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  • Contemporary Scottish Literature

    by Matt McGuire ...
    Series series Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
    This Guide examines the critical construction of the genre of 'contemporary Scottish literature' and assesses the critical responses to a wide range of contemporary Scottish fiction, poetry and drama. The Guide is structured thematically with each chapter addressing a specific area of debate within the field of contemporary Scottish Studies. ... Read more

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  • Post-Conflict Literature

    Human Rights, Peace, Justice

    Edited by Chris Andrews, Matt McGuire ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book brings together a variety of perspectives to explore the role of literature in the aftermath of political conflict, studying the ways in which writers approach violent conflict and the equally important subject of peace. Essays put insights from Peace and Conflict Studies into dialog with the unique ways in which literature attempts to understand the past, and to reimagine both the ... Read more

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    The economic consequences of the peace presents a sharp critique of the post–World War I settlement, focusing on the economic dangers embedded within the Treaty of Versailles. Drawing from first-hand experience at the Paris Peace Conference, the narrative opens with a detailed look at Europe's fragile economic condition in the aftermath of the war. It highlights the risk of continued hardship due ... Read more

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  • Peace and Democratic Society

    Series Book 1 - Open Reports Series
    Recent acts of terrorism and the current unrest in the Middle East remind us how important it is to understand the relationship between violence, peace and democracy. In a challenging and insightful essay, Amartya Sen explores ideas around 'organised violence' (such as war, genocide and terrorism) and violence against the individual. Highlighting the inadequacies of some of the widely accepted ... Read more

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  • Making War and Building Peace

    United Nations Peace Operations

    Making War and Building Peace examines how well United Nations peacekeeping missions work after civil war. Statistically analyzing all civil wars since 1945, the book compares peace processes that had UN involvement to those that didn't. Michael Doyle and Nicholas Sambanis argue that each mission must be designed to fit the conflict, with the right authority and adequate resources. UN missions can ... Read more

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  • The Bow and the Lyre

    The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History

    by Octavio Paz ...
    Translated by Ruth L. C. Simms ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Octavio Paz presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives. ... Read more

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  • Useful Enemies: When Waging Wars Is More Important Than Winning Them

    by David Keen ...
    There are currently between twenty and thirty civil wars worldwide, while at a global level the Cold War has been succeeded by a "war on drugs" and a "war on terror" that continues to rage a decade after 9/11. Why is this, when we know how destructive war is in both human and economic terms? Why do the efforts of aid organizations and international diplomats founder so often?In this important book ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Terrorism

    A History

    In this third edition of his widely acclaimed survey, historian Randall D. Law makes sense of the history of terrorism by examining it within its broad political, religious and social contexts from the ancient world to the present day. In Terrorism: A History, Law reveals how the very definition of the word has changed, how the tactics and strategies of terrorism have evolved, and how those who ... Read more

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  • The Peace Puzzle

    America's Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989–2011

    Each phase of Arab-Israeli peacemaking has been inordinately difficult in its own right, and every critical juncture and decision point in the long process has been shaped by U.S. politics and the U.S. leaders of the moment. The Peace Puzzle tracks the American determination to articulate policy, develop strategy and tactics, and see through negotiations to agreements on an issue that has been of ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Gabriel García Márquez

    by Gerald Martin ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    The Colombian Nobel Prize winner, Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1927), wrote two of the great novels of the twentieth century, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. As novelist, short story writer and journalist, García Márquez has one of literature's most instantly recognizable styles and since the beginning of his career has explored a consistent set of themes, revolving ... Read more

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  • Transitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law

    Series series Transitional Justice
    Transitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law addresses the importance of judicial accountability in transitional justice processes. Despite a general consensus that the judiciary plays an important role in contemporary governance, accountability for the judicial role in formerly authoritarian societies remains largely elided and under-researched. Hakeem O. Yusuf argues that ... Read more

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  • Peace Education

    How We Come to Love and Hate War

    by Nel Noddings ...
    There is a huge volume of work on war and its causes, most of which treats its political and economic roots. In Peace Education: How We Come to Love and Hate War, Nel Noddings explores the psychological factors that support war: nationalism, hatred, delight in spectacles, masculinity, religious extremism and the search for existential meaning. She argues that while schools can do little to reduce ... Read more

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