is an eminently readable book that rightfully poses uncomfortable questions with regard to the inextricable link between “civilization” and “barbarism.” It is also a reminder, however, to political realists to take the ethical questions of armed conflict more seriously. Such violence is overcome less by normative moral frameworks than by the actual practices of migration and cooperation as much as by exchanges of goods and ideas.’ -- Christian Emden, Rice University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Civilization and Peace 3. Civilization and War 4. Civilization and Savagery 5. Civilization, War, and Terror 6. Us and Them at War 7. Civilizations at War? Bibliography Index
£23.95
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Law on the Use of Force and Armed Conflict
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive four-volume compilation presents seminal works from leading authors on the use of force and armed conflict, beginning with detailed analysis of the prohibition of forcible intervention, including interpretation of the rule and notable exceptions to it. In addition, the collection offers a wealth of important material on the law of armed conflict in connection with its foundations, applicability, sources, substance, practical application, and implementation. Together with an original introduction by the editors, the collection provides a thorough grounding in the law relating to the initial use of force and subsequent armed conflict, and is an essential source of reference for practitioners, academics and students alike.Trade Review‘Cryer and Henderson have assembled a superb collection of articles on the use of force and the law of armed conflict, one that intelligently and comprehensively explores all sides of the numerous controversies that characterise both areas of international law. Given the deluge of writing they had to choose from, that is a remarkable feat. Any international lawyer will want a copy of this collection in their university library and on their bookshelf.’ -- Kevin Jon Heller, Australian National University, Australia and University of Amsterdam, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Robert Cryer and Christian Henderson PART I THE GENERAL PROHIBITION OF FORCIBLE INTERVENTION 1. Joachim von Elbe (1939), ‘The Evolution of the Concept of the Just War in International Law’, American Journal of International Law, 33 (4), October, 665–88 2. Sir John Fischer Williams (1933), ‘The Covenant of the League of Nations and War’, Cambridge Law Journal, V (1), March, 1–21 3. J.L. Brierly (1929), ‘Some Implications of the Pact of Paris’, British Year Book of International Law, 10, 208–10 4. Vaughan Lowe (1994), ‘The Principle of Non-Intervention: Use of Force’, in Colin Warbrick and Vaughan Lowe (eds), The United Nations and the Principles of International Law: Essays in Memory of Michael Akehurst, Chapter 4, London, UK and New York, NY, USA: Routledge, 66–84 5. Thomas M. Franck (1970), ‘Who Killed Article 2(4)? Or: Changing Norms Governing the Use of Force by States’, American Journal of International Law, 64 (5), October, 809–37 6. Louis Henkin (1971), ‘The Reports of the Death of Article 2(4) Are Greatly Exaggerated’, American Journal of International Law, 65 (3), July, 544–48 7. James A. Green (2011), ‘Questioning the Peremptory Status of the Prohibition of the Use of Force’, Michigan Journal of International Law, 32 (2), Winter, 215–57 8. Agatha Verdebout (2014), 'The Contemporary Discourse on the Use of Force in the Nineteenth Century: A Diachronic and Critical Analysis', Journal on the Use of Force and International Law, 1 (2), 223–46 9. Marco Roscini (2007), ‘Threats of Armed Force and Contemporary International Law’, Netherlands International Law Review, LIV (2), August, 229–77 PART II READINGS OF THE GENERAL PROHIBITION OF FORCIBLE INTERVENTION 10. W. Michael Reisman (1984), ‘Coercion and Self-Determination: Construing Charter Article 2(4)’, American Journal of International Law, 78 (3), July, 642–45 11. Oscar Schachter (1984), ‘The Legality of Pro-Democratic Invasion’, American Journal of International Law, 78 (3), July, 645–50 12. Louise Doswald-Beck (1985), ‘The Legal Validity of Military Intervention by Invitation of the Government’, British Year Book of International Law, LVI (1), 189–252 13. Christopher J. Le Mon (2003), ‘Unilateral Intervention by Invitation in Civil Wars: The Effective Control Test Tested’, New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, 35 (3), Spring, 741–93 14. John A. Perkins (1987), ‘The Right of Counterintervention’, Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, 17 (2), 171–227 15. Christian Henderson (2013), ‘The Provision of Arms and “Non-Lethal” Assistance to Governmental and Opposition Forces’, University of New South Wales Law Journal, 36 (2), 642–81 16. Derek Bowett (1972), ‘Reprisals Involving Recourse to Armed Force’, American Journal of International Law, 66 (1), January, 1–36 17. Tom Ruys (2008), ‘The “Protection of Nationals” Doctrine Revisited’, Journal of Conflict and Security Law, 13 (2), 233–71 18. Thomas M. Franck and Nigel S. Rodley (1973), ‘After Bangladesh: The Law of Humanitarian Intervention by Military Force’, American Journal of International Law, 67 (2), April, 275–305 19. Bruno Simma (1999), ‘NATO, the UN and the Use of Force: Legal Aspects’, European Journal of International Law, 10 (1), 1–22 20. Antonio Cassese (1999), ‘Ex iniuria ius oritur: Are We Moving towards International Legitimation of Forcible Humanitarian Countermeasures in the World Community?’, European Journal of International Law, 10 (1), 23–30 21. Christine Gray (2013), ‘The Use of Force for Humanitarian Purposes’, in Nigel D. White and Christian Henderson (eds), Research Handbook on International Conflict and Security Law: Jus ad Bellum, Jus in Bello and Jus post Bellum, Chapter 7, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 229–55 22. Christine Gray (2013), ‘The International Court of Justice and the Use of Force’, in Christian J. Tams and James Sloan (eds), The Development of International Law by the International Court of Justice, Chapter 11, New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press, 237–61 Volume II Introduction An introduction by the editors appears in Volume I PART I FORCIBLE MEASURES UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE UNITED NATIONS 1. Oscar Schachter (1991), ‘United Nations Law in the Gulf Conflict’, American Journal of International Law, 85 (3), July, 452–73 2. Ruth Gordon (1994), ‘United Nations Intervention in Internal Conflicts: Iraq, Somalia, and Beyond’, Michigan Journal of International Law, 15 (2), Winter, 519–89 3. Yasushi Akashi (1995), ‘The Use of Force in a United Nations Peace-Keeping Operation: Lessons Learnt from the Safe Areas Mandate’, Fordham International Law Journal, 19 (2), 312–23 4. Ugo Villani (2002), ‘The Security Council’s Authorization of Enforcement Action by Regional Organizations’, Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, 6, 535–57 5. Jules Lobel and Michael Ratner (1999), ‘Bypassing the Security Council: Ambiguous Authorizations to Use Force, Cease-Fires, and the Iraqi Inspection Regime’, American Journal of International Law, 93 (1), January, 124–54 6. Niels Blokker (2000), ‘Is the Authorization Authorized? Powers and Practice of the UN Security Council to Authorize the Use of Force by “Coalitions of the Able and Willing”’, European Journal of International Law, 11 (3), 541–68 7. Dino Kritsiotis (2004), ‘Arguments of Mass Confusion’, European Journal of International Law, 15 (2), 233–78 8. Sean D. Murphy (2004), ‘Assessing the Legality of Invading Iraq’, Georgetown Law Journal, 92 (4), 173–257 9. Nigel D. White (2004), ‘The Will and Authority of the Security Council after Iraq’, Leiden Journal of International Law, 17 (4), December, 645–72 10. Andrew J. Carswell (2013), ‘Unblocking the UN Security Council: The Uniting for Peace Resolution’, Journal of Conflict and Security Law, 18 (3), Winter, 453–80 PART II: FORCIBLE MEASURES IN UNILATERAL AND COLLECTIVE SELF-DEFENCE 11. Ian Brownlie (1961), ‘The Use of Force in Self-Defence’, British Year Book of International Law, 27, 183–268 12. D.W Bowett (1955–56), ‘Collective Self-Defence under the Charter of the United Nations’, British Year Book of International Law, 32, 130–61 [32] 13. D.W. Greig (1991), ‘Self-Defence and the Security Council: What Does Article 51 Require?’, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 40 (2), April, 366–402 14. Michael Byers (2002), ‘Terrorism, The Use of Force and International Law after 11 September’, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 51 (2), April, 401–14 15. Elizabeth Wilmshurst (2006), ‘The Chatham House Principles of International Law on the Use of Force in Self-Defence’, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 55 (4), October, 963–72 16. Kimberley N. Trapp (2007), ‘Back to Basics: Necessity, Proportionality, and the Right of Self-Defence against Non-State Terrorist Actors’, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 56 (1), January, 141–56 17. Christian J. Tams (2009), ‘The Use of Force against Terrorists’, European Journal of International Law, 20 (2), 359–97 18. Theresa Reinold (2011), ‘State Weakness, Irregular Warfare, and the Right to Self-Defense Post-9/11’, American Journal of International Law, 105 (2), April, 244–286 19. Michael Bothe (2003), ‘Terrorism and the Legality of Pre-emptive Force’, European Journal of International Law, 14 (2), 227–40 20. Christopher Greenwood (2003), ‘International Law and the Pre-emptive Use of Force: Afghanistan, Al-Qaida, and Iraq’, San Diego International Law Journal, 4, May, 7–37 21. Daniel Bethlehem (2012), ‘Self-Defense against an Imminent or Actual Armed Attack by Nonstate Actors’, American Journal of International Law, 106 (4), October, 770–77 22. Michael N. Schmitt (1999), ‘Computer Network Attack and the Use of Force in International Law: Thoughts on a Normative Framework’, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, 37 (3), 885–937 Volume III Introduction An introduction by the editors appears in Volume I PART I NATURE AND INFLUENCES 1. Theodor Meron (2000), ‘The Humanization of Humanitarian Law’, American Journal of International Law, 94 (2), April, 239–78 2. Chris af Jochnick and Roger Normand (1994), ‘The Legitimation of Violence: A Critical History of the Laws of War’, Harvard International Law Journal, 35 (1), Winter, 49–95 3. John B. Bellinger III and Vijay M. Padmanabhan (2011), ‘Detention Operations in Contemporary Conflicts: Four Challenges for the Geneva Conventions and Other Existing Law’, American Journal of International Law, 105 (2), April, 201–43 4. Frédéric Mégret (2006), ‘From “Savages” to “Unlawful Combatants”: A Postcolonial Look at International Humanitarian Law's “Other”’, in Anne Orford (ed.), International Law and its Others, Chapter 11, New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 265–317 PART II APPLICABILITY AND RELATIONSHIPS 5. Christopher Greenwood (1987), ‘The Concept of War in Modern International Law’, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 36 (2), April, 283–306 6. Christopher Greenwood (1983), ‘The Relationship between Ius ad bellum and Ius in Bello’, Review of International Studies, 9 (4), October, 221–34 7. Alexander Orakhelashvili (2007), ‘Overlap and Convergence: The Interaction between Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello’, Journal of Conflict and Security Law, 12 (2), Spring, 157–96 8. Heike Krieger (2006), ‘A Conflict of Norms: The Relationship between Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law in the ICRC Customary Study’, Journal of Conflict and Security Law, 11 (2), Summer, 265–91 9. Dapo Akande (2012), ‘Classification of Armed Conflicts: Relevant Legal Concepts’, in Elizabeth Wilmshurst (ed.), International Law and the Classification of Conflicts, Chapter 3, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 32–79 10. James G. Stewart (2003), ‘Towards a Single Definition of Armed Conflict in International Humanitarian Law: A Critique of Internationalized Armed Conflict’, International Review of the Red Cross, 85 (850), June, 313–49 11. Sandesh Sivakumaran (2006), ‘Binding Armed Opposition Groups’, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 55 (2), April, 369–94 12. Nicolas Lamp (2011), ‘Conceptions of War and Paradigms of Compliance: The “New War” Challenge to International Humanitarian Law’, Journal of Conflict and Security Law, 16 (2), July, 225–62 13. Hans-Peter Gasser, (2002) ‘Acts of Terror, “Terrorism” and International Humanitarian Law’, International Review of the Red Cross, 84 (847), September, 547–70 14. Michael Schmitt (2012), ‘Classification of Cyber Conflict’, Journal of Conflict and Security Law, 17 (2), Summer, 245–60 PART III SOURCES 15. Theodor Meron (1987), ‘The Geneva Conventions as Customary Law’, American Journal of International Law, 81 (2), April, 348–70 16. Jean-Marie Henckaerts (2005), ‘Study on Customary International Humanitarian Law: A Contribution to the Understanding and Respect for the Rule of Law in Armed Conflict’, International Review of the Red Cross, 87 (857), March, 175–212 17. Jean-Marie Henckaerts (2007), ‘Customary International Humanitarian Law: A Response to US Comments’, International Review of the Red Cross, 89 (866), June, 473–488 18. Antonio Cassese (2000), ‘The Martens Clause: Half a Loaf or Simply Pie in the Sky?’, European Journal of International Law, 11 (1), 187–216 19. Theodor Meron (2000), ‘The Martens Clause, Principles of Humanity, and Dictates of Public Conscience’, American Journal of International Law, 94 (1), January, 78–89 20. Robert Cryer (2006), ‘Of Custom, Treaties, Scholars and the Gavel: The Influence of the International Criminal Tribunals on the ICRC Customary Law Study’, Journal of Conflict and Security Law, 11 (2), Summer, 239–63 Volume IV Introduction An introduction by the editors appears in Volume I PART I SELECTED SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES 1. Major Richard R. Baxter (1951), ‘So-Called “Unprivileged Belligerency”: Spies, Guerrillas, and Saboteurs’, British Year Book of International Law, 28, 323–45 2. Nils Melzer (2008), ‘Interpretative Guidance on the Notion of Direct Participation in Hostilities under International Humanitarian Law’, International Review of the Red Cross, 90 (872), December, 991–1047 3. Nils Melzer (2010), ‘Keeping the Balance between Military Necessity and Humanity: A Response to Four Critiques of the ICRC's Interpretive Guidance on the Notion of Direct Participation in Hostilities’, New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, 42 (3), Spring, 831–916 4. Marco Roscini (2005), ‘Targeting and Contemporary Aerial Bombardment’, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 54 (2), April, 411–43 5. Adam Roberts (1984), ’What is a Military Occupation?’, British Year Book of International Law, 55 (1), 249–305 6. David J. Scheffer (2003), ‘Beyond Occupation Law’, American Journal of International Law, 97 (4), October, 842–60 7. Christopher Greenwood (1998), ‘The Law of Weaponry at the Start of the New Millennium’, in Michael N. Schmitt and Leslie C. Green (eds), International Law Studies: Volume 71 – The Law of Armed Conflict: Into the Next Millennium, Chapter 7, Newport, RI, USA: Naval War College, 185–231 8. Louise Doswald-Beck (1995), ‘The San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea’, American Journal of International Law, 89 (1), January, 192–208 PART II PRACTICAL APPLICATION 9. Michael Bothe (2001), ‘The Protection of the Civilian Population and NATO Bombing on Yugoslavia: Comments on a Report to the Prosecutor of the ICTY’, European Journal of International Law, 12 (3), 531–35 10. Robert Cryer (2002), ‘The Fine Art of Friendship: Jus in Bello in Afghanistan’, Journal of Conflict and Security Law, 7 (1), April, 37–83 11. Diane Marie Amann (2004), ‘Guantánamo’, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, 42 (2), 263–348 12. Lindsey Cameron (2006), ‘Private Military Companies: Their Status under International Humanitarian Law and its Impact on their Regulation’, International Review of the Red Cross, 88 (863), September, 573–98 PART III IMPLEMENTATION 13. Peter Rowe (2008), ‘Military Misconduct during International Armed Operations: "Bad Apples" or Systemic Failure?’, Journal of Conflict and Security Law, 13 (2), Summer, 165–89 14. Steven R. Ratner (2011), ‘Law Promotion beyond Law Talk: The Red Cross, Persuasion, and the Laws of War’, European Journal of International Law, 22 (2), 459–506 15. Frits Kalshoven (1999), ‘The Undertaking to Respect and Ensure Respect in All Circumstances: From Tiny Seed to Ripening Fruit’, Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, 2, December, 3–61 16. Rogier Bartels (2013), ‘Discrepancies between International Humanitarian Law on the Battlefield and in the Courtroom: The Challenges of Applying International Humanitarian Law during International Criminal Trials’, in Mariëlle Matthee, Brigit Toebes and Marcel Brus (eds), Armed Conflict and International Law: In Search of the Human Face – Liber Amicorum in Memory of Avril McDonald, Chapter 14, The Hague, the Netherlands: T.M.C Asser Press, 339–78 17. Christopher Greenwood (1996), ‘International Humanitarian Law and the Tadic Case’, European Journal of International Law, 7 (2), 265–83 18. Frits Kalshoven (2003), ‘Reprisals and the Protection of Civilians: Two Recent Decisions of the Yugoslavia Tribunal’ in Lal Chand Vohrah, Fausto Pocar, Yvonne Featherstone, Olivier Fourmy, Christine Graham, John Hocking and Nicholas Robson (eds), Man’s Inhumanity to Man: Essays on International Law in Honour of Antonio Cassese, Chapter 23, The Hague, the Netherlands: Kluwer Law International, 481–509 Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Research Agenda for Military Geographies
Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. A Research Agenda for Military Geographies explores how military activities and phenomena are shaped by geography, and how geographies are in turn shaped by military practices. A variety of future research agendas are mapped out, examining the questions faced by geographers when studying the military and its effects. Bringing together chapters from leading contributors, this Research Agenda explores a range of geographical places, spaces, environments and landscapes, examining peoples' experiences of the military in a variety of contexts. Chapters investigate key topics from armed conflict to its aftermath, as well as the study of the economic, social, political and cultural practices that make war possible. Providing interdisciplinary insights to military geography issues in European, North American, African and Asian contexts, this timely book sets out key areas of scholarship for discussion. Advanced students of critical geography and geopolitics studies as well as military studies, will greatly appreciate the suggestions for future research that sits at the heart of the book. Human geographers more broadly will find this a useful read in analysing the interdependent relationships between the military and place and space.Trade Review‘Fans of military geography have earned a unique addition to the bookshelf in the past year. This book brings with it significant news in two different ways. First, it compiles an impressive collection of fourteen articles in the field of military geography, from different writers, different countries and different disciplines. Second, and even more significant, the book outlines an innovative and fascinating perspective on the direction in which military geography should develop.’ -- Yuval Knaan, Geography Research Forum‘At once an inventory, history and programme for military geography, this collection will appeal to all scholars with a critical interest in militarism, war and alternatives to them. And for any geographers who consider their studies as unconcerned with military matters, it is an invitation to think again.’ -- James D Sidaway, National University of Singapore'At once an inventory, history and programme for military geography, this collection will appeal to all scholars with a critical interest in militarism, war and alternatives to them. And for any geographers who consider their studies as unconcerned with military matters, it is an invitation to think again.' --James D Sidaway, National University of Singapore'Assembled by perhaps the most pivotal figure in the geographic study of militaries and militarisation, these chapters offer provocative reflections and myriad lines of flight for future inquiry. The varied and exciting contributions, including those from several junior scholars, signal both the promise and the significance of the field.' --Matthew Farish, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: a research agenda for military geography Rachel Woodward 2. Approaches to researching and teaching military geography Andrew D. Lohman and Christopher Fuhriman 3. Geography, genocide and global militarism: an agenda for the 21st century James Tyner and Gordon A. Cromley 4. Geographies of nuclear warfare: future spaces, zones and technologies Becky Alexis-Martin 5. More blue, less green: considering what an aerial perspective can bring to military geography research Alison J. Williams 6. Bad things happen in the desert: mapping security regimes in the West African Sahel and the ‘problem’ of arid spaces Brittany Meché 7. Researching the intersections between war, law and military geography Craig Jones 8. Military geoeconomics: money, finance and war Emily Gilbert 9. Towards an everyday military geography: materialities, actors, practices Chih Yuan Woon 10. Spirituality and African military geography: soldiers’ deployments Edmore Chitukutuku and Godfrey Maringira 11. The geographies of military masculinities: a feminist research agenda Matthew Kearns 12. Encountering the ‘lively’ in military theatre Alice Cree 13. Confounding restoration: environmental politics and ecology in militarized landscapes David Havlick 14. Exploring post military geographies: Plymouth and the spatialities of Armed Forces Day Matthew F. Rech and Richard Yarwood Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Failure to Protect: The Path to and
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the reasons behind, and consequences of, military operations by Western powers. It focuses on those humanitarian interventions aimed at protecting civilians from terror, dictators and criminals in fragile states. Contributing to the cosmopolitan, feminist and post-colonial literature on interventions, 12 case studies from across the globe are explored, including military interventions in: Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Iraq, Kosovo, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.The interventionist era post 1999 has been associated with an increase in conflict fatalities, while the non-interventionist era 1989-1999 is associated with declining conflict violence. This book analyses both quantitatively and qualitatively the interactive discourses of the proponents and opponents of humanitarian protection. Timo Kivimäki explores the need for a representative global agency and legitimate institutions to avoid accusations of partisanship, and calls for the removal of the masculine gender bias in protection to create 'democratic matriotism'.A timely read for advanced international relations scholars, this book analyses the data surrounding military interventions, providing a thorough insight into the last two decades of humanitarian conflict work. Politicians and practitioners of wartime humanitarian protection will also greatly benefit from this book.Trade Review'This is a seminal work on the causes and consequences of humanitarian intervention. It is comprehensive in scope, innovative in analytical discourse, rigorous in empirical analysis, and rich in policy implications. This is a must read for students of international relations in general and of humanitarian intervention in particular.' --Chung-in Moon, Yonsei University, South KoreaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. State fragility and intervention, new wars and protection wars 3. The nature and rationale of protection wars 4. The consequences of humanitarian interventions 5. Counter-cosmopolitan discourse. What are the reasons for violence? 6. Hidden agendas and the protection of civilians 7. How did unilateralism sneak into cosmopolitan protection? 8. How did the preference for power centric strategies emerge in cosmopolitan protection? 9. From cosmopolitanism to neocosmopolitanism: democratizing and degendering of cosmopolitan protection Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on Child Soldiers
Book SynopsisAlthough child soldiers have received considerable media and policy attention, they remain poorly understood and inadequately protected. This Research Handbook addresses this troubling gap by offering a reflective and nuanced review of the complex issue of child soldiering. Containing original contributions from leading experts in many disciplines working across six continents, this comprehensive Handbook showcases diverse experiences and unique perspectives. The Handbook unpacks the life-cycle of youth and militarization: from recruitment, to demobilization, and return to civilian life. Challenging prevailing assumptions and conceptions, this uplifting Handbook focuses on the child soldier's capacity to cope with adversity. In so doing, it emphasizes the resilience, humanity and potential of children affected - rather than 'afflicted' - by armed conflict. The Research Handbook on Child Soldiers will be of interest to academics, practitioners and activists alike, with its extensive incorporation of cutting-edge fieldwork and the voices of the children themselves. Promoting equity between generations, this Handbook will also appeal to individuals from many walks of life who are concerned with the rights of the child in times of conflict, peace, and the in-between.Trade Review'The Research Handbook on Child Soldiers is well balanced, and is less on abstractions and philosophizing, and more on offering erudite principle based solutions in respect of our efforts to conceptualise and understand child soldiers across disciplinary and professional divides. True to form, it also charts the way forward as the international community grapples with the ever changing nature of conflict. This book is not so much an idea whose time has come as it is an idea whose time is long overdue in coming.' --Benyam Mezmur, University of the Western Cape, South Africa'For this Research Handbook, Mark Drumbl and Jastine Barrett have assembled an array of scholars, drawn from six continents, and expert in multiple fields of law, humanities, and social sciences. Their writings deploy methodologies as varied as empirical study and doctrinal analysis in order to examine situations of armed conflict and other systemic violence, across a temporal spectrum of past, present, and future. Together, these contributions place this exciting volume at the vanguard of scholarship on child soldiers.' --Diane Marie Amann, University of Georgia, School of Law, US'This Research Handbook of vivid research on child soldiers memorably exposes how some youth engaged in armed conflicts forget they are still children. Contributors from six continents bring rich expertise in law, sociology, ethnography, social work, psychology, political science, criminology, medical anthropology, and literary analysis to the cultural and political contexts for recruiting minors by armed groups and by national military organizations. Beyond dominant images of child soldiers as either merely passive victims or as violent terrors, the authors point toward legal and cultural reforms with the further caution against doing further harm.' --Martha Minow, Harvard University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Mark A. Drumbl and Jastine C. Barrett PART I THE CONCEPT AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE CHILD SOLDIER 1. In Search of the Lost Kingdom of Childhood Mohamed Kamara 2. Challenges for the Protection of Child Victims of Recruitment and Use in an Era of Complex Armed Conflicts: The Colombian Case Ana María Jiménez 3. The Construction of Gender in Child Soldiering in the Special Court for Sierra Leone Valerie Oosterveld 4. ‘We Were Controlled, We Were Not Allowed to Express Our Sexuality, Our Intimacy Was Suppressed’: Sexual Violence Experienced by Boys Omer Aijazi, Evelyn Amony and Erin Baines 5. Getting Tambo Out of Limbo: Exploring Alternative Legal Frameworks that are More Sensitive to the Agency of Children and Young People in Armed Conflict Karl Hanson and Christelle Molima 6. This is Belonging: Children and British Military Recruitment Rhys Crilley PART II CONDUCT: AGENCY, CAPACITY AND RESILIENCE 7. Child Soldiers in Historical and Comparative Perspective: Creating a Space for Data-Driven Analysis David M. Rosen 8. The Voiceless Child Soldiers of Afghanistan Anicée Van Engeland 9. Weaponizing the Weak: The Role of Children in Terrorist Groups Mia Bloom 10. Retracing the Journey of Child Soldiers and Looking for the Path to Return Them Home: A Report from Southern Philippines David N. Almarez, Ajree D. Malawani, Sittie Akima A. Ali, Princess Mae S. Chua and Primitivo C. Ragandang III 11. Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence within Armed Groups - A Case Study of Northern Uganda Myriam Denov 12. Social Reintegration Following Armed Conflict in Northern Uganda: How Former Child Soldier Young Mothers Use Symbolic Tools Fiona Shanahan and Angela Veale PART III ENCOUNTERS WITH THE LAW 13. The Regional African Legal Framework on Children: A Template for More Robust Action on Children and Armed Conflict? Godfrey Odongo 14. Minors and Miners: Accountability Beyond Child Soldiering in the Democratic Republic of Congo Sharanjeet Parmar and Yann Lebrat 15. Crimes Committed by Child Soldiers: An Argument for Coherence Nikila Kaushik and Steven Freeland 16. Child Soldiers in International Courtrooms: Unqualified Perpetrators, Erratic Witnesses and Irreparable Victims? Barbora Holá and Thijs B. Bouwknegt 17. Dominic Ongwen on Trial: Problematizing Definitional Boundaries and Exploring the Possibilities of Socialization Carse Ramos 18. Child Soldiers and Asylum – Duality or Dilemma? Joseph Rikhof PART IV AFTERWORLD(S)/AFTERWARDS: TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND BEYOND 19. Navigating the Mystical: Child Soldiers and Reintegration Rituals in Northern Uganda Jastine C. Barrett 20. Child Agency and Resistance to Discourses within the Paris Principles in Rehabilitation and Reintegration Processes of Former Child Soldiers in Northern Uganda Grace Akello 21. Children Associated with Boko Haram: Disassociation, Protection, Accountability and Reintegration Stuart Casey-Maslen 22. Do No Harm: How Reintegration Programmes for Former Child Soldiers Can Cause Unintended Harm Michael G. Wessells 23. How to Find the ‘Hidden’ Girl Soldier? Two Sets of Suggestions Arising from Liberia Leena Vastapuu Epilogue Nesam McMillan Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Economics of War: Profiteering, Militarism
Book SynopsisBad things occur and persist because of the presence of powerful beneficiaries. In this provocative and illuminating book, Imad Moosa illustrates the economic motivations behind the last 100 years of international conflict, citing the numerous powerful individual and corporate war profiteers that benefit from war. Inspired and informed by War is a Racket, the 1935 work of General Smedley Butler, the author explores historic and contemporary incidents of war profiteering, identifying individuals and groups that have increased their wealth through the supply of weaponry, mercenaries, provisions and finance in times of war. This book offers a caustic indictment of the military-industrial complex, exploring the privatisation of conflict that has fuelled war across the globe. Providing a contemporary, in-depth analysis of the economics of war, this book is critical for academics and students of war studies, international relations and military and political history. Policy makers will also benefit from this book's comprehensive analysis of wartime policy and practice.Trade Review'The Economics of War makes an important contribution to our understanding of the causes of war. By identifying the economic incentives motivating wars of aggression, Imad Moosa pulls back the curtain to reveal the stark realities of a foreign policy grounded in militarism and imperialism.' --Christopher Coyne, George Mason University, US'A passionate, uncompromising analysis of historical events that makes a compelling case that most wars were motivated by the economic gains of the few able to exercise political power that was a catastrophic cost to the many. A well-chronicled proposition that immoral acts of violence were imperialist or profiteering pursuits under the guise of humanitarian and moral actions.' --John Vaz, Monash University, Australia'Moosa looks beyond the explicit aims of war to reveal the economic and financial incentives and dimensions underpinning wars of aggression in our modern society. Not since Smedley Butler (1935) has an author so bravely critiqued the true drivers of modern warfare to reveal an uncomfortable truth: wars are about money, rather than noble causes. The book is an informative and enthralling read for anyone interested in the history and causes of war, the international legalisation of war, the micro- and macro-economic impacts of war, and war profiteering.' --Kelly Burns, Curtin University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. War is a Racket: In Memory of Smedley Butler 2. The Causes of War 3. War versus Peace: The Outcome of a Binary Process 4. Imperialism as an Enterprise 5. Wars of Aggression and False Flags 6. War Profiteering, the Military-Industrial Complex and the Deep State 7. A Taxonomy of War Profiteers 8. Banks as War Profiteers 9. Further Thoughts References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Conflict and Transnational Crime: Borders,
Book SynopsisExploring the links between armed conflict and transnational crime, Florian Weigand builds on in-depth empirical research into some of Southeast Asia's murkiest borders. The disparate voices of drug traffickers, rebel fighters, government officials and victims of armed conflict are heard in Conflict and Transnational Crime, exploring perspectives that have been previously disregarded in understanding the field. Weigand's nuanced comparative analysis of four border regions in Southeast Asia counters the stereotypical view that conflict zones are lawless areas in which all kinds of criminal activities flourish. Chapters illustrate the logic that determines the relationship between armed conflict and transnational crime. Further, the book analyses how smuggling economies function in conflict zones, explaining why some rebel groups are involved in the smuggling economy more than others, and why state actors actually play a much more crucial role. This crucial study will be a compelling read for international relations, political sociology and development studies scholars. The in-depth analysis of real-life situations will also greatly benefit policy-makers and aid organisations looking to better support areas at the heart of conflict and transnational crime. Trade Review‘In this engaged and open-minded study, Florian Weigand does us all a favor by exposing how shaky assumptions about the crime conflict nexus are.’ -- Neil Boister, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books‘Conflict and Transnational Crime is a cogent and compelling study of both the connections and disconnections between crime and conflict in Southeast Asia. It forcefully carves through the standard rhetoric of 'narco-terrorists' and 'militia-mafias' to offer a vital dissection of state involvement in illicit markets. In doing so, it laudably manages to instigate conclusions with global implications while remaining firmly tethered to its regional context.’ -- Alessandro Ford, LSE Review of Books'An engaging and readable account of how state actors, armed militias and criminal groups operate in concert to control the political economy of trafficking, extortion and illicit markets that underpins much of the conflict violence in the borderlands of in Southeast Asia.' --Keith Krause, Graduate Institute, Switzerland'This book provides a rare inside look at the links between armed conflict and transnational crime in the borderlands of Southeast Asia. Moving at a thrilling pace from Thailand to Myanmar and the Philippines, it challenges received wisdom on how conflict and crime are linked, in particular by putting emphasis on the role of state actors in smuggling networks. Well researched and engagingly written, it will prove an excellent resource for a wide range of readers interested in smuggling, conflict and borders.' --Ruben Andersson, University of Oxford, UK'Digging beneath sensationalistic headlines and simple catch-phrases such as ''the crime-conflict nexus,'' ''ungoverned spaces, and ''conflict commodities,'' Florian Weigand has given us a timely, nuanced, and sophisticated account of the complex relationship between illicit trade and conflict in contemporary Southeast Asia. The book will be of great interest well beyond regional specialists.' --Peter Andreas, Brown University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Underground Struggle and Licence to Smuggle: The Thailand-Malaysia Border Region 3. Meth and Militias: The Myanmar-China Border Region 4. International Crisis and Instant Coffee: The Bangladesh-Myanmar Border Region 5. Rice and Ransoms: The Indonesia-Philippines-Malaysia Border Region 6. Conclusions References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Rethinking Conflict Resolution and Management
Book SynopsisRethinking and revising the established knowledge and practice of conflict resolution and management, this innovative book brings together complementary perspectives to consider novel approaches to resolving conflict after the collapse of the World Order.Examining the current system of world disorder, the authors identify ways of operating constructively and navigating conflict in order to better manage and resolve it. Analysing conventional and hybrid conflict at both international and internal state level, they look to transform current scholarship on conflict resolution and management in international relations. Chapters rethink mediation; power in peace-making; prevention of escalation; governance, protest and revolt; inclusion and representation; and the individual as subject and object in conflict resolution and management. Paving the way for future research in the field, the book outlines the need to learn how to operate within the present world disorder in order to prevent the descent into entropy. By awakening realistic creativity and examining present characteristics and future possibilities, the book develops a more positive evolution which can reinstitute an effective new system of World Order.Both prescriptive and analytical in approach, this insightful book will prove vital to students and scholars of international relations, political science and public policy, alongside policy makers looking to rethink their conflict resolution and management methods.Trade Review‘International conflict resolution is more urgently needed than ever. Unfortunately, at a time when doubt has been growing about its viability and productivity. The Rethinking by Zartman and Vuković is powerful because it does not run away from the project but insists on the necessity and possibility of managing conflict. The wealth of new ideas in this book actually makes the world better equipped to confront present and future conflicts.’ -- Ole Wæver, University of Copenhagen, Denmark‘Rethinking Conflict Resolution and Managementis a magisterial contribution to the negotiation literature by two eminent scholars of international negotiation and conflict resolution. In a world where great power rivalries and conflict are accelerating and there is an urgent need for diplomacy to steer the world away from further conflict, this book offers tangible solutions and recommendations. It should be required reading for scholars and practitioners alike and will serve as a useful text for students who want to better understand the ingredients that go into successful diplomacy and conflict management.’ -- Fen Osler Hampson, Carleton University, Canada‘This masterful book, co-authored by I. William Zartman, a leading scholar of international conflict management and negotiation for over a half century, and his young co-author, Sinisa Vuković, a rising star in this field, presents an impressive analysis of the causes of the collapse of the international order in the 21st century, of which the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been the final “nail in the coffin.” It presents a clarion call to rethink virtually all assumptions of international conflict management in the future and to create new ideas necessary to reconstitute the norms, institutions, and practices of international relations to prevent global catastrophe in the decades ahead.’ -- P. Terrence Hopmann, John Hopkins University (SAIS), US‘Rethinking Conflict Resolution and Management is a book of big ideas on global peace and war. It introduces powerful new concepts, such as the “wall of inhibitions” through which belligerence breaks and constitutes a new normative reality. The volume is an inspiring, thought-provoking, but also entertaining read.’ -- Timo Kivimaki, University of Bath, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface: forward to rethinking 1. Introduction—collapsed system: rethinking world disorder 2. How the study of conflict management and resolution was rethought and expanded: a history of rethinking 3. Rethinking conflict 4. Rethinking power in peacemaking 5. Rethinking ripeness: in search of mutually enticing opportunities 6. Rethinking mediation 7. Rethinking prevention of escalation 8. Rethinking governance, protest, and revolt 9. Rethinking inclusion and representation 10. Rethinking hybrid conflicts 11. Rethinking people 12. Conclusion: onward to recreating Appendix A: PIN publications Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd International Conflict and Security Law
Book SynopsisThis incisive book provides an extensive analysis of the robust array of international law applicable across the spectrum of international conflict and security. With a particular focus on new and emerging technologies and domains such as cyber and outer space, Laurie Blank illustrates how international conflict and security law applies to 21st century challenges.From conflict prevention to the use of force, the law of armed conflict to transitional justice, this book offers an in-depth examination of how these legal frameworks address the most fundamental questions for security at the human, national and international levels: how to prevent and reduce escalation of conflict; how to protect States, their territory and their core national interests; how to protect individuals and their rights; how to maintain and restore international peace; how to resolve conflicts; and how to promote justice and reconciliation after conflict. Overall, the book creates a multifaceted and insightful picture of how the international legal system functions as a comprehensive - if still sometimes fractured - framework. International Conflict and Security Law will be essential reading for both graduate and undergraduate students studying security policy, international law, conflict resolution and armed conflict. It will also provide a well-rounded exploration of the field as a whole for policy makers, practitioners and academics.Trade Review‘International Conflict and Security Law is an eminently readable text. This is enhanced by its inclusion of a feature whereby key contemporary controversies or debates are highlighted by their incorporation within boxes, drawing out the real-life relevance of many of the issues explored within the book. The book is admittedly brief in its treatment of the issues which it addresses. This is of necessity given the vast body of law it attempts to touch upon. As a result it serves as a very useful introduction to the relevant legal frameworks and debates for those, principally students, new to the subject before moving on to more comprehensive focused works which tackle more specifically the applicable legal regimes individually.’ -- Gary Wilson, Liverpool Law Review‘Professor Blank has masterfully and concisely condensed the complex subject of international conflict and security law into a delightful and informative book that reads clearly enough to be accessible to the general public but is also sufficiently detailed and academic to serve as a textbook for the most avid student. Absolutely superb!’ -- Eric Talbot Jensen, Brigham Young University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: conflict, security and international law PART I CONFLICT PREVENTION AND COLLECTIVE SECURITY 1. Collective security and the United Nations 2. Disarmament, non-proliferation, and arms control 3. Counterterrorism, emergencies, and human rights PART II JUS AD BELLUM AND THE RESORT TO FORCE 4. Jus ad bellum: history and framework 5. Self-defense: law and practice 6. Humanitarian intervention? PART III MILITARY OPERATIONS AND THE LAW OF ARMED CONFLICT 7. Law of armed conflict: purposes and principles 8. Classification of conflict 9. Status and protection of persons 10. Conduct of hostilities and detention PART IV POST-CONFLICT: ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE 11 International criminal accountability 12 Transitional justice Index I
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Inclusivity in Mediation and Peacebuilding: UN,
Book SynopsisThis cutting-edge book illuminates the key characteristics of inclusivity in mediation during armed conflicts and post-conflict peacebuilding. Daisaku Higashi illustrates the importance of mediators taking flexible approaches to inclusivity in arbitration during armed conflicts, highlighting the crucial balance between the need to select conflicting parties to make an agreement feasible and the need to include a multiplicity of parties to make the peace sustainable. Higashi also emphasizes the importance of inclusive processes in the phase of post-conflict peacebuilding.Higashi draws on first-hand experience as a team leader for reconciliation and reintegration in UNAMA, as well as interviews with leaders in conflicting states and UN missions, and recommends various roles for the UN, neighboring states and global powers in mediation during and after armed conflicts. Utilizing extensive field research and analysis, the book focuses on conflict regions in Afghanistan, South Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Iraq and East Timor to demonstrate the significance of addressing inclusivity in mediation and peacebuilding with different approaches.Engaging with a range of empirical sources to make key policy recommendations, this book is crucial reading for practitioners working in mediation and peacebuilding, particularly UN officials, think-tank experts, government officials and NGOs. It will also benefit scholars and students of political science and international relations in need of unique, real-world accounts of global mediation, peacebuilding and conflict management.Trade Review‘”The more the merrier” is the usual approach for mediation and peacebuilding, but Daisaku Higashi’s wide-ranging field research identifies the pay-offs from a far more nuanced approach to inclusivity. His compelling recommendations are tailored for the UN, regional organizations, neighbors, and major powers.’ -- Thomas G. Weiss, CUNY Graduate Center, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: civil wars and inclusivity 2. Debates on inclusivity in mediation and peacebuilding 3. Challenges of inclusivity in peace negotiations: the case of South Sudan 4. Challenges of inclusivity in peace negotiations: the case of Afghanistan 5. The role of the UN, neighboring states, and global powers in mediation: the case of Syria 6. The role of the UN, neighboring states, and global powers in mediation: the case of Yemen 7. Inclusivity in post-conflict peacebuilding: the cases of Iraq and East Timor 8. Conclusion: theoretical contributions, policy implications, and remaining questions Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Fragile States
Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook examines the causes, costs and consequences of state fragility, advancing key debates in the field. Demonstrating the multidimensionality of fragility by applying diverse theories and methodologies, it provides new insights on effective policy development and application in the context of fragile states.Drawing on a wide variety of disciplines, approaches and case studies, the Handbook pays particular attention to the root causes and drivers of fragility. It centres authority, legitimacy and the citizen-state relationship alongside state capacity, revealing the flaws in the reasoning behind previous Western policy interventions in fragile states. Chapters address a broad range of issues facing fragile states, from fragility traps, refugees and urbanisation to recent events including the Covid-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war and the increasing pressures of climate change. Ultimately, the Handbook advances the state of both academic and policy knowledge on state fragility, revealing the deep links between the two. This Handbook will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of political science, international relations, development studies, economics, and sociology. It will also benefit practitioners seeking to improve the effectiveness of their policy proposals. Trade Review‘The Handbook of Fragile States brings together an impressive breadth and diversity of expertise – empirical and theoretical, academic and policy-oriented. It demonstrates that our understanding of state fragility, its sources and the ways to overcome it, has made tremendous progress in recent years – a knowledge badly needed in a world where multiple global crises put nations increasingly under stress. In their entirety, the twenty-four chapters of this volume make a convincing case for the notion that the legitimacy of the rulers, as much as their capacity to provide for their citizens, is a crucial resource for states to escape, or avoid, the perils of fragility.’ -- Jörn Grävingholt, German Institute of Development and Sustainability, Germany‘The idea of fragile states has been widely debated since its first emergence in the fields of security and development. By uniting authors from various disciplines and backgrounds, this Handbook contributes to a better understanding of the many factors that may hamper the legitimacy and the capacity of state institutions. It will be of interest to researchers studying the multifaceted nature of fragility, as well as to policy practitioners operating in countries affected by ongoing crises, disasters and conflicts.’ -- Olivier Nay, University of Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne, France‘Extending from their previous extensive research and bringing together a strong group of contributors, Carment and Samy offer an excellent introduction and resource on research and policy on fragile states. Collectively, the chapters provide a thorough review of core topics in the literature, such as the conceptualization and measurement of fragile states and root causes, and new perspectives on emerging topics, such as urban fragility and climate linkages.’ -- Rachel Gisselquist, United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), FinlandTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Fragile States 1 David Carment and Yiagadeesen Samy 2 Investigating the root causes of fragility 19 Sonja Grimm 3 Transforming conception(s) of state fragility and new containment interventions 39 Nicolas Lemay-Hébert and Babatunde F. Obamamoye 4 Current conceptualizations and measurements of state fragility: recent developments and remaining limits 53 Ines A. Ferreira 5 The United States is vulnerable: a flashing red light in the Fragile States Index 73 Nate Haken and Natalie Fiertz 6 The case for measuring multidimensional fragility: is disaggregation the answer? 88 Harsh Desai (OECD) and Jonathan Marley (OECD) 7 Strategic approaches in fragile societies: targeting drivers 104 Seth D. Kaplan 8 Hybrid authority systems and political instability 121 Monty G. Marshall 9 Hybrid political orders in fragile contexts 137 Tobias Debiel and Stephan Dombrowski 10 Implications of fragility for growth, poverty and inequality 152 Karla Cisneros Rosado and Yiagadeesen Samy 11 Just “add women and stir”? Bringing gender into fragility debates 170 Diana Koester 12 The relationship between state fragility and refugees 192 Charles Martin-Shields 13 Climate change and fragility: improving early warning and climate-proofing development and conflict interventions 206 Erin Sikorsky, Francesco Femia and Brigitte Hugh 14 Urban fragility 222 Robert Muggah 15 Understanding horizontal inequalities: the case of Palestinian refugees in Jordan 236 Zina Nimeh 16 The African fragility problem 252 Robert I. Rotberg 17 State fragility and sustainable development in the Middle East and North Africa 265 Hamid E. Ali, Mahmoud Elmakkawe and Nesreen Nasser Alanbar 18 State fragility trap and conflict in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 285 Said Yaqub Ibrahimi 19 Fragility of small island developing states 299 Michaël Goujon and Laurent Wagner 20 Securitization, divergent agendas and the sectoral allocation of development aid within Afghanistan 316 Mark McGillivray and Safiullah Taye 21 Exiting the fragility trap: evidence from Bangladesh 334 David Carment and Emilia Vydelingum 22 “Nothing about us without us”: the g7+ and the New Deal 355 Habib ur Rehman Mayar, Helder da Costa and Felix Piedad 23 The EU’s approach to fragile states: conflicting norms, practices, and lessons learnt 369 Julian Bergmann and Mark Furness 24 Coordinating aid in fragile states: the promise of country platforms and principles for effective aid architecture 385 Rachael Calleja and Sarah Rose Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Advanced Introduction to International Conflict
Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This updated and revised second edition of Advanced Introduction to International Conflict and Security Law provides a concise and insightful guide to the key principles of international law governing peacetime security, arms control, the use of force, armed conflict and post-conflict situations. Nigel D. White explores the complex legal regimes that have been created to control levels of armaments, to limit the occasions when governments can use military force, to mitigate the conduct of warfare and to build peace.Key Features: Analysis of new efforts to regulate nuclear weapons Extended coverage of peacekeeping and analysis of war crimes Updated coverage of recent state practice and academic literature New analysis of recent and on-going conflicts, in particular Syria and Ukraine With updated analysis of peacekeeping, the law surrounding nuclear weapons, war crimes and extensive coverage of conflicts in Syria and Ukraine, this thoroughly revised second edition is an essential text for academics, researchers and students interested in international law and world peace.Trade Review‘A highly accessible and insightful overview of international conflict and security law, written by one of the leading scholars in the field. Rather than focusing on black-letter law, White places the legal framework within its historical and political context, adding helpful and up-to-date illustrations along the way. Its distinct focus on human security as well as its comprehensiveness – also covering arms control and “post-conflict” law – make for an original publication that will be of great use to newcomers and habitués alike.’ -- Tom Ruys, International Law Institute, Ghent University, Belgium‘Nigel White has provided a very worthwhile contribution to the literature on the law relating to armed conflict and arms control with his Advanced Introduction to International Conflict and Security Law . His book succeeds in combining in depth coverage of a broad range of topics with accessibility. It will be valuable in teaching (post) graduate level courses in the areas of law covered, including the law governing the use of force, the law of armed conflict and arms control regimes, as well as serving as a useful tool for researchers in those areas of the law. It also makes a number of interesting observations on how the law relates to policy and other considerations which will help the reader put the legal dimension of armed conflict into a broader perspective.’ -- T.D. Gill, Emeritus Professor of Military Law, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands‘Professor Nigel White is an established author in this field. The new edition of this book provides an authoritative, comprehensive yet succinct and up-to-date analysis of the law and practice in this area. I am happy to recommend this insightful and accessible book to those interested in conflict and security law.’ -- Surya P. Subedi, University of Leeds, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Basic conditions of peace and security 2. Arms control law 3. The use of force in international law 4. The regulation of private violence 5. Collective security law 6. The law of armed conflict 7. Post-conflict law 8. Peace and justice Index
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