Promoting Peace with Information: Transparency as a Tool of Security Regimes more books like this

by Dan Lindley

It is normally assumed that international security regimes such as the United Nations can reduce the risk of war by increasing transparency among adversarial nations. The more adversaries understand each other's intentions and capabilities, the thinking goes, the less likely they are to be led to war by miscalculations and unwarranted fears. But ...

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The Long Postwar Peace: Contending Explanations and Projections more books like this

by Charles W. Kegley

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Report from Iron Mountain more books like this

by Leonard Lewin (Introduction by)

First published in 1967, Leonard Lewin's "Report from Iron Mountain" is a satirical document, prepared by a "Special Study Group," which concludes that the logical requirements of a peaceful, rational society would be ritualized executions, blood sports, and an international police force.

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The Price of Peace: Incentives and International Conflict Prevention: Incentives and International Conflict Prevention more books like this

by David Cortright (Editor), David A Hamburg (Foreword by), Cyrus R Vance (Foreword by)

In this provocative study, policy-savvy scholars examine a wide range of cases - from North Korea to South Africa to El Salvador and Bosnia - to demonstrate the power of incentives to deter nuclear proliferation, prevent armed conflict, defend civil and human rights, and rebuild war-torn societies. The book addresses the moral hazard of incentives ...

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Second Generation United Nations more books like this

by Professor Guido De Marco, Professor Michael Bartolo

As the United Nations moves beyond its 50th anniversary into the millenium, it is faced with a global system fraught with political and economic tensions that can no longer be handled with models that defined the organization when it was founded in 1945. A vision for a restructuring of the United Nations, this volume offers an insider's look at ...

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How War Began more books like this

by Keith F Otterbein

Have humans always fought and killed each other, or did they peacefully coexist until organized states developed? Is war an expression of human nature or an artifact of civilization? Questions about the origins and inherent motivations of warfare have long engaged philosophers, ethicists, and anthropologists as they speculate on the nature of ...

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The New Un Peacekeeping more books like this

by Steven R Ratner

As the United Nations passes its fiftieth anniversary, it has undergone a sea change in its approach to peacekeeping. Originally a stopgap measure to preserve a cease-fire, peacekeeping since the waning of the Cold War has become a means to implement agreed-upon political solutions to conflicts between antagonists. Placed inside war-torn states, ...

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Imposing Power-Sharing: Conflict and Coexistence in Northern Ireland and Lebanon more books like this

by Michael Kerr

This book is a comparative analysis of power sharing agreements and peace processes in Northern Ireland and Lebanon, examining parallel journeys both societies took through power sharing to civil war, returning to power sharing again. It criticises and builds on the consociational democracy literature and takes an international perspective, ...

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The Ethics of Peacebuilding more books like this

by Tim Murithi

This book explores the ethical dimension of peacebuilding. In the aftermath of the Cold War the hope for a more stable and just international order was rapidly dissolved by the internecine conflicts that plagued all continents. The Rwanda and Srebrenica genocides demonstrated the challenge of promoting peace in a world increasingly defined by ...

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The Israeli-Palestinian Road Map for Peace: A Critical Analysis more books like this

by Derick L Hulme, Jr.

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The American Nuclear Disarmament Dilemma, 1945-1963 more books like this

by David Tal

The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 quickly ushered in a popular and political movement toward nuclear disarmament. Across the globe, heads of state, high-ranking ministers, and bureaucrats led intense efforts to achieve effective disarmament agreements. Ultimately these efforts failed. In "The American Nuclear Disarmament ...

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Music and Conflict Transformation: Harmonies and Dissonances in Geopolitics more books like this

by Olivier Urbain (Editor)

How far can the relationship between music and politics be used to promote a more peaceful world? That is the central question which motivates this challenging new work. Combining theory from renowned academics such as Johan Galtung, Cindy Cohen and Karen Abi-Ezzi with compelling stories from musicians like Yair Dalal, the book also includes an ...

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The People's Peace Process in Northern Ireland more books like this

by Colin Irwin

Many important lessons have come out of the negotiations for the Belfast Agreement. This book explains how public opinion polls were used in support of the Northern Ireland peace process. Significantly, it was the politicians who decided the questions so that they could map out areas of compromise and common ground that their supporters would ...

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Poeticized Culture: The Role of Irony in Rawls's Liberalism more books like this

by James Hersh

In "Poeticized Culture", James Hersh shows the John Rawls' framework of liberal public reason (Political Liberalism, 1993), within which he proposes his scheme of justice as fairness, includes an unacknowledged call for a Richard Rortian poeticized culture. Hersh argues that, despite Rawls's intentions, his framework within which he proposes ...

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Healing the Wounds: Essays on the Reconstruction of Societies After War more books like this

by Marie-Claire Foblets (Editor), Trutz Von Trotha (Editor)

In recent decades the world has experienced the rise of so-called 'low intensity conflicts'. Unlike conventional wars these very bloody armed conflicts are no longer the affair of state governments and their armies. In their place appear police-like armed units, security services and secret services, groups and organizations of religious, ...

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Hanging on : diaries December 1960-August 1963 more books like this

by Frances Partridge

Frances Partridge is the oldest surviving member of the Bloomsbury Group. Most of its leading members she knew well - Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, Virginia Woolf - and this book contains many of her memories of them, as well as reflections on her own life. The author also wrote "Other People".

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The Political Process and Foreign Policy: The Making of the Japanese Peace Settlement more books like this

by Bernard Cecil Cohen

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The Peace Corps Today more books like this

by Merni Ingrassia Fitzgerald

Describes the history and purpose of the Peace Corps, its work today, and how one can become a volunteer. Includes quotations from volunteers recounting their experiences in various countries.

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SC-Call to Action more books like this

by Brad Erickson (Editor), Jesse L Jackson Jr (Foreword by)

Published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Earth Day, this comprehensive guide to activism shows how anyone can take informed, effective steps to sustain the rich diversity of life on the planet with peace and justice. Black-and-white photographs.

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Freedom from Violence: Sectarian Nonresistance from the Middle Ages to the Great War more books like this

by Peter Brock

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Genetic Seeds of Warfare: Evolution, Nationalism and Patriotism more books like this

by R Paul Shaw, Yuwa Wong

This interdisciplinary analysis of humanity's propensity to warfare develops a thesis that certain evolved behaviours (such as inclusive fitness) have interacted over time with environmental factors (such as limited resources) to create a propensity to warfare. This theory is applied to several case studies which leads to a redefinition of the ...

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Star Wars and the State of Our Souls: Deciding the Future of Planet Earth more books like this

by Patricia M. Mische

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Pioneers for Peace: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1915-1965 more books like this

by Jane Midgley, Margaret Tims, Gertrude Carman Bussey

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Peacemaking in Medieval Europe: A Historical & Bibliographical Guide more books like this

by Udo Heyn

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Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy After Civil Wars more books like this

by Philip G Roeder (Editor), Donald Rothchild (Editor)

How can leaders craft political institutions that will sustain the peace and foster democracy in ethnically divided societies after conflicts as destructive as civil wars? Under turbulent conditions the leaders of ethnic groups, governments, and international organizations face the challenge of designing political arrangements that can ...

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