Conflict War And Peace

Author : Sara McLaughlin Mitchell,John A. Vasquez
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781483322100

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Conflict, War, and Peace by Sara McLaughlin Mitchell,John A. Vasquez Pdf

Introducing students to the scientific study of peace and war, Conflict, War, and Peace: An Introduction to Scientific Research, edited by Sara McLaughlin Mitchell and John A. Vasquez, provides an overview of current scholarship in this dynamic area of study. Focusing on the factors that shape relationships between countries and that make war or peace more likely, this collection of articles by top scholars explores such key topics as dangerous dyads, alliances, territorial disputes, rivalry, arms races, democracy peace, trade, international organizations, territorial peace, and nuclear weapons. Each article is followed by the editors’ commentary: a “Major Contributions” section highlights the article’s theoretical advances and relates each study to the broader literature, while a “Methodological Notes” section carefully walks students through the techniques used in the analysis. Methodological topics include research design, percentages, probabilities, odds ratios, statistical significance, levels of analysis, selection bias, logic, duration models, and game theory models.

Author : Niki Walker
Publisher : Owlkids
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1771473541

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Why Do We Fight? by Niki Walker Pdf

Battles, protests, standoffs, strikes. We hear about them all the time. On the surface, a battle and a protest don't seem to have much in common, but they're really just two ways of handling a dispute. One uses violence, the other uses signs and picket lines. But both start as a disagreement between two groups of people. Both are conflicts. Since it's impossible for people to agree on everything all the time, conflicts naturally pop up every day, all over the world. Sometimes they turn into full-blown wars, which can be a lot trickier to understand than the conflicts that pop up in everyday life, but every conflict has some things in common. Using real world examples, Why Do We Fight?teaches kids to recognize the structures, factors, and complex histories that go into creating conflicts, whether personal or global -- as well as the similarities between both. They'll be given tools to seek out information, enabling them to make informed opinions while learning to respect that others may form different ones. From culture clashes and trade disputes to disagreements about how to govern, Why Do We Fight?insists that the key to fulfilling humankind's wish for "world peace" lies in how we choose to deal with conflict and provides a genuine cause for optimism in the face of an at-times frightening world.

Author : Michael Keating,Matt Waldman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190057961

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War and Peace in Somalia by Michael Keating,Matt Waldman Pdf

For the last thirty years Somalia has experienced violence and upheaval. Today, the international effort to help Somalis build a federal state and achieve stability is challenged by deep-rooted grievances, local conflicts and a powerful insurgency led by Al-Shabaab. Consisting of forty-four chapters by conflict resolution specialists and the world's leading experts on Somalia, this volume constitutes a unique compendium of insights into the insurgency and its impact. War and Peace in Somalia explores the legacies of past violence, especially impunity, illegitimacy and exclusion, and the need for national reconciliation. Drawing on decades of experience and months of field research, the contributors throw light on diverse forms of local conflict, its interrelated causes, and what can be done about it. They share original research on the role of women, men and youth in the conflict, and present new insight into Al-Shabaab--particularly the group's multi-dimensional strategy, the motivations of its fighters, their foreign links, and the prospects for engagement. This ground-breaking volume illuminates the war in Somalia, and sets out what can and should be done to bring it to an end. For policymakers and researchers covering Somalia, East Africa, extremism or conflict resolution, this is a must-read.

Author : Lou Marinoff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780761871064

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On Human Conflict by Lou Marinoff Pdf

On Human Conflict excavates the philosophical foundations of war and peace in order to determine whether wars can ever be ended. It ranges over relevant mathematical models, Hobbes’s natural philosophy, theories of causality, biological and cultural evolution, general systems theory, Buddhism, globalization, and futurology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : International relations
ISBN : UOM:39015032649934

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War and Peace Making by Anonim Pdf

Author : J. Santino
Publisher : Springer
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403982339

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Signs of War and Peace by J. Santino Pdf

Signs of War and Peace focuses on the role public display plays in the conflict in Northern Ireland. In doing so, it ranges freely over other times, places, and events that shed light on the social and political processes and dynamics involved in public display traditions, such as the Saint Patrick's Day parades in Boston, Massachusetts, and the popular spontaneous shrines to Lady Diana in London. The book is about the nature of public display, its relationships to class-based aesthetics, tradition, and popular style. It is also about contest, conflict, and civil war, and the ways the former are intimately intertwined with the latter, both in Northern Ireland and elsewhere throughout the world. The work is interdisciplinary, combining ethnographic, anthropological, folkloristic, and performance studies approaches. The manuscript benefits from large amount of field work in Ireland, and as a result contains both ethnographic data and revealing interviews with many people in Northern Ireland who have participated in the display events Santino seeks to analyze. The perspective that Santino offers helps to explain the intensity of the conflict as well as the origination, motivations, and justifications of bonfires, murals, commemorative displays, parades, etc. that symbolically articulate what he terms the 'dual master narratives' that underlie and in many ways help to articulate the parameters of that conflict.

Author : Kalevi J. Holsti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1991-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521399297

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Peace and War by Kalevi J. Holsti Pdf

Professor Holsti examines the origins of war and the foundations of peace of the last 350 years.

Author : Eliana Cusato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108837521

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The Environment-Conflict Nexus in International Law by Eliana Cusato Pdf

Unpacks key assumptions about the 'environment', its relationship with violent conflict, and the justification for its protection underlying international law.

Author : David P. Barash,Charles P. Webel
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781506344232

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Peace and Conflict Studies by David P. Barash,Charles P. Webel Pdf

The thoroughly updated Fourth Edition of the gold standard text explores historical and current topics in today’s rapidly changing world to provide a comprehensive introduction to peace and conflict studies. The authors offer an insightful analysis of 21st-century global affairs, including such timely topics as ISIS, the nature of violence and nonviolence, cutting-edge military technologies, the Terrorism and Global Peace Indexes, and the latest developments in Iran, North Korea, and Syria. Comprehensive yet written in a student-friendly and accessible style, the text represents a commitment to inspire readers to create a better world through an understanding of what has happened and what is happening, and therefore what is likely to take place in the future. Read Dr. Barash’s article on Psychology Today on why nuclear threats by the U.S. Government are never a successful defense tactic.

Author : Margaret MacMillan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735238039

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War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize Thoughtful and brilliant insights into the very nature of war--from the ancient Greeks to modern times--from world-renowned historian Margaret MacMillan. War--its imprint in our lives and our memories--is all around us, from the metaphors we use to the names on our maps. As books, movies, and television series show, we are drawn to the history and depiction of war. Yet we nevertheless like to think of war as an aberration, as the breakdown of the normal state of peace. This is comforting but wrong. War is woven into the fabric of human civilization. In this sweeping new book, international bestselling author and historian Margaret MacMillan analyzes the tangled history of war and society and our complicated feelings towards it and towards those who fight. It explores the ways in which changes in society have affected the nature of war and how in turn wars have changed the societies that fight them, including the ways in which women have been both participants in and the objects of war. MacMillan's new book contains many revelations, such as war has often been good for science and innovation and in the 20th century it did much for the position of women in many societies. But throughout, it forces the reader to reflect on the ways in which war is so intertwined with society, and the myriad reasons we fight.

Author : Alessandra La Vaccara
Publisher : Editions Pedone/Hart
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 1509931791

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When the Conflict Ends, While Uncertainty Continues by Alessandra La Vaccara Pdf

One of the most challenging elements during any armed conflict and its aftermath is the need to determine the fate of the missing and to support families dealing with uncertainty. Another layer of complexity is added in cases where a missing person might have been involved in criminal activity. This book examines how international law meets these two distinct, but intertwined, needs. It shows that the duty to account for missing persons is cross-cutting in nature, requiring measures needing implementation before, during, and after armed conflict. At the same time, those measures cannot substitute any required to establish responsibility for IHL/IHRL violations and international crimes. Exploring specific examples, the book examines the role that international law plays in the international community's attempts to articulate humanitarian and accountability-driven efforts when dealing with the missing. By so doing, it suggests how linkages between such efforts can be established, both through legal and policy avenues.

Author : Richard K. Betts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351864862

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Conflict After the Cold War by Richard K. Betts Pdf

Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, Richard Betts' Conflict After the Cold War assembles classic and contemporary readings on enduring problems of international security. Offering broad historical and philosophical breadth, the carefully chosen and excerpted selections in this popular reader help students engage key debates over the future of war and the new forms that violent conflict will take. Conflict After the Cold War encourages closer scrutiny of the political, economic, social, and military factors that drive war and peace. New to the Fifth Edition: Original introductions to each of 10 major parts as well as to the book as a whole have been updated by the author. An entirely new section (Part IX) on "Threat Assessment and Misjudgment" explores fundamental problems in diagnosing danger, understanding strategic choices, and measuring costs against benefits in wars over limited stakes. 12 new readings have been added or revised: Fred C. Iklé, "The Dark Side of Progress" G. John Ikenberry, "China’s Choice" Kenneth N. Waltz, "Why Nuclear Proliferation May Be Good" Daniel Byman, "Drones: Technology Serves Strategy" Audrey Kurth Cronin, "Drones: Tactics Undermine Strategy" Eyre Crowe and Thomas Sanderson, "The German Threat? 1907" Neville Henderson, "The German Threat? 1938" Vladimir Putin, "The Threat to Ukraine from the West" Eliot A. Cohen, "The Russian Threat" James C. Thomson, Jr., "How Could Vietnam Happen? An Autopsy" Stephen Biddle, "Afghanistan’s Legacy" Martin C. Libicki, "Why Cyberdeterrence is Different"

Author : Geir Lundestad,Olav Nj?lstad
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 981238197X

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War and Peace in the 20th Century and Beyond by Geir Lundestad,Olav Nj?lstad Pdf

The conference offered a unique opportunity to discuss why the 20th century was ridden by so much conflict and how the 21st century may be a more peaceful one.

Author : Vicken Cheterian
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787381865

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War and Peace in the Caucasus by Vicken Cheterian Pdf

After the collapse of the Soviet Union the Caucasus was wracked by ethnic and separatist violence as the peoples of the region struggled for self-determination. Vicken Cheterian, who spent many years as a reporter and analyst covering the region's conflicts, asks why nationalism emerged as a dominant political current, and why, of the many nationalist movements that emerged, some led to violence while others did not. He explains also why minority rebellions were victorious against larger armies, in mountainous Karabakh, Abkhazia, and in the first war of Chechnya, and discusses the ongoing instability and armed resistance in the North Caucasus. He concludes his book by examining chapters the great power competition between Russia, the US, and the EU over the oil and gas resources of the Caspian region.

Author : Dave Grossman,Loren W. Christensen
Publisher : Ppct Research Publications
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Combat
ISBN : PSU:000063120769

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On Combat by Dave Grossman,Loren W. Christensen Pdf

Looks at the effect of deadly battle on the body and mind and offers new research findings to help prevent lasting adverse effects.