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Nova Science Publishers Inc Darfur Crisis
Book SynopsisThe Darfur conflict is a complex crisis in the Darfur region of western Sudan. One side of the armed conflict is composed mainly of the Sudanese military and the Janjaweed, a militia group recruited mostly from the Arab Baggara tribes of the northern Rizeigat, camel-herding nomads. The other side comprises a variety of rebel groups, notably the Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement, recruited primarily from the land-tilling Fur, Zaghawa, and Massaleit ethnic groups. The Sudanese government, while publicly denying that it supports the Janjaweed, has provided money and assistance to the militia and has participated in joint attacks targeting the tribes from which the rebels draw support. The conflict began in February 2003. Unlike in the Second Sudanese Civil War, which was fought between the primarily Muslim north and Christian and Animist south, almost all of the combatants and victims in Darfur are Muslim. The combination of decades of drought, desertification, and overpopulation are among the causes of the Darfur conflict, because the Baggara nomads searching for water have to take their livestock further south, to land mainly occupied by non-Arab farming communities.
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Amber Books Ltd The Western Front 1914-1916: From the Schlieffen
Book SynopsisAfter the first few months of World War I, the Western Front consisted of a relatively static line of trench systems which stretched from the coast of the North Sea southwards to the Swiss border. To try to break through the opposing lines of trenches and barbed wire entanglements, both sides employed huge artillery bombardments followed by attacks by tens of thousands of soldiers. Battles could last for months and led to casualties measured in hundreds of thousands for attacker and defender alike. After most of these attacks, only a short section of the front would have moved and only by a kilometer or two. After Gallipoli, Australians were moved to fight in France on the western Front, in battles including the Battle of the Somme. On the first day of the 1916 Battle of the Somme, 60,000 Allies were casualties, including 20,000 deaths. The principal adversaries on the Western Front, who fielded armies of millions of men, were Germany to the East against a western alliance to the West consisting of France and the United Kingdom with sizable contingents from the British Empire, especially the Dominions. The United States entered the war in 1917 and by the summer of 1918 had an army of around half a million men which rose to a million by the time the Armistice was signed on November 11, 1918. For most of World War I, Allied Forces, predominantly those of France and the British Empire, were stalled at trenches on the Western Front. With the last few men who served in World War I now dying out, and the 90th anniversary of the Armistice coming in November 2008, there is no better time to reevaluate this controversial war and shed fresh light on the conflict. With the aid of numerous black and white and color photographs, many previously unpublished, the World War I series recreates the battles and campaigns that raged across the surface of the globe, on land, at sea and in the air. The text is complemented by full-color maps that guide the reader through specific actions and campaigns.Table of ContentsIntroduction –The Entente Cordiale The Schlieffen Plan The Race to the Sea Digging in The Frustrations of 1915 Verdun The Somme The Debut of the Tank Further Reading Index
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Monash University Publishing Dateline Kashmir: Inside the World's Most Militarised Zone
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon War & Literature: Looking Back on 20th Century
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive volume analyzes the radical change in the nature of armed conflicts and in the way they are narrated and represented. Ever since the First World War has changed war itself, rendering meaningless the very vocabulary of war in terms such as "battle", "front", "non-combatant", "open city" and "hero", new words, new approaches, new theories and new texts had to be invented. The enemy became invisible: Submarines, tanks, mines, gas, long-range artillery, and airplanes made this war different from all the other that came before. A hundred years after the beginning of this terrible war, it is now time to recall different representations of the armed conflicts of the 20th century. The articles in this collection analyze representations of the Canudos Civil War in Brazil, the First World War, the Second World War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the colonial wars in Africa, and the war in Afghanistan, aiming to understand how war and the telling of war have changed during the most murderous hundred years in the history of mankind.
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Impact of Armed Conflicts on Women in South Asia
Book SynopsisExamines how violent conflicts reinforce patriarchy and the impact of militarization on gender, highlighting women's varied responses. Advocates for reformed democracy in S Asia that includes minority rights and multiculturalism, emphasizes women's roles, and calls for human security, justice, equality, and dismantling masculine power in warfare.
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Pentagon Press Insurgencies in North-East India: Moving Towards
Book SynopsisInsurgencies in North-East India: Moving Towards Resolution aims at creating an awareness of the current status of this national problem in parliamentarians, officers and officials of the Government of India, and the residents of the North-Eastern (NE) States. The author, combining extensive practical experience in counter insurgency operations with research and scholarship, consider the NE insurgencies within the larger context of our Constitution. Thereafter he focuses his enquiry progressively from our north-eastern region to an examination of the insurgencies Nagaland, Manipur and Assam, and then critical assesses the employment of security forces in counter insurgency (COIN) operations. He concludes with recommendations for the way ahead.
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University Press of Southern Denmark Middle East Conflict: From Bad to Worse to War
Book SynopsisIn 1998 the Middle East Conflict celebrated its 50th anniversary and now, eight years later, no final general settlement is in sight. Despite peace agreements between Israel and two Arab countries in the nineteen nineties (Egypt and Jordan) and a part-settlement with the Palestinian authorities or PLO in 1993, violence reached its highest level in 2002/2004, and has still not abated, albeit decreased recently. The withdrawal of the Israeli forces and settlers from occupied Gaza is a step in the right direction, but too many uncertainties remain. Just now the political situation is confused in Israel. The Middle East Conflict gives a clear-cut study of the conflict from 1948-2005. It should be fairly easy for readers without any special foreknowledge to read if they have a keen interest in political matters and want to understand this long drawn conflict that over the years developed into what the author describes as war. May be more dramatic than necessary, but the conflict has had a serious repercussions anywhere in the area conflict -- including a damaging civil war in Lebanon -- and also in a larger area than the one this study outs its focus on, namely the direct involved neighbours of Israel and the Jewish nation itself.
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Pentagon Press Hybrid Warfare: The Changing Character of
Book SynopsisWars and conflicts have become a near constant presence today, brought to us on a real-time basis on myriad communication devices. A cursory scan of recent conflicts reveals the blurring lines between war and peace, state versus non-state, regular and irregular, and conventional vis-à-vis unconventional. Over the past decade or so, the prevailing security environment in many regions has changed radically. Simultaneously the probability of conventional conflict between states or groups of states has steadily declined while sub-conventional conflict has gained prominence.These small, niggling wars have been termed as hybrid, non-linear, grey zone, or unrestricted, among others. It thus becomes necessary to enquire ontologically and epistemologically into these terms to understand if they allude to the same phenomenon through different frames. Furthermore, are these an aberration or, increasingly, the convention? This book tries to address this crucial research gap related to the changing character of conflicts in the strategic discourse in India.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: Background Issues, Conflict Developments, and International Policy Responses
Book SynopsisOn 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale air, land, and sea attack on the independent and democratic state of Ukraine. The United States and its allies around the world have condemned Russia's 'unprecedented military aggression' as 'unprovoked and unjustified.' The United States and allies, including the European Union (EU), EU members, and the United Kingdom (UK), have provided or pledged new military assistance to Ukraine. Members of legislatures, local governments, businesses, and the public in the United States and many other countries have expressed support for Ukraine and have condemned Russia's invasion. This book compiles various aspects of this conflict and also includes some products published before the invasion that offer relevant background and context.
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Oxford University Press A Diplomatic Revolution
Book SynopsisAlgeria sits at the crossroads of the Atlantic, European, Arab, and African worlds. Yet, unlike the wars in Korea and Vietnam, Algeria''s fight for independence has rarely been viewed as an international conflict. Even forty years later, it is remembered as the scene of a national drama that culminated with Charles de Gaulle''s decision to grant Algerians their independence despite assassination attempts, mutinies, and settler insurrection. Yet, as Matthew Connelly demonstrates, the war the Algerians fought occupied a world stage, one in which the U.S. and the USSR, Israel and Egypt, Great Britain, Germany, and China all played key roles. Recognizing the futility of confronting France in a purely military struggle, the Front de Libération Nationale instead sought to exploit the Cold War competition and regional rivalries, the spread of mass communications and emigrant communities, and the proliferation of international and non-governmental organizations. By harnessing the forces of nasTrade Review"In concentrating on the international dimension, Connelly weaves into his story the changing roles of the United States, Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia; the ebb and flow of FLN relations with the soviet bloc; and much more." --Foreign Affairs"This extensively researched study will provide extremely valuable information to scholars of decolonization, and represents a major contribution to the history of what one of the belligerent parties, France, only officially recognized as a war in October 1999."--Journal of Military History'a fine new volume by Matthew Connelly...Matthew Connelly's main offering is important and new: the international dimensions of the insurgency were not tertiary or secondary, as often depicted but primary... with almost 300 pages of text and then extensive supportive notes and bibliography, this substantial book offers much to ponder...The many pleasures of this book include pen portraits of the various cities in which Bourqueney served; the descriptions of the splendour and squalor of Contstantinople and Vienna are particularly striking...It is written with zest and pace,and is packed full of insights about diplomacy across the continent as the European 'concert', and Bourqueney's career, developed and ultimately failed. * Geoffrey Hicks, University of East Anglia, Norwich,Diplomacy and Statecraft *Table of ContentsPART THREE: WAGING THE ALGERIAN WAR AS A WORLD WAR, 1956-1958; PART FOUR: WAGING THE ALGERIAN WAR AS A WORLD WAR, 1958-1960; PART FIVE: THE DOMESTICATION OF THE ALGERIAN QUESTION, 1960-1962; CONCLUSION: THE SENSE OF HISTORY
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OUP USA Kosovo
Book SynopsisOn February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. A tiny country of just two million people, 90% of whom are ethnic Albanians, Kosovo is central - geographically, historically, and politically - to the future of the Western Balkans and, in turn, its potential future within the European Union. But the fate of both Kosovo, condemned by Serbian leaders as a fake state and the region as a whole, remains uncertain. In Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know, Tim Judah provides a straight-forward guide to the complicated place that is Kosovo. Judah, who has spent years covering the region, offers succinct, penetrating answers to a wide range of questions: Why is Kosovo important? Who are the Albanians? Who are the Serbs? Why is Kosovo so important to Serbs? What role does Kosovo play in the region and in the world? Judah reveals how things stand now and presents the history and geopolitical dynamics that have led to it. The most important of these is the question of the right to self-determination, invoked by the Kosovo Albanians, as opposed to right of territorial integrity invoked by the Serbs. For many Serbs, Kosovo's declaration of independence and subsequent recognition has been traumatic, a savage blow to national pride. Albanians, on the other hand, believe their independence rights an historical wrong: the Serbian conquest (Serbs say liberation) of Kosovo in 1912. For anyone wishing to understand both the history and possible future of Kosovo at this pivotal moment in its history, this book offers a wealth of insight and information in a uniquely accessible format.Trade Review"A straightforward guide to the history and geopolitics of Kosovo and the first book on the country since its declaration of independence in February this year."--The Economist "Packs a surprising amount of nuance into a slim volume... a solid introduction to an important topic."--Booklist "Judah does a commendable job of telling the dense story in an understandable fashion. Because the region changes so quickly, an up-to-date history like this is welcome."--Library Journal "[A] concise and updated version of his longer and more detailed history published in 2000...Judah's short history of Kosovo is a fair and sympathetic account of an impossible situation..."--New York Review of BooksTable of ContentsPreface: Why Kosovo? ; Albanians ; Serbs ; Creating History ; From Dardania to Yugoslavia ; Kosovo in Yugoslavia ; From the Golden Age to the Memorandum ; The Milosevic-Rugova Years ; The War ; Kosovo after 1999 ; March 2004 and the Ahtisaari Plan ; Kosovo and the Region ; Kosovo and the World ; Not the Last Chapter: Independence
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Oxford University Press Being and Becoming Kachin
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Oxford University Press Reconsidering American CivilMilitary Relations
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Oxford University Press The Law of NonInternational Armed Conflict
Book SynopsisThe Law of Non-International Armed Conflict brings together and critically analyses the disparate conventional, customary, and soft law relating to non-international armed conflict. All the relevant bodies of international law are considered, including international humanitarian law, international criminal law, and international human rights law. The book traces the changes to the legal framework applicable to non-international armed conflict from ad hoc regulation in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, to systematic regulation through the 1949 Geneva Conventions and 1977 Additional Protocols, to the transformation of the law in the mid-1990s. Armed conflicts ranging from the US civil war, the Algerian War of Independence, and the attempted secession of Biafra, through to the current conflicts in the Colombia, the Philippines, and Sudan are all considered.The identification and analysis of the law is complemented by a consideration of the practice, allowing both violations of, Trade Review[Professor Sandesh Sivakumaran] examines the genesis of this novel, interdisciplinary body of law and the way ahead, thereby contributing with a major piece of work in a field . . . that greatly needed further research. * Roberta Arnold, Israel Law Review *The Law of Non-International Armed Conflict is an essential contribution to an area much in need of clarification. In addition to offering a comprehensive elaboration of the current law in this area, it also explores the more foundational questions that will be of interest to any general international lawyer, such as the methodology of customary law formation and the varied sources of the relevant norms. It is to be hoped that Professor Sivakumarans proposal of a new instrument to bind non-state armed groups can be taken forward, with a view to achieving greater compliance with the law in situations that all too often witness the most violent fratricidal clashes. * Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne, Australian Year Book of International Law *...the book of our time on the law of non-international armed conflict. * Claus Kreß, British Yearbook of International Law *This is a rich and lengthy book. It is also courageous: Sivakumaran does not shy away from discussing some of the most debatable issues in international humanitarian law. * Noam Zamir, Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law *Table of ContentsPART I: REGULATING NON-INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICTS; PART II: THE SUBSTANTIVE LAW OF NON-INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICT; PART III: MOVING FORWARD
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Oxford University Press Rules of Engagement and the International Law of Military Operations Oxford Monographs in International Humanitarian Criminal Law
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Oxford University Press Inc Moral Time
Book SynopsisConflict attracts a great deal of attention--as much or more than any other element of human life. People generally dislike it, and try to prevent and avoid it as much as possible. So why do clashes of right and wrong occur? And why are some clashes worse than others? In Moral Time, Donald Black shows how changes in intimacy (friends or strangers?), inequality (rich or poor?), and cultural diversity (Christian or Jew?) all determine when conflict happens. A reduction of closeness or a display of disrespect alters a relationship, for example, and the greater and faster the change, the more likely conflict will ensue. Throughout the book, Black applies his theory to an astounding range of human behavior, from bad manners to crime and warfare, accusations of witchcraft, racism, and anti-Semitism, conflict about creativity in science and art. Written in Black''s trademark straightforward style, Moral Time is a powerful and incisive new take on conflict--a fundamental and inescapable featurTrade ReviewWhile sociologists focused on power and resources might suggest that there is more than this underlying conflict, this book offers an intriguing set of social dynamics for theorists to engage. * Steven Hitlin, University of Iowa, Social Forces Journal *Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Nature of Social Time-The Origin of Conflict ; Part One: Relational Time ; 2. Overintimacy: Overinvolvement-Overexposure ; 3. Underintimacy: Underinvolvement-Underexposure ; Part Two: Vertical Time ; 4. Overstratification: Oversuperiority-Overinferiority ; 5. Understratification: Undersuperiority-Underinferiority ; Part Three: Cultural Time ; 6. Overdiversity: Overtraditionalism-Overinnovation ; 7. Underdiversity: Undertraditionalism-Underinnovation ; Conclusion: The Geometry of Social Time-Tribal Time-Modern Time-Postmodern Time
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Oxford University Press Fighting to the End
Book SynopsisPakistan''s army has dominated the state for most of its 66 years. It has locked the country in an enduring rivalry with India to revise the maps in Kashmir and to resist India''s slow but inevitable rise. To prosecute these dangerous policies, the army employs non-state actors under the security of its ever-expanding nuclear umbrella. The Pakistan army started three wars with India over Kashmir in 1947, 1965, and 1999 and failed to win any of them. It has sustained a proxy war in Kashmir since 1989 using Islamist militants, some of whom have now turned their guns against the Pakistani state. The Pakistan army has supported non-Islamist insurgencies throughout India as well as a country-wide Islamist terror campaign that have brought the two countries to the brink of war on several occasions. Despite Pakistan''s efforts to coerce India, it has only achieved modest successes. Even though India vivisected Pakistan in 1971, Pakistan continues to see itself as India''s equal and demands thTrade Reviewshe concentrates on the international dimensions of the policies pursued by the Pakistani army and the implications that this has forregional and international security. * Katharine Adeney, Political Studies Review *A provocative but historically justified look at the security narrative scribed and fiercely protected by the Pakistan military since its 1947 inception. * Thomas F. Lynch III, Book of the year 2014, The War on the Rocks *Fairs book, based on a meticulous analysis of literature published by Pakistans military, persuasively demonstrates that the delusions of grandeur which drive the countrys security establishment are rooted in fatal distortions of history. * Kapil Komireddi, Book of the year 2014, New Republic *the book represents a valuable contribution to the literature. It has been deeply and thoroughly researched, with an extensive analysis of the official documents of the Pakistan army previously overlooked by scholarship on the subject. * Filippo Boni, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics *a very important work which should be made available to as wide an audience as possible * R. F. Rosner, The Royal Society for Asian Affairs *Christine Fair has produced the definitive intellectual biography of the Pakistan army, which will be necessary reading for anyone interested in the country or South Asia as a whole. * Walter C. Ladwig III, War in History Book *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Chapter 1. Introduction ; The Argument: Explaining Pakistan's Persistent Revisionism In the Face of Repeated Defeats ; Organization of this Volume ; Chapter 2. Can Strategic Culture Explain the Pakistan Army's Persistent Revisionism? ; Pakistan's Enduring and Expanding Revisionism ; Explaining Persistent Revisionism ; Strategic Culture Wars ; Pakistan: An Army with a Country ; Reproducing Culture: Recruitment in the Pakistan Army ; Methods and Sources of this Study ; Chapter 3. Born an Insecure State ; Cracking the Raj ; Imagining Pakistan ; The Problem of the Princely States ; Untangling the Punjab ; Breaking Up the Indian Army ; Historical Legacies: A Punjabi Army ; Building a Modern Army ; Table 2.1: Corps and Locations ; Implications for the Pakistan Army's Strategic Culture ; Chapter 4. The Army's Defense of Pakistan's 'Ideological Frontiers' ; The Ideology of Pakistan ; The Army's Embrace of the Ideology of Pakistan ; The Army's Methods of Islamization ; The Army's Instrumentalization of Islam ; Implications ; Chapter 5. Pakistan's Quest for Strategic Depth ; British Management of the Frontier: The Great Game ; Pakistan's Army Seeks Strategic Depth: Managing Pakistan's Frontier and Beyond ; The Army Manages the Afghan Threat ; The Rise and Fall of the Taliban ; The Army's and the Internal Threat on the 'Frontier' ; Implications: Is the Past Prologue for Afghanistan and the Frontier? ; Chapter 6. India under the Pakistan Army's Gaze ; Multiple Crises and Four Wars ; India: Through the Eyes of the Pakistan Army ; Conclusions and Implications ; Chapter 7. Seeking Security through Alliances ; Pursuing the Americans: An Alliance for Survival ; The Pakistan Tilt ; Chasing China: The All-Weather Friend ; The Strains of War ; Pakistan's Relations with the United States and China through the Eyes of the Army ; Conclusions and Implications ; Chapter 8. Seeking Security under a Nuclear Umbrella ; Origins of Pakistan's Nuclear Program ; Proliferation Under the Eye of the State ; Nuclear Doctrine and Use ; Risk Taking Under an Expanding Nuclear Umbrella ; As Bad As it Gets? ; Table 8.1 Cross Tabulations of Conflict Months by Nuclear Status ; Table 8.2: Conflict Rate by Nuclear Period ; Conclusions and Implications ; Chapter 9. Jihad under the Nuclear Umbrella ; Origins of Pakistan's Use of Non-state Actors ; From Peoples' War to Low Intensity Conflict under a Nuclear Umbrella ; Pakistan's Militant Assets ; Pakistani Support for the Militants? ; The Internal Jihad: A Case Study of Lashkar-e-Taiba ; Conclusions and Implications ; Chapter 10. Is the Past Prologue ; Endogenous Game Changers ; Democratic Transition? ; Economic Shocks-For Better and for Worse ; Civil and Un-Civil Society: Impetus for Change? ; Change from Within the Army? ; Table 10.5. Punjabis versus Baloch in Balochistan ; Exogenous Sources of Change? ; Conclusions: Prospects for Change from Within and Without? ; Chapter 11. The Army's Strategic Culture and Implications for International Security ; Managing Pakistan's Persistent Revisionism? ; References ; Appendices: Maps
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Picador We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be
Book SynopsisWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. An unforgettable firsthand account of a people''s response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable debut book from Philip Gourevitch chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Though the killing was low-tech--largely by machete--it was carried out at shocking speed: some 800,000 people were exterminated in a hundred days. A Tutsi pastor, in a letter to his church president, a Hutu, used the chilling phrase that gives Gourevitch his title.With keen dramatic intensity, Gourevitch frames the genesis and horror of Rwanda''s genocidal logic in the anguish of its aftermath: the mass displacements, the temptations of revenge and the quest
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender and the Military Women in the Armed Forces
Book SynopsisThis is the first comparative, cross-national study of the participation of women in the armed forces of NATO countries. Along side an analysis of this key topic stands a critique of existing theoretical models and the proposal of a revised analytical framework.Unlike previous works this new study employs mixed-methodological research design combining quantitative and qualitative data - a large N-analysis based on general policies and statistical information concerning every country in the sample with more in-depth case-studies. This volume includes original empirical data regarding the presence of women in the armed forces of NATO countries, proposes an index of âgender inclusivenessâ and assesses the factors that affect womenâs military roles. The book also presents two new key case studies â Portugal and the Netherlands - based on both documentary sources and in-depth interviews of both men and women officers in the two countries.This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of strategic studies, gender and women studies and military history. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Women in the Military: A Global Overview 2. Gender Relations, Gendered Organizations and the Military 3. Social and Political Dilemmas of Women’s Military Service 4. The Military Institution and Social Change 5. Gender Integration in the Armed Forces: A Cross-National Comparison of Policies and Practices in the NATO Countries 6. Portugal and the Netherlands: Military and Social Contexts 7. Interpersonal Dynamics of Gender Integration: The Case of the Officer Corps Concluding Remarks Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis The Politics of Peacekeeping in the PostCold War Era Cass Series on Peacekeeping
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Pluto Press War Against the People Israel the Palestinians
Book SynopsisA disturbing insight into the new phenomenon of the 'securocratic' war in the modern policed world, with a focus on the Israeli state.Trade Review'This is an important book for anyone who cares about peace, the plight of the Palestinian people and the role of Israel in the world of war. Halper's fascinating book places the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories at the heart of its role in the transnational military industrial complex and what he calls the pacification industry. A brave, analytical and innovative book from an admirable activist and thinker' -- Andrew Feinstein author The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade'War Against the People is not only a key to deciphering Israeli policies in Palestine, but also one of the clearest explanations that I have ever read on how important Israel/Palestine is in the world. It addresses with clarity and structure one of the most complex and yet extremely important topics of the securitisation of our society. His book has opened my eyes, and was a fascinating read' -- Shir Hever, author of The Political Economy of Israel's Occupation'Halper's essay on Israel's 'matrix of control' is classic, even canonical. Now, in War Against the People, he radicalises the argument to develop a deeply disturbing vision of what he calls 'securocratic wars in global battlespace'... a rare combination of theoretical imagination, empirical sensitivity and political passion' -- Derek Gregory, Peter Wall Distinguished Professor, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, and author of The Colonial Present'In this cogently written and extremely informative book, Jeff Halper explores Israel's key role in the 'global pacification industry'. The resulting alliances not only enable Israel to perpetuate the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip; the latter's function as a human laboratory for Israel's 'matrix of control' additionally make the occupation indispensable to Israel's security industry and global positioning. War Against the People is an excellent, revealing and accessible examination of Israel's 'security politics' and the changing nature of pacification worldwide in the twenty-first century' -- Mouin Rabbani, Senior Fellow with the Institute for Palestine Studies and co-editor of Jadaliyya'A brilliant book whose depth of political insight is driven by the spirit of one of the world's most inspiring political activists. It lays out the way in which Israel's war on the Palestinians has become both a model and the laboratory for a global war against the people' -- Eyal Weizman, Professor of Visual and Spatial Cultures and Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London'This profoundly important and well-researched study serves as a reminder that US-backed Israeli militarism and its devastating humanitarian impact is neither unique nor can it be seen in isolation. Halper convincingly argues that it is part of an even more disturbing global phenomenon that goes well beyond Israel and which threatens the lives and civil liberties not just of Palestinians, but of people around the world' -- Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and Coordinator of Middle Eastern Studies, University of San Francisco'A genuinely frightening book, providing an exhaustive survey of Israel's weapons technology' -- Tom Sperlinger, Electronic Intifada'A must-read, a major contribution to the subject' -- Moshe Machover, The Weekly Worker'Necessary, dystopic' -- Mondoweiss'An exceptional, useful book' -- Max Ajl, WarscapesTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acronyms Introduction: How Does Israel Get Away With It? Part I: The Global Pacification Industry 1. Enforcing Hegemony: Securocratic Wars in Global Battlespace Part II: A Pivotal Israel 2. Why Israel? The Thrust into Global Involvement 3. Niche-Filling in a Global Matrix of Control Part III: Weaponry of Hybrid Warfare and Securocratic Control (Niche 1) 4. The Israeli Arms and Security Industry 5. Dominant Maneuver 6. Precision Engagement Part IV: The Securocratic Dimension: A Model of 'Sufficient Pacification' (Niche 2) 7. Israel's Matrix of Control 8. Operational Doctrines and Tactics Part V: Managing Hegemony throughout the World-System 9. Serving the Hegemons on the Peripheries: The 'Near' Periphery 10. Security Politics on the 'Far' Periphery 11. The Private Sector Part VI: Domestic Securitization and Policing 12. Serving the Core’s Ruling Classes 'At Home' Conclusions: Challenging Hegemony and Resisting Pacification Notes Online Resources Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Escaping the Conflict Trap
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Global Media Coverage of the PalestinianIsraeli Conflict
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The 44Day War
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Insight Publications Blood on my hands A surgeon at war
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Cambridge University Press Trials and Penal Sanctions by NonState Armed Groups
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Cambridge University Press The Military Commanders Necessity
Book SynopsisThe idea of military necessity lies at the centre of the law of armed conflict and yet it is less than fully understood. This book analyses which legal limits govern the commander''s assessment of military necessity, and argues that military necessity itself is not a limitation. Military necessity calls for a highly discretionary exercise: the assessment. Yet, there is little guidance as to how this discretionary process should be exercised, apart from the notions of ''a reasonable military commander''. A reasonable assessment of ''excessive'' civilian losses are presumed to be almost intuitive. Objective standards for determining excessive civilian losses are difficult to identify, particularly when that ''excessiveness'' will be understood in relative terms. The perpetual question arises: are civilian losses acceptable if the war can be won? The result is a heavy burden of assessment placed on the shoulders of the military commander.Trade Review'Johansen's contribution is an important one that adds to the repudiation of the discredited, but stubbornly irrepressible, concept of kriegsraison geht vor kriegsmanier-the assertion that 'necessity knows no law.'' Beth Van Schaack, American Journal of International LawTable of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. Concept, History and Basics: 2. Elements of military necessity; 3. Military necessity and a historical outset; 4. Assessing military necessity through a military margin of appreciation; 5. Assessing necessity and criminal responsibility; 6. Military necessity and humanitarian considerations; Part II. Distinction as Limitation Upon Military Necessity in the Law of Armed Conflict: 7. The principle of distinction: also a limitation upon military necessity; 8. Military objects; 9. Combatants as lawful targets; 10. Military necessity and the notion of 'lawful combatancy'; 11. Who are civilians and when do they lose their protection?; Part III. Effectuating Distinction – Enforcing an Ultimate Balance Between Necessities of War and Considerations of Humanity: 12. Protection of the civilian population and perceptions of military necessity; 13. Military necessity and proportionality; 14. Military necessity and the scope and nature of military advantage; 15. The commanders ultimate 'margins': assessing excessiveness and feasibility; Part IV. The Exceptive Face of Military Necessity: 16. Destruction and seizure of property when military necessity requires; 17. Military necessity and rules on special protection; Part V: Conclusions: 18. Conclusions – limitations to the commander's assessment of military necessity; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press International Humanitarian Law
Book SynopsisThis book provides an accessible, scholarly, and up-to-date examination of international humanitarian law, with relevant cases, examples, and discussion questions. It offers students and teachers a comprehensive and logical discussion and analysis of the law, and the developing trends in theory and practice of the law.Trade Review'This is one of the best primers around on the burgeoning field of international humanitarian law, useful for practitioners and students alike. It accurately and accessibly describes the law, deftly discusses uncertainties and controversies, is concise yet comprehensive, and traverses contemporary and historical challenges. Every law library worth its salt should hold a copy.' Ben Saul, Challis Chair of International Law, University of Sydney and Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Massachusetts'Crawford and Pert have produced a well-organised, thorough, and highly readable overview of a complex body of law. It includes ample citations, penetrating discussion questions and helpful lists of further readings. This work can serve effectively either as a text for a basic international humanitarian law course or as a reference guide in support of a broader course in international law.' Brad R. Roth, Wayne State University'Crawford and Pert have accomplished the seemingly impossible: produced a text on IHL that matches its concise explanations with real scholarly sophistication. It also deftly combines the history of the legal regulation of warfare with the most cutting-edge controversies of the field, including drones, targeted killings, and cyberwar. It will be as useful to students as it is to scholars, and has earned a permanent place on my desk. The second edition is even better than the first and incorporates many real-world events and the latest scholarly developments.' Jens David Ohlin, Cornell University, New YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Historical development of international humanitarian law; 2. The contemporary legal basis of international humanitarian law and its fundamental principles; 3. Types of armed conflict; 4. Individual status in armed conflict – combatants, non-combatants, direct participation in hostilities and prisoners of war, and detention in non-international armed conflicts; 5. Protection of the wounded, sick and shipwrecked; 6. The law of occupation and the protection of civilians; 7. Targeting; 8. Means and methods of warfare; 9. Implementation, enforcement and accountability; 10. Conclusion.
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St. Martins Press-3PL Street Divided A
Book SynopsisA Street Divided offers a more intimate look at one road at the heart of the conflict. This one-time shepherd's path between Jerusalem and Bethlehem has been a dividing line for decades. The barbed wire came down in 1967. But it was soon supplanted by evermore formidable cultural, emotional and political barriers separating Arab and Jew.
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MP-WBK World Bank Group Publ Fragility and Conflict On the Front Lines of the Fight Against Poverty
£33.95
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Impact of War in Ukraine on the EU
Book SynopsisA compelling examination of how the EU's response to the Ukraine war has had a transformative effect on the Union's constitutional, institutional and substantive law.
£95.00
Academica Press Conflict and Human Security Threats in Africa
Book SynopsisIn Conflict and Human Security Threats in Africa, South African scholar Victor Ojakorotu unravels the dynamics of conflicts and human security threats now affecting numerous African nations. While some of these conflicts are local, others are national and international. This current and highly engaging study captures multiple cases of insecurity, presenting discussions of terrorism, kidnapping, militia activities, human trafficking, political violence, teenage pregnancy, civil war, and armed conflicts, as well as strategies for their future management. Ojakorotu documents a philosophical assessment of African politics as well as the place of the “new” media in the politics of human security and the development of an African worldview in the post-modern intellectual arena. This book is a must-read for all students of African and global politics, as well as policy makers and diplomats working with Africa, which will soon be home to more than three billion people and a center of global growth.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and Security
Book SynopsisIn this hugely influential book, originally published in 2001 but just as - if not more - relevant today, Mark Duffield shows how war has become an integral component of development discourse. Aid agencies have become increasingly involved in humanitarian assistance, conflict resolution and the social reconstruction of war-torn societies. Duffield explores the consequences of this growing merger of development and security, unravelling the nature of the new wars and the response of the international community, in particular the new systems of global governance that are emerging as a result. An essential work for anyone studying, interested in, or working in development or international security.Trade ReviewGlobal Governance and the New Wars remains a must-read text for anybody wanting to interrogate the changing contours of global security governance. Anticipating with remarkable foresight the political consequences of the merger between security and development in zones of crises, its insightful prose not only defined a critical canon to move us beyond the conceit of sovereign academics, the force of its message remains as prescient as ever. * Brad Evans, University of Bristol *Duffield's well-written book offers groundbreaking research in the emerging field created by the intersection of international security and international development ...The book offers not only theoretical understanding of the problem but also good research to understand the problem in practice. * D. S. Reveron, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries *Mark Duffield's book is a must for anyone grappling with the contemporary nature of war and humanitarianism. Taking us beyond the stilted confines of international policy to the politics of modern violence, the argument exposes the way talk of "complex political emergencies" fails to grasp the fundamental characteristics of "emergent political complexes". Duffield lays bare the failings of aid policy in this regard. * David Campbell, Beijing Foreign Studies University *What is needed is to move beyond the idea of war-as-breakdown towards a fundamental rethink about how local elites, ordinary people, and international governments are continuously adapting to war and to global economic change. This breathtaking tour-de-force from one of the leading thinkers in this field points the way forward. * David Keen, London School of Economics and Political Science *Table of ContentsForeword by Antonio Donini Preface to the critique influence change edition 1. Introduction: The New Development-Security Terrain 2. The Merging of Development and Security 3. Strategic Complexes and Global Governance 4. The New Humanitarianism 5. Global Governance and the Causes of Conflict 6. The Growth of Transborder Shadow Economies 7. Non-Liberal Political Complexes and the New Wars 8. Internal Displacement and the New Humanitarianism: Displacement and Complicity in Sudan (Part 1) 9. Aid and Social Subjugation: Displacement and Complicity in Sudan (Part 2) 10. Conclusion: Global Governance, Moral Responsibility and Complexity - Internal Displacement and the New Humanitarianism
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Palestinian Citizens of Israel: Power, Resistance and the Struggle for Space
Book SynopsisThe contest to maintain and reclaim space is firmly tied to the identity and culture of a displaced population. Palestinian Citizens of Israel is a study of Palestinian communities living inside the Jewish state and their attempts to disrupt and reshape the physical and abstract boundaries that contain them. Through extensive fieldwork and numerous interviews, Sharri Plonski conducts a comparative analysis of resistance movements anchored in three key sites of the Palestinian experience: the defence of housing rights in Jaffa; the protest against settlement in the Galilee region; and the campaign for Bedouin land rights in the Naqab desert. Her research investigates the dialectical relationship between power and resistance as it relates to socio-spatial segregation and the struggle for national recognition. Plonski's examination of Palestinian activism and transgression offers valuable insight into the structures and reaches of power from within the Israeli state. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of both Middle East Studies and Palestinian-Israeli politics.Table of ContentsIntroduction Ambiguities and Antinomies Jaffa The Galilee The Naqab New Borders and Fault Lines Culminations and Conclusions Epilogue – One Last Story
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Howgate Publishing Limited Conflict Realism
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Brill Long-term Conflict Prevention and Industrial Development: The United Nations and its Specialized Agency, UNIDO
Book SynopsisAfter decades of striving to prevent international conflict, major armed conflicts in the 1990s have taken place within national boundaries. The aim of this book is to consider the root causes of these internal conflicts, and to develop long-term conflict prevention strategies from here.
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Brill Protecting Cultural Property in Armed Conflict: An Insight into the 1999 Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
Book SynopsisIn 2009 it was ten years since the adoption of the Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of an Armed Conflict. To celebrate this anniversary, a variety of contributions, focussing on the legal and cultural aspects of the Protocol are presented by Van Woudenberg and Lijnzaad. The innovative aspects of the Second Protocol such as enhanced protection, criminal responsibility and jurisdiction, and the protection of cultural property in armed conflicts not of an international character are addressed. Some country-specific studies are included. It is hoped that this publication will inspire States to accede to the Protocol and that it will serve as a source of inspiration to legal advisers, military personnel and cultural property experts.Table of ContentsIntroduction Nout van Woudenberg and Liesbeth Lijnzaad; Message from Mr Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO; Words of Welcome; Adriaan Bos Chapter 1 The road to the 1999 Second Protocol Jiři Toman; Chapter 2 New rules for the protection of cultural property in armed conflict: The significance of the Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict Jean-Marie Henckaerts; Chapter 3 Military necessity under the 1999 Second Protocol Kevin Chamberlain; Chapter 4 Enhanced Protection: A new form of protection under the 1999 Second Protocol Nout van Woudenberg; Chapter 5 Great expectations? Towards an effective application of the regime of enhanced protection in the Second Protocol to the Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict Ariel W. Gonzalez; Chapter 6 Enhancing individual criminal responsibility for offences involving cultural property – the road to the Rome Statute and the 1999 Second Protocol Mireille Hector; Chapter 7 Investigation and prosecution of crimes against cultural property Susan Somers; Chapter 8 Th e protection of cultural property in non-international armed conflicts Jean-Marie Henckaerts; Chapter 9 Dissemination of the 1954 Hague Convention and the 1999 Second Protocol: Embedding cultural property protection within the military Joris D. Kila; Chapter 10 Elaboration and legal implementation of the 1999 Second Protocol: The Dutch finger on the pulse Nout van Woudenberg; Chapter 11 The Dutch Ministry of Defence and the protection of cultural heritage Robert Gooren; Chapter 12 The implementation of the Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention in the Republic of Macedonia Lazar Sumanov and Jovan Ristov; Appendix: 2002 Ohrid Declaration; Chapter 13 Iraq and the Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention Marja van Heese; Chapter 14 Sleeping Beauty, the untold story of the (first) Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention Liesbeth Lijnzaad; Documents: Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict; Regulations for the Execution of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict; First Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict 1954; Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict; Act of 19 June 2003 Containing Rules Concerning Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law (International Crimes Act); Act of 8 March 2007 containing rules on the taking into custody of cultural property from an occupied territory during an armed confl ict and for the initiation of proceedings for the return of such property (Cultural Property Originating from Occupied Territory (Return) Act); International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; Excerpts from: Prosecutor v. Pavle Strugar; Index.
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Brill The Protection of Non-Combatants During Armed Conflict and Safeguarding the Rights of Victims in Post-Conflict Society: Essays in Honour of the Life and Work of Joakim Dungel
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays—written by friends and colleagues of Joakim Dungel—focuses on the protection of the innocent during and after war. It is a tribute to Joakim’s life and work. Joakim made a significant contribution to international justice and the rule of law, through his service to the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the Temporary International Presence in Hebron, and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. He was also a prolific author and published scholarly works on a wide range of issues, including command responsibility, national security interests, the right to humanitarian assistance during internal armed conflicts, and crimes against humanity. This book continues Joakim’s work with in-depth analyses of a variety of issues arising under modern conflict, such as the application of international humanitarian law and international human rights law to aerial drone attacks, targeted sanctions, and reparations to victims. Joakim understood these complex and interlinked issues and dedicated his professional life to engaging with them. Through his work and his scholarship, he demonstrated the crucial importance of adopting victim-centred approaches to dealing with the consequences of armed conflict and to its prevention. This was also why he chose to work for the United Nations as a human rights officer in Afghanistan. This book attempts to honour and affirm Joakim’s choice.Table of ContentsExcerpt of table of contents: I. About the Authors and Editors II. Foreword III. Acknowledgements IV. Introduction Part One – Addresses from the Joakim Dungel Lectures in International Justice V. An Analysis of Whether the Actions of the 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee Creek on 29 December 1890 Were Crimes Under the Applicable Law of the Time VI. About Responsibility VII. Drones and the Law of Armed Conflict: the State of the Art Part Two – The Protection of Non-Combatants During Armed Conflict VIII. Protecting Children in Armed Conflict Through Complementary Processes of Political Engagement and International Criminal Law IX. Target practice: Do United Nations Sanctions Protect Civilians against Al-Qaida? X. The United Nations in Afghanistan: Policy as Protection? XI. A Deterrent Effect of Domestic German Prosecutions for Crimes Committed by German Military in Afghanistan? – Protecting Civilians from Inadvertent Attacks by Friendly Foreign Forces XII. Criminalising the Denial of a Fair Trial as a Crime Against Humanity XIII. The Place of International Criminal Law Within the Context of International Humanitarian Law XIV. Disproportionate Attacks in International Criminal Law XV. Judicial ‘Law-Making’ in the Jurisprudence of the ICTY and ICTR in Relation to Protecting Civilians from Mass Violence: How Can Judge-Made Law be Brought into Coherence with the Doctrine of the Formal Sources of International Law? XVI. The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Use of Provisional Measures for the Protection of the Civilian Population in Armed Conflict Situations Part Three – Safeguarding the Rights of Victims in Post-Conflict Society XVII. Promoting and Protecting the Long-term Needs of Victims of Armed Conflict: The Potential Role of National Human Rights Institutions XVIII. La Reconnaissance du Bénéfice de l’Indemnisation aux Victimes de Violations des Droits de l'Homme par la Cour Internationale de Justice XIX. The ICC Reparations Scheme: Promise for Victims or Recipe for Failure? – A Critical Discussion of Joakim Dungel’s Unpublished Article ‘Reparations and the ICC: Is the Court Ready for the Job?’ XX. Index.
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Brill Rebellious Riots: Entangled Geographies of Contention in Africa
Book SynopsisIs violent conflict in Africa urbanizing? How do urban protests and civil war intersect? How do narratives, mechanisms and identities of contention move between urban and rural arenas? These questions constitute the basis of investigation and analysis of this unique cross-disciplinary volume. Applying diverging perspectives and methods from political science, anthropology and urban African studies, the book carefully constructs the relational and entangled nature of contemporary forms of contentious politics in Niger, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone and Ethiopia.
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Brill Armed Forces in Deeply Divided Societies: Lebanon, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iraq and Burundi: Militaries in Power-Sharing Systems
Book SynopsisEduardo Wassim Aboultaif critically analyzes civil–military relations and the way armies are constructed in divided societies. To achieve that, the book looks at four case studies with deep divisions and whose armed forces have been reconstructed after civil wars. Lebanon and Bosnia-Herzegovina represent two examples of consociational power-sharing arrangements with functioning armed forces that enjoy wide popular support and neutral in internal affairs. Iraq and Burundi, however, have semi-consociational provisions that have politicized the army and made it a partisan military that has either led to disintegration (as in the case of Iraq) or politicization and loss of legitimacy (as in Burundi).Trade Review"This book opens a new door to understanding the function of armies and civil-military relations in divided societies." ——John McGarry, Professor and Canada Research Chair for Nationalism and Democracy, Queen's University, Canada "A mandatory book for anybody trying to understand how armies, societies, and modern times intersect? It is a superb book, well done!" ——Florence Gaub, Director of Research Division at Nato Defence CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables 1 Introduction 1 A Critical Approach to Armies in Divided Societies 2 Framework and Aim of the Book 3 The Significance of Armies in Divided Societies and Research Method 4 Chapters 2 Civil-Military Relations, SSR, DDR, and Power Sharing 1 Civil-Military Relations 2 DDR and Security Sector Reform (SSR) 3 Post-Conflict Power Sharing and Security Apparatuses 4 Conclusion 3 The Lebanese Armed Forces 1 Origins: The LAF during the Mandate Period 2 The Army after Independence 2.1 The Formation of the Lebanese Army 2.2 Problems and Challenges 3 Paying the Price: Disintegration during the Civil War 4 Structural and Institutional Reforms of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) 4.1 Structural Reforms in the LAF 4.2 The Institutional Reforms 4.2.1 The Higher Defense Council 4.2.2 The Military Office 5 Reconstructing the LAF 6 Challenges and Responses 6.1 Military Capabilities 6.2 Legitimacy and National Consensus 6.3 Confessional-Proofing in the LAF – Preserving Neutrality 6.4 Gender and Human Rights 7 Conclusion 4 Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 The Yugoslav People’s Army (Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija, JNA) 2 The Making of the AFBiH 3 Institutional and Structural Reforms in the AFBiH 3.1 Institutional Reforms 3.2 Structural Reforms 4 Success and Setbacks 5 Conclusion 5 The Iraqi Armed Forces 1 Inception: The Establishment of the Iraqi Army 2 Bakr Sidqi and the Rise of as-Sabbagh 3 The Republic of Abdul-Karim Qassim 4 The Rise of the Baath and the Baathification of the Army 5 The Army and the Baath 6 Reconstructing the IAF after the 2003 Invasion 6.1 CPA Civil-Military Decisions 7 The Reconstruction Framework of the Iraqi Army 7.1 The New IAF 8 Problems and Challenges in the IAF 8.1 Professionalism 8.2 Civil-Military Ambiguity 8.3 Corruption 9 ISIS, the PMF and the Retraining of the Iraqi Military 10 Conclusion 6 The National Defense Force of Burundi 1 Burundi: The Colonial Period and Independence 2 The Army in Power 2.1 Micombero 2.2 Bagaza 2.3 Buyoya 3 The Hutu Response 4 Arusha and Pretoria 5 Institutional and Structural Changes in the Armed Forces 5.1 Institutional Reforms 5.2 Structural Reforms 6 From Success to Failure: CNDD-FDD Hegemony in Security Affairs 7 CNDD-FDD Hegemony in the Army 7.1 FDD Preferentialism and Elimination of Opponents 7.2 Alternative Chain of Command and the Imbonerakure 7.3 The National Intelligence Service (SNR) and the CNDD-FDD 8 The Dangers of CNDD-FDD Politicization of the Army 9 Conclusion 7 Armies in Consociational, Semi-Consociational, and Post-Conflict Societies: The Quest for Stability 1 Armies, Deeply Divided Societies and Non-Democratic Systems 2 CMR and Semi-Consociationalism 3 CMR in Full Consociations 4 Post-Conflict Armies and Military Power Sharing 4.1 Military Mission 4.2 Collective Decision Making and Military Power Sharing 4.3 Proportionality 5 Anomalies in Lebanon, Iraq, and Burundi: Militias 6 Conclusion 8 Conclusion 1 Armies and Consociationalism 2 Post-Conflict Military Reconstruction 3 Recommendation Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Securing the Homeland
Book SynopsisThis edited volume uses a constructivist/reflexive' approach to address critical infrastructure protection (CIP), a central political practice associated with national security.The politics of CIP, and the construction of the threat they are meant to counter, effectively establish a powerful discursive connection between that the traditional and normal conditions for day-to-day politics and the exceptional dynamics of national security. Combining political theory and empirical case studies, this volume addresses key issues related to protection and the governance of insecurity in the contemporary world. The contributors track the transformation and evolution of critical infrastructures (and closely related issues of homeland security) into a security problem, and analyze how practices associated with CIP constitute, and are an expression of, changing notions of security and insecurity. The book explores aspects of securitisation' as well as at practices, audiences, andTrade Review'[This book] provides a thorough, engaging and much overdue account of the key issues at the intersection between critical infrastructure and the field of Security Studies.' Lene Hansen, University of CopenhagenTable of ContentsForeword Ole Wæver . Introduction: Securing the Homeland: Critical Infrastructure, Risk, and (In)Security Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Kristian Søby Kristensen Part 1: Origins, Conceptions, and the Public-Private Rationale The Vulnerability of Vital Systems: How ‘Critical Infrastructure’ Became a Security Problem Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff. Like a Phoenix from the Ashes: The Reinvention of Critical Infrastructure Protection as Distributed Security Myriam Dunn Cavelty. ‘The Absolute Protection of our Citizens’: Critical Infrastructure Protection and the Practice of Security Kristian Søby Kristensen. Critical Infrastructures and Network Pathologies: The Semiotics and Biopolitics of a Heteropolar World Order James Der Derian and Jesse Finkelstein. Part 2: Terrorism and the Politics of Protecting the Homeland Media, Fear, and the Hyperreal: The Construction of Cyberterrorism as the Ultimate Threat to Critical Infrastructures Maura Conway. Homeland Security Through Traceability: Technologies of Control as Critical Infrastructures Philippe Bonditti. The Gendered Narratives of Homeland Security: Anarchy at the Front Door Makes Home a Haven Elgin M. Brunner. Conclusion: The Biopolitics of Critical Infrastructure Protection Julian Reid
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Secrecy and the Media The Official History of the
Book SynopsisThis book traces the development of the D-Notice system, which controls the media's access to government secrets, from 19th-century colonial campaigns, through two world wars, to modern operations and counter-terrorism.Trade Review‘Secrecy and the Media...(a) magisterial history of censorship in Britain since the Boer War - and it goes to the heart of the awkward relationship between our Press and our Government.’ - James Delingpole, The Mail on Sunday‘Thoroughly researched…surprisingly readable and packed with intriguing snippets’ - James Delingpole, The Mail on Sunday'An important and absorbing book, surprisingly amusing at times for an official history. Admiral Wilkinson charts the troubled history of the D-Notice system, that great British compromise between national security and freedom of the press, and shows how it has been tested almost to destruction in peace and war over the past century, yet somehow survived. The D-Notice system is much misunderstood, even by journalists: this book will dispel many myths and provide an indispensable reference point for future debates.' Donald Trelford, former Editor of The Observer, Emeritus Professor in Journalism Studies at Sheffield University'This book is a ‘must’-read for all journalists, espionage writers and other aficionados of the intelligence scene, historians and citizens who cherish the right to know, within the bounds of reasonable security, what is being secretly perpetrated in their name.' H. Chapman Pincher, journalist, author'Nick Wilkinson has done us all an enormous service and at a crucial moment in history. Like all great stories, this one is fascinating, packed with information and facts, and brilliantly tells us about the struggles between Whitehall and the media. This is not just history for historians but a must for anyone who cares about our freedoms and how they are protected.' André Singer, Adjunct Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Southern California'In an open society there inevitably lies a fault-line where the guardians of national security meet the tribunes of a free press. Nick Wilkinson lived on top of that fault-line for years. It’s called the D-Notice System and, in this remarkable book, he takes us deep into that fissure and mines some real gems which illuminate the hidden history of British Government and the Media.' Peter Hennessy, Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History, Queen Mary, University of London‘Thoroughly researched…surprisingly readable and packed with intriguing snippets’ - James Delingpole, The Mail on Sunday'The history, written by Rear Admiral Nicholas Wilkinson, one of the more enlightened past secretaries of the Committee, provides telling insights into the relationships between editors and Britain's defence, security and intelligence establishment.' - Richard Norton-Taylor, the GuardianTable of ContentsPreface Section 1: Pre-Formation – The Long Debate – 1880s-1912 1. Victorian Security and Press Interaction 2. Regulation of the Press, and the Boer War 3. Facing the Growing German Threat 4. Wrangling with the Press 5. Government Attempts to Litigate 6. Events Bring Matters to a Head Section 2: Formation and Early Modus Operandi of the Committee – 1912-14 7. Establishing the Committee 8. Establishing Machinery and Procedures 9. Establishing a Modus Operandi Pre-War Section 3: World War I, 1914-18 10. The Security Context 11. Censorship 12. The Press Bureau 13. Early Interaction Between AWOPC, Press and Press Bureau 14. Settling Down to a Long War 15. Approaching the Steady State 16. Continuing Tensions 17. The Steady State 18. The Final Push Section 4: Between the World Wars – 1918-39 19. Security Context 20. Media Context 21. Early Work of the Committee 22. Middle Years Lull 23. Thinking About War Again 24. Return Towards a War Footing Section 5: World War II – Suspended Animation – 1939-45 25. The Press and Censorship Bureau 26. The Practice of Censorship 27. Towards Peace Section 6: Early Years of the Cold War – 1945-1967 28. Security Context 29. Media Context 30. Return of the Committee 31. Beginning of Cold War Considerations 32. Korean War and Imperial Disentanglement 33. Equipment Disagreements 34. Suez Crisis, and ‘War Potential’ 35. Fallout from the Blake Case, and the Kuwait Crisis 36. ‘War Potential’ Again, and the Radcliffe Report 37. Post-Radcliffe Section 7: The 'Lohan' Affair 1967 38. A Squall Becomes a Storm 39. Another Radcliffe Inquiry 40. The Storm Becomes a Hurricane 41. Rocks All Around 42. Lohan in the Spotlight, and Radcliffe Bites 43. Clearing up the Damage Section 8: Latter Years of the Cold War, and Northern Ireland 44. Security, Political and Media Contexts 45. Revision of the Notices 1971, and Early Caswork 46. Impact of the IRA Campaign 47. Wider Concerns about the D-Notice System 48. The DPBC Review 1981-82 49. Falklands Conflict 1982 50. Back to Routine Business 51. The 'Zircon' and 'My Country Right or Wrong' Controversies 52. Reform of the Official Secrets Act 53. Business as Usual Again Section 9: Post-Cold War, 1991-97 54. Iraq, Terrorism, Modernisation 55. D-Notice Review, and Spook Mania 56. Books, Avowal, and the Chinook Crash 57. Special Forces, Former Yugoslavia, Inadequate DA- Notices 58. Media Discomfort, Northern Ireland, Early Website and a Books Mountain 59. Quo Vadit?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Survival 531 Survival 531
Book SynopsisWith a diverse range of authors, thoughtful reviews and review essays, Survival is scholarly in depth while vivid, well-written and policy-relevant in approach. Shaped by its editors to be both timely and forward-thinking, the journal encourages writers to challenge conventional wisdom and bring fresh, often controversial, perspectives to bear on the strategic issues of the moment.Table of ContentsCommentary -- Iraq: Back to the Future /Raad Alkadiri -- The Korean Crises and Sino-American Rivalry /Benjamin Schreer and Brendan Taylor -- Noteworthy -- The New Cyber Threat -- Stuxnet and the Future of Cyber War /James P. Farwell and Rafal Rohozinski -- Mobilising Cyber Power /Alexander Klimburg -- Progress and Politics -- Can Bad Governance be Good for Development? /Sam Wilkin -- The Socio-economics of Geopolitical Change /Peter J. Munson -- Al-Qaeda and the Struggle for Yemen /Sarah Phillips -- Climate Change and Security at the Third Pole /Katherine Morton -- Policing the Waves: Maritime Paramilitaries in the Asia-Pacific /Christian Le Miere -- Review Essays -- The Art of Grand Strategy /Braz Baracuhy -- Mad Men? /Adrian Lyttelton -- More Than Muddling Through /Ben Barry -- Book Reviews -- Arms, Arms Control and Technology /Bruno Tertrais -- Politics and International Relations /Gilles Andreani -- Asia-Pacific /Lanxin Xiang -- Brief Notices -- Letter to the Editor -- Closing Argument -- Leaks and Lessons /Frangois Heisbourg.
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Edinburgh University Press Democracy and Political Violence
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the phenomenon of political violence and its implications for democratic politicsTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements; 1. Conflict and Community; 2. Forms and Nature of Political Violence; 3. The State and Violence; 4. Democracy and Terrorism; 5. Ethnic and Nationalist Violence and Democracy; 6. Violence and the Installation of Democracy; 7. Culture, Violence and Democracy; 8. Democracy in Times of Risk and Uncertainty; Bibliography; Index.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Democracy and Political Violence
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the phenomenon of political violence and its implications for democratic politicsTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements; 1. Conflict and Community; 2. Forms and Nature of Political Violence; 3. The State and Violence; 4. Democracy and Terrorism; 5. Ethnic and Nationalist Violence and Democracy; 6. Violence and the Installation of Democracy; 7. Culture, Violence and Democracy; 8. Democracy in Times of Risk and Uncertainty; Bibliography; Index.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press The Morality of Peacekeeping
Book SynopsisWhat is the peacekeeper's role in the 21st century? Built on careful moral reflection and scores of interviews with peacekeepers, trainers and planners in the field, this book sheds light on the challenges of peacekeeping - challenges likely to be characteristic of an increasing number of military engagements.
£999.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd War on Terrorism
Book SynopsisPresident George W. Bush maintained in his address of 20 September 2001, that the successful prosecution of the war against terrorism will require the judicious use of ''every resource at our command - every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence, and every necessary weapon of war''. Unlike the Cold War, the War on Terrorism is neither a battle against some ideology nor bounded by physical boundaries or conventional political units such as nation-states. The War on Terrorism is the internationalisation, or rather, globalisation of previous wars. Terror is not a nation, and the enemies in such wars are not nations; any regime such as Libya simply by repudiating terrorism, can become an ally of the anti-terror coalition. Regimes that continue to practice terrorism against domestic opponents qualify to participate in the wider war if they conform to certain norms in external affairs. The 28 articles reprinted here conTrade Review’...[volumes in] The International Library of Essays in Terrorism series published by Ashgate are really superb sources of high quality academic research and provide an invaluable resource for those who may not have time to search for such articles nor have access to the variety of journals within which they are published...essential reading.’ Professional Security '..the strength of the two volumes [The International Library of Essays in Terrorism] lies in the easy access they provide to contributions on a very topical mattter, and, as such, they comprise a handy and useful starting point for both researchers and students.' Journal of Peace Research 'The compilation of articles by the author, on various facets of terrorism provide a wealth of knowledge and pertinent literature on the subject and the related aspect of legal framework, weapons of mass destruction and economic warfare. An excellent addition for the study of war on terrorism.' -Liutenant General Chandra Shekhar, PVSM, AVSM (Retd), U.S.I. Journal, July-September 2006Table of ContentsContents; Implications of the American anti-terrorism coalition for global architectures, Amitai Etzioni; Counter-terrorism via counter-proliferation, James J. Wirtz; The struggle against terrorism: grand strategy, strategy, and tactics, Barry R. Posen; An examination of the American response to terrorism: handling the aftermath through crisis intervention, Sophia F. Dziegielewski and Kristy Sumner; Unravelling the 'war' on terrorism: a risk-management exercise in war clothing? Yee-Kuang Heng; The response to terrorism as a threat to liberal democracy, Peter Chalk ; Terrorism and governability in New York City: old problem, new dilemma, Paul Kantor; Dying for 'enduring freedom': accepting responsibility for civilian casualties in the war against terrorism, Nicholas J. Wheeler; Situating the city and September 11th: military urban doctrine, 'pop-up' armies and spatial chess, Robert Warren; Issues of federalism in response to terrorism, John Kincaid and Richard L. Cole; Political geography II: terrorism, modernity, governance and governmentality, Colin Flint; 'Counterterrorism' and conventional military force: the relationship between political effect and utility, Charles T. Eppright; The use of armed force against terrorism: American hegemony or impotence? Walter Gary Sharp Sr; Pragmatic counter-terrorism, Jonathan Stevenson; American grand strategy in the age of terror, G. John Ikenberry; Democratic regimes, internal security policy and the threat of terrorism, Fernando Reinares; The discourse and practice of counter-terrorism in liberal democracies, Ronald D. Crelinsten; Spectres of 'terrorism', Saree Makdisi; Organizing the war on terrorism, William L. Waugh Jr and Richard T. Sylves; Government responses to terrorism: critical views of their impacts on people and public administration, M. Shamul Haque; Perspectives on privacy and terrorism: all is not lost - yet, Robert Gellman; The coming war on terrorism, Lawrence Freedman; Finance warfare as a response to international terrorism, Martin S. Navias; How useful is the economic model of crime in assisting the war against terrorism?, Dorothy Manning; The therapeutic potential of narrative therapy in conflict transformation, Cathie J. Witty; The architecture of government in the face of terrorism, Ashton B. Carter; Military deterrence of international terrorism: an evaluation of Operation El Dorado Canyon, Henry W. Prunckun Jr and Philip B. Mohr; The effectiveness of antiterrorism policies: a vector-autoregression-intervention analysis, Walter Enders and Todd Sandler; Name index.
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