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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Ties that Divide
Book SynopsisThis book explores the historical relationship between China and Japan, and how this has exacerbated their dispute over the Senkaku/ Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea. There are three paradoxes in the bilateral relationship â complex interdependence does not preclude the possibility of open conflict; cool-headed assessments are quickly being overtaken by nationalism and a proclivity for irrational behaviour and lastly, both countries have invested so much resources in claiming the islands, such that they have neglected the costs of conflict. These paradoxes in turn stem from two fundamental issues â differing interpretations of historical issues and the intractability of China and Japanâs positions on the island dispute. It is argued that a festering dispute over the islands â and even conflict â would undermine security in the Asia Pacific and disrupt trade in the worldâs most economically vibrant market. Therefore, it behoves China and Japan to work out mutually-acceptable arraTable of ContentsAcknowledgements -- Glossary -- Events at a glance -- Introduction -- Chapter One The historical context -- Two millennia of relations -- The modem period -- The politics of economic interdependence -- The burdens of history -- Saving face -- Chapter Two The Senkaku /Diaoyu dispute -- Histories and controversies -- The 'shelving' agreement -- Competing claims -- Chinese salami slicing -- Chapter Three Perceptions, postures and instability -- Action-reaction dynamics -- The erosion of stability -- Potential stabilisers -- Conclusion -- Tackling the causes -- Treating the symptoms -- The art of the possible -- Tables and maps -- Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War
Book SynopsisThis new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary extensions and alternatives to the just war tradition in the field of the ethics of war. The modern history of just war has typically assumed the primacy of four particular elements: jus ad bellum, jus in bello, the state actor, and the solider. This book will put these four elements under close scrutiny, and will explore how they fare given the following challenges: What role do the traditional elements of jus ad bellum and jus in belloand the constituent principles that follow from this distinctionplay in modern warfare? Do they adequately account for a normative theory of war? What is the role of the state in warfare? Is it or should it be the primary actor in just war theory? Can a just war be understood simply as a response to territorial aggression between state actors, or should other actions be accommodated under legitimate recourse to armed conflict? Trade Review'...the book as a whole covers contemporary just war thinking with a philosophical breadth rarely found in ethics of war treatments. Highly Recommended.'CHOICE Review February 2014Table of ContentsIntroduction: Not Just Wars: Expansions and Alternatives to the Just War Tradition Fritz Allhoff, Nicholas G. Evans and Adam Henschke Part I: Theories of War: Revisiting the Just War Tradition Jus Ad Bellum 1. Can Soldiers be Expected to Know Whether Their War is Just? Jeff McMahan 2. Is Just War Theory Obsolete? Jeff Whitman 3. Just War Theory: Going to War and Collective Self-Deception Richard Werner Jus In Bello 4. The Moral Foundations of the Jus Ad Bellum/Jus In Bello Distinction Steve Viner 5. Jus Ad Vim and the Just Use of Lethal Force-Short-Of-War S. Brandt Ford 6. Revisionist Just War Theory and the Real World: A Cautiously Optimistic Proposal Bradley Jay Strawser Jus Post Bellum 7. The Place of Jus Post Bellum in Just War Considerations Emily Pollard 8. Jus Post Bellum: War Closure in the 21st Century Richard M. O’Meara 9. Reasonable Chance of Success: Analyzing the Postwar Requirements of Jus Ad Bellum Todd Burkhardt 10. Post-War Policy: Lessons for Iraq, Afghanistan, and Beyond Brian Orend Part II: Faces of War: Beyond States and Soldiers Irregular Wars 11. Soft Power and Jus In Bello: What Tactics are Effective and Necessary? Michael Gross 12. Rethinking Legitimate Authority: Who Meets the Criteria? Anne Schwenkenbecker 13. Fighting the Humanitarian War: Justifications and Limitations Jennifer Ang 14. Peacekeeper Violence: Managing the Use of Force Daniel Levine Terrorism and Counterterrorism 15. The War on Terror and the Ethics of Exceptionalism Fritz Allhoff 16. Just War Theory and Counterterrorism Seumas Miller 17. Punitive Warfare, Counterterrorism, and Jus Ad Bellum Shawn Kaplan Warfighters and Moral Agency 18. Re-evaluating the Moral Status of Civilians in Just War Theory and Terrorism Jason P. Blahuta 19. Endangering Soldiers and the Problem of Private Military Contractors Ned Dobos 20. The Agency of Child Soldiers: Rethinking the Principle of Discrimination Tor Arne Berntsen and Bård Mæland Part III: Technologies of War: The Future of Fighting Technology and Just War Theory 21. Emerging Technologies and Just War Theory Braden Allenby 22. Minimizing Harm to Combatants: Nonlethal Weapons, Combatants’ Rights, and State Responsibility Christopher Mayer 23. Educational Implications of the Potential for Hostile Applications of Advances in Neuroscience Malcolm Dando Uninhabited and Autonomous Military Systems 24. Unmanned Drones and the Ethics of War Christian Enemark 25. Autonomous Robots and the Future of Just War Theory Keith Abney 26. Killing in War: Responsibility, Liability, and Lethal Autonomous Robots Heather M. Roff Cyberwarfare 27. Jus in Silico: Moral Restrictions on the Use of Cyberwarfare George Lucas 28. Understanding Just Cause in Cyberwarfare Leonard Kahn 29. Friend or Foe? Perfidy in Cyberwarfare Neil Rowe
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Securitisation of Climate Change
Book SynopsisThis book provides the first systematic comparative analysis of climate security discourses. It analyses the securitisation of climate change in four different countries: USA, Germany, Turkey, and Mexico. The empirical analysis traces how specific climate-security discourses have become dominant, which actors have driven this process, what political consequences this has had and what role the broader context has played in enabling these specific securitisations. In doing so, the book outlines a new and systematic theoretical framework that distinguishes between different referent objects of securitisation (territorial, individual and planetary) and between a security and risk dimension. It thereby clarifies the ever-increasing literature on different forms of securitisation and the relationship between security, risk and politics. Whereas securitisation studies have traditionally focused on either a single country case study or a global overview, consequently failing to reconTrade Review'The Securitisation of Climate Change is a welcome and important contribution to the literature. The authors provide detailed empirical analysis of the way securitisation practices play out in a range of national settings, and make the important point that the different forms of linking climate change and security are crucial to the types of practices securitisation encourages. In the process, this book not only provides much needed empirical depth and theoretical nuance to literature on climate security, it also makes a broader contribution to debates about the construction of security- and the normative implications of this construction- in international relations.' -- Matt McDonald, University of Queensland, Australia'In addressing the great challenge of our time, The Securitisation of Climate Change brings unprecedented analytical sensitivity, nuance and breadth to the politics of climate change. Reflecting the fascinating diversity of securitizations exposed in their comparative study, the authors compellingly advance the conceptual and ethical frontiers of securitization theory.' -- Stefan Elbe, University of Sussex, UK 'The Securitisation of Climate Change is a great read for anyone seeking to understand how and why climate change gets connected to ideas of security. Cross-country comparisons provide a sophisticated look at the variation in ways that climate change-security links are made by actors in different political, economic and social contexts. The authors provide some much-needed depth to existing debates while remaining accessible to readers.' -- Nicole Detraz, University of Memphis, USATable of Contents1 Introduction 2 Analysing climate security discourses 3 The United States: climate change as danger to the state 4 Germany: ambivalent forerunner in individual security 5 Mexico: A case of politicised securitisation? 6 Turkey: no climate for change? 7 Conclusion: the politics of securitising climate change
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Strategic Survey 2009
Book SynopsisThe Strategic Survey is a journal of records that includes all relevant names and titles, chronologies and dates. But it is also much more: the hard facts are embossed in considered and nuanced analysis over 300 pages of text. The Strategic Survey opens with 'Perspectives', an assessment of the effect of major events and trends on the strategic landscape. Next, particular strategic policy issues, such as terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, missile defence and the future of peacekeeping, are examined in separate chapters. Another eighteen to twenty chapters of similar length, written along thematic rather than merely chronological lines, cover developments in particular regions or countries. The Strategic Survey concludes with 'Prospectives', an essay setting forth strategic priorities for the coming year. Also included are thirty-two pages of maps depicting strategically important activity and political change - such as piracy and Russia's new federal districts - globally, regionally and locally. The interplay of political developments and the actual or potential use of military force remains The Strategic Survey's chief concern. Nevertheless, since the end of the Cold War and of the first distinct post-Cold War period, the Institute has recognised that any survey of matters strategic needs to broaden its scope to embrace economic Table of ContentsEvents at a Glance July 2008-June 2009 -- Chapter 1 Perspectives -- Chapter 2 Strategic Policy Issues -- Countering Modern Terrorist Threats -- Europe's Energy Security -- Towards a New Asian Security Architecture -- Chapter 3 North America -- The United States: The Primacy of Politics -- Canada: Conservatives'Tenuous Hold -- Chapter 4 Latin America -- Mexico: Drug-war Escalation -- Colombia: FARC Down but not Out -- Venezuela: A Decade of the Bolivarian Revolution -- Bolivia:'Refounding'a Polarised Nation -- Ecuador's New Constitution -- Peru: Domestic Backlash -- Brazil: Lula's Leadership -- Argentina: The Kirchners'Decline -- Cuba's Shifting Relationships -- Nicaragua: Ortega's Move toward Autocracy -- Haiti: Steps toward Stability -- Chapter 5 Europe -- Developments in European Defence -- France: A Year of Paradoxes -- Germany: Vulnerabilities in an Election Year -- United Kingdom: Political Drift -- Sluggishness in the Balkans -- Turkey: Continuing Domestic Wrangles -- Chapter 6 Russia -- Chapter 7 Middle East / Gulf -- Iran: Election Sparks Protests, Nuclear Programme Advances -- Middle East: New US Impetus Faces Old Challenges -- Iraq: Nation Gathers Strength Saudi Arabia and the -- Gulf: Cautious Modernisation -- Chapter 8 Africa -- Crossroads in South Africa -- Cohabitation in Zimbabwe -- Somalia: Anarchy and Piracy -- Persisting Intra-state Crises -- Chapter 9 South Asia and Afghanistan -- Pakistan: Political Fragility -- Afghanistan: Insurgency Grows -- India: Elections Bolster Stability -- Sri Lanka: Civil War Ends -- Bangladesh: Military-backed Rule Ends -- Nepal: Arguments Obstruct Peace Process -- Chapter 10 Asia-Pacific -- China: Caution Tempers Rising Status -- Southeast Asia: Political and Security Questions -- Australia and New Zealand: Defence Policy Shifts -- The Korean Peninsula: Diplomacy Derailed -- Japan: Politics Overshadows Security Issues -- Chapter 11 Prospectives -- Index -- Strategic Geography (after p. 212) -- Global Issues Global recession -- Slump in container trade -- Africa Anti-piracy operations off Somalia -- Middle East/Gulf West Bank settlements -- Iran's disputed election -- Asia-Pacific Afghanistan: military supply routes -- The rise of Pakistan's Taliban -- Confrontation in the Korean peninsula -- The Americas America's decaying infrastructure -- Drug-cartel violence in Mexico -- Index of Regional Maps -- North America -- Latin America -- Europe -- Russia / Eurasia -- Middle East -- Africa -- South Asia -- Asia-Pacific.
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Cambridge University Press War Crimes in Internal Armed Conflicts Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law Series Number 60
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Cambridge University Press Climate Capitalism Global Warming And The Transformation Of The Global Economy
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Cambridge University Press Gandhi in the West
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Cambridge University Press The Trouble with the Congo Local Violence And The Failure Of International Peacebuilding 115 Cambridge Studies in International Relations
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Cambridge University Press The Trouble with the Congo Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding 115 Cambridge Studies in International Relations
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Cambridge University Press International Cooperation
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Cambridge University Press Peace Education How We Come to Love and Hate War
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Cambridge University Press Beyond Prejudice Extending the Social Psychology of Conflict Inequality and Social Change
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Cambridge University Press Sanctions Statecraft and Nuclear Proliferation
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Cambridge University Press Western Intervention in the Balkans The Strategic Use of Emotion in Conflict Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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Cambridge University Press The Making of Peace
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Cambridge University Press Disputes and Settlements
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Cambridge University Press Media and the Path to Peace
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Cambridge University Press From International to World Society English School Theory and the Social Structure of Globalisation 95 Cambridge Studies in International Relations
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Cambridge University Press At Wars End Building Peace After Civil Conflict
Book SynopsisAll fourteen major peacebuilding missions launched between 1989 and 1999 shared a common strategy for consolidating peace after internal conflicts: immediate democratization and marketization. Transforming war-shattered states into market democracies is basically sound, but pushing this process too quickly can have damaging and destabilizing effects. The process of liberalization is inherently tumultuous, and can undermine the prospects for stable peace. A more sensible approach to post-conflict peacebuilding would seek, first, to establish a system of domestic institutions that are capable of managing the destabilizing effects of democratization and marketization within peaceful bounds and only then phase in political and economic reforms slowly, as conditions warrant. Peacebuilders should establish the foundations of effective governmental institutions prior to launching wholesale liberalization programs. Avoiding the problems that marred many peacebuilding operations in the 1990s wiTrade Review'At War's End is the state of the art treatment of the dilemmas of reconstruction and peacebuilding after war, intervention and civil conflict.' Michael Ignatieff, Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University'At a moment when politicians and pundits are debating the wisdom of nation-building, Roland Paris brings us an important and groundbreaking book. Theoretically rich, historically informed, and analytically innovative, this authoritative volume will be invaluable to scholars and practitioners alike who are interested in understanding what it takes to build peace after civil wars' Thomas G. Weiss, Presidential Professor and Director, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, CUNY Graduate Center'This is the best book yet written on peacebuilding operations, a must for both academics and practitioners.' Peter Viggo Jakobsen, Associate Professor in International Relations, University of Copenhagen'It is hard to imagine a more timely study than Roland Paris's superb analysis of the peacebuilding experience of the last decade. As the United States gropes its way through the morass of Iraq, its leaders need to read At War's End and concentrate on developing timetables and building institutions.' Robert A. Pastor, Vice President of International Affairs, American University'This book will surely stand as the definitive treatment of the intellectual and ideological origins of international peacekeeping and peacebuilding in the post-Cold War era. The breadth of cases, the rigorous assessment of outcomes, and depth of policy insight are most impressive.' Fen Osler Hampson, Professor of International Affairs and Director, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University'Few studies of peacekeeping and peacebuilding merit the description 'breakthrough.'…This is one of them.' Michael Pugh, Director, University of Plymouth International Studies Centre and Editor, International Peacekeeping Journal'At War's End is a major contribution to an understanding of the theory, practice, and consequences of peacekeeping that should be read by scholars and practitioners alike. Roland Paris expertly demonstrates how peacekeeping has evolved from the modest attempt to keep the peace into the much more ambitious agenda of engineering the socio-political conditions for a stable peace. But, as Paris documents, the road to hell can be paved with good intentions; the attempt by the international community to promote democracy and markets has created, in various places, not a liberal peace but instead renewed competition and violence. His recommendations should be debated seriously by all those who are concerned about the future of peacekeeping.' Michael Barnett, Professor of Political Science and Director, International Relations Program, University of Wisconsin'… At war's end deserves to become the essential text on peacebuilding operations for practitioners and analysts alike.' International Affairs'At War's End is a timely and very good addition to the growing literature in post-conflict studies. … Paris's book is appropriate for any liberalization or conflict studies, as both are covered aptly. It is a strong addition to the literature on peacebuilding methods and strategies.' Journal of Peace Research'Roland Paris does us a great service in At War's End by stripping peacebuilding back to its ideological origins and providing the reader with a useful assessment of the theoretical assumptions which underlie it.' DemocratiyaTable of ContentsPart I. Foundations: 1. The origins of peacebuilding; 2. The liberal peace thesis; Part II. The Peacebuilding Record: 3. Introduction to the case studies; 4. Angola and Rwanda: the perils of political liberalization; 5. Cambodia and Liberia: democracy diverted; 6. Bosnia and Croatia: reinforcing ethnic divisions; 7. El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala: reproducing the sources of conflict; 8. Namibia and Mozambique: success stories in southern Africa?; Part III. Problems and Solutions: 9. Bad theory, bad practice: the limits of Wilsonianism; 10. Towards more effective peacebuilding: institutionalization before liberalization; 11. Lessons learned and not learned: Kosovo, East Timor, Sierra Leone, and beyond.
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Cambridge University Press Peace Psychology A Comprehensive Introduction
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Cambridge University Press Fair Division
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Cambridge University Press Keeping the Peace
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Cambridge University Press Keeping the Peace
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Cambridge University Press Democracy by Force
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Cambridge University Press Democracy by Force
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Cambridge University Press Peace
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Cambridge University Press Escalation and Negotiation in International Conflicts The International Institute for applied Systems Analysis
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Cambridge University Press States Nations and the Great Powers The Sources Of Regional War And Peace 104 Cambridge Studies in International Relations Series Number 104
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Cambridge University Press The Making of Peace
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Cambridge University Press Australian Peacekeeping Sixty Years in the Field
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Cambridge University Press Gandhi in the West
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Cambridge University Press Military Threats The Costs of Coercion and the Price of Peace
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Cambridge University Press The Ethics of Preventive War
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Cambridge University Press Teaching Contested Narratives Identity Memory and Reconciliation in Peace Education and Beyond
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Cambridge University Press Using Conflict Theory
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Cambridge University Press Justice and Fairness in International Negotiation 74 Cambridge Studies in International Relations Series Number 74
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Cambridge University Press Using Conflict Theory
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Cambridge University Press Justice and Fairness in International Negotiation 74 Cambridge Studies in International Relations Series Number 74
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Cambridge University Press The Role of Business in Fostering Peaceful Societies
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Cambridge University Press From International to World Society English School Theory and the Social Structure of Globalisation 95 Cambridge Studies in International Relations
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Cambridge University Press At Wars End Building Peace After Civil Conflict
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Cambridge University Press Peace
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Cambridge University Press Escalation and Negotiation in International Conflicts
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Cambridge University Press War Crimes in Internal Armed Conflicts 60 Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law Series Number 60
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Cambridge University Press Intractable Conflicts
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Cambridge University Press States Nations and the Great Powers The Sources of Regional War and Peace 104 Cambridge Studies in International Relations Series Number 104
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