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The 'New' Policy Partnership
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 199.00This e-book explores policy-academic partnerships. The e-book contains articles that address innovative ways that researchers and policymakers can collaborate to move policy agendas forward. more...
Agents of Atrocity
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 42.00"Agents of Atrocity" examines the horrors of civil war and seeks to know what motivates leaders who turn to massacre and pillaging to further their aims. Using historical case studies, Neil J. Mitchell sheds light on the vexed question of responsibility and considers how atrocities may in future be averted. more...
Al Qaeda Now
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 23.00This volume constitutes a valuable synopsis of current knowledge on Al Qaeda. more...
The Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 165.00Aimed at scholars, students and lay persons interested in peace and conflict studies, The Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence is a comprehensive resource to understand the principal debates on political violence, a field which is becoming an increasingly important part of courses on peace and conflict. more...
Climate of Fear
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 14.00In this new book developed from the prestigious Reith Lectures, Nobel Prize?winning author Wole Soyinka, a courageous advocate for human rights around the world, considers fear as the dominant theme in world politics. Decades ago, the idea of collective fear had a tangible face: the atom bomb. Today our shared anxiety has become far more complex... more...
Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 48.95This book seeks to examine the causes of escalation and de-escalation in intrastate conflicts. Specifically, the volume seeks to map the processes and dynamics that lead groups challenging existing power structures to engage in violent struggle; the processes and dynamics that contribute to the de-escalation of violent struggle and the participation... more...
Consociational Theory
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 49.95Consociational power sharing is increasingly gaining ground, right around the world, as a means for resolving political conflict in divided societies. In this volume, edited by Rupert Taylor, nineteen internationally-respected scholars engage in a lively debate about the merits of the theory underlying this approach. The volume focuses specifically... more...
Constitutional Violence
Edinburgh University Press 2012; US$ 104.00If constitutional legitimacy is based on violence, what does this mean for democracy?. Almost every state in the world has a written constitution. The great majority of these declare the constitution to be the law controlling the organs of the state. We tend to label western liberal political systems as constitutional democracies, dividing... more...
Contemporary violence
Manchester University Press 2010; US$ 95.00Contemporary Violence: Postmodern War in Kosovo and Chechnya draws on several years of field research, as well as interpretive IR theory and analysis of empirical source material so as to shed light on contemporary violence. Drawing on interpretive approaches to International Relations, the book argues that founding events and multiple contexts informed... more...
Crisis of the State
Berghahn Books 2009; US$ 90.00Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the continuous reformation of state power and its potential in situations of violent conflict. The state, otherwise understood as an abstract and transcendent concept in many works on globalization in political philosophy, is instead located and analyzed here as an... more...









