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  • Rethinking Climate Change, Security and Politics

    Edited by Steven Ratuva, Mercedes Alda-Fernández, Dalila Gharbaoui, Masaki Kataoka ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The book provides a critical analysis of the nexus between climate change, security and politics, especially in relation to the role and impact of societal agencies such as states, corporations, military, financial institutions and community organizations in framing and responding to climate change using various forms of social, economic or political leverage. Climate change is a major existential ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Risks, Identity and Conflict

    Theoretical Perspectives and Case Studies

    Edited by Steven Ratuva, Hamdy A. Hassan, Radomir Compel ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume explores the complex interrelation between risk, identity and conflictand focuses specifically on ethnicity, culture, religion and gender as modes ofidentity that are often associated with conflict in the contemporary world. Itdraws on theoretical perspectives as well as pays special attention to analysis ofdiverse case studies from Africa, Middle East, Europe, East and Southeast ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • COVID-19 and Social Protection

    A Study in Human Resilience and Social Solidarity

    Edited by Steven Ratuva, Tara Ross, Yvonne Crichton-Hill, Arindam Basu, Patrick Vakaoti, Rosemarie Martin-Neuninger ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a comparative analysis of how communities have developed people-based resilience in response to the global impact of COVID-19. The crisis of the capitalist economy due to border closure, downturn in business, loss of jobs and large-scale destruction of people’s well-being has worsened poverty, and inequality worsened the situation of the already marginalized. At the same time, ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Guns & Roses: Comparative Civil-Military Relations in the Changing Security Environment

    Edited by Steven Ratuva, Radomir Compel, Sergio Aguilar ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited volume provides a critical and comparative discussion of the changing synergy between the military and society in the dramatically transforming global security climate, drawing on examples from the Asian, Pacific, African, Middle Eastern, European and South American regions. The book is interdisciplinary and covers wide-ranging issues relating to civil military relations, ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Ethnicity, Class, and Nationalism

    Caribbean and Extra-Caribbean Dimensions

    by Shona N. Jackson, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, Steven Ratuva, Cenk Saraçoglu, Diana Thorburn ...
    Series series Caribbean Studies
    Celebrants of an ever-emerging "globalization" fly the banner of free trade, the mass marketization of once faltering economies, and rising economic and social standards for all. Many opponents to globalization rightfully point out that borders still exist largely for the purposes of keeping one "commodity" in its place: the labor commodity or, the more familiar, immigrant. Arguments of this type ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

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  • Women and Wars

    Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures

    Edited by Carol Cohn ...
    Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to be seen. With few exceptions, war stories are told as if men were the only ones who plan, fight, are injured by, and negotiate ends to wars. As the pages of this book tell, though, those accounts are far from complete. Women can be found at every turn in the ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Humanitarian Intervention

    by Thomas G. Weiss ...
    Series series War and Conflict in the Modern World
    A singular development in the post-Cold War era is the use of military force to protect human beings. From Rwanda to Kosovo, Sierra Leone to East Timor, and Libya to Côte d�Ivoire, soldiers have rescued civilians in some of the world's most notorious war zones. But what about Syria? Why have we observed the Syrian slaughter and done nothing? Is humanitarian intervention in crisis? Is the so-called ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • War and Conflict in Africa

    by Paul D. Williams ...
    After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them and what were their main characteristics? And what did the world's governments do to stop them?In this fully revised and updated second edition of his popular text, Paul Williams offers an in-depth and wide-ranging ... Read more

    $40.00 USD

  • Conflict and Development

    by Roger Macginty, Andrew J. Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    In the five years since the first edition of Conflict and Development was published the awareness of the relationship between conflicts and development has grown exponentially. Developmental factors can act as a trigger for violence, as well as for ending violence and for triggering post-conflict reconstruction. The book explores the complexity of the links between violent conflict (usually civil ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Stabilization Operations, Security and Development

    States of Fragility

    Edited by Robert Muggah ...
    Series 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 agenda, including the expansion of efforts in Latin America, the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Advocacy in Conflict

    Critical Perspectives on Transnational Activism

    Edited by Alex de Waal ...
    Conflicts in Africa, Asia and Latin America have become a common focus of advocacy by Western celebrities and NGOs. This provocative volume delves into the realities of these efforts, which have often involved compromising on integrity in pursuit of profile and influence.Examining the methods used by Western advocates, how they relate to campaigns in the countries concerned, and their impact, ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Armed State Building

    Confronting State Failure, 1898–2012

    by Paul D. Miller ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Since 1898, the United States and the United Nations have deployed military force more than three dozen times in attempts to rebuild failed states. Currently there are more state-building campaigns in progress than at any time in the past century—including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Sudan, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, and Lebanon—and the number of candidate ... Read more

    $29.69 USD