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Book SynopsisEuropean Security after Iraqdeals with the key questions about the effect of the Iraq war, from the invasion of 2003 onwards, on relations within the European region and between Europe and the wider world. It is concerned with both immediate impacts and longer term trends in intra-European and transatlantic relations. Formerly published as a special issue of 'Perspectives on European Politics and Society', Volume 5, No. 3, 2004.

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Book SynopsisThis anthology unites in one volume two studies of the Greater Middle East in global politics – each conceptual and empirical. First, it is a historical-comparative study of politics and societies in selected Greater Middle Eastern countries. Second, it is an empirical case study of states and societies of the Greater Middle East in global politics.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments List of Contributors List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of the Greater Middle East Mehdi Parvizi Amineh PART ONE: FOREIGN INTERVENTION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST 2. IR-Theory and Transformations in the Greater Middle East: The Role of the United States Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and Henk Houweling 3. Connecting Central Eurasia to the Middle East in American Foreign Policy Towards Afghanistan and Pakistan: 1979-Present Simon Bromley 4. US-Russian Strategic Relations and the Structuration of Central Asia Robert M. Cutler PART TWO: STATE, SOCIETY, AND ECONOMY IN THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST 5. The Iranian Revolution: The Multiple Contexts of the Iranian Revolution Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and S. N. Eisenstadt 6. The Iranian Foreign Policy since the Iranian Islamic Revolution: 1979-2006 Eva Patricia Rakel 7. The Middle East’s Democracy Deficit in Comparative Perspective Mehran Kamrava 8. The Challenges of Modernity: The Case of Political Islam Mehdi Parvizi Amineh 9. The Turkish Political Economy: Globalization and Regionalism Nilgun Onder 10. The Maghreb: Social, Political, and Economic Developments Louisa Dris-Aït-Hamadouche and Yahia Zoubir 11. From Soviet Republics to Independent Countries: Challenges of Transition in Central Asia Mirzohid Rahimov 12. Central Asia since the Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Economic Reforms and Their Impact on State-Society Relations Richard Pomfret 13. New Twists, More Intricate Configurations: The Changing Israel-Palestinian Regional Security Complex Fred Lawson PART THREE: THE POLITICS OF OIL AND MAJOR POWER RIVALRY IN THE POST-COLD WAR GREATER MIDDLE EAST 14. Global Energy Security and Its Geopolitical Impediments: The Case of the Caspian Region Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and Henk Houweling 15. China and the Greater Middle East: Globalization No Longer Equals Westernization Kurt W. Radtke 16. Indian Power Projection in the Greater Middle East: Tools and Objectives Prithvi Ram Mudiam 17. The Changing Face of the Russian Far East: Cooperation and Resource Competition Between Japan, Korea, and China in Northeast Asia Roger Kangas 18. India-Pakistan Engagement with the Greater Middle East: Implications and Options B.M. Jain 19. The EU’s Policies of Security of Energy Supply Towards the Middle East and Caspian Region: Major Power Politics? Femke Hogeveen and Wilbur Perlot Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNearly all of the previous scholarship on Turkey and U.S. relations cover the Cold War period as well as current affairs with regard to security, strategy, and defense. Hence, the literature abounds with military orientation. This edited volume builds on a historical perspective and focuses on foreign relations, diplomacy, actors, mutual perceptions and reciprocity in diplomatic relations within the framework of the world conjuncture in the 1920s and 1930s. Relations with the U.S.A. have served as a balance in Turkey's Euro-Atlantic policy long before NATO was established. Likewise, re-building relations with the Republic of Turkey served U.S. interests in opening to the Near East and thus breaking away from its much lauded isolationist policy between the two world wars. Thus, the picture that emerges here is just as much a history of U.S. diplomacy as it is of Turkey.

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection has sought contributions from some of the foremost scholars of refugee and Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) studies to engage with the conceptual and practical difficulties entailed in realising how the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) can be fulfilled by states and the international community to protect vulnerable persons. Contributors to this book were given one theme: to consider, based on their experience and knowledge, how R2P may be aligned with the protection of the displaced. Contributions explore the history and progress so far in aligning R2P with refugee and IDP protection, as well as examining the conceptual and practical issues that arise when attempting to expand R2P from words into deeds.Table of ContentsForced Migration, the Refugee Regime and the Responsibility to Protect, by Susan Martin; Reconciling R2P with IDP Protection, by Roberta Cohen; Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed…Something Blue? The Protection Potential of a Marriage between R2P and IDPs, by Erin Mooney; EU Migration Policy: Evolving Ideas of Responsibility and Protection, by Emma Haddad; Regime-Induced Displacement and Decision-Making within the United Nations Security Council: The Cases of Northern Iraq, Kosovo, and Darfur, by Phil Orchard; Protection of Civilians in Uncivil Wars, by Alex J. Bellamy and Paul D. Williams, Protection of Persons in the Event of Natural Disasters, by Sara E. Davies; The International Community’s Responsibility to Protect, by Luke Glanville

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Book SynopsisThis book describes major aspects of Japanese foreign policy from WWII to the present. Bilateral relations with the US, China, Korea, Southeast Asia, Russia, Europe and the Middle East as well as multilateral diplomacy are analysed. Written by a former diplomat who was deeply involved in major issues of postwar Japanese foreign policy, it provides fascinating insider views on policy making in Tokyo. The book explains how and why Japan is developing a more proactive foreign policy and highlights vital policy issues which it is facing at the turn of the century. It is written with exceptional clarity and is accessible and friendly to any reader who is interested in modern Japan.Trade Review'…a product of the living memory of one of the reputable diplomatic families in Japan…this is one of the most comprehensive studies of Japan's foreign policy since 1945…Highly recommended.' M. Itoh, Choice, 2005. 'This book stands out amongst the crop of textbooks on Japanese foreign policy that have been available to date, because of its authoritative, insider voice. Here we not only learn what happened in postwar Japan’s foreign policy, but what the thinking was behind these decisions. This is an invaluable element that brings the reader inside the policy-making rooms of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs itself. In the process, Japan’s world view and its own self-image are concurrently revealed, in fascinating and unexpected ways. This book destroys stereotypes, and vastly improves the quality of our understanding of Japan as an international player. We are spoiled by the wisdom and experience of not just one, but three major forces in the shaping of Japan’s international existence: Mr Togo’s own formidable experience, plus the seminal contributions of his father and grandfather, who was instrumental in the closing phases of World War II. All of this makes this book indispensable to those who wish to truly understand Japan in her own terms, and through her own eyes. Rikki Kersten, Professor Modern Japan Studies (Leiden University).

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Book SynopsisThe Responsibility to Protect and International Law focuses on questions relating to R2P’s legal quality, its relationship with sovereignty, and the question of whether the norm establishes legal obligations. It also aims to introduce readers to different legal perspectives, including feminism, and pressing practical questions such as how the law might be used to prevent genocide and mass atrocities, and punish the perpetrators.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Alex J. Bellamy, Sara E. Davies and Luke Glanville Sovereignty, Choice and the Responsibility to Protect, Edward C. Luck A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush – On the Assumed Legal Nature of the Responsibility to Protect, Ekkehard Strauss The Responsibility to Protect and the Use of Force: Building Legality? Jutta Brunnée and Stephen J. Toope The Responsibility to Protect and International Law, Alex J. Bellamy and Ruben Reike The Responsibility to Protect: A Legal and Rights-based Perspective, Dorota Gierycz International Law and the Responsibility to Protect: Clarifying or Expanding States’ Responsibilities? Jennifer M. Welsh and Maria Banda Feminist Reflections on the Responsibility to Protect, Hilary Charlesworth Responsibility to Protect: A Framework for Prevention, Sheri P. Rosenberg Stopping the Killing: The International Criminal Court and Juridical Determination of the Responsibility to Protect, Michael Contarino and Selena Lucent Conclusion, Alex J. Bellamy, Sara E. Davies and Luke Glanville

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Book SynopsisThe realm of international peace and capacity development operations is a critical and contested space. Efforts to date have failed to meet expectations. This volume of work takes on the breadth of issues across the security-development spectrum, challenging conventional wisdom while pointing to ways in which improvements in this crucial space can be realised.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: ‘Making Sense of Peace and Capacity-building Operations: Rethinking Policing and Beyond’ Charles Hunt and Bryn Hughes Chapter 2: Understanding Mission Environments: Local Contexts and the Legitimation of Reforms Otwin Marenin Chapter 3: Redeeming Statebuilding’s Misconceptions: Power, Politics and Social Efficacy and Capital in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States Eric Scheye Chapter 4: Grasping the Nettle of Nonstate Policing Bruce Baker Chapter 5: From Ideals to Reality in International Rule of Law Work – The Case of Papua New Guinea Sinclair Dinnen Chapter 6: How to Maintain Peace and Security in a Post-conflict Hybrid political order: The case of Bougainville Volker Boege Chapter 7: Policing, Rule of Law, State Capacity and Sustainable Peace in Timor-Leste Damien Kingsbury Chapter 8: Privileges and Immunities of United Nations Police Bruce Oswald and Adrian Bates Chapter 9: Assessing Police Peacekeeping: Systemisation not Serendipity Charles Hunt and Bryn Hughes Chapter 10: Understanding International Police Organisations: What the Researchers Do Not See Gordon Peake

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Book SynopsisThis innovative survey of Byzantium's relations with pre-Christian Bulgaria in the late eighth and early ninth century offers an entirely new framework for understanding the developments that shaped one of the most turbulent periods in the history of the early Medieval Balkans. Unlike previous studies, it integrates the surviving literary sources with the ever-growing archaeological record to construct a comprehensive narrative account of the Byzantine-Bulgar conflict for political mastery in the region. Moreover, the analysis of the changing socio-political structures of Bulgaria provides a basis for understanding its transformation from a loose tribal confederation into a stable monarchy. While this is primarily a regional study, focusing on the territories and peoples controlled by the two competing powers, it is also of interest to students of the Frankish, Arab and steppe-nomad worlds, since the relations between Byzantium and Bulgaria are put into a wider international context.Trade ReviewIn their appraisal of the publication, the John Bell Book Prize Committee states: “Through impressive documentation from Byzantine and Western sources, and integration of recent archaeological discoveries, Sophoulis provides a thorough explanation and convincing analysis of this critical period: the iconoclasm controversy, numerous changes of ruler in the Byzantine Empire, the disastrous defeat of the Emperor Nikephoros in 811, and the resulting expansion of the Bulgarian state under khans Krum and Omurtag. In particular, his detailed discussions of the conventional historiography, why it must be re-evaluated in the light of material evidence, and what new information this approach elicits, provide a thorough explanation and convincing analysis of this important period.” Excerpt taken from the congratulation letter from the Bulgarian Studies Association (BSA), November 15th, 2013Table of ContentsPreface ... ix A Note on Transliteration ... xi List of Maps and Illustrations ... xiii Abbreviations ... xv Introduction ... 1 1. The Sources ... 5 1.1 The Chronographia ... 5 1.1.1 Authorship and Date of Composition ... 5 1.1.2 Theophanes and the Bulgars ... 14 1.1.3 The Bulgar Narrative ... 15 a) The Years 775–802 ... 15 b) The Years 802–810 ... 17 c) The Campaign of 811 ... 18 d) The Years 811–813 ... 20 1.2 The Chronicle of 811 and the Scriptor Incertus de Leone Armenio ... 23 a) The Campaign of 811 ... 32 b) The Years 813–814 ... 32 1.3 George the Monk, the Logothete’s Chronicle and the Scriptores Post Theophanem ... 34 a) The Battle of Mesembria ... 36 1.4 Hagiography ... 37 a) The Story of the Martyrs of Adrianople ... 38 1.5 Other Byzantine Literary Sources ... 39 1.6 Syriac, Arabic, Armenian and Frankish Sources ... 41 1.7 The Proto-Bulgarian Inscriptions ... 44 1.8 Archaeology ... 47 2. The Geographical and Historical Setting ... 51 2.1 The Physical Context, Routes and Cities ... 51 2.2 The Internal Organization of the Khanate ... 65 2.2.1 Social, Political and Military Organization ... 65 2.2.2 The Religion of the Proto-Bulgarians ... 79 2.3 The Historical Background of the Conflict ... 89 2.4 The Byzantine and Bulgar Defence ... 95 3. Bulgaria’s Northern Neighbours and the Black Sea Zone in the Seventh to Ninth Centuries ... 105 3.1 From “Old Great Bulgaria” to the Danube Khanate. The Historical Background to Asparuch’s Migration to the Balkans ... 105 3.2 Bulgaria’s Northern Neighbours, Late Seventh to Early Ninth Century: A Brief Overview ... 112 3.2.1 The Geographical Setting ... 113 3.2.2 Wallachia and the Bulgars ... 117 3.2.3 The Southern Regions of the Carpathian Basin ... 119 3.2.4 Transylvania ... 124 3.2.5 The Steppes North of the Black Sea ... 129 3.2.6 The Crimea ... 135 4. Conflict and Contact, 775–802 ... 143 4.1 The Byzantine Empire under Leo IV (775–780) ... 143 4.2 Byzantine-Bulgar Relations under Leo IV ... 146 4.3 The Empire under Irene and Constantine VI (780–802) ... 149 4.4 Byzantium and Bulgaria, 780–802 ... 159 5. Emperor versus Khan: Byzantium and Bulgaria, 802–811 ...173 5.1 The Byzantine Empire under Nikephoros I ... 173 5.2 Byzantine-Bulgar Relations from 802 to 810 ... 180 5.2.1 The Collapse of the Avar Qaghanate and the Bulgars 180 5.2.2 Nikephoros’ Balkan Expansion and the War with Bulgaria ... 184 5.3 The Campaign of 811 ... 192 6. The Bulgar Offensive, 811–814 ... 217 6.1 The Empire under Michael I (811–813) ... 217 6.2 The Byzantine-Bulgar War During the Reign of Michael I ... 221 6.2.1 From Nikephoros’ Defeat to the Fall of Mesembria ... 221 6.2.2 The Byzantine Campaign of 813 and the Battle of Versinikia ... 234 6.3 The War in Leo V’s Reign ... 245 6.3.1 Byzantium under Leo V (813–820) ... 245 6.3.2 The Bulgar Siege of Constantinople ... 249 6.3.3 The War until the Death of Krum (April 814) ... 258 7. The Last Phase of the War and the Conclusion of the Thirty Years’ Peace ... 265 7.1 The Internal Crisis in Bulgaria and the Battle of Mesembria ... 265 7.2 The Thirty Years’ Peace ... 275 8. The Reign of Omurtag and the Transformation of Early Medieval Bulgaria ... 287 8.1 Reconstructing Omurtag’s Power ... 287 8.2 Bulgaria and Byzantium During the Reign of Omurtag ... 306 Conclusion ... 311 Bibliography ... 321 Index ... 361. 515

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Book SynopsisThis volume discusses how diplomacy’s contribution to the effectiveness of foreign policy has been undervalued in the United States by governments, the foreign policy community, and academics. Chapters raise awareness of the importance of American diplomacy, what it can and can’t achieve, and how it may be strengthened in the interests of international peace and security.Trade Review"This is one of those rare edited volumes which deserves to be read cover to cover." - Diplomacy & Statecraft, Richard Crockatt, University of East AngliaTable of ContentsIntroduction American Diplomacy Paul Sharp and Geoffrey Wiseman Research Papers Distinctive Characteristics of American Diplomacy Geoffrey Wiseman The Distinction between Foreign Policy and Diplomacyin American International Thought and Practice David Clinton US Diplomacy and Diplomats: A Chinese View CHEN Zhimin European Responses to US Diplomacy: ‘Special Relationships’, Transatlantic Governance and World Order Michael Smith Transformational Diplomacy: US Tactics for Change in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2004-2006 Karin A. Esposito and S. Alaeddin Vahid Gharavi Course Corrections: The Obama Administration at the United Nations David Bosco American Public Diplomacy: Enduring Characteristics, Elusive Transformation Bruce Gregory Quantum Diplomacy, German–US Relations and the Psychogeography of Berlin James Der Derian Obama, Clinton and the Diplomacy of Change Paul Sharp Practitioner’s Perspectives The Incapacitation of US Statecraft and Diplomacy Chas W. Freeman Jr The Traditions and Travails of Career Diplomacy in the United States Thomas Hanson Digital Diplomacy and US Foreign Policy Alec Ross Book Reviews Spyros Blavoukos and Dimitris Bourantonis (eds.), The EU Presence in International Organizations Edith Drieskens Costas M. Constantinou and James Der Derian (eds.), Sustainable Diplomacies Manuel Duran Hany Besada (ed.), Crafting an African Security Architecture: Addressing Regional Peace and Conflict in the 21st Century Maria-Ruxandra Stoicescu

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Book SynopsisAt its current state of historical development, capital finds its internal contradictions tending towards an irresolvable character as manifested in multiple crises. Embodied in a fistful of gigantic transnational companies whose representatives seek consolidation as a global oligarchy, capital continues to concentrate its economic, political and military power as it produces a growing mass of redundant human beings, promotes conflicts that result in misery, chaos, social degradation and death, and destroys entire societies while razing the natural environment, thereby putting humanity itself at risk. The defense of life and the construction of renewed hope for a future require opposition to the domination of capital. This book seeks to contribute to that effort by setting out an analysis of the mechanisms in which capital is based.Trade ReviewThe Neoliberal Pattern of Domination is a compelling, convincing and relevant historical account, both detailed and profound. David Hollanders (Tilburg University), Comparative Sociology, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2016.Table of ContentsForeword by R.A. Dello Buono Introduction Part One – The Domination of Capital: Its Logical and Historical Forms 1. The Basis of Capitalist Domination 2. The General Forms of Capitalist Domination 3. The Pattern of Domination: Historical Forms of Capitalist Domination 4. The History of Capitalist Domination Part Two – The Neoliberal Pattern: Second Emergence of the Natural Form of Domination 5. The Transition to the Neoliberal Pattern of Domination 6. The Neoliberal Economy 7. The Neoliberal State 8. The State Administration of Criminal Activity 9. Ideological Domination – A Reflection on the Intellectual and Moral Leadership of Neoliberal Capital Part Three – Conclusion 10. The Pattern of Domination and Historical Cycle of Capital Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the Vanguard to the Margins is dedicated to the work of the late British historian, Dr Mark Pittaway (1971-2010), a prominent scholar of post-war and contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Breaking with orthodox readings on Eastern bloc regimes, which remain wedded to the 'totalitarianism' paradigm of the Cold War era, the essays in this volume shed light on the contradictory historical and social trajectory of 'real socialism' in the region. Mainstream historiography has presented Stalinist parties as 'omnipotent', effectively stripping workers and society in general of its 'relative autonomy'. Building on an impressive amount of archive material, Pittaway convincingly shows how dynamics of class, gender, skill level, and rural versus urban location, shaped politics in the period. The volume also offers novel insights on historical and sociological roots of fascism in Hungary and the politics of legitimacy in the Austro-Hungarian borderlands.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Abbreviations Introduction By Adam B. Fabry 1 Crisis, War and Occupation 2 Building Socialism 3 The Reproduction of Hierarchy: Skill, Working-Class Culture, and the State in Early Socialist Hungary 4 The Social Limits of State Control: Time, the Industrial Wage Relation, and Social Identity in Stalinist Hungary, 1948–53 5 Retreat from Collective Protest: Household, Gender, Work and Popular Opposition in Stalinist Hungary 6 The Revolution and Industrial Workers: The Disintegration and Reconstruction of Socialism, 1953–58 7 Accommodation and the Limits of Economic Reform: Industrial Workers during the Making and Unmaking of Kádár’s Hungary 8 Research in Hungarian Archives on Post-1945 History 9 Making Peace in the Shadow of War: The Austrian-Hungarian Borderlands, 1945–56 10 Workers and the Change of System 11 Fascism in Hungary 12 Towards a Social History of the 1956 Revolution in Hungary Epilogue By Nigel Swain References Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume, intended to complement Hotta-Lister’s original 1999 study, marks the centenary of London’s 1910 great Japan-British Exhibition, which was held at White City, Shepherd’s Bush, and attracted over eight million visitors during its six-month stay. While the initiative came from Britain, the Japanese Government was the major source of funding for the Japanese side of the Exhibition. Using the Anglo-Japanese Alliance as its springboard, Japan – at the time a new colonial power – hoped to bring about a greater understanding of its cultures and traditions and thereby stimulate trade and commerce between the two countries. In the event, the Japanese press, unlike the British press, took umbrage at what they considered the trivialization of Japanese culture, thus in part frustrating the positive cultural, commercial and political outcomes that were hoped for. Eighteen months later, Emperor Meiji died and the Great War of 1914-18 followed soon after, thereby relegating the exhibition – its origins, composition, relevance and impact – to oblivion until recent times. The papers in this volume, therefore, drawn from four ‘centenary conferences’ held in London and Tokyo, offer an important spotlight on the exhibition’s legacy – specifically in the contexts of commerce and culture. The contents include the following themes: The Exhibition and domestic conditions in Britain and Japan; the Exhibition and Japan’s economic background; selling the ‘backward’ Japanese economy; imperialism and the Exhibition; the Japanese media and the Exhibition; the arts of Britain and Japan; Ainu in London; Japanese fine art; the human legacy; Japanese gardens. This book has wide inter-disciplinary relevance for students in modern East Asian Studies, but especially in the context of colonial and economic history, inter-cultural exchange and Anglo-Japanese relations.Trade ReviewThe fifteen chapters of Commerce and Culture at the 1910- Japan-British Exhibition analyze divers aspects of the exhibition from multiple academic perspectives. […] the papers of Ian Nish, Peter O’Conner and Keiko Itoh are of special interest as they place [the exhibition] in a broader context. […] This reviewer learned a great deal from Commerce and Culture at the 1910- Japan-British Exhibition. Sano Mayuko in Japan Review Nr. 28 (2015), pp. 261-261.

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Book SynopsisIn this book the social scientist and economist Professor Dr. Raymond Saner draws on his long years of experience as a negotiation adviser, teacher, trainer, researcher and university lecturer to show that two thirds of negotiation practice is learnable. The author treats the different aspects of negotiation practice in a way that is useful to both academics and practitioners, such that the general laws and principles gradually become evident as and of themselves.

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Book SynopsisThe protection of cultural property during times of armed conflict and social unrest has been an on-going challenge for military forces throughout the world even after the ratification and implementation of the 1954 Hague Convention and its two Protocols by participating nations. This volume provides a series of case studies and “lessons learned” to assess the current status of Cultural Property Protection (CPP) and the military, and use that information to rethink the way forward. The contributors are all recognized experts in the field of military CPP or cultural heritage and conflict, and all are actively engaged in developing national and international solutions for the protection and conservation of these non-renewable resources and the intangible cultural values that they represent.Trade Review"The book is full of goodwill suggestions and valuable experiences but it shows the present gap existing between goodwill and the real world, and that there is no quick answer to match all the challenges and threats that CPP in armed conflicts must face in the next few years." Ignacio Rodríguez Temiño, Archaeologica Publica 4 (2014), pp. 413-146.Table of ContentsList of Figures Glossary Chapter 1: Introduction Karl von Habsburg Chapter 2: Military involvement in Cultural Property Protection as part of Preventive Conservation. Joris D. Kila Chapter 3: Respecting and Protecting Cultural Heritage in Peace Support Operations – a pragmatic approach Colonel Dr. Michael Pesendorfer Chapter 4: Cultural Property Protection and the Training Continuum in the US Department of Defense James A. Zeidler Chapter 5: Developing a Cultural Property Protection Training Program for ROTC: Methodology, Content, and Structure John A Valainis Chapter 6: Conflicting memory: The use of conflict archaeology sites as training for operational troops Richard Osgood Chapter 7: Developing a NATO Cultural Property Protection Capability CDR Michael Hallett Chapter 8: Aiming to Miss: Engaging with the Targeting Process as a means of Cultural Property Protection Michael Hallett Chapter 9: A Case Study in Cultural Heritage Protection in a Time of War CPT Benjamin A. Roberts and LTC Gary B. Roberts (Ret.) Chapter 10: Counterinsurgency: A Tool for Cultural Heritage? Cheryl White and Tommy Livoti Chapter 11: Heritage Destruction and Spikes in Violence: The Case of Iraq B. Isakhan Chapter 12: A Report on Archaeological Site Stability and Security in Afghanistan: The Lashkari Bazar Survey Matthieu J. Murdock and Carrie A. Hritz Chapter 13: Holy Places – Contested Heritage: Dealing with Cultural Heritage in the Region of Palestine From the Ottoman Period until Today Friedrich T. Schipper Chapter 14: Urban cultural heritage and armed conflict: the case of Beirut Central District Caroline A. Sandes Chapter 15: Antiquity & Conflict: Some Historical Remarks on a Matter of Selection Mirjam Hoijtink Chapter 16: Plundering Boys: A cultural criminology assessment on the power of cultural heritage as a cause for plunder in armed conflicts along history Marc Balcells Chapter 17: Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThe 2008 Georgian-Russian war focused the world’s attention on the Caucasus. South Ossetia and Abkhazia had been de facto independent since the early 1990s. However, Russia’s granting of recognition on 26 August 2008 changed regional dynamics. The Caucasus is one of the most ethnically diverse areas on earth, and the conflicts examined here present their own complexities. This book sets the issues in their historical and political contexts and discusses potential future problems. This volume is distinguished from others devoted to the same themes by the extensive use the author (a Georgian specialist) makes of Georgian sources, inaccessible to most commentators. His translated citations thus cast a unique and revealing light on the interethnic relations that have fuelled these conflicts.Table of ContentsForeword Preface Plan of the Book Note on Transcription Acknowledgements Abbreviations Maps Chapter One: Introduction Peoples and their Languages; Non-Caucasian Peoples and Languages of the Caucasus; Caucasian Peoples and Languages; North West Caucasian; South Caucasian/ Kartvelian; Nakh-Daghestanian; States; Georgia (in Georgian sakartvelo); Abkhazia (in Abkhaz Apsny); South Ossetia (in Ossetic Xussar Iryston). Chapter Two: History Greeks Colonise the Eastern Black Sea Coast; The Roman Period; The Abkhazian Kingdom and Dynastic Union with Georgian-speaking Lands; Breakup of the Mediaeval Georgian Kingdom; Post-Mongol Abkhazia; Mediaeval Ossetians; Turkish and Persian Encroachment; Russia’s Encroachment and Tsarist Rule; Georgia’s Attention Turns towards Abkhazia; Beginnings of Mingrelianisation; Post-Revolutionary Abkhazia and Independent (Menshevik) Georgia; South Ossetians under the Mensheviks Georgia’s 1921 Menshevik Constitution and Loss of Independence; Abkhazia’s Status 1921-1931; Creation of the South Ossetian Autonomous Region (1922); Death of Nestor Lakoba and Implementation of Stalin’s Nationality Policy; Deportations: Actual or Threatened; Genesis of the ‘Ingoroq’va Hypothesis’; Abkhazians Start to Voice their Grievances; Summation of the Period 1953-1979. Chapter Three: Perestrojka, Glasnost' and the Road to War in Georgia Georgian Dissidents Take Advantage of Glasnost'; Results of Glasnost' in Abkhazia and South Ossetia; The ‘Abkhazian Letter’; Georgia’s Draft Language-Law; Reason for Ingoroq’va’s Non-election to the Georgian Academy; Tit-for-tat Exchanges Begin in the Press; The ‘Lykhny Declaration’ (Abkhazia) and the Reaction; The 9th-April Tragedy (Tbilisi); Anti-Abkhazian Agitation Intensifies; Revival of the ‘Ingoroq’va Hypothesis’ (and Variants); The ‘War of Linguists and Historians’; Moves to Open a Branch of Tbilisi State University in Sukhum; Georgia Experiences its First Fatal Inter-ethnic Clashes; Tensions Rise Even Further After the July Deaths; Andrej Sakharov’s ‘Mini-empires’ and Inevitable Backlash; Viktor Popkov’s Corrective; Death of K’ost’ava. Attention Shifts to South Ossetia; New Leadership for Abkhazia’s National Movement; Tbilisi Sets Out Towards Independence and the Reaction in Abkhazia and South Ossetia; Restoration of Abkhazia’s Republican Status of the 1920s and Tbilisi’s Reaction; South Ossetia Moves to Raise its Status; New Union Treaty Proposed in Moscow; Gamsakhurdia Becomes Supreme Soviet Chairman. Moscow’s Reaction and 1st War in South Ossetia; Gorbachëv’s 17th-March 1991 Referendum for Reshaping the Union; Gamsakhurdia and Yeltsin Gain their Respective Presidencies, and Gorbachëv’s Fall; South Ossetia Rescinds its Compromise Offer; New Electoral Law in Abkhazia; USSR Disintegrates and USA Recognises Georgia; Gamsakhurdia Overthrown and Civil War in Mingrelia; Relations Between Tbilisi’s Military Council and Abkhazia/South Ossetia; Postscript; Summation. Chapter Four: Relations with Post-Communist Georgia under Eduard Shevardnadze Upsurge Followed by Ceasefire in South Ossetia; Attention Shifts to Mingrelia and Abkhazia; Georgia’s International Profile Rises Under Shevardnadze; War in Abkhazia; First Ceasefire; The Battle for Gagra; Never-to-be-forgotten Incidents in Sukhum and above Lat’a; Second Ceasefire; Third Ceasefire; Abkhazians Victorious in the War; ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ or ‘Ethnic Flight’?; Georgia on the Brink; Reality Dawns on the Abkhazians; Start of Formal Peace-Talks; Periodisation of the Negotiations; Abkhazia’s 1994 Constitution; Shevardnadze Elected President; Terrorism in Abkhazia; The Squeeze on Abkhazia Tightens; Further Georgian Assault Repulsed (May 1998); Georgia Strengthens Ties to Europe; Shevardnadze’s Star No Longer in the Ascendant; Abkhazia Finally Declares Independence; Attempts at Confidence-Building Continue; Fall of Shevardnadze; Developments in South Ossetia Under Shevardnadze APPENDIX 1 Treaty on the Principles for Mutual Relations between the Republic of Abkhazia and the Republic of Georgia (Proposal for the Project) APPENDIX 2 The State Flag of Abkhazia (designed in 1992 by Valerij Gamgia); Coat of Arms; The State Flag of South Ossetia; Coat of Arms; Flags of Post-Communist Georgia APPENDIX 3 Declaration on measures for a political settlement of the Georgian/Abkhaz conflict APPENDIX 4 Quadripartite Agreement on Voluntary Return of Refugees and Displaced Persons (Annex II) APPENDIX 5 Basic Principles for the Distribution of Competences between Tbilisi and Sukhum (The So-called ‘Boden Document’) APPENDIX 6 Measures to Ensure Security and Strengthen Mutual Trust between the Sides in the Georgian-Ossetian Conflict Chapter Five: Relations with Georgia under Mikheil Saak’ashvili The ‘Rose Revolution’; Saak’ashvili Vows to Restore Georgia’s Territorial Integrity; Ach’ara Reintegrated; Saak’ashvili Moves Against South Ossetia; Kokoiti’s Initiatives; Political Developments in Abkhazia; Georgia and the Ukraine Voice NATO Aspirations; ‘The Key to the Future’; Tensions Rise over the K’odor Valley; Russo-Georgian Relations Deteriorate Further; Abkhazia Withdraws from the Peace- Talks; Saak’ashvili Re-elected President; Aftermath of Kosovo’s Recognition; War in South Ossetia (2008); Abkhazia Opens Second Front; Recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia; Who Began the War?; Georgia Examines Georgian Actions; The Tagliavini’s Commission’s Findings; Self-Deception as Possible Explanation for Tbilisi’s Actions?; The Days are Numbered for the UN and OSCE Presence in Abkhazia and South Ossetia; The Geneva Process Begins; Abkhazia and South Ossetia Strengthen International Ties; Abkhazia’s 2009 Presidential Election; Post-Recognition Existence; Tbilisi Resumes its Belligerent Stance; ‘State Strategy on [the] Occupied Territories’; Further Anti-Russian Moves in Georgia: Tbilisi Cultivates the North Caucasus; Georgian Launches a New TV-channel; Abkhazia’s Census (2011); Unanticipated Developments in Abkhazia (2011); Problems Within the Abkhazian Church; Abkhazia’s President Ankvab Survives Assassination-attempt; South Ossetia Gains New President; A New Figure in Georgian Politics; Onward to 2013 Chapter Six: Foreign Involvement A Centuries-old Attraction; Early Missions by The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples’ Organisation and International Alert; Paul Henze’s Later ‘Contributions’; Double Standards; The Role of the UN and OSCE (earlier CSCE); (International) NGOs; NGOs in South Ossetia; The Georgian Economy; Turkey; Europe; The USA; The Commonwealth of Independent States; Russia Appendix US Assistance to Georgia 1992 to 2009 (in 3 parts) Chapter Seven: Conclusions and Lessons Learnt — or Not! Georgia; Abkhazia; South Ossetia; International Community; Postscript Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Legality and Legitimacy of the Use of Force in Northeast Asia, Brendan Howe and Boris Kondoch bring together distinguished authors with extensive Northeast Asian backgrounds to offer a diverse and comprehensive evaluation of when it is right, from regional perspectives, to use force in international relations. The use of force in international relations has been severely curtailed by pragmatic considerations of international order, and further constrained by positive international law. In Northeast Asia, the prohibition of aggression has remained uncontested. Strict adherence to non-intervention in Northeast Asia has, however, increasingly come under attack from internal and external normative communities. The contributors, therefore, use regional legal, normative, cultural, and historical insights to shed light on the contemporary positions of Northeast Asian political communities with regard to the use of force.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Contributors 1. Introduction Brendan Howe and Boris Kondoch 2. Aggression, the Prohibition of the Use of Force and North-East Asia Boris Kondoch 3. East Asian Values and Humanitarian Intervention Brendan Howe 4. Between Harmonious World and “War of Order”: Chinese Meanings of Just War and Their Reemergence Nadine Godehardt 5. From Ideology to Pragmatism: China’s Position on Humanitarian Intervention in the Post-Cold War Era Jonathan Davis 6. The Paradox of Non-use of “Use of Force” Option in Japan’s Foreign and Security Policy Consensus Toshiya Hoshino 7. "The Crime of Aggression" and Japan Madoka Futamura 8. Questioning the Legality and Legitimacy of a Preventive Strike by the U.S. to Disarm North Korea of Nuclear Weapons Dan Ernst Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisKey Papers on Korea is a commemorative collection of papers celebrating 25 years of the Centre of Korean Studies (CKS), SOAS, University of London that have been written by senior academics and emerging scholars. The subjects covered in this collection reflect the different research interests and different strengths of the CKS and include historical perceptions of ancient kingdoms in Manchuria, North Korean propaganda literature, the problematic history of Sino-North Korean borderlands, the millenarian aspects of Won Buddhism, and the importance of the years 1910-11 in the development of Korean music. The collection is framed by two pieces on SOAS, which have been commissioned exclusively for this publication: an introduction that examines the 60-year history of Korean studies at SOAS, and a closing paper that sheds light on the rare collections of Korean art held at SOAS.

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Book SynopsisIn Supranational Citizenship and the Challenge of Diversity Francesca Strumia explores the potential of European citizenship as a legal construct, and as a marker of group boundaries, for filtering internal and external diversities in the European Union. Adopting comparative federalism methodology, and drawing on insights from the international relations literature on the diffusion of norms, the author questions the impact of European citizenship on insider/outsider divides in the EU, as experienced by immigrants, set by member states and perceived by “native” citizens. The book proposes a novel argument about supranational citizenship as mutual recognition of belonging. This argument has important implications for the constitution of insider/outsider divides and for the reconciliation of multiple levels of diversity in the EU.

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Book SynopsisExile, Diplomacy and Texts offers an interdisciplinary narrative of religious, political, and diplomatic exchanges between early modern Iberia and the British Isles during a period uniquely marked by inconstant alliances and corresponding antagonisms. Such conditions notwithstanding, the essays in this volume challenge conventionally monolithic views of confrontation, providing – through fresh examination of exchanges of news, movements and interactions of people, transactions of books and texts – new evidence of trans-national and trans-cultural conversations between British and Irish communities in the Iberian Peninsula, and of Spanish and Portuguese ‘others’ travelling to Britain and Ireland. Contributors: Berta Cano-Echevarría, Rui Carvalho Homem, Mark Hutchings, Thomas O’Connor, Susana Oliveira, Tamara Pérez-Fernández, Glyn Redworth, Marta Revilla-Rivas, and Ana Sáez-Hidalgo.Trade Review"Spain was demonized as the political and religious other in early modern England, and this perception of universal resentment has continued to cloud historiography [...] Thus, the intention of Exile, Diplomacy and Texts: Exchanges between Iberia and the British Isles, 1500–1767 is to focus on exchange rather than confrontation between the Iberian Peninsula and the British Isles, in particular to explore how religious, cultural, and diplomatic encounters also existed." "Overall, these contributions provide a window not just into early modern English Jesuit activities, but more specifically how they interacted with their host nation, in this case Spain, and navigated the unpredictabilities of exile. It is a welcome line of investigation and one that deserves to be followed further, this book giving glimpses of future research routes." James E. Kelly, Durham University, in Journal of Jesuit Studies 8, pp. 671-704Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors Introduction  Ana Sáez-Hidalgo and Berta Cano-Echevarría Part 1: Encountering the Other 1 Where Were the English? Antoon Van Den Wijngaerde, the Evidence of Visual Culture, and the 1557 Siege of Saint-Quentin  Glyn Redworth 2 Networks of Exchange in Anglo-Portuguese Sixteenth-Century Diplomacy and Thomas Wilson’s Mission to Portugal  Susana Oliveira 3 Irish Captives in the British and Spanish Mediterranean 1580–1760  Thomas O’Connor Part 2: Narrating the Other 4 The Construction and Deconstruction of English Catholicism in Spain: Fake News or White Legend?  Berta Cano-Echevarría 5 Memoirs for ‘a Sunlit Doorstep’: Selfhood and Cultural Difference in Tomé Pinheiro da Veiga’s Fastigínia  Rui Carvalho Homem 6 The Fall of Granada in Hall’s and Holinshed’s Chronicles: Genesis, Propaganda, and Reception  Tamara Pérez-Fernández Part 3: Reading the Other 7 Use and Reuse of English Books in Anglo-Spanish Collections: the Crux of Orthodoxy  Ana Sáez-Hidalgo 8 Tools for the English Mission: English Books at St Alban’s College Library, Valladolid  Marta Revilla-Rivas 9 Diplomacy Narratives as Documents of Performance  Mark Hutchings Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisWith one quarter of proven oil reserves and the largest oil production in the world, Saudi Arabia has been at the center of world politics. Its vast oil resources have been utilized in various ways to maximize internal and external security. While oil revenue allowed the Saudi state to buy off legitimacy at home and abroad, the Saudi state exploited oil supply to either forge alliances with or pressure consuming and producing countries. By providing an insightful account of how oil resources shaped Saudi security policies since the mid-twentieth century, Islam Y. Qasem offers a timely contribution to the study of oil politics and the interrelationship between economic interdependence and security.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Tables and Figures List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One: Rentier Theory and Saudi Arabia Chapter Two: Neo-Rentier Theory Chapter Three: The Pre-boom (1950-1970) Chapter Four: The First Boom (1970-1985) Chapter Five: The Bust (1985-2000) Chapter Six: The Second Boom (2000-2012) Chapter Seven: Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMiddle East Studies after September 11: Neo-Orientalism, American Hegemony and Academia will show the long-term implications of current approaches to Middle East scholarship on the internal transformation of Middle Eastern societies. It describes the complex relationship between American academia and state government: a relationship which has influenced and restructured the state, society and politics in the Middle East as well as in the United States. It engages the disciplines of Sociology, Political Science, Anthropology, History and International Studies, while maintaining the epistemological, methodological, and ontological insights of a sociological approach to the Middle East. Contributors are: Beyazit H. Akman, Mahmoud Arghavan, Dunya D. Cakir, Emanuela C. Del Re, Babak Elahi, Manuela E. B. Giolfo, Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, Merve Kavakci, Tugrul Keskin, Seyed Mohammd Marandi, Ameena Al-Rasheed Nayel, Staci Gem Scheiwiller, Francesco L. Sinatora, Zeinab Ghasemi TariTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Note on Contributors 1 An Introduction: The Sociology of Orientalism and Neo-Orientalism (Theories and Praxis) Tugrul Keskin 2 At the Threshold of Iranian Studies Babak Elahi 3 A Genealogy of Orientalism in Afghanistan: The Colonial Image Lineage Shah Mahmoud Hanifi 4 Orientalism and Neo-Orientalism: Arabic Representations and the Study of Arabic Manuela E.B. Giolfo and Francesco L. Sinatora 5 Middle Eastern Studies in the United Kingdom Post-September 11: A Battlefield of Orientalism Ameena Al-Rasheed Nayel 6 The Onto-Politics of Moderation: Studying Islamist Politics and Democracy in the Middle East Dunya D. Cakir 7 The Dilemma of Postcolonial and/or Orientalist Feminism in Iranian Diasporic Advocacy of Women’s Rights in the Homeland Mahmoud Arghavan 8 Let the Oriental Perform: A Critical Approach to Neo-Orientalism at Work in Turkish Politics Merve Kavakci 9 (Neo)Orientalism: Alive and Well in American Academia: A Case Study of Contemporary Iranian Art Staci Gem Scheiwiller 10 Neo-Orientalism, Neo-Conservatism, and Terror in Salman Rushdie’s Post-9/11 Novel Beyazit H. Akman 11 The Jasmine in the Fist: The Otpor Model in the Arab Spring and Beyond Emanuela C. Del Re 12 Iranian Studies in the United States and the Politics of Knowledge Production on Post-revolutionary Iran Seyed Mohammd Marandi and Zeinab Ghasemi Tari Index

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Book SynopsisIn Children and the Responsibility to Protect, Bina D’Costa and Luke Glanville bring together more than a dozen academics and practitioners from around the world to examine the intersections of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle and the theory and practice of child protection. Contributors consider themes including how the agency and vulnerability of children is represented and how their voices are heard in discussions of R2P and child protection, and the merits of drawing together the R2P and Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) agendas, as well as case studies of children’s lives in conflict zones, child soldiers, and children born of conflict-related sexual violence. This collection of essays was first published in the journal Global Responsibility to Protect (vol.10/1-2, 2018) as a special issue. Contributors are: J. Marshall Beier, Letícia Carvalho, Bina D’Costa, Myriam Denov, Luke Glanville, Michelle Godwin, Erin Goheen Glanville, Cecilia Jacob, Dustin Johnson, Atim Angela Lakor, Katrina Lee-Koo, Ryoko Nakano, Jochen Prantl, Jeremy Shusterman, Hannah Sparwasser Soroka, Timea Spitka, Jana Tabak, Shelly Whitman.Table of ContentsContents List of Contributors Children and R2P: An Introduction   Luke Glanville Two Agendas: R2P and Children and Armed Conflict ‘Children Heard, Half-Heard?’: A Practitioners’ Look for Children in the Responsibility to Protect and Normative Agendas on Protection in Armed Conflict   Jeremy Shusterman and Michelle Godwin ‘The Intolerable Impact of Armed Conflict on Children’: The United Nations Security Council and the Protection of Children in Armed Conflict   Katrina Lee-Koo R2P and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities: A Child-Centric Approach   Cecilia Jacob The Politics of Norm Glocalisation: Limits in Applying R2P to Protecting Children   Jochen Prantl and Ryoko Nakano Representing Children Responsibility to Protect the Future: Children on the Move and the Politics of Becoming   Jana Tabak and Letícia Carvalho R2P and the Novel: The Trope of the Abandoned Refugee Child in Stella Leventoyannis Harvey’s The Brink of Freedom   Erin Goheen Glanville Ultimate Tests: Children, Rights, and the Politics of Protection   J. Marshall Beier Case Studies Children on the Front Lines: Responsibility to Protect in the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict   Timea Spitka Post-War Stigma, Violence and ‘Kony Children’: The Responsibility to Protect Children Born in Lord’s Resistance Army Captivity in Northern Uganda   Myriam Denov and Atim Angela Lakor Prevent to Protect: Early Warning, Child Soldiers, and the Case of Syria   Dustin Johnson, Shelly Whitman and Hannah Sparwasser Soroka Conclusion Of Responsibilities, Protection, and Rights: Children’s Lives in Conflict Zones   Bina D’Costa Bibliography

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