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41. American Sanctions in the Asia-Pacific

    By Brendan Taylor

    Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

    Sanctions are a persistent – many would argue increasingly central – component of American efforts to shape foreign policy outcomes in the Asia-Pacific. The use of sanctions in the context of two of the most pressing regional security issues currently on Washington’s radar – the ongoing North...

    Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
42. Resources, Governance and Civil Conflict

    Edited by Magnus Öberg, Kaare Strøm

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    This book explores how governance structures - domestic political institutions, international peacekeeping efforts, armed interventions by other states - and natural resources affect the onset, dynamics and the termination of civil wars. Written by leading researchers in the field of conflict...

    Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
43. Creativity and Conflict Resolution

    Alternative Pathways to Peace

    By Tatsushi Arai

    Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

    This book explores how creative ways of resolving social conflicts emerge, evolve, and subsequently come to be accepted or rejected in inter-group relations. Creativity and Conflict Resolution explores a subject with which political communities involved in social conflict have always grappled:...

    Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge
44. Post-War Security Transitions

    Participatory Peacebuilding after Asymmetric Conflicts

    Edited by Veronique Dudouet, Hans Giessmann, Katrin Planta

    Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

    This book explores the conditions under which non-state armed groups (NSAGs) participate in post-war security and political governance. The text offers a comprehensive approach to post-war security transition processes based on five years of participatory research with local experts and...

    Published January 26th 2012 by Routledge
45. Governing Ethnic Conflict

    Consociation, Identity and the Price of Peace

    By Andrew Finlay

    Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

    This book offers an intellectual history of an emerging technology of peace and explains how the liberal state has come to endorse illiberal subjects and practices. The idea that conflicts are problems that have causes and therefore solutions rather than winners and losers has gained momentum since...

    Published December 18th 2011 by Routledge
46. War and Revolution in the Caucasus

    Georgia Ablaze

    Edited by Stephen F. Jones

    Series: ThirdWorlds

    The South Caucasus has traditionally been a playground of contesting empires. This region, on the edge of Europe, is associated in Western minds with ethnic conflict and geopolitical struggles in August 2008. Yet, another war broke out in this distant European periphery as Russia and Georgia...

    Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
47. Peace and Conflict Studies

    A Reader

    Edited by Charles Webel, Jorgen Johansen

    Peace and Conflict Studies: A Reader is a comprehensive and intensive introduction to the key works in this growing field. Presenting a range of theories, methodologies, and approaches to understanding peace and to transforming conflict, this edited volume contains both classic and cutting-edge...

    Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge
48. The Era of Transitional Justice

    The Aftermath of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa and Beyond

    By Paul Gready

    Series: Transitional Justice

    The Era of Transitional Justice explores a broad set of issues raised by political transition and transitional justice through the prism of the South African TRC. South Africa constitutes a powerful case study of the enduring structural legacies of a troubled past, and of both the potential and...

    Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
49. Business, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding

    Contributions from the private sector to address violent conflict

    By Derek Sweetman

    Business, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding examines the actions currently being taken by businesses in areas of violent conflict around the world, and explores how they can make a significant contribution to the resolution of violent conflicts through business-based peacebuilding. This book...

    Published November 17th 2011 by Routledge
50. Cyberspace and the State

    Towards a Strategy for Cyberpower

    By David J Betz, Timothy C. Stevens

    Series: Adelphi series

    The major aim of Cyberspace and the State is to provide conceptual orientation on the new strategic environment of the Information Age. It seeks to restore the equilibrium of policy-makers which has been disturbed by recent cyber scares, as well as to bring clarity to academic debate on the subject...

    Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge