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  • U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective

    Clients, enemies and empire

    de David Sylvan, Stephen Majeski ...
    What is the long-term nature of American foreign policy? This new book refutes the claim that it has varied considerably across time and space, arguing that key policies have been remarkably stable over the last hundred years, not in terms of ends but of means.Closely examining US foreign policy, past and present, David Sylvan and Stephen Majeski draw on a wealth of historical and contemporary ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

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  • Making Peace

    de George J. Mitchell ...
    Fifteen minutes before five o'clock on Good Friday, 1998, Senator George Mitchell was informed that his long and difficult quest for an Irish peace accord had succeeded--the Protestants and Catholics of Northern Ireland, and the governments of the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, would sign the agreement. Now Mitchell, who served as independent chairman of the peace talks for the length ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Pax Ethnica

    Where and How Diversity Succeeds

    de Karl E. Meyer, Shareen Blair Brysac ...
    In a world replete with stories of sectarian violence, we are often left wondering: Are there places where people of different ethnicities, especially with significant Muslim minorities, live in peace? If so, why haven't we heard more about them, and what explains their success?To answer these questions, Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac undertook a two-year exploration of oases of civility, places ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • The Fate of Sudan

    The Origins and Consequences of a Flawed Peace Process

    de John Young ...
    In 2005, the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) ended one of Africa's most devastating civil wars and set the stage for the partition of Sudan, Africa's largest country. One of the most important peace agreements in African history, it has had decisive consequences for the entire Horn of Africa. Yet to date there has been little rigorous analysis as to why the parties signed the CPA, what ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Imperial Affects

    Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema

    de Jonna Eagle ...
    Series series War Culture
    Imperial Affects is the first sustained account of American action-based cinema as melodrama. From the earliest war films through the Hollywood Western and the late-century action cinema, imperialist violence and mobility have been produced as sites of both visceral pleasure and moral virtue. Suffering and omnipotence operate as twinned affects in this context, inviting identification with an ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • The Politics of Peacekeeping in the Post-Cold War Era

    Edición de David S. Sorenson, Pia Christina Wood ...
    Series series Cass Series on Peacekeeping
    Most literature on peacekeeping narrowly focuses on particular peacekeeping operations, and the political bargaining between peacekeeping participants. However, there is very little published research on why nations actually commit forces to peacekeeping operations. This new book meets this need. ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • A Quest for Global Peace

    Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat

    de Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda ...
    One of the 'inventors' of the nuclear bomb, Sir Joseph Rotblat very soon turned away from weapons research to make a prolonged and principled stand against the dangers of nuclear proliferation. A physicist of great brilliance, he metamorphosed into a campaigner of admired moral conviction and leadership. This series of dialogues between two leading ethical thinkers brings together the courage and ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Occupational Hazards

    Success and Failure in Military Occupation

    de David M. Edelstein ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Few would contest that the U.S. occupation of Iraq is a clear example of just how fraught a military occupation can become. In Occupational Hazards, David M. Edelstein elucidates the occasional successes of military occupations and their more frequent failures. Edelstein has identified twenty-six cases since 1815 in which an outside power seized control of a territory where the occupying party had ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Cultural Awareness in the Military

    Developments and Implications for Future Humanitarian Cooperation

    Edición de R. Albro, B. Ivey ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Featuring chapters from social scientists directly engaged with the process, this volume offers a concise introduction to the U.S. military's effort to account for culture and increase its cultural capacity over the last decade. Contributors to this work consider some of the key challenges, lessons learned, and the limits of such efforts. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Truth Commissions and Transitional Societies

    The Impact on Human Rights and Democracy

    de Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm ...
    Series series Security and Governance
    Despite the increasing frequency of truth commissions, there has been little agreement as to their long-term impact on a state's political and social development. This book uses a multi-method approach to examine the impact of truth commissions on subsequent human rights protection and democratic practice.Providing the first cross-national analysis of the impact of truth commissions and presenting ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • International Sanctions

    Between Wars and Words

    Edición de Carina Staibano, Peter Wallensteen ...
    Series series Cass Series on Peacekeeping
    The main theme of the book is that the new types of sanctions constitute a challenge to the international system. First, there are more of the targeted sanctions, including financial, travel, aviation, special commodity and arms sanctions. Furthermore, there are considerable but varied practices in implementation. Also there are now sanctions by new actors (regional bodies, international ... Leer más

    $94.99 USD

  • Building Walls and Dissolving Borders

    The Challenges of Alterity, Community and Securitizing Space

    Edición de Max Stephenson, Laura Zanotti ...
    Walls play multiple social, political, economic and cultural roles and are linked to the fundamental question of how human beings live together. Globalization and urbanization have created high population density, rapid migration, growing poverty, income inequality and frequent discontent and conflict among heterogeneous populations. The writers in this volume explore how walls are changing in ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD