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The Management of Peace Processes
Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 155.00The Management of Peace Processes is the result of the monitoring of five peace processes (Israel/Palestine, South Africa, Basque Country, Sri Lanka and Northern Ireland) for more than two years. The project was conducted by academic partners based in five areas. Based on interviews with key players in all five peace processes, it identifies those... more...
Peace Is the Way
Crown Publishing Group 2005; US$ 16.00Deepak Chopra?s passionate new book, Peace Is the Way , was inspired by a saying from Mahatma Gandhi: ?There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.? In a world where every path to peace has proved futile, the one strategy that hasn?t been tried is the way of peace itself. ?We must not bring one war to an end, or thirty,? Chopra tells us, ?but the idea... more...
Exiting Iraq
Cato Institute 2004; US$ 3.75Christopher Preble is director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. A former commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy, he is a veteran of the Gulf War, having served on the USS Ticonderoga from 1990 to 1993. more...
United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
United Nations University Press 2002; US$ 29.95Explores the evolution of UN efforts at peace-keeping, particularly since the early 1990s. It combines academic analysis, field experience and reflection with proposals for more effective peace operations designed and deployed by the UN in partnership with regional, subregional and local actors. more...
Regional Peacekeepers
United Nations University Press 2003; US$ 26.95This work investigates the Russian military presence in its former Soviet territories to determine whether these forces have been genuine peacekeepers or are a post-imperial presence that seeks to maintain former strategic interests. more...
Liberalism and War
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 170.00Military power is now the main vehicle for regime change. The US army has been used on more than 30 different occasions in the post-Cold War world compared with just 10 during the whole of the Cold War era. Leading scholar Andrew Williams tackles contemporary thinking on war with this detailed study on liberal thinking over the last century about... more...
Diplomatic Interventions
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 42.00Diplomatic Interventions argues that war is a social construction. In so doing, it unsettles the definition of intervention, as a coercive interference by one state in the affairs of another, to examine the range of communicative or 'diplomatic' practices which through their presence modify the experience of war. The tension between claims that... more...
Peace and Security Across the Taiwan Strait
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 120.00The end of the Cold War has regrettably not brought an end to all the major confrontations of the last century. One such confrontation is the stand-off across the Taiwan Strait. Despite increasingly interwoven economic links between the People's Republic of China and Taiwan in recent years, the tension between the two has not dissipated. Tsang and... more...
Becoming a Conflict Competent Leader
Wiley 2006; US$ 29.95Becoming a Conflict Competent Leader combines research, conceptual models, practitioner experience, and stories that highlight the core conflict competencies. The book underscores the importance for leaders to develop the critical skills they need to help them, their colleagues, and their organizations deal more effectively with conflict and move... more...
Puzzles of the Democratic Peace
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 41.00Ever since the revival of Kant's Perpetual Peace thesis, the linkages between democracy and peace has been a central topic in international relations research, with sustained debate over whether it exists and if it does, why it does. In this stimulating volume, two leading IR scholars place the democratic peace debate within a broader context, including... more...









