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  • Between Terror and Tolerance

    Religious Leaders, Conflict, and Peacemaking

    by Timothy D. Sisk, David Little, Nader Hashemi, George Emile Irani, Micheline Ishay, Scott W. Hibbard, Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Rosalind I. J. Hackett, Mari Fitzduff, Karina Korostelina0, Susan Hayward1, Sumit Ganguly2, Praveen Swami3 ...
    Civil war and conflict within countries is the most prevalent threat to peace and security in the opening decades of the twenty-first century. A pivotal factor in the escalation of tensions to open conflict is the role of elites in exacerbating tensions along identity lines by giving the ideological justification, moral reasoning, and call to violence. Between Terror and Tolerance examines the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sports in International Politics

    Between Power and Peacebuilding

    by Timothy D. Sisk ...
    Sports have historically been part of a broader quest of regimes for prestige on the world stage, but also to project hegemony and power in an anarchic international system. While such historical trends of politicization of sports continue—witness the nationalism on display at each Olympic Games—today sports are equally seen as a strategic key for advancing human rights, building peace, ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Strengthening Governance Globally

    Forecasting the Next 50 Years

    by Barry B. Hughes, Devin K. Joshi, Jonathan D. Moyer, Timothy D. Sisk, Jose Roberto Solorzano ...
    Strengthening Governance Globally is the fifth volume in the series 'Patterns of Potential Human Progress'. Each volume considers one key aspect of how development unfolds globally and how better to move it in desired directions. This volume identifies the provision of security, the building of government capacity, and the broadening of inclusion of governance on which high-income countries have ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Peacebuilding in Deeply Divided Societies

    Toward Social Cohesion?

    Edited by Fletcher D. Cox, Timothy D. Sisk ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores a critical question: in the wake of identity-based violence, what can internal and international peacebuilders do to help “deeply divided societies” rediscover a sense of living together? In 2016, ethnic, religious, and sectarian violence in Syria and Iraq, the Central African Republic, Myanmar, and Burundi grab headlines and present worrying scenarios of mass atrocities. The ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of International Statebuilding

    Edited by David Chandler, Timothy D. Sisk ...
    This new Handbook offers a combination of theoretical, thematic and empirical analyses of the statebuilding regime, written by leading international scholars.Over the past decade, international statebuilding has become one of the most important and least understood areas of international policy-making. Today, there are around one billion people living in some 50-60 conflict-affected, 'fragile' ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Democratisation in the 21st Century

    Reviving Transitology

    Edited by Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, Timothy D. Sisk ...
    Series series Democratization and Autocratization Studies
    The 2010’s was a critical period in the continuing, established trend of the spread of democracy worldwide: from the Arab Spring countries of Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Yemen to the unfolding turmoil of Myanmar and Ukraine, by way of the upheavals in Burkina Faso, Senegal and Ivory Coast, social mobilisation against autocratic, corrupt, or military regimes has precipitated political transitions ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • International Mediation in Civil Wars

    Bargaining with Bullets

    by Timothy D Sisk ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management
    This book evaluates the role of international mediators in bringing civil wars to an end and makes the case for ‘powerful peacemaking’ – using incentives and sanctions – to leverage parties into peace.As internal violence within countries is a hugely significant threat to international peace in the post-Cold War era, the question of how these wars end has become an urgent research and policy ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Dilemmas of Statebuilding

    Confronting the contradictions of postwar peace operations

    Edited by Roland Paris, Timothy D. Sisk ...
    Series series Security and Governance
    This book explores the contradictions that emerge in international statebuilding efforts in war-torn societies.Since the end of the Cold War, more than 20 major peace operations have been deployed to countries emerging from internal conflicts. This book argues that international efforts to construct effective, legitimate governmental structures in these countries are necessary but fraught with ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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  • International Migration: A Very Short Introduction

    by Khalid Koser ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why has international migration become an issue of such intense public and political concern? How closely linked are migrants with terrorist organizations? What factors lie behind the dramatic increase in the number of women migrating? This Very Short Introduction looks at the phenomenon of international human migration -- both legal and illegal -- to reveal that migration actually presents ... Read more

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  • The Great Convergence

    Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World

    by Kishore Mahbubani ...
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  • One Economics, Many Recipes

    Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth

    by Dani Rodrik ...
    In One Economics, Many Recipes, leading economist Dani Rodrik argues that neither globalizers nor antiglobalizers have got it right. While economic globalization can be a boon for countries that are trying to dig out of poverty, success usually requires following policies that are tailored to local economic and political realities rather than obeying the dictates of the international globalization ... Read more

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