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New and Published Books

  1. Syria’s Uprising and the Fracturing of the Levant

    By Emile Hokayem

    Series: Adelphi series

    As an upbeat and peaceful uprising quickly and brutally descended into a zero-sum civil war, Syria has crumbled from a regional player into an arena in which a multitude of local and foreign actors compete. The volatile regional fault lines that run through Syria have ruptured during this conflict,...

    Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge

  2. Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia

    Legacies and Prevention

    Edited by Deborah Mayersen, Annie Pohlman

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

    The twentieth century has been labelled the ‘century of genocide’, and according to estimates, more than 250 million civilians were victims of genocide and mass atrocities during this period. This book provides one of the first regional perspectives on mass atrocities in Asia, by exploring the...

    Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge

  3. Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

    Edited by Jon Unruh, Rhodri Williams

    Series: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management

    Claims to land and territory are often a cause of conflict, and land issues present some of the most contentious problems for post-conflict peacebuilding. Among the land-related problems that emerge during and after conflict are the exploitation of land-based resources in the absence of authority,...

    Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Regional Organizations in African Security

    Edited by Fredrik Soderbaum, Rodrigo Tavares

    The African continent is plagued by some of the most brutal and violent conflicts in the world. At the same time that warfare is changing, so has the state’s capacity to provide security and political stability to its citizens. This book deals with the role of regional organizations in Africa’s...

    Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Democracy and Violence

    Global Debates and Local Challenges

    Edited by John Schwarzmantel, Hendrik Kraetzschmar

    Illustrated most dramatically by the events of 9/11 and the subsequent ‘war on terror’, violence represents a challenge to democratic politics and to the establishment of liberal-democratic regimes. Liberal-democracies have themselves not hesitated to use violence and restrict civil liberties as a...

    Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge

  6. Transitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law

    By Hakeem O. Yusuf

    Series: Transitional Justice

    Transitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law addresses the importance of judicial accountability in transitional justice processes. Despite a general consensus that the judiciary plays an important role in contemporary governance, accountability for the judicial role in...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge

  7. The Role of Courts in Transitional Justice

    Voices from Latin America and Spain

    Edited by Jessica Almqvist, Carlos Esposito

    Bringing together a group of outstanding judges, scholars and experts with first-hand experience in the field of transitional justice in Latin America and Spain, this book offers an insider’s perspective on the enhanced role of courts in prosecuting serious human rights violations and grave crimes,...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge

  8. Controlling the Weapons of War

    Politics, Persuasion, and the Prohibition of Inhumanity

    By Brian Rappert

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    A fresh examination of the ethical and intellectual issues and dilemmas associated with attempts to establish formal humanitarian limits on weaponry. This new study considers how governments, non-governmental organizations, academics, political commentators and others have responded to...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge

  9. Peacebuilding and International Administration

    The Cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo

    By Niels van Willigen

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    This book provides a detailed historical and political analysis of the role and effectiveness of international administration in statebuilding. It analyses how the international administrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo have attempted to create sustainable political institutions and to...

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge

  10. 'Progress' in Zimbabwe?

    The Past and Present of a Concept and a Country

    Edited by David Moore, Norma Kriger, Brian Raftopoulos

    Zimbabwe's severe crisis - and a possible way out of it with a transitional government, and the new era for which it prepares the ground - demands a coherent scholarly response. 'Progress' can be employed as an organising theme across many disciplinary approaches to Zimbabwe's societal devastation....

    Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge