Security and Conflict Research
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Secessionist Movements and Ethnic Conflict
Debate-Framing and Rhetoric in Independence Campaigns
Series: Routledge Studies in Nationalism and Ethnicity
This book analyses how national independence movements’ rhetoric can inflame or dampen ethnic violence. It examines the extent to the power of words matters when a region tries to break away to become a nation state. Using discourse analysis, this book examines how the process of secession affects...
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Stabilization Operations, Security and Development
States of Fragility
Series: Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding
This edited volume provides a critical overview of the new stabilization agenda in international relations. The primary focus of so-called stability operations since 9/11 has been Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. Covering the wider picture, this volume provides a comprehensive assessment of the new...
To Be Published July 24th 2013 by Routledge
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Nationalism, Law and Statelessness
Grand Illusions in the Horn of Africa
Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
In 1998 a bloody war erupted in The Horn of Africa between Ethiopia and Eritrea. During the war Ethiopia arrested and expelled 70,000 of its citizens, and stripped another 50,000-plus of their citzenship on the basis of their presumed ethnicity. Nationalism, Law and Statelessness: Grand Illusions...
To Be Published July 10th 2013 by Routledge
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Formal Peace and Informal War
Security and Development in Congo
Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
Northern interventions into African countries at war are dominated by security concerns, bolstered by claims of shared returns and reinforcing processes of development and security. As global security and human security became prominent in development policy, Congo was wracked by violent rule,...
Published May 1st 2013 by Routledge
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Formal Peace and Informal War
Security and Development in Congo
Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
Northern interventions into African countries at war are dominated by security concerns, bolstered by claims of shared returns and reinforcing processes of development and security. As global security and human security became prominent in development policy, Congo was wracked by violent rule,...
Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
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Violent Conflict and Peacebuilding
The Continuing Crisis in Darfur
Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
This book examines the continuing devastation in the Darfur region of Sudan, from the perspective of a multiplicity of conflicts of distinct types. The crisis reached its peak in 2003–2004, when certain Arab militias joined forces with the Sudan armed forces in a campaign against insurgent...
Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge
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War and Migration
Social Networks and Economic Strategies of the Hazaras of Afghanistan
Series: Middle East Studies: History, Politics & Law
Focusing on the case of the Hazaras, a population from central Afghanistan, this book shows how migration studies and transnationalism are at the heart of theoretical and methodological debates which animate anthropology....
Published June 9th 2005 by Routledge