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  • Statebuilding

    by Timothy Sisk ...
    Series series War and Conflict in the Modern World
    After civil wars end, what can sustain peace in the long-term? In particular, how can outsiders facilitate durable conflict-managing institutions through statebuilding - a process that historically has been the outcome of bloody struggles to establish the state's authority over warlords, traditional authorities, and lawless territories?In this book, Timothy Sisk explores international efforts to ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Civil Action and the Dynamics of Violence

    Edited by Deborah Avant, Marie Berry, Erica Chenoweth, Rachel Epstein, Cullen Hendrix, Oliver Kaplan, Timothy Sisk ...
    Many view civil wars as violent contests between armed combatants. But history shows that community groups, businesses, NGOs, local governments, and even armed groups can respond to war by engaging in civil action. Characterized by a reluctance to resort to violence and a willingness to show enough respect to engage with others, civil action can slow, delay, or prevent violent escalations. This ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Reaching the City

    Reflections on Urban Mission for the Twenty-first Century

    Edited by Gary Fujino, Timothy R. Sisk, Tereso C. Casino ...
    Series Book 20 - Evangelical Missiological Society Series
    Rapid urbanization and globalization processes worldwide have changed the landscape of our times. In Asia and Africa the number of urban dwellers increases by an average of one million per week, according to the United Nations. More than half of the globe’s seven billion human beings now live in cities. These realities have far reaching implications for mission in urban contexts at the start of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • 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

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  • The Great Convergence

    Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World

    by Kishore Mahbubani ...
    The twenty-first century has seen a rise in the global middle class that brings an unprecedented convergence of interests and perceptions, cultures and values. Kishore Mahbubani is optimistic. We are creating a new global civilization. Eighty-eight percent of the world's population outside the West is rising to Western living standards, and sharing Western aspirations. Yet Mahbubani, one of the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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