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Northern Ireland at the Crossroads
Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 168.00Centred on the dramatic premiership of Terence O'Neill, Northern Ireland at the Crossroads examines the most hopeful decade for Ulster Unionism this century. O'Neill's bold ambition to reach out to catholics inspired optimism but also massive political instability. Though concerned with the drama and personalities of high politics, this book has... more...
Guerrilla Veterans in Post-war Zimbabwe
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 38.00Examines the peace settlement and veterans' programs after Zimbabwe's guerrilla war of independence. It shows continuities in the relationship between the ruling party and veterans in the first seven years and in contemporary Zimbabwe. This is the first extended study of the relationship between the ruling party and the veterans. more...
Crusading Peace
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95Tomaz Mastnak's provocative analysis of the roots of peacemaking in the Western world elucidates struggles for peace that took place in the high and late Middle Ages. Mastnak traces the ways that eleventh-century peace movements, seeking to end violence among Christians, shaped not only power structures within Christendom but also the relationship... more...
The Unfinished Peace after World War I
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 32.00Patrick O. Cohrs presents a revisionist account of the role of British and American efforts to forge a stable Euro-Atlantic peace order between 1919 and the rise of Hitler, arguing that this order was founded through the London reparations settlement of 1924 and the Locarno security pact of 1925. more...
Gender, Peace and Conflict
SAGE Publications 2001; US$ 69.00- What impact does gender difference make to political decision-making? - Will the political empowerment of women contribute to a more peaceful world? The role of gender has been increasingly recognized as central to the study and analysis of the traditionally male domains of war and international relations. This book explores the... more...
Peace Treaties and International Law in European History
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 54.00In this edited collection, specialists from all over Europe analyse peace treaty practice from the late fifteenth century to the Peace of Versailles of 1919. An important place is given to the doctrinal debate about peace treaties and the influence of older, Roman and medieval, concepts on modern practices. more...
Eurasia
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005; US$ 105.00Including chapters from a group of Eurasian scholars, journalists, and diplomats, this volume is focused on a peace agenda grounded in a dialogue among the Eurasia civilizations. Dealing with the problems and prospects of such a dialogue and its consequences for world peace, it focuses on the dilemmas and challenges in Eurasian security. more...
Security, Reconstruction and Reconciliation
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 49.95This key text brings together a team of leading contributors to address the complex issues of security reconciliation and reconstruction in post conflict societies. Security, Reconstruction and Reconciliation is organized into four main sections: the social, political, and economic dimensions of conflict the impact of conflict on... more...
Civil-Military Dynamics, Democracy, and International Conflict
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 100.00Addressing decision-making over interstate disputes and the democratic peace thesis, Choi and James build an interactive foreign policy decision-making model with a special emphasis on civil-military relations, conscription, diplomatic channels and media openness. Each is significant in explaining decisions over dispute involvement. The temporal scope... more...
Ethnic Conflict and International Politics
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 36.00Combining theoretical analyzes with case studies, this book increases understanding of the internationalization, diffusion and escalation of ethnic conflict. The essays stand at the nexus of comparative politics and international relations, examining the influence on ethnic conflict of the weakening of state institutional structures, the role of non-state... more...









