Armed conflict Books
Taylor & Francis Experiencing War War Politics and Experience
Book SynopsisThis edited collection explores aspects of contemporary war that affect average people –physically, emotionally, and ethically through activities ranging from combat to television viewing.Table of Contents1. Experiencing War: An Introduction Christine Sylvester 2. The Passions of Protection: Sovereign Authority and Humanitarian War Anne Orford 3. Gendered Humanitarianism: Reconsidering the Ethics of War Kimberly Hutchings 4. Wars, Bodies, and Development Brigitte Holzner 5. Ruling Exceptions: Female Soldiers and Everyday Experiences of Civil Conflict Megan MacKenzie 6. Experiencing the Cold War Heonik Kwon 7. On The Uselessness of New Wars Theory: Lessons From African Conflicts Stephen Chan 8. Dilemmas of Drawing War Jill Gibbon 9. Pathways to Experiencing War Christine Sylvester
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Taylor & Francis Small Arms Crime and Conflict
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the use of small arms in violence and attempts by the state to govern the use and acquisition of these weapons. It is likely that hundreds of thousands of people are killed every year as a result of armed violence in contexts ranging from war zones to domestic violence. This edited volume examines why these deaths occur, the role of guns and other weapons, and how governance can be used to reduce and prevent those deaths. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology through economics to peace and security studies, the book's main concern throughout is that of human security the causes and means of prevention of armed violence. The first part of the book concerns warfare, the second armed violence and crime, and the last governance of arms and their (mis)-use. The concluding chapter builds on the contributors' key findings and suggests priorities for future research, with the aim of forming a coherent narrative which examines whaTrade Review'Small Arms, Crime and Conflict is a useful resource to complement the annual small arms survey reports that many of the authors in this book have also contributed to over the years. This book is excellent in reviewing past research into SALW, challenging it, and providing new insights.' - Alex Vines, International Afairs, Vol. 88, 2, March 2012'This volume is a vital contribution for small arms researchers and Africanists interested in the role that SALW flows play in conflicts that they study. Beyond that, the book's methodological discussions and portrayal of the transformation of a field study should prove enlightening.' - Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Association for the Study of the Middle East and AfricaTable of Contents1. Introduction Owen Greene and Nicholas Marsh 2. The Tools of Insurgency: a Review of the Role of Small Arms and Light Weapons in Warfare Nicholas Marsh 3. Small Arms and Light Weapons Spread and Conflict Mike Bourne 4. Lethal Instruments: Small Arms and Deaths in Armed Conflict Joakim Kreutz and Nicholas Marsh 5. Regaining State Control: Arms and Violence in Post-Conflict Countries Joakim Kreutz, Nicholas Marsh and Manuela Torre 6. Armed Violence within Societies Owen Greene and Nicholas Marsh 7. Guns and Deaths: A Critical Review Thomas Jackson and Nicholas Marsh 8. Armed Violence Taking Place Within Societies: SALW And Armed Violence In Urban Areas Valentina Bartolucci and Anna Betsy Kanneworff 9. Arms, Private Militias and Fragile State Dynamics Owen Greene and Ariel Macaspac Penetrante 10. Governance and Small Arms and Light Weapons Owen Greene and Nicholas Marsh 11. Governance and Control of SALW After Armed Conflicts Mike Bourne and Owen Greene 12. Small Arms and Light Weapons Production as Part of a National and Global Defence Industry Dimitar Dimitrov and Peter Hall 13. What Do the Natives Know: Societal Mechanisms for Controlling Small Arms Michael Ashkenazi 14. Conclusions and Priorities for Further Research Owen Greene and Nicholas Marsh
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Taylor & Francis Ltd CivilMilitary Cooperation in PostConflict Operations
Book SynopsisCivil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) is the relationship between militaries and humanitarians. Largely conducted in post-conflict environments, CIMIC has become a key characteristic of military operations in the twenty-first century. However, the field is mostly understood through stereotype rather than clear, comprehensive analysis. The range and scope of activities which fall under the wider rubric of CIMIC is huge, as are the number of differing approaches, across situations and national armed forces.This book demonstrates the wide variety of national approaches to CIMIC activities, introducing some theoretical and ethical considerations into a field that has largely been bereft of this type of debate. Containing several case studies of recent CIMIC (in the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq) along with theoretical analyses, it will assist scholars, practitioners, and decision-makers become more aware of the ''state of the art'' in this field.Civil-Military CooperatioTable of ContentsForeword Larry Minear 1. Introduction: Interrogating Civil Military Cooperation Christopher Ankersen Part 1: Theoretical Approaches 2. Civil-Military Cooperation and Human Security Andy Knight 3. Managing Territories with Rival Brothers: The Geopolitical Stakes of Military-Humanitarian Relations Yann Braem 4. Integrated Planning and Coordination in Complex Peacebuilding Operations Cedric de Coning 5. A Management Perspective on Co-Operation between Military and Civilian Actors S.J.H. Rietjens Part 2: Cases 6. Yes, but is it Peacebuilding? Evaluating Canadian CIMIC in Afghanistan Owen Savage 7. Civil-Military Cooperation of the German Armed Forces: Theoretical Approach and Contemporary Practice in Kosovo Bernhard G. Voget 8. CIMIC on the Edge: Afghanistan and the Evolution of American Civil Military Operations Michael McNerney Part 3: Extensions 9. Medical CIMIC: An Australian Perspective Susan Neuhaus 10. Contemporary Challenges in the Civil-Military Relationship: Complementarity or Incompatibility? Raj Rana 11. Conclusion: Joined Up or Mixed Up? CIMIC and the Future Christopher Ankersen
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Globalization of NATO Intervention Security and Identity Routledge Global Security Studies
Book SynopsisThis book examines NATO's transition from a Cold War mutual defence organization into a global alliance, and puts the recent crisis over the Afghanistan mission in the context of long-standing debates over out-of-area interventions. Originally, NATO bound the western allies together for the purposes of mutual defence as defined by Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which declared that an attack on the territory of one ally was to be considered an attack on them all. However, Article 4 of the Treaty invites the allies to consult with each other on a less formal basis whenever their ''territorial integrity, political independence, or security'' was threatened, without the automatic commitment to a shared response. During the Cold War, the allies consulted both formally and informally on issues beyond mutual defence in debates that were, more often than not, extremely contentious. After the Cold War, these out-of-area missions became the primary focus of NATO's military missions.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Identity, Security, and Political Talk 2. The Suez Crisis: Establishing the Out-of-Area Norm 3. The Cold War Community and the Vietnam War 4. Changing Notions of Security and the Intervention in Bosnia 5. September 11th and the Dispute over Iraq 6. The Post-9/11 Alliance and Changing Notions of Mutual Defence in Afghanistan Conclusion: A New Strategic Concept and New Norms?
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Transatlantic Security
Book SynopsisThis new Handbook provides readers with the tools to understand the evolution of transatlantic security from the Cold War era to the early 21st century. After World War II, the US retained a strong presence as the dominant member of NATO throughout the Cold War. Former enemies, such as Germany, became close allies, while even countries that often criticized the United States made no serious attempt to break with Washington. This pattern of security co-operation continued after the end of the Cold War, with NATO expansion eastwards extending US influence. Despite the Iraq war prompting a seemingly irreparable transatlantic confrontation, the last years of the Bush administration witnessed a warming of US-European relations, expected to continue with the Obama administration. The contributors address the following key questions arising from the history of transatlantic security relations: What lies behind the growing and continuing European dependencTable of Contents Introduction, editors Part I: Transatlantic Security in the Cold War Era 1. Three ministers and the world they made: Acheson, Bevin and Schuman, and the Making of the North Atlantic Treaty Anne Deighton 2. The Korean War: Miscalculation and Alliance Transformation Samuel Wells 3. The Doctrine of Massive Retaliation and the Impossible Nuclear Defense of the Atlantic Alliance: From MC 48 to MC 70 (1953-1959) François David 4. IVth Republic France and the Atlantic Alliance: Between faithfulness to the alliance and national interests, Jenny Raflik 5. The Fourth Republic and NATO: Loyalty to the Alliance versus National Demands George-Henri Soutou 6. NATO Forever? Willy Brandt's Heretical Thoughts on an Alternative Future Benedikt Schoenborn 7. Negotiating with the Enemy and Having Problems with the Allies: the impact of the Non-proliferation Treaty on Transatlantic Relations Leopoldo Nuti 8. Power Shifts and New Security Needs: NATO, European Identity, and the Reorganization of the West, 1967–75 Daniel Möckli and Andreas Wenger 9. West Germany and the United States during the Middle East Crisis of 1973: 'Nothing but a Semi-Colony'? Bernhard Blumenau 10. The United States and the 'Loss' of Iran: Repercussions on Transatlantic Barbara Zanchetta Part II: Transatlantic Security Beyond the Cold War 11. The Warsaw Pact, NATO and the End of the Cold War Jérôme Elie 12. The Road to Saint Malo: Germany and EU-NATO Relations after the Cold War Wolfgang Krieger 13. EU-NATO relations after the Cold War Hanna Ojanen 14. Security of the EU Boundaries in the Post Cold-War Era Axel Marion 15. Venus Has Learned Geopolitics: the European Union’s Frontier and Transatlantic Relations Basil Germond 16. The Rise and Fall of Criticism Towards the United States in Transatlantic Relations: From Anti-Americanism to Obamania Tuomas Forsberg 17. Strategic Culture and Security: American Antiterrorist Policy and the Use of Soft Power after 9/11 Jérôme Gygax 18. European Security Identity since the end of the cold war Guillaume de Rougé 19. A Realistic Reset with Russia: Practical Expectations for US-Russian Relations James Goldgeier 20. The Obama Administration and Transatlantic Security: Problems and Prospects Jussi M. Hanhimäki 21. Conclusion: Is the Present Future of Transatlantic Security already History? Jean Jacques De Dardel
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Taylor & Francis Urbicide
Book SynopsisThe term urbicide' became popular during the 1992-95 Bosnian war as a way of referring to widespread and deliberate destruction of the urban environment. Coined by writers on urban development in America, urbicide captures the sense that the widespread and deliberate destruction of buildings is a distinct form of violence. Using Martin Heidegger's notion of space and Jean-Luc Nancy's idea of community, Martin Coward outlines a theoretical understanding of the urban condition at stake in such violence. He contends that buildings are targeted because they make possible a plural public space that is contrary to the political aims of ethnic-nationalist regimes. Illustrated with reference to several post-Cold War conflicts including Bosnia, Chechnya and Israel/Palestine this book is the first comprehensive analysis of organised violence against urban environments. It offers an original perspective to those seeking to better understand urbanity, political violeTable of ContentsPreface & Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. Interpreting Destruction of the Built Environment 2. The Logic of Urbicide 3. The Built Environment and Shared Spatiality 4. The Nature of Heterogeneity: From Mitsein to the Inoperative Community 5. The Political Stakes of Urbicide 6. The Conceptual Stakes of Urbicide. Conclusion. References
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Taylor & Francis Transitional Justice Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law Glasshouse Book Transitional Justice
Book SynopsisTransitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law addresses the importance of judicial accountability in transitional justice processes. Trade Review'In less than 200 pages, the author covers general questions of judicial accountability and the judicialisation of politics (Chapters 1 and 6); applies these questions to transitional contexts (Chapters 3 and 5); analyzes the specifics of judicial accountability in the Nigerian case (Chapters 4 and 7) and advances an analysis about the appropriateness of truth commissions for delivering judicial accountability (Chapter 2). In this respect, the book is a tour de force' - Catherine O'Rourke, University of Ulster, UK for Social & Legal Studies (2013)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Case for Judicial Accountability in Transitions 2. Truth, Transition, and Accountability of the Judiciary 3. Political Change and Judicial Reform: An International and Comparative Perspective 4. Judicial Accountability in Political Transitions: The Nigerian Context 5. Rights, the Judiciary and Constitutionalism in Transitions 6. Transition and the Judicialization of Politics: Dialectics of a Phenomenon 7. Courts to the Rescue? The Judicialization of Politics in Nigeria. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Modern War and the Utility of Force Challenges Methods and Strategy Cass Military Studies
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the use and utility of military force in modern war.After the Cold War, Western armed forces have increasingly been called upon to intervene in internal conflicts in the former Third World. These forces have been called upon to carry out missions that they traditionally have not been trained and equipped for, in environments that they often have not been prepared for. A number of these new' types of operations in allegedly new' wars stand out, such as peace enforcement, state-building, counter-insurgency, humanitarian aid, and not the least counter-terrorism. The success rate of these missions has, however, been mixed, providing fuel for an increasingly loud debate on the utility of force in modern war. This edited volume poses as its central question: what is in fact the utility of force? Is force useful for anything other than a complete conventional defeat of a regular opponent, who is confronted in the open field?This bTrade Review'Certainly a worthy addition to the growing body of knowledge on military studies.' - Col. Gerhard Louw, Scientia Militaria, South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol. 39, 2, 2011Table of ContentsForeword by General Sir Rupert Smith 1. War, What is it Good for? Jan Angstrom 2. From Victory to Success: The Changing Mission of Western Armed Forces Christopher Dandeker 3. The International Private Security Company: A Unique and Useful Actor? Christopher Spearin 4. Great Expectations: The Use of Armed Force to Combat Terrorism Isabelle Duyvesteyn 5. Why does Peacekeeping Succeed or Fail? Peacekeeping in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone Sarah Kreps 6. Exploring the Utility of Armed Force in Peace Operations: German and British Approaches in Northern Afghanistan Kersti Larsdotter 7. Counterinsurgency Doctrine: the U.S. Experience Thomas Mockaitis 8. No Simple Formula: The Use of Military Force in Counterinsurgency James Corum 9. Adapting to Counter-Insurgency; The US Army in Iraq, July 2004-December 2006 Brian Burton and John Nagl 10. Inviting the Leviathan: External Forces, War and State Building in Afghanistan Jan Angstrom 11. Between Reluctance and Necessity: The Utility of Military Force in Humanitarian and Development Operations Robert Egnell 12. War, What it is Good for … Isabelle Duyvesteyn
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Taylor & Francis Handbook of Conflict Analysis and Resolution
Book SynopsisThis major Handbook comprises cutting-edge essays from leading scholars in the field of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (CAR). The volume provides a comprehensive overview of the core concepts, theories, approaches, processes, and intervention designs in the field. The central theme is the value of multidisciplinary approaches to the analysis and resolution of conflicts. This consists of moving from the study of analytical approaches to understanding the deep-rooted causes of conflict, to third-party intervention approaches to preventing or ending violence, and to resolving and transforming conflict.The book is divided into four main parts:Part I: Core Concepts and TheoriesPart II: Core ApproachesPart III: Core PracticesPart IV: Alternative Voices and Complex Intervention DesignsThe Handbook of Conflict Analysis and Resolution is a benchmark publication with major importance both for currTable of ContentsPart 1: Core Concepts and Theories 1. The Role of Identity in Conflict 2. Encountering Nationalism: The Contribution of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution 3. Gender Relations and Conflict Transformation Among Refugee Women 4. Causation as a Core Concept in Conflict Analysis5. The Challenge of Operationalizing Key Concepts in Conflict Resolution Theory in International and Subnational Conflicts6. The Enemy and the Innocent of Violent Conflicts7. Identity Conflicts: Models of Dynamics and Early Warning 8. Generativity-Based Conflict: Maturing Micro Foundations for Conflict Theory Part 2: Core Approaches: Conceptual and Methodological 9. Human Agonistes: Interdisciplinary Inquiry into Ontological Agency and Human Conflict 10. The Ethnography of Peace Education: Some Lessons Learned from Palestinian-Jewish Integrated Education in Israel 11. Waging Conflicts Constructively 12. A Social-Psychological Approach to Conflict Analysis and Resolution 13. Building Relational Empathy Through An Interactive Design Process 14. Building Peace: Storytelling to Transform Conflicts Constructively 15. A Capacity Building Approach to Conflict Resolution16. Gender Mainstreaming: A Valuable Tool in Building Sustainable Peace 17. Culture Theory, Culture Clash, and the Practice of Conflict Resolution 18. Conflict Resolution: The Missing Link between Liberal IR Theory and Realistic Practice 19. Understanding the Development-Conflict Nexus and the Contribution of Development Cooperation to Peacebuilding 20. Evaluation in Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding 21. Toward A Conflictology: The Quest for Trans-Disciplinarity Part 3: Core Practices: Processes 22. Conflict Transformation: Reasons to be Modest 23. Mediation Frames/Justice Games 24. Interactive Conflict Resolution: Dialogue, Conflict Analysis and Problem Solving25. Mediation and International Conflict Resolution: Analyzing Structure and Behavior 26. Ethical and Gendered Dilemmas of Moving from Emergency Response to Development in Failed States 27. Memory-Retrieval and Truth-Recovery 28. Shifting from Coherent Towards Holistic Peace Processes 29. Law and Legal Processes in Resolving International Conflicts Part 4: Alternative Voices and Complex Intervention Designs 30. Restorative Processes of Peace and Healing within the Governing Structures of the Rotinonshonni Longhouse People 31. Critical Systematic Inquiry in Conflict Analysis and Resolution: An Essential Bridge between Theory and Practice 32. From Diagnosis to Treatment: Towards New Shared Principles for Israeli/Palestinian Peacebuilding 33. Strategies for the Prevention, Management and/or Resolution of (Ethnic) Crisis and Conflict: The Case of the Balkans 34. The Perception of Economic Assistance in Northern Ireland and Its Role in the Peace Process 35.Conflict Resolution in An Age of Empire: New Challenges to an Emerging Field Conclusions Conclusion: Revisiting the CAR Field Epilogue: Implications forTheory, Research, Practice and Teaching
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Taylor & Francis Mapping Transatlantic Security Relations
Book SynopsisThis book examines how legal, political, and rights discourses, security policies and practices migrate and translate across the North Atlantic. The complex relationship between liberty and security has been fundamentally recast and contested in liberal democracies since the start of the 'global war on terror'. In addition to recognizing new agencies, political pressures, and new sensitivities to difference, it is important that not to over-state the novelty of the post-9/11 era: the war on terror simply made possible the intensification, expansion, or strengthening of policies already in existence, or simply enabled the shutting down of debate. Working from a common theoretical frame, if different disciplines, these chapters present policy-oriented analyses of the actual practices of security, policing, and law in the European Union and Canada. They focus on questions of risk and exception, state sovereignty and governance, liberty and rights, law and transparency, policingTable of ContentsIntroduction Mark B. Salter 1. Special Delivery: The Multilateral Politics of Extraordinary Rendition Maria Koblanck 2. Miscarriages of Justice and Exceptional Procedures in the "War Against Terrorism" Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet 3. Risk-Focused Security Politics and Human Rights: The Impossible Symbiosis Anastasia Tsoukala 4. The North Atlantic Field of Aviation Security Mark B. Salter 5. Tracing Terrorists: The EU-Canada Agreement in PNR Matters Peter Hobbing 6. The Global Governance of Data Privacy Regulation: European Leadership and the Ratcheting Up of Canadian Rules Abraham Newman 7. Made in the USA? The impact of transatlantic norms on the European Union’s Data Protection Regime Patryk Pawlak 8. Norm and Expertise in the Global Fight Against Transnational Organized Crime and Terrorism Amandine Scherrer 9. The Accountability Gap: Human Rights and EU External Cooperation on Criminal Justice, Counterterrorism and the Rule of Law Susie Alegre 10. The Role of NGOs in the Access to Public Information: Extraordinary Renditions and the Absence of Transparency Marton Sulyok and Andras Pap 11. Replacing and Displacing the Law: The Europeanization of Judicial Power Antione Mégie 12. Transjudicial Conversations about Security and Human Rights Audrey Macklin 13. A Coordinated Judicial Response to Counterterrorism? Counterexamples Rayner Thwaites 14. The Other Transatlantic: Practices, Policies, Fields Mark B. Salter and Can E.Mutlu
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Taylor & Francis Propaganda War Crimes Trials and International Law From Speakers Corner to War Crimes
Book SynopsisPropaganda, War Crimes Trials and International Law addresses the emerging jurisprudence and international law concerning propaganda in war crimes investigations and trials. The role of propaganda in the perpetration of atrocities has emerged as a central theme in the war crimes trials in the past century. The Nuremburg trials initially, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda currently, have all substantially contributed to the development of international law in this respect. Investigating and exploring the areas between lawful and unlawful propaganda, they have dealt with specific mechanisms and consequences of the phenomenon within the perspective and framework of their international legal mandates. But the cultural codes and argots through which propaganda operates have vexed international courts struggling to assign responsibility to the instigators of mass crimes, as subtle, but potentially fatal, communications often remain undetected, misinterpreted or even dismissed as entirely irrelevant. With contributions from leading international scholars and legal practioners, Propaganda, War Crimes Trials and International Law pursues a comparative approach to this problem: providing an overview of the current state of the theory of propaganda in the social sciences; exploring this theory in the legal analysis of war crimes and related proceedings; and, finally, offering a study of the prosecution of propaganda-related crimes in international law, and the newly emerging jurisprudence of war crimes propaganda cases.Trade Review'Through the range of perspectives, this book provides lawyers with an important introduction to social science concepts and highlights how understanding the linguistic and cultural context is axiomatic for effective investigation and prosecution of hate speech and propaganda. The edited volume provides a full picture of the war crimes process from investigation, expert testimony to judgment, and is a welcome contribution to the field given the central role propaganda plays in many war crimes trials.' - Keina Yoshida, London School of Economics, UK for Journal of International Criminal Justice (2013)Table of Contents PART 1: The indictable propaganda: a bottom-up perspective, NENAD FISˇ ER; 2. Word scene investigations: toward a cognitive linguistic approach to the criminal analysis of open source evidence in war crimes cases, PREDRAG DOJC ˇ INOVIC; 3. Propaganda as a crime under international humanitarian law:theories and strategies for prosecutors, Dan Saxon; PART 2: 4. The challenges of understanding Kinyarwanda key terms used to instigate the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, MATHIAS RUZINDANA; 5: Propaganda, hate speech and mass killings, ANTHONY OBERSCHALL; PART 3: Hitler’s notorious Jew-baiter: the prosecution of Julius Streicher, MARGARET EASTWOOD; 7. Propaganda in the jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, MICHAEL KEARNEY; 8: The ghost of causation in international speech crime cases, SUSAN BENESCH; 9: Crimes of atrocity, the problem of punishment and the situ of law, LAWRENCE DOUGLAS.
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Taylor & Francis Talking to Terrorists Concessions and the Renunciation of Violence Contemporary Terrorism Studies
Book SynopsisThis book examines the doctrine of giving no concessions to terrorists, and uses empirical research to establish whether there is any link between negotiating with such groups and the spread of violence.The logic of the no-concessions doctrine is based on the argument that other terrorist groups multiply when they realize that terrorism succeeds in achieving political goals. Proponents of the no-concessions doctrine have argued that there is a pattern in terrorist contagion which results from giving in to their demands. Statistical evidence for terrorist contagion is not convincing enough, however, as depicting an increase in terrorist incidences as a consequence of concessions could merely imply a flawed causality. Without an explanation for such correlations we are left wondering whether other reasons could be decisive in the increase in terrorist actions.Based on field research in four countries and interviews with current and former members of several different terrorist groups, this book establishes a qualitative relationship between concessions to terrorists on the one hand and (non-)contagion of other terrorist groups on the other. The deterrence effect, intended by the imperative never to concede, is seriously challenged. In fact, it can be precisely through concessions that groups mentalities and actions are called into question. The book will be of great interest to students of terrorism and political violence, war and conflict studies, security studies and IR/politics.Carolin Goerzig is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris and has a PhD in Political Science from Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich.Trade Review'The book is an excellent empirical study of a doctrine that is rarely scrutinized. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' - W. W. Newmann, Virginia Commonwealth University, CHOICETable of Contents1. Questioning the No-Concessions-Doctrine 2. Arguing for a Differentiated Picture 3. The Jama'ah Islamiya's Change of Means and the Reaction of the Egyptian Jihad and Al Qaeda 4. The PLO’s Change of Ends and the Reaction of Hamas 5. The AUC's Change of Means and the Reaction of the ELN 6. The PKK’s Change of Ends and the Reaction of the Turkish Hezbollah 7. Implications for Policy 8. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Military Media Management
Book SynopsisThis book examines the practices of actors involved in the media reportage of war, and the ways in which these practices may influence the conduct of modern military operations.War is a complex phenomenon which raises numerous questions about the organization of society that continue to challenge all those involved in its study. Increasingly, this includes the need to engage theoretically and empirically with the progressive collapse between the ways in which wars are conducted and the manner in which they are reported in the media. Drawing on the work of Erving Goffman, Military Media Management offers a distinctly new approach to our appreciation of the dynamic relationship between war and media; one that is fundamentally a product of social relations between those engaged in reporting war, and those conducting war campaigns. By exploring how and why the military manage information in particular ways, the text succeeds in providing a framework through whichTrade Review'Military Media Management contains a sophisticated, yet accessible, analysis of the media operations of the British Armed Forces. It should be required reading for all students, scholars, and practitioners who want to understand contemporary conflict and the ways in which it is mediatized.' -- E-IR journalTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. What is Media Operations? 3. The Aim of Media Operations 4. Media Operations: An Interactionist Perspective 5. Audiences: Imagining and Influencing 6. Defining War: Control Moves 7. Defining War: Strategic Interaction 8. Performing War: Bounded Impression Management 9. Performing War: Distanciated Impression Management 10. Impression Management and Mediatized War: Negotiating the 'Front' Line
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Taylor & Francis Military Integration after Civil Wars Multiethnic Armies Identity and PostConflict Reconstruction Cass Military Studies
Book SynopsisThis book examines the role of multiethnic armies in post-conflict reconstruction, and demonstrates how they can promote peacebuilding efforts.The author challenges the assumption that multiethnic composition leads to weakness of the military, and shows how a multiethnic army is frequently the impetus for peacemaking in multiethnic societies. Three case studies (Nigeria, Lebanon and Bosnia-Herzegovina) determine that rather than external factors, it is the internal structures that make or break the military institution in a socially challenging environment. The book finds that where the political will is present, the multiethnic military can become a symbol of reconciliation and coexistence. Furthermore, it shows that the military as a professional identity can supersede ethnic considerations and thus facilitates cooperation within the armed forces despite a hostile post-conflict setting. In this, the book challenges widespread theories about ethnic identities and puts professional identities on an equal footing with them.The book will be of great interest to students of military studies, ethnic conflict, conflict studies and peacebuilding, and IR in generalFlorence Gaub is a Researcher and Lecturer at the NATO Defence College in Rome. She holds a PhD in International Politics from Humboldt University, Berlin.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Armed Forces as a Social Agent 2. Case Study Nigerian Army: From Colonial to Political 3. Case Study Lebanese Armed Forces: From Powerlessness to Integration? 4. Case Study Armies of Bosnia-Herzegovina: A State in Transit 5. Military Integration after Civil War: An Assessment. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis The Homeland Security Dilemma
Book SynopsisThis book explores the paradox of the âsecurity dilemmaâ in International Relations, as applied to the post-9/11 context of homeland security.The book's central argument can be summed up by the following counterintuitive thesis: the more security you have, the more security you will need. It argues that enhancing security does not make terrorism more likely, but rather it raises public expectations and amplifies public outrage after subsequent failures. The book contests that this dilemma will continue to shape American, Canadian and British domestic and international security priorities for decades. In exploring the key policy implications resulting from this, the book highlights the difficulty in finding a solution to this paradox, as the most rational and logical policy options are part of the problem. This book will be of interest to students of Homeland Security, Security Studies, US politics, and IR in general.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Origins of Homeland Security Dilemma 1. Rising Public Expectations and Higher Standards for Measuring Performance 2. The Power and Triumph of Failure 3. Public Imagination and Probability Neglect 4. Political Imagination and Motivation 5. Declining Support for Sacrificing Civil Liberties 6. Multilateral Failures and the HSD 7. Homeland Security Dilemma and Political Motivations 8. Revisiting the Overblown Thesis: Logical, Empirical and Theoretical Problems 9. Non-Falsifiability of Overblown Theory 10. Weak Theories Lead to Simple (mistaken) Solutions 11. Conclusion: The Homeland Security Dilemma and the Future
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Taylor & Francis Migration and Security in the Global Age
Book SynopsisThis book is an interdisciplinary examination of several interconnecting aspects of migrant communities in the context of contemporary conflict and security. The book illustrates that within this globalised world, migrants have become key actors, living in the spaces between states, as well as within them. Arguing that migrants and their descendants are vital and complex constituencies for the achievement of security in this global age, the volume uses a number of case studies, including Palestinian, Sri Lankan, Irish and Somali diaspora communities, to explore the different ways that such groups intersect with issues of security, and how these attitudes and behaviours have evolved in the context of political transnationalism and the global economy.Comparative and econometric studies of migration can provide a wide lens but at times fail to capture the depth and complexity of these communities and attitudes within them. At the same time, empirically focused studies areTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Migration and Globalisation 2. Flight and Fight: Examining the Long Distance Nationalists 3. Tales of Positive Engagement: The Long Distance Peace-Builders 4. Migration and the War on Terror 5. Fusion Cuisine: Diasporas, Food and Conflict 6. Troubled Tours: Diaspora Tourism, Homeland and Remembrance 7. Policy Matters: Migration and Security in the 21st Century
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Taylor & Francis Irish Republican Terrorism and Politics
Book SynopsisThis book examines the post-ceasefire evolutions and histories of the main Irish republican terrorist factions, and the interconnected character of politics and militarism within them. Offering the first comparative study of the two leading Irish republican terrorist movements the Official IRA and the Provisional IRA (PIRA), this book presents the lesser-known Officials' political-military evolution and analyses whether they could have been role models for the Provisionals. Not only does it compare the terrorism and the politics of the Officials and Provisionals in the aftermath of their seminal ceasefires of 1972 and 1994, it also presents the Irish republican history in a new light and brings to the fore the understudied and disregarded Officials who called their seminal ceasefire twenty-two years before their rivals in 1972. In doing this, the work discusses whether the PIRA might have learned lessons from the bitter and ultimately unsuccessful experience of the Officials.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Official Republican Terrorism 1972-1992 3. The Provisional Republican Terrorism 1994-2005 4. The Official Republican Politics 1972-1992 5. The Provisional Republican Politics 1994-2005 6. Post-Ceasefire Terrorisms and Politics Compared 7. Conclusions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Peace and Conflict Studies A Reader
Book SynopsisPeace and Conflict Studies: A Reader is a comprehensive and intensive introduction to the key works in this growing field. Presenting a range of theories, methodologies, and approaches to understanding peace and to transforming conflict, this edited volume contains both classic and cutting-edge contemporary analyses. The text is divided into six general sections: PART I: Peace Studies, Peace Education, and Peace PART II: Peace Theories and Peace Movements PART III: The Meanings and Nature of Conflict PART IV: Conflict Analysis, Transformation, and Prevention PART V: Nonviolent Action and Political Change. PART VI: Building Institutions and Cultures of Peace With an extensive introduction, as well as recommendations for further reading and questions for the classroom, Peace and Conflict Studies: A Reader will be essential reading for students, teachers, and practitioners of peace and conflict studiTrade Review'This volume is a much needed contribution to the study of peace and conflict in the contemporary world. Wide-ranging, interdisciplinary and topical, it renders peace and conflict studies relevant beyond the immediate post-Cold war era into the twenty-first century.' - M.K. Flynn, University of the West of England, BristolTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Peace Studies, Peace Education, Peace Research and Peace A. What are Peace and Conflict Studies and Peace Education? 1. Shaping a Vision- The Nature of Peace and Conflict Studies Conrad Brunk 2. Four Major Challenges Facing Peace Education in Regions of Intractable Conflict Gavriel Salomon B. What is Peace? 3. Peace in International Relations Oliver Richmond 4. 2011 Global Peace Index 5. Thinking Peace Charles Webel 6. Positive and Negative Peace Johan Galtung Part 2: Peace Theories and Peace Movements A. Philosophical and Religious Contributions to Peace 7. Eternal Peace Immanuel Kant 8. Address to The Swedish Peace Congress in 1909 Leo Tolstoy 9. The Moral Equivalent of War William James 10. The Russell-Einstein Manifesto 11. A Human Approach to World Peace Dalai Lama B. Peace and Social Justice Movements 12. PEACE: A History of Movements and Ideas David Cortright 13. Introduction, from Peace Movements in International Protest and World Politics since 1945 April Carter 14. From Protest to Cultural Creativity: Peace Movements Identified and Revisited Nigel Young Part 3: The Meanings and Nature of Conflict A. What are Violence and Conflicts? 15. On Violence Hannah Arendt 16. Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development 17. World Health Organization (WHO): An Internationally Accepted Definition of Violence 18. WHO: Violence Prevention: The Evidence, Overview B. The Reasons for Violent Conflicts and Terrorism 19. Letter to Sigmund Freud Albert Einstein 20. Why War? Sigmund Freud 21. UNESCO: Seville Statement on Violence 22. Psychological Contributions to Understanding Peace and Conflict Charles Wevel and Viera Sotakova 23. The Evil Scourge of Terrorism: Reality, Construction, Remedy Noam Chomsky Part 4: Conflict Analysis, Transformation, and Prevention A. Conflict Dynamics, Resistance, and Democracy 24. Protagonist Strategies that help end Violence Louis Kriesberg and Gearoid Millar 25. Nonviolent Geopolitics; Rationality and Resistance Richard Falk 26. The United States and the Prospects for Democracy in Islamic Countries Steven Zunes B. Reconcilliation 27. How do Post-Conflict Societies Deal with a Traumatic Past and Promote National Unity and Reconciliation? Andrew Rigby C. Disarmament 28. Disarmament and Survival Marc Pilisuk 29. Overcoming War, The Importance of Constructive Alternatives Christine Schweitzer Part 5: Nonviolent Action and Political Change A. Nonviolence as a Way of Life 30. Home Rule Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 31. Pilgrimage to Nonviolence Martin Luther King, Jr B. Nonviolence as a Political Tool 32. How Nonviolence Works Brian Martin 33. Excerpts from, From Dictatorship to Democracy Gene Sharp 34. Waves of Nonviolence and the New Revolutionary Movements Jørgen Johansen Part 6: Building Institutions and Cultures of Peace A. Peacekeeping, Peace-Building, and Peacemaking 35. A Critique of Robust Peacekeeping in Contemporary Peace Operations Thierry Tardy 36. Social Entrepreneurs and Constructive Change: The Wisdom of Circumventing Conflict Ryszard Praskier, Andrej Nowak and Peter T. Coleman 37. Systems-Building before State-Building: On the Systemic Preconditions of State-Building Peter Halden 38. Gender and Peace: Towards a Gender-Inclusive, Holistic Perspective Tony Jenkins and Betty Reardon B. From Cultures of Violence to Cultures of Sustainable Peace 39. Competing Discourses on Aggression and Peacefulness Majken Jul Sørensen 40. Gender, Conflict, and Social Capital; Bonding and Bridging in War in the former Yugoslavia Maja Korac 41. Peaceful Societies and Everyday Behaviour Elise Boulding
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Taylor & Francis Economic Assistance and Conflict Transformation Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland
Book SynopsisThis book examines the role of economic aid in the management and resolution of protracted ethnic conflicts, focusing on the case study of Northern Ireland.The book describes the results of a study of the role of economic aid within Northern Ireland, through the viewpoints of citizens collected in an opinion poll as well as community group leaders whose projects received funding, funding-agency civil servants and development officers. The study explains the importance of economic and social development in promoting cross-community contact as well as within single-identity communities, and the need for a multitrack intervention approach to transform the conflict in Northern Ireland. It makes an important contribution to our understanding of how economic assistance impacts on a divided society with a history of protracted violence and provides important perspectives on the peace through development idea. One of the key unanswered questions relating to economic aid and preventing future violence is that of the significance of external economic aid in building peace after violence. By examining the respondentsâ political imagery, this book expands on existing work on economic aid and peace building in other societies coming out of violence. Northern Irelandâs changing social-economic and political context reflects the fact that economic aid and sustainable economic development is a cornerstone of the peacebuilding process. The goal of the book is to provide a foundational knowledge base for students and practitioners about the role of economic aid in building the peace dividend in post-accord societies. The book will be of great interest to students of conflict resolution, peacebuilding, Irish politics, peace and conflict studies, and politics and IR in general.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Economic Assistance: Building the Peace in Northern Ireland 2. Economic Inequality, Civil Rights, and Working-Class Politics in Northern Ireland 3. International Economic Assistance and the Economy of Northern Ireland 4. The Role of the International Fund for Ireland and the European Union Peace II Fund in Promoting Peace and Reducing Violence in Northern Ireland 5. Images of Bureaucratic Challenges 6. Images of Peacebuilding and Reconciliation 7. Images of Economic Development and Community Capacity Building 8. Conclusions: Economic Assistance and the Northern Ireland Conflict
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Taylor & Francis EthnoNationalism Islam and the State in the Caucasus
Book SynopsisWith the region of the Caucasus with its ongoing, and even deteriorating, crisis and instability and its strategic and economic importance increasingly at the front of the world''s attention, this volume presents and discusses some of the complexities and problems arising in the region such as Islamic terrorists and al-Qaida. Scholars from different disciplines who specialise in the Caucasus analyze key topics such as: discussions of grass root perceptions the influence of informal power structures on ethnic conflicts in the Caucasus Russian policies towards Islam and their destabilising influence the influence of Islamic revival on the legal and social situations nationalism and the revival of pre- and sub-national identities shifts in identity as reflected in demography reasons for the Chechen victory in the first Chechen war the involvement of Islamic volunteers in Chechnya. With the situatioTrade Review'...the volume provides good insight into the political processes since the 1990s, and especially into the growing Islamization of initially secular ethnic movements and the states’ failure to react adequately.' - Michael Kemper, Amsterdam"The collection is well structured and organized...The book is well produced, with seven maps and no fewer than eighteen tables...contributions are both accurately and copiously referenced, there is a comprehensive Index and a generally good standard of translation of those articles written by non-native English speakers...I think that this volume deserves a place in the library of any individual or institution wishing to learn more about one of the least understood regions of contemporary Europe." - John Russell, Slavonic and East European Review (vol. 89, no. 1, January 2011).Table of Contents1. Informal Power Structures in Russia and Ethno-Political Conflict in the Northern Caucasus Maxim U. Barbashin 2. Islam and the Legal System in the North-Western Caucasus Irina L. Babich 3. ‘Re-Islamisation’ and Ethno-Nationalism: The Circassians (Adyghe) of the North-Western Caucasus and their Diaspora Chen Bram 4. The Republic of Adygheia: Perceptions of Rights, Freedoms and Life Chances of Ordinary People Cemre Erciyes 5. The Events of November 1996 in Kabardino-Balkaria and their Prehistory Julietta Meskhidze 6. Russian Policies towards Islamic Extremism in the Northern Caucasus and Destabilization in Kabardino-Balkaria Walter Richmond 7. Ideology and Conflict: Chechen Political Nationalism Prior to, and During Ten Years of War Ekaterina Sokirianskaia 8. The Orstkhoy Revival: Identity and Border Dispute in the Northern Caucasus Victor A. Shnirelman 9. ‘I Can Fight, Army against Army’: The 1994-1996 Russo-Chechen War, Strategies and Misconceptions Yagil Henkin 10. Allah’s Foot Soldiers. An Assessment of the Role of Foreign Fighters and Al-Qaeda in the Chechen Insurgency Brian Glyn Williams 11. From the Challenge of Nationalism to the Challenge of Islam: The Case of Daghestan Moshe Gammer 12. ‘Wahhabis’, Democrats and Everything in Between. The Development of Islamic Activism in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan Sofie Bedford 13. Demography of North Caucasian Jewry: A Note on Population Dynamics and Shifting Identity Mark Tolts
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Taylor & Francis Causes and Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation
Book SynopsisThis book offers valuable insights into the causes and consequences of nuclear proliferation.Through the development of new datasets and the application of cutting edge research methods, contributors to this volume significantly advance the frontiers of research on nuclear weapons. Essays in this volume address why states acquire nuclear weapons, why they engage in nuclear cooperation, and also explore the relationship between nuclear weapons possession and a variety of security and diplomatic consequences. In addition to accelerating the development of an empirical research agenda, the chapters combine to form a coherent storyline that shows nuclear technology and capabilities have been under appreciated as a cause of proliferation in recent scholarly literature. For scholars and practitioners alike, there is a strategic logic to nuclear assistance that is essential to understand. Moreover, several of the essays show that the consequences of nuclear proliferation are more coTable of Contents1. Introduction: The Causes and Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation Matthew Kroenig, Erik Gartzke and Robert Rauchhaus 2. International Nonproliferation: Why Delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency? Robert Brown 3. Membership Has Its Privileges: Conventional Arms and Influence within the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Jennifer Erickson and Christopher Way 4. Importing the Bomb: Sensitive Nuclear Assistance and Nuclear Proliferation Matthew Kroenig 5. Taking a Walk on the Supply Side: The Determinants of Civilian Nuclear Cooperation Matthew Fuhrmann 6. A Bargaining Model of Nuclear Weapons Development and Disarmament Brett V. Benson and Quan Wen 7. Nuclear Politics: The Political Decision to Acquire, Sustain or Discard a Nuclear Arsenal James Wirtz 8. Bargaining, Nuclear Proliferation, and Interstate Disputes Erik Gartzke and Dong-Joon Jo 9. The Spread of Nuclear Weapons and International Conflict: Does Experience Matter? Michael Horowitz 10. Evaluating the Nuclear Peace Hypothesis: A Quantitative Approach Robert Rauchhaus 11. Winning with the Bomb Kyle Beardsley and Victor Asal 12. Risk Analysis of Nuclear Deterrence Martin Hellman 13. Nuclear Disarmament: Can risk analysis inform the debate? Paul Nelson 14. The Perils of Predicting Proliferation Alexander Montgomery and Scott Sagan
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Taylor & Francis Arms Control and Missile Proliferation in the Middle East
Book SynopsisThis edited volume provides a systematic analysis of the missile threat and proliferation issue in the Middle East region.The question of how to increase the level of security in the Middle East is not a new one, given the conflict-ridden nature of the region. The solution attempted for this predicament has typically revolved around intense arms build-ups, a strategy which can prove self-defeating due to the subsequent countermeasures employed by neighbouring states. Arms Control and Missile Proliferation in the Middle East focuses on the strategic proliferation of arms, with a specific emphasis on missiles. This unique emphasis enables the contributors to provide a dynamic new perspective on conceptual and political disarmament efforts, thereby distinguishing this volume from many other related works on the region, which deal mainly with weapons of mass destruction. The book also explores the possibility of a reduction in weapon arsenals, examining a more proTrade Review"This multi-authored book aims at investigating how the level of security in the Middle East and Gulf region can be increased by a step-by-step confidence-building strategy and the creation of a Missile Free Zone (MFZ). The book consists of several articles written by professors and experts in the fields of international security, arms control and Middle East issues. It addresses regional decision-makers and offers a Track II answer to the Gulf's deficits regarding the missile problematique in the security dilemma context." - Elena Cesca, The International SpectatorTable of Contents1. Introduction: Setting the Stage: Decreasing the Security Dilemma by Gradual Missile Reductions Part 1: Missiles and Their Proliferation as a Threat 2. Lessons from the Arms Control and Regional Security Talks 3. Missiles in the Middle East: Their Destabilizing Role Part 2: Conditions for a Successful Step-by-Step Approach 4. Taking Overall Military Asymmetries into Account: Objections from the Arab World and Iran 5. Taking Israel’s Security Interests into Account: Deterrence Policy in a Changing Strategic Environment 6. Advancing the Control of Weapons of Mass Destruction: An Incremental Approach 7. From (Potential) Spoilers to Guarantors? The Role of External Powers 8. The Verification Challenge: Concepts, Requirements, and Technologies 9. The Prospects for Disarmament: The Case of Hezbollah 10. Designing Disarmament Strategies: The Case of Hamas Part 3: Three Milestones towards a Missile Free Zone 11. The Promise of Military Transparency: Building on Past Experiences and the UN Register of Conventional Arms 12. The Missile Technology Control Regime, the Hague Code of Conduct, and Missile Proliferation 13. Caps and Bans: Limiting, Reducing, and Prohibiting Missiles and Missile Defence 14. Conclusion: The Stage Reconsidered: Findings, Concluding Remarks, and Research Perspectives 15. Apendix: The Arsenals of Actors Relevant to a Missile Free Zone in the Middle East/Gulf
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Taylor & Francis Transitional Justice Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law
Book SynopsisTransitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law addresses the importance of judicial accountability in transitional justice processes. Trade Review'In less than 200 pages, the author covers general questions of judicial accountability and the judicialisation of politics (Chapters 1 and 6); applies these questions to transitional contexts (Chapters 3 and 5); analyzes the specifics of judicial accountability in the Nigerian case (Chapters 4 and 7) and advances an analysis about the appropriateness of truth commissions for delivering judicial accountability (Chapter 2). In this respect, the book is a tour de force' - Catherine O'Rourke, University of Ulster, UK for Social & Legal Studies (2013)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Case for Judicial Accountability in Transitions 2. Truth, Transition, and Accountability of the Judiciary 3. Political Change and Judicial Reform: An International and Comparative Perspective 4. Judicial Accountability in Political Transitions: The Nigerian Context 5. Rights, the Judiciary and Constitutionalism in Transitions 6. Transition and the Judicialization of Politics: Dialectics of a Phenomenon 7. Courts to the Rescue? The Judicialization of Politics in Nigeria. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Conflict Management and African Politics Ripeness Bargaining and Mediation Security and Conflict Management
Book SynopsisThis edited volume builds on a core set of concepts developed by I. William Zartman to offer new insights into conflict management and African politics. Key concepts such as ripe moments, hurting stalemates, and collapsed states, are built upon in order to show how conflict resolution theory may be applied to contemporary challenges, particularly in Africa. The contributors explore means of pre-empting negotiations over bribery, improving outcomes in environmental negotiations, boosting the capacity of mediators to end violent conflicts, and finding equitable negotiated outcomes. Other issues dealt with in the book include the negotiation of relations with Europe, the role of culture in African conflict resolution, the means to enhance security in unstable regional environments, and the strategic role of the United States in mediating African conflicts.This book will be of much interest to students of international conflict management, peace/conflict studies, African politics and IR in general.Table of Contents1. Conflict Management and African Politics: Framing the Links Terrence Lyons and Gilbert M. Khadiagala Part 1: New Research on Negotiation Theory 2. Putting The Practical Negotiator to the Test: Two Examinations of the Formula-Details Proposition Pamela Chasek and Lynn Wagner 3. Perverse Negotiations: Bribery, Bargaining, and Ripeness Bertram I. Spector 4. Ripeness Revisited: The Perils of Muscular Mediation Alan Kuperman Part 2: The International Relations of Africa 5. The Evolution of Euro-African Relations Gilbert M. Khadiagala 6. Post-Cold War Conflict in West Africa: A Subordinate State System in Collapse? Terrence Lyons Part 3: Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Africa 7. Conditions for Mediation Success: Evaluating U.S. Initiatives in Sudan and Liberia Donald Rothchild 8. The Zimbabwe Independence Settlement Revisited: Race, Land, Class, and Ripe Moments Fadzai Gwarazimba 9. African Conflict ‘Medicine’: An Emerging Paradigm Shift in African Conflict Resolution? Ben Fred-Mensah
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Taylor & Francis Managing the China Challenge Global Perspectives Asian Security Studies
Book SynopsisThis edited volume addresses one of the most significant issues in international strategic studies today: how to meet the challenge of a rising China?The contributors take a global view of the topic, offering unique and often controversial perspectives on the nature of the China challenge. The book approaches the subject from a variety of angles, including realist, offensive realist, institutional, power transition, interdependence, and constructivist perspectives. Chapters explore such issues as the US response to the China challenge, Japanâs shifting strategy toward a rising China, EU-China relations, Chinaâs strategic partnership with Russia and India, and the implications of unipolarity for China, the US and the world. In doing so, the volume offers insights into some of the key questions surrounding Chinaâs grand strategy and its potential effects on to the existing international order. Table of ContentsPart 1: Understanding the China Challenge 1. China Rising: Theoretical Understanding and Global Response Quansheng Zhao and Guoli Liu 2. China’s Rise in Historical Perspective Warren I. Cohen 3. Exploring Theoretical Implications of the Rise of China: A Critique on Mainstream IR Perspectives Yun-han Chu and Min-Hua Huang 4. China’s Rise as a Trading Power Guoli Liu Part 2: Perspectives from the Globe 5. U.S. Response to the China Challenge Robert G. Sutter 6. Japan’s Shifting Strategy toward the Rise of China Mike M. Mochizuki 7. Future imperfect: The European Union’s Encounter with China (and the United States) William A. Callahan 8. Beyond Alliance? China’s Strategic Partnerships with Russia and India Yong Deng 9. Southeast Asian Perspectives on the China Challenge Evelyn Goh 10. Latin America and China’s Growing Interest He Li Part 3: Managing the Challenge 11. Unipolarity:Implications for China, the US and the World Qingguo Jia 12. Managing the Challenge: Power Shift in U.S.-China Relations Quansheng Zhao
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Taylor & Francis Crimeterror Nexus in South Asia States Security and Nonstate Actors Asian Security Studies
Book SynopsisThis book examines the crime-terror nexus in South Asia, focusing in particular on the activities of non-state actors that operate out of Pakistan, and challenges the conventional wisdom that the Pakistan Taleban (TTP) and Al-Qaeda are Pakistan’s most serious security threats.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Analysis of Current Research 2. Misgovernance and Proxy Warfare in Kashmir: Laying the Groundwork for the Crime-Terror Nexus 3. The Crime-Terror Nexus and Chinese Arms in Indian-Held Kashmir 4. Lashkar-i-Taiba: The Fallacy of Subservient Proxies and the Future of Islamist Terrorism in India 5. LeT and D-Company in Pakistan – Selective Justice, Sectarianism, and Artificial Distinctions 6. Breakdown of Order in FATA: Driven by the Pakistani Taliban and Al-Qaeda but Ideologically Underwritten by LeT 7. The Pakistani Economy – Imbalances and Contradictions, Incomplete Islamization, and D-Company as a Strategic Asset
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2010 Growing Leftwing Extremism and Religious Violence
Book SynopsisThis book examines the major armed conflicts in South Asia. The articles study conflict management, look at the direction the armed conflict is likely to take and provide a set of alternative measures that could be pursued by the actors. Designed as an annual series, the articles provide a brief historical sketch of the emergence of armed conflict, outlining its various phases. This volume examines the various armed conflicts in South Asia in 2009 in Afghanistan, FATA and NWFP, J&K, North-East India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, and sectarian and Naxalite violence in Pakistan and India respectively. The volume also includes an exclusive chapter on the continuing story of suicide terrorism in Pakistan.This important collection discusses India's geo-strategic importance and its common borders with its neighbours; the psychological and economic costs of violence and the problem of refugee migrants; treaties, memorandums and ceasefire agreements signed over the past several yearsTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures. List of Abbreviations. Preface 1. Armed Conflicts in South Asia: An Overview P.R. Chari 2. Afghanistan: Turning the Tide Shanthie Mariet D'Souza 3. Armed Conflict in FATA and NWFP: Continuing Violence D. Suba Chandran 4. J&K: Return to Violence Kavita Suri 5. Left Wing Extremism: Misplaced War Mongering? Devyani Srivastava 6. Northeast India: Protracted Conflicts and Protracted Peace Processes Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman 7. Armed Conflict in Nepal: From Parliament to Siege in Kathmandu Kriti Singh 8. Sri Lanka: Conflict is Dead, Long Live the Conflict N. Manoharan 9. Pakistan and Suicide Terrorism: A Never Ending Story Jeremie Lanche. Notes on Contributors. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Militarism and International Relations
Book SynopsisThis book examines contemporary militarism in international politics, employing a variety of different theoretical viewpoints and international case studies. Militarism â understood as the social and international relations of the preparation for, and conduct of, organized political violence â is an abiding and defining characteristic of world politics. Yet despite the ongoing social, political and economic reach of military institutions, practices and values, the concept and subject of militarism has not received significant attention within recent debates in International Relations.This book intends to fill the gap in the current body of literature. It has two key overarching aims: to make the case for a renewed research agenda for IR centred on the concept of militarism; and to provide a series of empirically focused and theoretically informed case studies of contemporary militarism in practice. Containing a wide-ranging selection of chapters, the volume presents aTrade Review"An engaging narrative is maintained throughout this edited collection of articles that address the issue of militarism in International Relations. The book seamlessly integrates historical and contemporary perspectives on militarism, with theory and relevant international case studies, resulting in a very informative read... Overall, this book would prove very beneficial to students of International Relations, as well as those interested more specifically in militarism, strategic studies, and security." - Jack Newnham and Peter Bell, Queensland University of Technology, Australia"Overall, Militarism and International Relations is an informative, well written, carefully selected collection of essays." - Dr. Anne de Jong is assistant professor Conflict Studies at the University of AmsterdamTable of ContentsPart I: Theorising Militarism 1. Militarism and International Relations in the 21st Century, Anna Stavrianakis and Jan Selby 2. Twenty-First Century Militarism: A Historical-Sociological Framework, Martin Shaw 3. Challenging Cartographies of Enmity: Empire, War and Culture in Contemporary Militarisation, Simon Dalby 4. Militarism, 'New Wars' and the Political Economy of Development: A Gramscian Critique, Nicola Short 5. War Becomes Academic: Human Terrain, Virtuous War and Contemporary Militarism. An Interview with James Der Derian, Anna Stavrianakis and Jan Selby Part II: Militarism and Security 6. From Oslo to Gaza: Israel's 'Enlightened Public' and the Remilitarization of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Yoav Peled 7. From Political Armies to the ‘War Against Crime’: The Transformation of Militarism in Latin America, Dirk Kruijt and Kees Koonings 8. The Global Arms Trade and the Diffusion of Militarism, David Kinsella 9. Wilsonians Under Arm, Andrew J. Bacevich Part III: The Political Economy of Militarism 10. The Political Economy of EU Space Policy Militarization: The case of the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security, Iraklis Oikonomou 11. Producing Men, the Nation and Commodities: The Cultural Political–Economy of Militarism in Egypt, Ramy M.K. Aly 12. The Chinese Military: Its Political and Economic Function, Kerry Brown and Claudia Zanardi
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Taylor & Francis Critical Terrorism Studies
Book SynopsisThis book is an introduction to critical approaches to terrorism studies. While there is a growing body of Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) literature devoted to empirical examples and conceptual development, very little has been written about how to systematically carry out this kind of research. Critical Terrorism Studies fills this gap by addressing three key themes: The position of terrorism studies and critical terrorism studies in the discipline of International Relations (IR) Theoretical and methodological elaborations of critical approaches to the study of terrorism Empirical illustrations of those approaches. Drawing upon a range of engaging material, the volume reviews a series of non-variable based methodological approaches. It then goes on to provide empirical examples that illustrate how these approaches have been and can be utilized by students, teachers, and postgrTable of Contents1. The Critical Terrorism Studies Project PART I: The History and Transdisciplinarity of (Critical) Terrorism Studies 2. Terrorism Studies in International Relations 3. Introducing Critical Terrorism Studies PART II: Methods for doing Critical Terrorism Studies 4. Terrorism and Critical Theory 5. Postcolonial and Feminist Approaches to Terrorism 5. Ethnography of the ‘Terrorist’ Subject 6. Making Sense of ‘Terrorism’ and ‘Counterterrorism’ 7. Discourse Analysis and Terrorism Studies 8. Discourse Analysis of the Counterterrorist State 9. Terrorism and Social Network Analysis 10. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Psychology Strategy and Conflict
Book SynopsisThis volume examines the explanatory nesting approach in the analysis of international relations and its continuing relevance in the 21st century. International relations theory urgently needs strategies for coping with the growing complexity of the international system following the collapse of the USSoviet bipolar stalemate, the multiple challenges to US unipolar hegemony, and the rise of powerful non-Western actors. Over the course of this book, leading scholars of international relations and diplomatic history return to an approach to explanation pioneered in the writings of the late Robert Jervis. The approach calls for nesting multiple layers of explanation--systemic, strategic, and perceptual--in an integrated causal account that is simultaneously parsimonious and nuanced. Highlighting the logic of strategic interactions under uncertainty, it also integrates the effects of psychological biases and the unintended consequences of acting in complex systems to provTable of ContentsForeword, Thomas C. Schelling Introduction, James W. Davis 1. Both Fox and Hedgehog: The Art of Nesting Structural and Perceptual Perspectives, Jack L. Snyder 2. Realism, Randall Schweller 3. Political Psychology, Rose McDermott 4. Rational Signaling Revisited, Jonathan Mercer 5. Fear, Greed, and Financial Decision Making, Janice Gross Stein 6. The Nuclear Question, Marc Trachtenberg 7. The Meaning of Nuclear Evolution: China's Nuclear Modernization and US-China Security Relations, Thomas J. Christensen 8. Reflections on System, System Effects, and 19th Century International Politics as the Practice of Civic Association, Paul W. Schroeder 9. The Art of the Intelligence Autopsy, James J. Wirtz 10. The (Good) Person and the (Bad) Situation: Recapturing Innocence at the Expense of Responsibility?, James W. Davis 11. Force in Our Times, Robert Jervis
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Taylor & Francis Kosovo Intervention and Statebuilding
Book SynopsisThis book examines international engagement with Kosovo since NATO's intervention in 1999, and looks at the three distinct phases of Kosovo's development; intervention, statebuilding and independence.Kosovo remains a case study of central importance in international relations, illustrative of key political trends in the post-Cold War era. During each phase, international policy towards Kosovo has challenged prevailing international norms and pushed the boundaries of conventional wisdom. In each of the three phases ''Kosovo'' has been cited as constituting a precedent, and this book explores the impact and the often troubling consequences and implications of these precedents. This book explicitly engages with this debate, which transcends Kosovo itself, and provides a critical analysis of the catalysts and consequences of contemporary international engagement with this seminal case study.Each chapter focuses on a particular aspect of the international engaTable of Contents1. Introduction: Kosovo and the International Community Aidan Hehir 2. Responding to Kosovo’s Call for Humanitarian Intervention: Public Opinion, Partisanship, and Policy Objectives Alynna J. Lyon and Mary Fran T. Malone 3. Kosovo and the Advent of Sovereignty as Responsibility Alex Bellamy 4. Conflicting Rules: Global Constitutionalism and the Kosovo Intervention Anthony F. Lang, Jr 5. De Facto States in the Balkans: Shared Governance versus Ethnic Sovereignty in Republika Srpska and Kosovo Rick Fawn and Oliver P. Richmond 6. Policing the State of Exception in Kosovo Barry J. Ryan 7. Explaining the International Administration’s Failures in the Security and Justice Areas Giovanna Bono 8. Kosovo – The Final Frontier? From Transitional Administration to Transitional Statehood James Gow 9. Kosovo, Sovereignty and the Subversion of UN Authority James Kerr-Lindsey 10. Microcosm, Guinea Pig or Sui Generis? Assessing International Engagement with Kosovo Aidan Hehir. Appendix: Interview with Dr Fatmir Sejdiu, President of the Republic of Kosovo
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Taylor & Francis Nuclear Weapons and Cooperative Security in the 21st Century
Book SynopsisThis book looks at the prospects for international cooperation over nuclear weapons proliferation in the 21st century.Nuclear weapons served as stabilizing forces during the Cold War, or the First Nuclear Age, on account of their capability for destruction, the fear that this created among politicians and publics, and the domination of the nuclear world order by two superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union. The end of the Cold War, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and the potential for nuclear weapons acquisition among revisionist states, or even non-state actors including terrorists, creates the possibility of a 'wolves eat dogs' phenomenon in the present century. In the 21st century, three forces threaten to undo or weaken the long nuclear peace and fast-forward states into a new and more dangerous situation: the existence of large US and Russian nuclear weapons arsenals; the potential for new technologies, including missile defenses and long-range, precision conventional weapons, and a collapse or atrophy of the nuclear nonproliferation regime, and the opening of the door for nuclear weapons to spread among more than the currently acknowledged nuclear states.This book explains how these three 'weakening' forces interact with one another and with US and Russian policy-making in order to create an environment of large possibilities for cooperative security - but also of considerable danger. Instead, the choices made by military planners and policy-makers will create an early twenty-first century story privileging nuclear stability or chaos. The US and Russia can, and should, make incremental progress in arms control and nonproliferation. This book will be of much interest to students of nuclear proliferation and arms control, strategic studies, international security and IR in general.Stephen J. Cimbala is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of numerous works in the fields of international security, defense studies, nuclear arms control and other topics. He has consulted for various US government agencies and defense contractors.Trade Review'Nuclear Weapons and Cooperative Security in the 21st Century: The New Disorder is the work of an author who thinks very seriously about the connection between nuclear devices and strategic practice. This very thoughtful work should be of interest to all who are concerned about the future role of nuclear weapons in the international system.' - Comparative Strategy, Oct 2010, 29, p383"Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections." - C. W. Sherrill, CHOICE (August 2010)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Alternative Nuclear Regimes 2. Technology Innovation and Deterrence in the Future 3. Nuclear Abolition or Limitation? Choices and Risks 4. Nuclear First Use: Facing the Inevitable, or Playing with Fire? 5. U.S.-Russian Nuclear Force Reductions after Bush: Prospects and Implications 6. The Far Side: Theoretical (and Practical) Nuclear Worlds Ahead 7. Nuclear Proliferation in Asia: Containment or Chaos? 8. Russia’s Undersea Nuclear Deterrent: Vanishing or Modernizing? Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Modern War and the Utility of Force
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the use and utility of military force in modern war.After the Cold War, Western armed forces have increasingly been called upon to intervene in internal conflicts in the former Third World. These forces have been called upon to carry out missions that they traditionally have not been trained and equipped for, in environments that they often have not been prepared for. A number of these new' types of operations in allegedly new' wars stand out, such as peace enforcement, state-building, counter-insurgency, humanitarian aid, and not the least counter-terrorism. The success rate of these missions has, however, been mixed, providing fuel for an increasingly loud debate on the utility of force in modern war. This edited volume poses as its central question: what is in fact the utility of force? Is force useful for anything other than a complete conventional defeat of a regular opponent, who is confronted in the open field?This bTrade Review'Certainly a worthy addition to the growing body of knowledge on military studies.' - Col. Gerhard Louw, Scientia Militaria, South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol. 39, 2, 2011Table of ContentsForeword by General Sir Rupert Smith 1. War, What is it Good for? Jan Angstrom 2. From Victory to Success: The Changing Mission of Western Armed Forces Christopher Dandeker 3. The International Private Security Company: A Unique and Useful Actor? Christopher Spearin 4. Great Expectations: The Use of Armed Force to Combat Terrorism Isabelle Duyvesteyn 5. Why does Peacekeeping Succeed or Fail? Peacekeeping in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone Sarah Kreps 6. Exploring the Utility of Armed Force in Peace Operations: German and British Approaches in Northern Afghanistan Kersti Larsdotter 7. Counterinsurgency Doctrine: the U.S. Experience Thomas Mockaitis 8. No Simple Formula: The Use of Military Force in Counterinsurgency James Corum 9. Adapting to Counter-Insurgency; The US Army in Iraq, July 2004-December 2006 Brian Burton and John Nagl 10. Inviting the Leviathan: External Forces, War and State Building in Afghanistan Jan Angstrom 11. Between Reluctance and Necessity: The Utility of Military Force in Humanitarian and Development Operations Robert Egnell 12. War, What it is Good for … Isabelle Duyvesteyn
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of Civil Wars
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive new Handbook explores the significance and nature of armed intrastate conflict and civil war in the modern world.Civil wars and intrastate conflict represent the principal form of organised violence since the end of World War II, and certainly in the contemporary era. These conflicts have a huge impact and drive major political change within the societies in which they occur, as well as on an international scale. The global importance of recent intrastate and regional conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, Nepal, Cote d'Ivoire, Syria and Libya â amongst others â has served to refocus academic and policy interest upon civil war.Drawing together contributions from key thinkers in the field who discuss the sources, causes, duration, nature and recurrence of civil wars, as well as their political meaning and international impact, the Handbook is organised into five key parts: Part I: Understanding and Explaining Civil Wars: Theoretical and Methodological Debates Part II: The Causes of Civil Wars Part III: The Nature and Impact of Civil Wars Part IV: International Dimensions Part V: Termination and Resolution of Civil Wars Covering a wide range of topics including micro-level issues as well as broader debates, Routledge Handbook of Civil Wars will set a benchmark for future research in the field.This volume will be of much interest to students of civil wars and intrastate conflict, ethnic conflict, political violence, peace and conflict studies, security studies and IR in general.Trade Review"[U]seful for instructors teaching undergraduate or graduate courses in civil wars, conflict studies, and international relations... Summing Up: Recommended" --M. L. Keck, University of Texas at Brownsville, CHOICE Magazine‘The quantitative, qualitative and comparative approaches will likely earn this volume recognition and make significant contributions to scholarship…the editors and contributors have provided readers of all levels with engaging accounts of the most current issues, debates and approaches ideal for specialists and non-specialists alike.’– Scott Romaniuk, University of Trento, Political Studies ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction, Edward Newman and Karl DeRouen Jr. Part I. Understanding and Explaining Civil Wars: Theoretical and Methodological Debates 2. Theoretical Developments in Understanding the Origins of Civil War, Peter Wallensteen 3. Quantitative and Econometric Methodologies, Govinda Clayton 4. Anthropological and Ethnographic Approaches, Paul Richards 5. Sociological Approaches, Siniša Malešević and Niall Ó Dochartaigh 6. Micro-level Studies, Nils B. Weidmann 7. Critical Perspectives, Richard Jackson Part II. The Causes of Civil Wars 8. Ethnicity and Identity Conflict, Neal G. Jesse 9. Horizontal Inequalities and Violent Conflict: Conceptual and Empirical Linkages, Arnim Langer and Frances Stewart 10. Valuable Natural Resources, Päivi Lujala 11. Demographic Factors and Civil War, Gudrun Østby and Henrik Urdal 12. Regime Type and Political Transition in Civil War, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch and Håvard Hegre 13. Religion and Intrastate Conflict, Jonathan Fox 14. Statebuilding, Upheaval and Civil War, Edward Newman 15. Globalization and Social Transition, Gerald Schneider 16. Environmental Change and Armed Conflict, Halvard Buhaug and Hanne Seter Part III. The Nature and Impact of Civil Wars 17. The Changing Nature of Intrastate Conflict and ‘New Wars’, Caroline Kennedy and Tom Waldman 18. The Determinants of the Continuation of Civil War, Isabelle Duyvesteyn 19. Patterns of Civil Wars in the 21st Century: The Decline of Civil War?, Meredith Reid Sarkees 20. Military Tactics in Civil War, Erin M. Kearns and Joseph K. Young 21. Forced Migration as a Cause and Consequence of Civil War, Idean Salehyan 22. The Way Forward, or Just Another Tool in the Toolbox? Social Media and What it Means for Conflict Researchers, Thomas Zeitzoff 23. Violence against Civilians, Lisa Hultman 24. The Duration and Recurrence of Civil War, Karl DeRouen Jr. Part IV. International Dimensions 25. Interventions into Civil Wars: Literature, Contemporary Policy and Future Research, Patrick M. Regan 26. International Humanitarian Law in Civil War, Emily Hencken Ritter 27. State Failure, Development and International Security: The Challenges of Intervening in Fragile States, David Carment, Joe Landry and Yiagadeesen Samy Part V. Termination and Resolution of Civil Wars 28. How Civil Wars End (and Recur), Joakim Kreutz 29. Conflict Resolution in Civil Wars, Isak Svensson 30. Peacebuilding after Civil War, Caroline A. Hartzell
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Taylor & Francis Geopolitics and Maritime Territorial Disputes in East Asia
Book SynopsisGeopolitics is a crucial element in understanding international relations in East Asia, with major and medium powers competing for influence. This book examines geopolitics in East Asia, focusing in particular on its major, contentious maritime territorial disputes. It looks in particular detail at the overlapping claims between Japan, China and Taiwan over the Senkaku/Diao yu Islands in the East China Sea as well as the Paracel Islands claimed by China, Taiwan, and Vietnam and the Spratly Islands involving Brunei, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam in the South China Sea. The book offers a comparative study of the East and South China Seas by arguing that their respective circumstances are influenced by similar geopolitical considerations; factors such as territory, natural resources and power competition all impact on disputes and broader regional relations. It is precisely the interplay of these geopolitical forces that can lead to the rapid escalation of a marTrade Review'Emmers' analysis is not only up to date but is also competently realized..." - Stein Tonnesson, PRIO, Contemporary Southeast Asia Vol. 32, No.1 (2010)Table of Contents1. The Influence of Geopolitics on Maritime Territorial Disputes 2. The Geopolitical Considerations of the East Asian Claimant States 3. The Senkaku/Diao yu Dispute 4. The Paracel and Spratly Disputes 5. Geopolitical Interplay in the East and South China Seas 6. Conflict Management and Resolution in the East and South China Sea Disputes. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis The Arms Race in Asia
Book SynopsisThis book is the first systematic examination of the emerging arms race in Asia.The global trade in arms is to a large degree underpinned by the strong demand for arms in Asia and the Middle East, the two largest arms export markets in the world. Of these two regions Asia has become particularly significant, led by the emergence of China and India as major powers. It is therefore not surprising that the rapid military modernisation in Asia, accompanied by significant increases in the size and sophistication of armed forces, has generated attention as to its trends, key characteristics, causes and implications. This phenomenon, which has become evident since the end of the Cold War, has also been widely described as an Asian ''arms race''.This book evaluates the key conceptual ideas which can shed light on this phenomenon, as well as examining the complex mix of internal, external and technological factors that have led to its emergence. The volume explores the way in wTrade Review‘As the centre of gravity of global politics shifts to Asia, it is imperative to understand the military dynamic in the region, especially as by most accounts the Asian region remains primed for conflict. Andrew Tan's meticulous work on the causes and consequences of an emerging arms race in Asia will go a long way in shaping the theoretical and policy debate on this very crucial aspect of a rising Asia.’ -- Harsh V. Pant, King's College London‘As the centre of gravity of global politics shifts to Asia, it is imperative to understand the military dynamic in the region, especially as by most accounts the Asian region remains primed for conflict. Tan's meticulous work on the causes and consequences of an emerging arms race in Asia will go a long way in shaping the theoretical and policy debate on this very crucial aspect of a rising Asia.’ -- Harsh V. Pant, King's College London ‘Tan has done a great service with this comprehensive, systematic and clearly presented assessment of the remarkable military advances among Asia’s highly competitive governments. The region’s economic miracle is accompanied by pervasive suspicion and reliance on ever greater military power, prompting security dilemmas and forecasts of increased tension and instability.’ -- Robert Sutter,George Washington University, USA'Emerging as the "Asian century", could the twenty-first century avoid the devastating history of Europe repeating itself in Asia? A. Tan thoroughly examines this question, supporting his interesting observations with empirical data and theoretical considerations. '--Yaacov Lifshitz, BESA Center for Strategic Studies, IsraelTable of Contents1. The Asian Arms Race Phenomenon 2. Conceptualising the Arms Race in Asia 3. Trends in the Asian Arms Race 4. Causes of the Asian Arms Race 5. Implications of the Arms Race in Asia 6. Conclusions
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Taylor & Francis Gender and Transitional Justice
Book SynopsisGender and Transitional Justice provides the first comprehensive feminist analysis of the role of international law in formal transitional justice mechanisms. Using East Timor as a case study, it offers reflections on transitional justice administered by a UN transitional administration. Often presented as a UN success story, the author demonstrates that, in spite of women and children's rights programmes of the UN and other donors, justice for women has deteriorated in post-conflict Timor, and violence has remained a constant in their lives.This book provides a gendered analysis of transitional justice as a discipline. It is also one of the first studies to offer a comprehensive case study of how women engaged in the whole range of transitional mechanisms in a post-conflict state, i.e. domestic trials, internationalised trials and truth commissions. The book reveals the political dynamics in a post-conflict setting around gender and questions of justice, and reframeTrade Review"This book offers not only a rich and detailed account of transitional justice in East Timor over the last decade but also an important theoretical framework to understand the complexities of women's lives after conflict."Professor Hilary Charlesworth, Australian National University"A must read for all who want to know and importantly understand the role and standing of women regarding transitional justice as it unfolds in Timor-Leste. Dr. Harris-Rimmer's account brings to bear both an engaged and an academic perspective that makes it a singularly unique contribution."Janelle Saffin, Australian Member of Parliament; former advisor to Dr Jose Ramos Horta"Harris Rimmer's Gender and Transitional Justice offers a rare blend of theory and empirical inquiry. It makes a well-founded critique of the debates over punishment versus reconciliation in the transitional justice field while addressing it's political realities in an exceptionally nuanced and creative way."Ruti Teitel, Ernst C Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law, New York Law SchoolTable of Contents1. Introduction: A luta continua! (The Fight Continues!) 2. Sexing the Subject of Transitional Justice 3. Cecelia Soares Recalls: East Timor as a Case Study 4. Beloved Madam: The Indonesian ad hoc Human Rights Court 5. Wearing his Jacket: The Serious Crimes Process 6. Women Cut in Half: The Commission for Reception, Truth Seeking and Reconciliation and the Limits of Restorative Justice 7. Conclusion: 'Operation Love'. Appendices. Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis The Ethics of Nuclear Weapons Dissemination
Book SynopsisThis book examines the moral dilemmas of nuclear dissemination, and the justifications of both nuclear pursuit and avoidance by contemporary states.Applying Constructivist methodologies and moral theory, the author analyses a core set of moral dilemmas that ensnare decision-makers amongst state and non-state nuclear aspirants, as well as amongst states committed to preventing horizontal proliferation. The book shows that the character, structure and implications of these dilemmas have not yet been adequately understood or appreciated, and that such an understanding is necessary for an effective set of nonproliferation policies. Furthermore, it shows that the dilemmasâ force and political policy import are evident in the 'discourses' that diverse actors undertake to defend their nuclear choices, and how the dilemmas of nuclear aspirants are implicated in those of nuclear preventers. The author advocates a number of policy recommendations that reinforce some already made by schTrade Review"As the Iranian nuclear crisis enters a new phase, two new books – both short, but otherwise quite different – discuss the past and future of nuclear proliferation." - Lanxin Xiang, (2015)Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Moral Dilemmas of Nuclear Aspiration: Pursuit or Avoidance 3. The Moral Dilemmas of Nuclear Prevention 4. Moral Dilemmas, Nuclear Terrorism, and Counter-Nuclear Terrorist Policy 5. Conclusion: Implications for Theory and Practice
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Taylor & Francis Economic Statecraft and Foreign Policy
Book SynopsisThis book develops a unified theory of economic statecraft to clarify when and how sanctions and incentives can be used effectively to secure meaningful policy concessions. High-profile applications of economic statecraft have yielded varying degrees of success. The mixed record of economic incentives and economic sanctions in many cases raises important questions. Under what conditions can states modify the behaviour of other states by offering them tangible economic rewards or by threatening to disrupt existing economic relations? To what extent does the success of economic statecraft depend on the magnitude of economic penalties and rewards? In order to answer these questions, this book develops two analytic models: one weighs the threats economic statecraft poses to the Target's Strategic Interests (TSI); while the other (stateness) assesses the degree to which the target state is insulated from domestic political pressures that senders attempt to generate or exploTable of Contents1. A Political Theory of Economic Statecraft 2. American Economic Incentives to Jordan, 1993-94 3. 3-International Incentives to Hungary and Romania after the Cold War 4. Japanese Economic Incentives and the Northern Territories Dispute, 1985-1999 5. Threatened Arab League Sanctions against Canada in 1979 6. Indian Sanctions against Nepal, 1988-1990 7. Economic Sanctions against South Africa, 1978-1994 8. Economic Statecraft and Target State Calculations: Conclusions and Implications Appendix I Appendix II
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Taylor & Francis Educating Americas Military
Book SynopsisThis book offers a detailed examination of the professional military education system in the United States, from a critical, insider''s perspective.The mission of America's war colleges is to educate senior military officers in both the ways of war and the defence of peace. But are these colleges doing the best job possible in carrying out that important mission? Military education faces many demands, including a lack of preparation by the students, uneven quality of the faculty, and confusion over the curriculum. Many officers attend resident programs at the war colleges programs against the career advice of their leadership, despite the fact that they are virtually guaranteed graduation after less than a year of study, while others do their best to avoid it entirely. As the professional military education system has come under increasing scrutiny and criticism, some have even called for closing the war colleges. That answer, however, does not serve the United States well, eTrade Review'Educating officers is one of the most important tasks a military can do in peacetime. This book is one of the most important statements on that task in a long time. You may disagree with some of what Johnson-Freese states here, but from now on you can’t be part of the debate about military education unless you have read her book.' --Thomas E. Ricks, author of 'Fiasco', 'The Gamble' and 'The Generals: American Military Command From World War II to Today''Johnson-Freese provides a reflective, insider's view of the continuing tension between training and education at the nation's War Colleges. She delineates the differences between them., and even describes differences between the priorities of leaders at particular Colleges. Emphasizing the need for change, she makes it clear that it will be difficult to overcome inertia, rotating leadership, and practices which do not give sufficient attention to scholarship, particularly in building the curriculum.' -- Judith Hicks Stiehm, Florida International UniversityTable of ContentsPreface 1. Why War Colleges? 2. Warriors & Scholars 3. The Students: Too Valuable to Fail 4. Faculty: But Not Necessarily in a Collegial Sense 5. The Curriculum: Moving Toward Intellectual Agility 6. Recommendations & Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mechanistic Realism and US Foreign Policy A New Framework for Analysis Contemporary Security Studies
Book SynopsisThis book aims to reinvigorate realist international relations theory by developing a catalogue of micro-mechanisms able to explain security policy decision-making.Typically, realism discounts the role of individuals and uses states as the unit of analysis. By examining instead the mental operations of those who act on behalf of the state, a better understanding of security policy formation is attainable. The book demonstrates how realism can be translated from a systemic grand theory into a catalogue of psychologically plausible mechanisms applicable to individual decision-makers. This catalogue, here called Mechanistic Realism, may be employed to investigate the cognitive precursors to security policy.The explanatory power of Mechanistic Realism is demonstrated through a meticulous analysis of what transpired inside the George W. Bush administration, as its members forged a response to the 2001 terrorist attacks. Through the exploration of individual-level data, MechTable of Contents1. Introduction PART I: Assumptions and Theory 2. Foundations for Social Analysis 3. Mechanistic Realism PART II: Mechanistic Realism 4. The Explanatory Power of Mechanistic Realism 5. Idealism 6. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Tactical Nuclear Weapons and EuroAtlantic Security The future of NATO Routledge Studies in European Security and Strategy
Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive examination of the important security issue of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.Nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament have returned to the top of the international political agenda. The issue assumes particular importance in regard to NATO, given that some 150â200 US tactical nuclear weapons (TNWs) are still present in five countries belonging to the Alliance (Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey). The past few years have seen animated debate in the United States and Europe on the role of such weapons in the current scenario of international security, and whether they can be further reduced or completely removed from Europe. Bringing together leading scholars and analysts of TNW with country-specific competences, this volume improves our understanding of this debate by providing in-depth analysis of the presence, role, perceived value and destiny of TNWs in Europe. The book addresses the issue in a systematic manner, taking into account the perspectives of all main actors directly or indirectly involved in the debate. This approach provides new and important insights that can inform both theoretical and policy work on a very critical and timely international issue, especially during the ongoing review of NATO's deterrence and defence posture.This book will be of much interest to students of European politics, European security, nuclear proliferation, and IR in general.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: European Hosting Countries 1. Belgium, Tom Sauer 2. Germany, Harald Müller and Giorgio Francheschini 3. Italy, Paolo Foradori 4. The Netherlands, Karel Koster 5. Turkey, Mustafa Kibaroglu Part II: A Wider Perspective 6. NATO, Simon Lunn 7. US, Miles Pomper 8. New NATO Member States, Lukasz Kulesa 10. Russia, Nikolai Sokov Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of the Law of Armed Conflict
Book SynopsisThe law of armed conflict is a key element of the global legal order yet it finds itself in a state of flux created by the changing nature of warfare and the influences of other branches of international law. The Routledge Handbook of the Law of Armed Conflict provides a unique perspective on the field covering all the key aspects of the law as well as identifying developing and often contentious areas of interest.The handbook will feature original pieces by international experts in the field, including academics, staff of relevant NGOs and (former) members of the armed forces. Made up of six parts in order to offer a comprehensive overview of the field, the structure of the handbook is as follows:Part I: FundamentalsPart II: Principle of distinctionPart III: Means and methods of warfarePart IV: Special protection regimesPart V: Compliance and enforcementPart VI: Some contemporary issuesThroughout the book, attention isTrade Review"I commend the editors of this book for having asked for, gathered, stuctured and revised the voices of an impressive array of scholars from around the world, and with their help produced a significant contribution to the literature of international humanitarian law. Most chapters, in addition to accurately presenting aspects of the existing law or their application to specific problems, also address the realities of contemporary armed conflicts, in particular, those not of an international character. They also take other applicable branches of international law - such as international human rights law - fully into account. The result is both informative and thought-provoking for scholars, practitioners and advanced students." - Marco Sassòli, Professor of International Law and Director of the Department of International Law and International Organization, University of Geneva, Switzerland"An excellent and well structured survey of this vital area of international law, with over 40 contributors from the academy, the military, the national and international public service and civil society and from 15 or more countries. The volume provides a real sense of the application of established principle to emerging issues and of the sharp clash between humanity and military necessity in the application and development of that law." - Sir Kenneth Keith, Former Judge of the International Court of Justice, New Zealand"In all, the book provides a revealing and enlightening overview of the major issues which emanate from the Law of Armed Conflict, which also encompasses international law and international human rights law. Copiously footnoted with extensive tables of treaties and cases, it also offers scholars a rich source of references for further research, which means that NGOs and policy makers will also find it useful." - Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, Richmond Green Chambers, United KingdomTable of ContentsForeword Fatou Bensouda (International Criminal Court) Introduction Rain Liivoja and Tim McCormack (University of Melbourne) PART I: Fundamentals 1. War and Armed Conflict: The Parameters of Enquiry Dino Kritsiotis 2. The History of International Humanitarian Law Treaty-Making Frits Kalshoven 3. Conflict Characterisation Caitlin Dwyer and Tim McCormack 4. Sources of the Law of Armed Conflict Jann Kleffner 5. Basic Principles Nobuo Hayashi 6. Impact of Human Rights Law Noam Lubell and Nancie Prud’homme PART II: Principle of Distinction 7. Combatants Emily Crawford 8. Military Objectives David Turns 9. Protection of Civilians in the Conduct of Hostilities Emanuela Chiara-Gillard 10. Direct Participation in Hostilities Michelle Lesh PART III: Means and Methods of Warefare 11. Conventional Weapons Mirko Sossai 12. Chemical and Biological Weapons Robert J Mathews 13. Nuclear Weapons in International Law Dieter Fleck 14. Methods of Land Warfare William J Fenrick 15. Law of Naval Warfare David Letts and Rob McLaughlin 16. Air and Missile Warfare Ian Henderson and Patrick Keane PART IV: Special Protection Regimes 17. Detention under the Law of Armed Conflict Chris Jenks 18. Wounded and Sick, and Medical Services James P Benoit 19. Women and War Helen Durham and Eve Massingham 20. Children and the Law of Armed Conflict: Looking beyond the Protection Paradigm John Tobin and Elliot Luke 21. Cultural Property Jadranka Petrovic 22. The Protection of the Environment Roberta Arnold 23. The Protection of Humanitarian Relief: The Legal Framework Alison Duxbury 24. The Applicability of the Laws of Armed Conflict to Peacekeeping Operations Daphna Shraga 25. Occupation and Territorial Administration Eyal Benvenisti 26. Neutrality Revisited Elizabeth Chadwick PART V: Compliance and Enforcement 27. The Role of the International Committee of the Red Cross Kelisiana Thynne 28. Reciprocity and Reprisals Shane Darcy 29. State Responsibility Charles Garraway 30. Reparations for Violations in Armed Conflict and the Emerging Practice of Making Amends Bruce Oswald and Bethany Wellington 31. Individual Liability in International Law Rob Cryer 32. Investigations under International Humanitarian Law Sasha Radin and Michael N Schmitt 33. Role of International Courts and Tribunals Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto 34. Universal Jurisdiction over War Crimes Luis Benavides PART VI: Some contemporary issues 35. Emerging Technologies of Warfare Rain Liivoja, Kobi-Renée Leins and Tim McCormack 36. Private Military and Security Companies Nelleke van Amstel and Rain Liivoja 37. The Rule of Law in War: A Liberal Project Louise Arimatsu Index
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Taylor & Francis Reimagining War In The 21st Century From Clausewitz to NetworkCentric Warfare
Book SynopsisThis book interrogates the philosophical backdrop of Clausewitzian notions of war, and asks whether modern, network-centric militaries can still be said to serve the 'political'. In light of the emerging theories and doctrines of Network-Centric War (NCW), this book traces the philosophical backdrop against which the more common theorizations of war and its conduct take place. Tracing the historical and philosophical roots of modern war from the 17th Century through to the present day, this book reveals that far from paralyzing the project of re-problematisating war, the emergence of NCW affords us an opportunity to rethink war in new and philosophically challenging ways.This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, social theory, war studies and political theory/IR.Manabrata Guha is Assistant Professor (ISSSP) at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Prelude to Clausewitz 2. Clausewitz and the Architectonic of War 3. Machining (Network-centric) War 4. Theorizing War in the Age of Networks 5. Concept-War Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution Debating Peace in Northern Ireland Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
Book SynopsisThis book offers new insights into the close relationship between political discourses and conflict resolution through critical analysis of the role of discursive change in a peace process.Just as a peace process has many dimensions and stakeholders, so the discourses considered here come from a wide range of sources and actors. The book contains in-depth analyses of official discourses used to present the peace process, the discourses of political party leaders engaging (or otherwise) with it, the discourses of community-level activists responding to it, and the discourses of the media and the academy commenting on it. These discourses reflect varying levels of support for the peace process â from obstruction to promotion â and the role of language in moving across this spectrum according to issue and occasion. Common to all these analyses is the conviction that the language used by political protagonists and cultural stakeholders has a profound effect on progression towards peace.Bringing together leading experts on Northern Irelandâs peace process from a range of academic disciplines, including political science, sociology, linguistics, history, geography, law, and peace studies, this book offers new insights into the discursive dynamics of violent political conflict and its resolution.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution Katy Hayward 2. Constructing Legitimacy in Political Discourse in the Early Phase of the Troubles Sissel Rosland 3. Finding Consensus: Political Discourse in the Republic of Ireland on the Troubles and Peace Process Catherine O’Donnell 4. Interpreting New Labour’s Political Discourse on the Peace Process Aaron Edwards 5. Discourse Worlds in Northern Ireland: The Legitimisation of the 1998 Agreement Laura Filardo-Llamas 6. ‘Humespeak’: The SDLP, Political Discourse and the Peace Process P. J. McLoughlin 7. DUP Discourses on Violence and their Impact on the Peace Process Amber Rankin and Gladys Ganiel 8. The Old Order Changeth – or Not? Modern Discourses within the Orange Order James W. McAuley and Jonathan Tonge 9. Continuity and Change in the Discourse of Republican Former Prisoners Peter Shirlow, Jonathan Tonge and James W. McAuley 10. Imagining ‘A Shared Future’: Post-Conflict Discourses on Peace-Building Milena Komarova 11. Sectarian Demography: Dubious Discourses of Ethno-National Conflict Owen McEldowney, James Anderson and Ian Shuttleworth 12. ‘From Belfast to Baghdad...’?: Discourses of Northern Ireland’s ‘Model’ of Conflict Resolution Eamonn O’Kane 13. ‘The IRA Are Not Al-Qaeda’: ‘New Terrorism’ Discourse and Irish Republicanism Mark McGovern 14. Debating Peace and Conflict in Northern Ireland: Towards a Narrative Approach Adrian Little
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Unipolarity and World Politics
Book SynopsisThis new book offers a coherent model of a unipolar world order.Unipolarity is usually described either as a brief moment' or as something historically insignificant. However, we have already seen nearly twenty years of virtual unipolarity and this period has been of great significance for world politics. Two issues have been crucial since the end of the Cold War: How to theorize the distinctiveness and exceptional character of a unipolar international system? And what is it like to conduct state business in a unipolar world? Until now, a comprehensive model for unipolarity has been lacking. This volume provides a theoretical framework for analysis of the current world order and identifies the patterns of outcomes and systematic variations to be expected. Terrorism and attempts by small states to achieve a nuclear capability are not new phenomena or exclusive to the current world order, but in the case of unipolarity these have become attached to the fearTable of Contents1. What is Unipolarity? 2. Unipolarity and Balancing 3. The System 4. International Management 5. Management challenges and the structure 6. The World Order 7. The Distinctiveness of the Unipolar World Order
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Taylor & Francis CivilMilitary Relations in Russia and Eastern Europe
Book SynopsisThis book examines how civil-military relations have been transformed in Russia, Poland, Hungary and Ukraine since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact in 1991. It shows how these countries have worked to reform their obsolete armed forces, and bring them into line with the new economic and strategic realities of the post-Cold War world, with new bureaucratic structures in which civilians play the key policy-making roles, and with strengthened democratic political institutions which have the right to oversee the armed forces.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Approaches to Civil-Military Relations 2. Security Policy-Making and Defence Reform 3. Civilian Integration in the Ministry of Defence 4. Agencies of Civilian Oversight Conclusion Notes Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Evolution of Operational Art 17401813 From Frederick the Great to Napoleon Military History and Policy
Book SynopsisOperational art emerged from the campaigns of Frederick the Great to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. It was the result of three dynamic interrelationships: between military and non-military factors such as social, economic and political developments; between military theory and practice; and between developments in military theory and practice in France and Prussia.In the period 1740-1815 a major change in the complexity of warfare took place. This was reflected by an increase in the complexity of the analysis of warfare via the introduction of the operational level between the strategic and tactical levels.The evolution of operational art, driven by these three dialectical processes, evolved in stages. In the first stage, Revolutionary France had experimented with operational art though with limited success. Then, Napoleon had used it with remarkable success against an adversary clinging to outdated modes of warfare and organisation. In the final stage, Napoleon''s operationalTrade Review"...this work gives us a revealing look at how the practice of war grew from the age of Frederick to that of Napoleon...This is a very important read for anyone interested in the “French Wars” or in the evolution of the operational art." - The NYMAS ReviewTable of ContentsList of maps, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1 Military theory and practice: 1740–1791, 2 Military theory and practice: 1792–1806, 3 The Jena Campaign, 4 Prussian reforms, 5 Campaigns of 1813, Conclusion, Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index
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