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  • Peace and Conflict 2014

    by Paul K. Huth, Jonathan Wilkenfeld, David A. Backer ...
    Series series Peace and Conflict
    Peace and Conflict is a biennial publication that provides cutting-edge data and analysis concerning domestic and international conflicts and corresponding peacebuilding activities. The book include forecasts of risks of political and social instability, as well as trends and patterns in conflict. The 2014 edition focusses on the 'micro level' in the study of conflict and peacebuilding, such as ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • International Negotiation in a Complex World

    by Brigid Starkey, Mark A. Boyer, Jonathan Wilkenfeld ...
    Series series New Millennium Books in International Studies
    The process of negotiation, standing as it does between war and peace in many parts of the globe, has never been a more vital process to understand than in today's rapidly changing international system. Students of negotiation must first understand key IR concepts as they try to incorporate the dynamics of the many anomalous actors that regularly interact with conventional state agents in the ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Adaptive Mediation and Conflict Resolution

    Peace-making in Colombia, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Syria

    Edited by Cedric de Coning, Ako Muto, Rui Saraiva ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book introduces adaptive mediation as an alternative approach that enables mediators to go beyond liberal peace mediation, or other determined-design models of mediation, in the context of contemporary conflict resolution and peace-making initiatives. Adaptive mediation is grounded in complexity theory, and is specifically designed to cope with highly dynamic conflict situations ... Read more

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  • Humanitarian Economics

    War, Disaster, and the Global Aid Market

    by Gilles Carbonnier ...
    While the booming humanitarian sector faces daunting challenges, humanitarian economics emerges as a new field of study and practice--one that encompasses the economics and political economy of war, disaster, terrorism and humanitarianism. Carbonnier's book is the first to present humanitarian economics to a wide readership, defining its parameters, explaining its utility and convincing us why it ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Coercion

    The Power to Hurt in International Politics

    Edited by Kelly M. Greenhill, Peter Krause ...
    From the rising significance of non-state actors to the increasing influence of regional powers, the nature and conduct of international politics has arguably changed dramatically since the height of the Cold War. Yet much of the literature on deterrence and compellence continues to draw (whether implicitly or explicitly) upon assumptions and precepts formulated in-and predicated upon-politics in ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

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  • Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

    Edited by Rachel M. Gisselquist ...
    Development assistance to fragile states and conflict-affected areas can be a core component of peacebuilding, providing support for the restoration of government functions, delivery of basic services, the rule of law, and economic revitalization. What has worked, why it has worked, and what is scalable and transferable, are key questions for both development practice and research into how peace ... Read more

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  • Preventive Engagement

    How America Can Avoid War, Stay Strong, and Keep the Peace

    by Paul Stares ...
    Series series A Council on Foreign Relations Book
    The United States faces an increasingly turbulent world. The risk of violent conflict and other threats to international order presents a vexing dilemma: should the United States remain the principal guarantor of global peace and security with all its considerable commitments and potential pitfalls––not least new and costly military entanglements––that over time diminish its capacity and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Democracy's Double-Edged Sword

    How Internet Use Changes Citizens' Views of Their Government

    by Catie Snow Bailard ...
    "Playing into the hands of neither the cyber-optimists nor the cyber-pessimists . . . this book makes a major contribution to our understanding." —Talia Stroud, author of Niche News: The Politics of News ChoiceThe beauty of democracy is not only that citizens can vote a candidate into office but that they can also vote one out. As digital media has grown omnipresent, it becomes more important for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

    Information Technology and Political Islam

    by Philip N. Howard ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    Around the developing world, political leaders face a dilemma: the very information and communication technologies that boost economic fortunes also undermine power structures. Globally, one in ten internet users is a Muslim living in a populous Muslim community. In these countries, young people are developing political identities online, and digital technologies are helping civil society build ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Making Sense of Media and Politics

    Five Principles in Political Communication

    by Gadi Wolfsfeld ...
    In Making Sense of Media and Politics, Gadi Wolfsfeld introduces readers to the most important concepts for examining the interrelationship of media and politics. Five major principles are used to summarize the major arguments:Political power can usually be translated into power over all forms of media.When the powerful lose control over the political environment, they also lose control over all ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Peace and Conflict 2016

    Edited by David Backer, Ravinder Bhavnani, Paul Huth ...
    Series series Peace and Conflict
    An authoritative source of information on violent conflicts and peacebuilding processes around the world, Peace and Conflict is an annual publication of the University of Maryland’s Center for International Development and Conflict Management and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva).The contents of the 2016 edition are divided into three sections:» Global ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Role of External Support in Nonviolent Campaigns

    Poisoned Chalice or Holy Grail?

    by Erica Chenoweth, Maria J Stephan ...
    Nonviolent campaigns usually take place in complex domestic and international settings, where support from outside actors can be a double-edged sword. We argue that nonviolent campaigns tend to benefit the most from external assistance that allows them to generate high participation, maintain nonviolent discipline, deter crackdowns, and elicit security force defections. But various forms of ... Read more

    $3.00 USD