How will Donald Trump's "America First" policy impact international stability? This sobering book argues that it will put the country on a path toward war. International relations expert Hall Gardner analyzes the twists and turns of our president's foreign policy pronouncements from the beginning of his campaign to the present day. He argues that ......
Women and Gender Perspectives in the Military compares the integration of women, gender perspectives, and the women, peace, and security agenda into the armed forces of eight countries plus NATO and UN peacekeeping operations. The countries examined are Sweden, the Netherlands, Canada, the United States, the UK, Israel, Australia, and South ......
Women and Gender Perspectives in the Military compares the integration of women, gender perspectives, and the women, peace, and security agenda into the armed forces of eight countries plus NATO and UN peacekeeping operations. The countries examined are Sweden, the Netherlands, Canada, the United States, the UK, Israel, Australia, and South ......
Scholars regard the March on Washington Movement (MOWM) as a forerunner of the postwar Civil Rights movement. Led by the charismatic A. Philip Randolph, MOWM scored an early victory when it forced the Roosevelt Administration to issue a landmark executive order that prohibited defense contractors from practicing racial discrimination. Winning the ......
Why does peace fail? More precisely, why do some countries that show every sign of having successfully emerged from civil war fall once again into armed conflict? What explains why peace sticks after some wars but not others? This title examines the factors behind 15 cases of civil war recurrence in Africa, Asia, the Caucasus, and Latin America.
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Does it really help women to think of sexual harassment primarily as a legal issue? This text questions the assumption that women are passive victims and instead explores strategies for providing a balanced workplace and applies these strategies to a variety of workplaces.
Civil wars remain the most frequent and deadly form of organized armed conflict in the world. What Do We Know about Civil Wars? enlists leading scholars to guide students through cutting-edge research on civil war onset, duration, and outcomes, as well as the recurrence and consequences of civil wars to better understand global security.
Civil wars remain the most frequent and deadly form of organized armed conflict in the world. What Do We Know about Civil Wars? enlists leading scholars to guide students through cutting-edge research on civil war onset, duration, and outcomes, as well as the recurrence and consequences of civil wars to better understand global security.
Human Rights, International Order, and the Ethics of Peace
Wars have negative consequences, not the least impinging on human life, and offer infrequent and uncertain benefits, yet war is part of the human condition. This book features insightful analysis of jus ad bellum ("the right of war") that is grounded in a variety of contemporary examples from World War I through Vietnam.
An Introduction to Nonviolent Struggles for Justice
"This introduction to nonviolent movements analyzes fourteen classic and contemporary cases to show how nonviolent strategies can work where violent warfare has failed. Drawing on practitioner knowledge and diverse philosophical and religious texts, Michael K. Duffey offers a multifaceted argument for embracing nonviolent resolutions to ......
An Introduction to Nonviolent Struggles for Justice
"This introduction to nonviolent movements analyzes fourteen classic and contemporary cases to show how nonviolent strategies can work where violent warfare has failed. Drawing on practitioner knowledge and diverse philosophical and religious texts, Michael K. Duffey offers a multifaceted argument for embracing nonviolent resolutions to ......
Argues that reconciliation needs honest talk to promote trust building and enable former enemies and adversaries to explore joint solutions to the cause of their conflicts. This book offers a critical assessment of the South African experiment in transitional justice as captured in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Diana Oestreich served 407 days as a combat medic in Iraq. But when she was commanded to run over an Iraqi child to keep her battle buddies safe, she became a peacemaker instead. This beautiful and gut-wrenching memoir exposes the false divide between loving our country and living out our faith's call to love our enemies.
The Practical Consciousness of the African People of Haiti
Using a variant of structuration theory, what Paul C. Mocombe calls phenomenological structuralism, this work explores and highlights how the African religion of Vodou and its ethic gave rise to the Haitian spirit of communism and the "counter-plantation system" (Jean Casimir's term) in the provinces and mountains of Haiti.
Violent Non-State Actors: The Politics of Territorial Governance is an original in-depth scholarly explanation of the impact of territorial penetration, control and governance on the effectiveness of the activities of violent non-state actors (VNSA). The theoretical framework operates with the assertion that a non-linear causal relationship ......
Unstable Ground looks at the human impact of climate change and its potential to provoke some of the most troubling crimes against humanity-ethnic conflict, war, and genocide. Alex Alvarez provides an essential overview of what science has shown to be true about climate change and examines how our warming world will challenge and stress societies ......
This book is the first to study the over-time effect of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) process on people's attitudes towards peace. Focusing on the Solomon Islands TRC process.
Restoring social harmony requires both emotion and the difficult embrace of past felt traumas. Jeremy A. Rinker provides a clarion call for practitioners to bravely explore human emotions and past trauma. He interrogates current conflict intervention practice-moving past interest-based negotiation and needs-based conflict resolution-and provides ......
Restoring social harmony requires both emotion and the difficult embrace of past felt traumas. Jeremy A. Rinker provides a clarion call for practitioners to bravely explore human emotions and past trauma. He interrogates current conflict intervention practice-moving past interest-based negotiation and needs-based conflict resolution-and provides ......
This book shows how to bring sustainable peace to societies that continue to suffer from political marginalization, economic-social inequality, violent crimes, and injustice even after a conflict is over.
In this book , the author explains previously unaddressed historical outcomes resulting from the combined impact of the September 11, 2001 attacks and the United States' subsequent Global War on Terror. While expounding on the finer details of the decades-long interaction between militant jihadism and the Global War on Terror, the analysis ......
This book lays out the Rondine method of peacebuilding training as it has been used for more than 20 years to foster interpersonal, interreligious, and intercultural relations, and explores the reception of this psycho-social peacebuilding methodology by a series of scholars and practitioners.
This book lays out the Rondine method of peacebuilding training as it has been used for more than 20 years to foster interpersonal, interreligious, and intercultural relations, and explores the reception of this psycho-social peacebuilding methodology by a series of scholars and practitioners.
By focusing on the efforts of the National Coordination of Indigenous Women (CONAMI) to dismantle racism, sexism, ageism, and other forms of discrimination, this book challenges outdated assumptions about the roles of Indigenous people-especially women-in creating proactive, responsive, and socially progressive peace epistemologies.
The Middle East: Crises, Conflicts, and Wars aims to evaluate the Middle East through international politics with diverse theoretical frameworks. Chapters have been written by many contributors who explore the Middle East from multiperspectives. The scope of this book is very comprehensive and many relevant issue areas are examined. In addition to ......
A collection of papers that represent the independent thinking of internationally known scholars from a variety of disciplines concerning the relationship between religion and violence. This work refers to the theories of 'just war' and 'jihad', technical terms that arise in connection with the theology of medieval Christianity and early Islam.
This book is a commonsense guide to becoming a reflective practitioner, written by a practitioner for practitioners. This second edition is fully revised and updated, incorporating extensive new material emphasizing hands-on tools, worksheets, and guides along with practical advice for those interested in adopting reflective practice individually ......
This book is a commonsense guide to becoming a reflective practitioner, written by a practitioner for practitioners. This second edition is fully revised and updated, incorporating extensive new material emphasizing hands-on tools, worksheets, and guides along with practical advice for those interested in adopting reflective practice individually ......
How the Patterns of History and the Principles of STEM Will Shape Its Fo
Using history, politics and STEM as guides, this book provides a detailed account of how Earth's first war in space will be fought. As the authors show, it will begin not as an invasion of Earth by super-advanced aliens but by Earth starting a war with its Martian colony.
This book is among the few publications that analyze the determining conditions, outcome effectiveness and impact of EU mediation utilized as an instrument of conflict resolution that aims to solve protracted conflicts in the post-conflict settings of Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
How are some processes cultured, gendered, or racialized? In what ways do certain groups and cultures define such concepts as justice and fairness differently? Do women and men perceive events in similar fashion, use different reasoning, or emphasize disparate values and goals? This book deals with these questions.
How are some processes cultured, gendered, or racialized? In what ways do certain groups and cultures define such concepts as justice and fairness differently? Do women and men perceive events in similar fashion, use different reasoning, or emphasize disparate values and goals? This book deals with these questions.
How One Senator Defied the President on Brownsville and Shook American
In August 1906, black soldiers stationed in Brownsville, Texas, were accused of going on a lawless rampage in which shots were fired, one man was killed, and another wounded. Because the perpetrators could never be positively identified, President Theodore Roosevelt took the highly unusual step of discharging without honor all one hundred ......
Over the course of his long and storied career, George Mitchell proved to be much more than just that senator from Maine. He is one of the last from a sort of "golden age" of American politics, when opposing parties worked together to accomplish things for the good of the nation, rather than the good of the party. Before becoming senator, Mitchell ......
Sport has historically been part of a broader quest of regimes for power and prestige on the world stage, and that success in global sport was a function of a country's projection of hegemony and place in an anarchic international system. While such historical trends of politicization of sport continue--witness the nationalism on display at each ......
