War and Society in the Greek World (Leicester-Nottingham by Dr John Rich,John Rich,Graham Shipley

By Dr John Rich,John Rich,Graham Shipley

The function of war is important to our knowing of the traditional Greek international. during this e-book and the spouse paintings, War and Society within the Roman World, the broader social context of battle is explored. This quantity examines its impression on Greek society from Homeric instances to the age of Alexander and his successors and discusses the importance of the explanations and earnings of warfare, the hyperlinks among conflict, piracy and slavery, and exchange, and the ideology of war in literature and sculpture.

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Austerity and Protest: Popular Contention in Times of by Marco Giugni,Maria Grasso,Maria, Dr Grasso,Marco, Professor

By Marco Giugni,Maria Grasso,Maria, Dr Grasso,Marco, Professor Giugni

What is the connection among monetary crises and protest behaviour? Does the adventure of austerity, or financial worry extra extensively outlined, create a better strength for protest?

With protest pursuits and occasions comparable to the Indignados and the Occupy flow receiving loads of recognition within the media and within the well known imaginary in recent years, this path-breaking booklet bargains a rigorously-researched, evidence-based set of chapters at the dating among austerity and protest. In so doing, it presents an intensive assessment of other theories, mechanisms, styles and developments so one can contextualize more moderen advancements, and supply a pivotal element of reference at the dating among those variables.

More in particular, this ebook will converse to 3 an important, long-standing debates in scholarship in political sociology, social move experiences, and comparable fields:

The results of monetary trouble on protest and social movements.

The position of grievances and possibilities in social move theory.

The contrast among ‘old’ and ‘new’ movements.

The chapters during this booklet interact with those 3 key debates and problem more often than not held perspectives of political sociologists and social move students on all 3 counts, hence permitting us to develop research within the field.

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Human Insecurities in Southeast Asia (Asia in Transition) by Paul J. Carnegie,Victor T. King,Zawawi Ibrahim

By Paul J. Carnegie,Victor T. King,Zawawi Ibrahim

This ebook is a suite of labor by means of students at present pursuing examine on human safeguard and insecurities in Southeast Asia. It bargains with a suite of ‘insecurities’ that isn't effortlessly understood or measurable. As such, it conceptually locates the threats and impediments to ‘human protection’ inside of relationships of probability, uncertainty, security and belief. while, it provides a large choice of investigations and methods from either localized and nearby views. through concentrating on the human and relational dimensions of insecurities in Southeast Asia it highlights the ways that susceptible and precarious conditions (human insecurities) are a part of lifestyle for giant numbers of individuals in Southeast Asia and are generally past their rapid regulate. a few of the occasions humans event in Southeast Asia signify the true results of more than a few mostly unacknowledged socio-cultural-economic differences interlinked by means of neighborhood, nationwide, neighborhood and international forces, components and pursuits. Woven from adventure and observations of lifestyles at a variety of websites in Southeast Asia, the contributions during this quantity supply an inner and important viewpoint to a fancy and manifold factor. They draw cognizance to quite a few the less-than-obvious threats to human safety and exhibit how puzzling these threats might be. All of which underscores the importance of multidisciplinary ways in rethinking and responding to the complicated array of conditioning elements and pursuits underlying human insecurities in Southeast Asia.

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Critical Issues in Peace and Education (Routledge Research by Peter Pericles Trifonas,Bryan Wright

By Peter Pericles Trifonas,Bryan Wright

This assortment asks theorists and academic practitioners from worldwide encouraged via the colleges of feminist pedagogy, serious pedagogy, anti-racist or postcolonial pedagogy, and homosexual and lesbian pedagogy to mirror upon the probabilities of articulating a "curriculum of distinction" that seriously examines the cross-cultural problems with peace and schooling which are on the leading edge of world schooling matters this present day.

Contributors learn the conceptualizations of peace and schooling inside, among, and throughout cultures in the course of the conceptualization of pedagogical probabilities that create an openness towards the horizons of the opposite inside communal formations of distinction permeating the general public sphere. They absorb new methods of questions concerning globalization, distinction, neighborhood, identification, peace, democracy, sexuality, ethics, clash, politics, feminism, know-how, language rights, cultural politics, Marxism, and deconstruction that experience an unlimited literary heritage in and outdoors the realm of "education." This quantity makes an important contribution to the query of distinction and its indispensable position in peace schooling for the recent millennium.

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Afghanistan, Arms and Conflict: Armed Groups, Disarmament by Michael Vinay Bhatia,Mark Sedra

By Michael Vinay Bhatia,Mark Sedra

This is the 1st publication to supply a accomplished evaluate of small fingers and security-related concerns in post-9/11 Afghanistan. It contains case experiences which display the findings of in-depth box study on hitherto ignored areas of the rustic, and offers a particular stability of thematic research, conceptual versions and empirical research.


Exploring a variety of elements of armed violence and measures to take on it, the amount offers major perception into broader concerns equivalent to the efficacy of overseas counsel, the ‘shadow’ economic system, warlordism, and the Taliban-led insurgency. on the way to deconstruct and demystify Afghanistan’s alleged ‘gun culture’, it additionally explores many of the triumphing hindrances and possibilities dealing with the rustic in its transition interval. In so doing, the publication deals precious classes to the state-builders of Afghanistan in addition to these of alternative international locations and areas suffering to emerge from classes of transition.



This ebook should be of a lot curiosity to all scholars of Afghanistan, small hands, insurgency, Asian reports, and clash reports in general.



 

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Hybrid Forms of Peace: From Everyday Agency to by Oliver P. Richmond,Audra Mitchell

By Oliver P. Richmond,Audra Mitchell

This booklet examines the function of daily motion in accepting, resisting and reshaping interventions, and the original varieties of peace that emerge from the interactions among neighborhood and foreign actors. construction on evaluations of liberal peace-building, it redefines serious peace and clash reviews, in keeping with new study from sixteen countries.

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Quest For Unbreakable Global Peace by Hossein Ghadimi

By Hossein Ghadimi

A clean examine approximately every little thing. a mirrored image at the previous, current, and alarming destiny. A believable fiction: A vessel from a high-quality planet lands in the world. The customer from this stronger planet, Ezad, studies again evidence to the planet of his starting place. The reviews are uncomplicated and infrequently funny. Ezad attempts to be impartial, non-partisan, and aim in his reports.

This booklet incorporates a genuine research on how human civilization used to be outfitted. utilizing a concise, simple language, it begins from the start of Earth, and covers the looks of guy, human colleges and screw ups, and in short describes the main religions of the area. The background of Islam is defined in a few aspect.

The background of technological know-how is short, from its gradual development to its ever-increasing pace, from the Renaissance ahead, resulting in the present conveniences and sleek lifestyle.

In the ultimate chapters, a well timed and insightful subject - the hunt for overseas Unbreakable Peace - is mentioned at a few size.

As Ezad’s experiences are always being deciphered, the subsequent edition(s) may get greater and locate its means into each condominium at the planet.

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Security in the Persian Gulf Region by Fatemeh Shayan

By Fatemeh Shayan

This ebook examines adjustments within the Persian Gulf protection advanced following the U.S. (US) invasion of Iraq in 2003, concentrating on threats to the collective identities of 2 spiritual sects - Shia and Sunni. even though there's a becoming physique of literature interpreting safety within the Persian Gulf, little concentration has been given to the theoretical and methodological elements of the matter. during this quantity, Shayan analyses the motives in the back of the safety alterations which happened within the sector on account that 2003 and demonstrates how local safety dynamics are interlinked to perceived sectarian threats at the Shia and Sunni non secular identities. this article is vital interpreting for political scientists, coverage makers and students of foreign relations. 

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Spoiling the peace?: The threat of dissident Republicans to by Sophie A. Whiting

By Sophie A. Whiting

This e-book assesses the protection hazard and political demanding situations posed via dissident republicanism to the Northern Irish peace procedure. Irish republicanism embraces a large spectrum of strategies and ideas, starting from those that reflect on armed fight to be a necessary component of any republican crusade to reformers of current constitutional preparations. This e-book starts via interpreting Sinn Féin's evolution from the margins of political lifestyles to turning into mainstream constitutional gamers. It then assesses how the compromises linked to those adjustments were rejected by means of republican 'dissidents'.

Drawing upon in-depth interviews, the e-book analyses the recommendations and strategies of the dissident republicans. It explores the responses of the British country in the direction of carrying on with violence, evaluating safeguard methods with the pre-1998 state of affairs. This dialogue areas the nation reaction to armed republicanism in Northern eire in the broader debate on counter-terrorism after September 11. In exploring the heterogeneity of up to date Irish republicanism, the ebook presents an overview of the demanding situations posed by means of dissidents to Northern eire in a post-Good Friday contract context.

This ebook should be of significant curiosity to lecturers, coverage makers, scholars and researchers with an curiosity in Northern Irish politics and historical past, peace approaches in addition to Irish republicanism. past this, the point of interest on armed republicanism as a phenomenon inside of a post-Good Friday contract context is additionally suitable to these attracted to peace procedure analyses, clash administration and nation counter-terrorism.

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Geographies of Peace: New Approaches to Boundaries, by Nick Megoran,Fiona McConnell,Philippa Williams

By Nick Megoran,Fiona McConnell,Philippa Williams

From handshakes at the White residence garden to Picasso’s iconic dove of peace, the photographs and stereotypes of peace are strong, common and simply recognizable. but if we attempt to supply a concise definition of peace it's altogether a extra complex workout. not just is peace an emotive and value-laden idea, it's also summary, ambiguous and seemingly
inextricably tied to its antithesis: conflict. And it really is warfare and violence which were so compellingly studied inside serious geography in recent times. This quantity bargains an try and redress that stability, and to imagine extra expansively and significantly approximately what peace skill and what geographies of peace may well entail.

The editors commence with an exam of severe ways to peace in different disciplines and a invaluable family tree of peace reviews inside geography. The ebook is then divided into 3 sections. the outlet part examines how the belief of peace can be variously developed and interpreted in line with diversified websites and scales. The chapters within the second
section discover a remarkably wide selection of innovations of peacemaking. This widens the dialogue from the archetypical photograph of top-down, diplomatic state-led projects to imperial boundary making practices, grassroots cultural identification statement, boycotts, self-immolation, ex-paramilitary neighborhood activism, and ‘protective accompaniment’. The final
section shifts the dimensions and concentration to daily own family and quite a number practices round the concept
of coexistence. of their concluding bankruptcy the editors spell out a number of the key questions that they suspect a geography of peace needs to deal with: What spatial elements have facilitated the luck or caused the failure of a few peace pursuits or diplomatic negotiations? Why are a few ideologies effective of violence in a few areas yet co-operation in others? How have a few groups been higher capable of take care of spiritual, racial, cultural and sophistication clash than others? How have inventive ways to sharing sovereignty mitigated or remodeled territorial disputes that after appeared intractable?

Geographies of Peace is the 1st ebook thoroughly dedicated to exploring the geography of peace. Drawing on either fresh advances in social and political conception and unique empirical examine protecting 4 continents, it makes an important intervention into present debates approximately peace and violence.

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