Catálogo de libros: Estudios sobre la paz y resolución de conflictos

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  • Al-Jazeera’s 'Double Standards' in the Arab Spring
    Zainab Abdul-Nabi
    This book finds that Al-Jazeera’s coverage of Bahrain and Syria has conformed with Qatar’s foreign policy, throughout the last decade (2011-2021). Al-Jazeera Arabic adopted Qatar’s 'double standards' policy in both countries in the beginning of the Arab Spring, framing Bahrain’s protests as a 'sectarian movement,' while depicting the Syrian armed conflict as a legitimate 'revol...
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    47,76 €

  • Just War and Christian Traditions
    Just War and Christian Traditions introduces readers - lay persons and clergy alike - to classical Christian thinking across denominational lines on the tradition of just war thinking. Representing a two-millennia-old conversation in our wider cultural tradition, just war thinking (often going by the misnomer 'just war theory') is rooted in biblical texts from the Old and New T...
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    64,12 €

  • Just War and Christian Traditions
    Just War and Christian Traditions introduces readers - lay persons and clergy alike - to classical Christian thinking across denominational lines on the tradition of just war thinking. Representing a two-millennia-old conversation in our wider cultural tradition, just war thinking (often going by the misnomer 'just war theory') is rooted in biblical texts from the Old and New T...
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    179,58 €

  • Abdul Aziz Said
    Known to many as American University’s 'peace legend,' Abdul Aziz Said (1930-2021)led an academic career spanning nearly sixty years. Always a forward-looking thinker,Said consistently sought to be among the first to grapple with the leading-edge issues ofhis day, from decolonization and turbulent social change in developing countries to theinfluence of multinational corporatio...
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    172,54 €

  • Sanction Dynamics in the Cases of North Korea, Iran, and Russia
    Clara Wend / Gerhard Mangott / Julian Walterskirchen
    This book examines the sanction regimes imposed by the United States, the European Union, and the United Nations against Russia, Iran, and North Korea. While the application of sanctions as a foreign policy tool has developed considerably, particularly over the last three decades, their empirically verifiable effects remain contested. Based on detailed empirical evidence, this ...
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    48,47 €

  • Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
    Ruth Russell
    This is a story about peace activism. Members of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in the South Australian Branch have a proud history. Their passionate actions show women’s determination to create a more just and peaceful world. This book tells stories of the organisation, energy, knowledge and time needed to become involved in changing social, political and c...
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    20,23 €

  • Toxin and Bioregulator Weapons
    Malcolm R. Dando / Michael Crowley
    This book explores how revolutionary developments and convergence of the chemical, life and associated sciences are impacting contemporary toxin and bioregulator research, and examines the risks of such research being misused for malign purposes. Investigating illustrative cases of dual use research of potential concern in China, India, Iran, Russia, Syria and the USA, the auth...
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    47,83 €

  • Standin’ in a Hard Rain, The Making of a Revolutionary Life
    Joel D Eis
    'Standin’ in a Hard Rain' is the fast paced, personal, 'boots-on-the-ground,' front line account of major events by a dedicated radical in the 1960’s (and beyond) who found himself at the table with the planners and out in the street, running from the cops. It tells the story of how and why an ordinary suburban kid became a committed radical who was with the Freedom Riders in t...
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    19,09 €

  • The Greek-Turkish Maritime Dispute
    Andreas Stergiou
    The study provides an extensive legal, geopolitical and historical analysis of all controversial issues making up the Greek-Turkish maritime dispute: the delimitation of territorial waters, the national airspace, the delineation of exclusive economic zones and continental shelf as well as the issue of military presence on the Eastern Aegean islands and its relation to the Greek...
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    48,55 €

  • War and Ideology
    Eric Carlton
    First published in 1990, the author looking across various societies investigates why men and women go to war, and why they commit atrocities against their enemy. He argues that military training and ideology are based on a particular perception of the enemy, and that this determines the nature of war as much as any other single factor. ...
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    57,16 €

  • Overcoming the Retributive Nature of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
    H. J. Zoffer / Luis G. Vargas / Thomas L. Saaty
    This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to conflict solution focusing on a very specific type of conflict, retributive conflicts . It is unique in the treatment of these and how relative measurement is used to find equilibrium solutions. The authors present an alternative process to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They do so in two ways that are different fro...
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    160,54 €

  • Peace Studies for Sustainable Development in Africa
    This book presents a snapshot of a major challenge, and shares subjective views on various areas of conflict in Africa and the diverse - theoretical and practical - efforts to achieve peace. Following an essential review of several real-world conflict contexts on the African continent and attempts to come to terms with them critically as a first step, the book explores the less...
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    45,32 €

  • Everyday Reconciliation in Post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia
    SungYong Lee
    This book examines the nature of everyday peace mobilised in post-conflict settings. It specifically aims to examine the reconstruction of relationships between local communities and former Khmer Rouge leaders in Cambodia, using social reconciliation as an indicator of peace. Based on the empirical examination, this study will reveal key features of everyday peace like pluralit...
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    48,43 €

  • The European Community
    Johan Galtung
    This book, first published in 1973, analyses the European Community in a global perspective. It asks and answers two main questions: what does the European Community mean to the masses of the world, and what does it mean to the world community in general? ...
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    57,26 €

  • Problems of Contemporary Militarism
    This book, first published in 1980, presents a comprehensive and detailed look at the problem of international militarisation. It examines the key issues, the meaning of the problem, the international context and the spread of militarism to the Third World, its fast growth and dangerous implications - including to the development of often poorer countries. ...
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    58,95 €

  • The Russian Secret Police
    Ronald Hingley
    This book, first published in 1970, is an important study of Russia’s security services from their earliest years to the mid-twentieth century. Ronald Hingley demonstrates how the secret police acted, both under the Tsars and under Soviet rule, as a key instrument of control exercised over all fields of Russian life by an outstandingly authoritarian state. He analyses the Tsari...
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    59,38 €

  • From Child Terrorism to Peace Activism
    Jonathan Matusitz
    This book examines the reasons for which children join terrorist movements and how they eventually become peace activists fighting the very crimes that they once committed. The transformation of child terrorists into peace activists has received scant attention from academics and practitioners alike. Particular focus is placed on child jihadism, child terrorism in Africa and La...
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    48,10 €

  • Why We Fight Wars
    G. L. Dickinson / Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
    Why We Fight Wars combines two classic books about war and pacifism in one volume - G. L. Dickinson’s Causes of International War and War: its Nature, Cause and Cure. Dickinson was deeply affected by the 'Great War' and, shortly after its outbreak, started to develop solutions and alternatives to the world’s never-ending warfare and international carnage. ...
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    10,18 €

  • Alternative Perspectives on Peacebuilding
    This book analyses and furthers the academic debates on post-liberal peacebuilding, through a number of conceptual, theoretical and empirical research outputs. Part I includes a review of how the recent discourse on peacebuilding has evolved, and three conceptual/theoretical perspectives relevant to post-liberal peacebuilding. In particular, the editors propose the concept of b...
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    47,69 €

  • Armament, Arms Control and Artificial Intelligence
    Looking at a variety of armament sectors, the book examines how Artificial Intelligence (AI) impacts the fields of armament and arms control, how existing arms control measures will be affected by AI, and what new approaches based on AI have been or are currently developed. The significant increase in computing power, the increasing reliance on software, and the advent of (narr...
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    48,06 €

  • Peacemakers in Israel-Palestine
    Robert D. Hostetter / Robert Hostetter
    This book offers an analysis of the major sources of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and suggests principles and processes for building a peacemaking platform. ...
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    213,45 €

  • Unofficial peace diplomacy
    Lior Lehrs
    The book analyses the phenomenon of private peace entrepreneurs - citizens with no official authority who initiate dialogue channels with official representatives in order to promote conflict resolution. The research combines theoretical discussion with historical analysis, examining four cases from different conflicts. ...
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    157,10 €

  • Offering Hospitality
    Caron E. Gentry
    In Offering Hospitality: Questioning Christian Approaches to War, Caron Gentry contributes an informed feminist and postmodernist critique to the just-war conversation. ...
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    143,78 €

  • Punctuated Peace in Nigeria’s Oil Region
    Obasesam Okoi
    This book examines the extent to which peacebuilding processes such as disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration are possible in the attempt to demilitarize Nigeria’s oil region and establish a stable post-conflict environment for nurturing durable peace. The book argues that the failure of the peacebuilders to address the structural tensions at the heart of insurgency, al...
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    121,99 €

  • Childhoods in Peace and Conflict
    This edited book offers a collection of highly nuanced accounts of children and childhoods in peace and conflict across political time and space. Organized according to three broad themes (ontologies, pedagogies, and contingencies), each chapter explores the complexities of a particular case study, providing new insights into the ways children’s lives figure as terrains of enga...
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    121,76 €

  • State Fragility
    Nematullah Bizhan
    Presenting case studies and comparisons across seven countries, this book addresses key questions as to the nature of state fragility, policies used to mitigate it, assessment of outcomes and prospects. ...
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    240,53 €

  • Civil-Military Relations and Global Security Governance
    Cornelia Baciu
    This book investigates the relationship between international security governance, democratic civil-military relations and the relevance of strategy, as well as of absolute and relative gains, in norms formation in hybrid orders. ...
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    73,38 €

  • Japan’s Evolving Security Policy
    Kyoko Hatakeyama
    Japan has been expanding its military roles in the post-Cold War period. This book analyses the shift in Japan’s security policy by examining the collective ideas of political parties and the effect of an international norm. ...
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    73,51 €

  • Alva Myrdal
    This book is about the importance of nuclear disarmament and the work pursued by Alva Myrdal, a pioneering social activist, diplomat, cabinet minister, and disarmament negotiator. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982 together with Alfonso García Robles 'for their work for disarmament and nuclear and weapon-free zones'. Prominent academics, politicians and practitioners...
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    47,77 €

  • The US-DPRK Peace Treaty
    Eric Yong Joong Lee / Ridoan Karim
    This book delivers an in-depth analysis of the US-DPRK Peace Treaty which will be concluded as a final result of the Korean Peninsula peace process that is currently ongoing. Since North Korea launched its nuclear weapons development program in the early 1990s, the Korean peninsula has become a critical point of global politics along with  the Sino-American (G2) hegemonic compe...
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    48,10 €


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