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Believers, Skeptics, and Failure in Conflict Resolution
This book discusses the following questions: Why are some conflicts so enduring and why is conflict resolution so hard? The author begins by introducing two conflicting perspectives, Skeptics and Believers, to highlight the lack of consensus on conflict resolution. The book further examines the literature on the sources of violent conflict, including ethnic, economic, environmental, and religious sources, and investigates the claim that an absence of knowledge, power, or political will are at the center of conflict resolution failures. By focusing on the problem of state formation, the author demonstrates the ways in which the nature of the state contributes to violent conflict. In the end, conflict resolution fails because individuals, groups, and external powers choose war and often prefer it over peaceful alternatives.
Civil War in African States
How do disputants in Africa¿s civil wars¿rebel movements, ethnic groups, state leaders¿find security in the midst of anarchic situations? Why do some rebel movements pursue a secessionist agenda while others seek to overthrow the existing government? Under what circumstances will insurgents agree to share power? Proposing answers to these questions, Ian Spears offers a fresh perspective on the possibilities for ending violent political conflict in Africa. Spears focuses on the security predicaments of the disputants themselves as he closely examines the roots and dynamics of civil wars in Angola, Ethiopia, and Somalia. His original analysis leads to conclusions that challenge prevailing assumptions about the nature both of conflict resolution and of peacebuilding in postconflict societies.
Decolonisation
Offers a comparative analysis of the processes and aftermath of decolonisation from philosophical, historical, literary and legal perspectives.
Privatizing Welfare in the Middle East
Examines the effects of neoliberal economic reforms on middle classes in the Middle East. Based on fieldwork and interviews with members, non-members, and policymakers, this title provides fresh insights into democratization, liberalization, and civil society.
Complex Battlespaces
"This workshop, Complex Battlespaces: The Law of Armed Conflict and the Dynamics of Modern Warfare, was held at West Point on October 24-26, 2016. It marked the official opening of the Lieber Institute." -- ECIP forword.
Decolonisation
Offers a comparative analysis of the processes and aftermath of decolonisation from philosophical, historical, literary and legal perspectives.
The Process of International Legal Reproduction
Radical international legal history of the expansionary project of statehood and its role in generating profound distributional inequalities
States-Within-States
Many of the existing juridical states in the Third World remain fragile and prone to collapse. Yet, these conditions have not always given way to anarchy. In some cases, the breakdown of weak and often arbitrary states has given way to more coherent and viable, though not necessarily benevolent, political entities. This book examines the extent to which these sub-units - ' states within states ' - represent alternatives that the international community could look to in a long-term effort to bring stability, security and development to peoples in the Third World.
Legal Normativity in the Resolution of Internal Armed Conflict
Drawing on the texts and historical processes of peace resolutions, this book illustrates how conflict resolution constructs legal norms.
Between State and Non-State
This edited volume compares the internal dimension, politics and society in Kurdistan-Iraq and Palestine. In particular, it focuses on internal processes in Kurdistan-Iraq and Palestine (Palestinian Territory of the West Bank and Gaza Strip) in their specific shaping, development and transformation. The contributing authors analyze the transformation processes of the internal power structures, the economic basics, and the civil societies and provide an overview of the current political, economic and societal situation and challenges in both regions. The book presents the similarities and differences between both de facto states with regard to a set of guidelines: legitimacy, power relations, transformation of politics and society. It provides empirical explanations and contributes to a better understanding of both de facto states.
