Peace Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Peace Operations and Organized Crime

   Enemies or Allies?

   Edited by James Cockayne, Adam Lupel

   Series: Cass Series on Peacekeeping

   Peace operations are increasingly on the front line in the international community’s fight against organized crime; this book explores how, in some cases, peace operations and organized crime are clear enemies, while in others, they may become tacit allies. The threat posed by organized crime to...

   Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
2. Peace through Tourism

   Promoting Human Security Through International Citizenship

   Edited by Lynda-ann Blanchard, Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   Peace through tourism refers to a body of analysis which suggests tourism may contribute to cross-cultural understanding, tolerance and even peace between communities and nations. What has been largely missing to date is a sustained critique of the potential and capacities of tourism to foster...

   Published May 1st 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. Changing Power Relations in Northeast Asia

   Implications for Relations between Japan and South Korea

   Edited by Marie Soderberg

   Series: European Institute of Japanese Studies East Asian Economics and Business Series

   This book analyses the Japanese-South Korean relationship from various angles including politics, security, economics, culture and immigration. In a sense the two countries are natural partners. Both are democratic societies, they are economically strong and are the only two Asian countries that...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. 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
6. Conflict Resolution and Human Needs

   Linking Theory and Practice

   Edited by Kevin Avruch, Christopher Mitchell

   Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution

   This edited volume examines Basic Human Needs theory and interactive problem solving, looking at recent developments in thinking about both and how these might affect peacebuilding in contemporary conflicts of the twenty-first century. The era in the immediate aftermath of World War II was,...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
7. The Secret Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations in Oslo

   Their Success and Why the Process Ultimately Failed

   By Sven Behrendt

   Series: Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series

   The Oslo secret negotiations from 1992 to 1993 were some of the most astonishing and also successful negotiations in the Middle East, leading to the mutual recognition between the PLO and Israel. Through an in-depth examination of the Oslo negotiations, this book argues that at the core of the...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
8. A Global Security Triangle

   European, African and Asian interaction

   Edited by Valeria Bello, Belachew Gebrewold

   Series: Routledge/GARNET series

   This book considers the interactions between Africa, Asia and Europe, analysing the short and long term strategies various states have adopted to external relations. The urgency attached to the agenda of international terrorism and human and drugs- trafficking has forced the European Union into new...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
9. Inherited Responsibility and Historical Reconciliation in East Asia

   Edited by Jun-Hyeok Kwak, Melissa Nobles

   Series: Political Theories in East Asian Context

   Contemporary East Asian societies are still struggling with complex legacies of colonialism, war and domination. Years of Japanese imperial occupation followed by the Cold War have entrenched competing historical understandings of responsibility for past crimes in Korea, China, Japan and elsewhere...

   Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
10. Mediation and Liberal Peacebuilding

    Peace from the Ashes of War?

    Edited by Mikael Eriksson, Roland Kostić

    Series: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

    This book offers a state-of-the-art examination of peacemaking, looking at its theoretical assumptions, empirical applications and its consequences. Despite the wealth of research on external interventions and practices of Western peacebuilding, many scholars tend to rely on findings in the...

    Published February 3rd 2013 by Routledge