Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution

Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world'Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in t...

This book examines the importance of global nuclear order, emphasising the importance of perspective in our understanding of it, and its significan...

In 1994, almost one million ethnic Tutsis were killed in the genocide in Rwanda. In the aftermath of the genocide, some of the top-echelon Hutu off...

This book looks at the worlding of the Global South in the process of assembling conflict resolution expertise. Anna Leander, Ole Wæver and their c...

What is terrorism? Can anyone be radicalized? How can we respond to terrorist acts? The Psychology of Terrorism seeks to explain why some acts of v...

The most important political book of the year.Gregg Easterbrook, author of The Progress ParadoxEveryone knows: wars are getting worse, more civilia...

Borderland Anxieties explores the complex relationships between liberalization, gender and migration in Nagaland, a state in Northeast India that i...

The 43rd Volume of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change continues the series' tradition of publishing peer reviewed chapters, which a...

This volume explores three recent challenges the military faces: changing missions, changing socio-economic and demographic conditions, and end of ...

China, Napoleon once remarked, is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world. In 2014, President Xi Jinping triump...

Two leading experts in the field re-examine the traditional understanding of humanitarian intervention in this major new text. The recent high-prof...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been widely derided as a failed state, unable to meet the basic needs of its citizens. But while state i...

A fresh perspective on conflict and peace-making that highlights the cosmologies and invisible entities that state, society and religious authoriti...

With the death of Professor Sir Michael Howard, The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) lost not only its president emeritus but t...

Non-lethal weapons take many forms from rubber bullets to electroshock and long-range acoustic devices which their proponents argue are ethical, ...

On November 24, 2016, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia signed a revised peace accord that marked a political...

Unpacking of the dynamics of conflict under conditions of nuclear monopoly, Paul C. Avey argues in Tempting Fate that the costs and benefits of usi...

This volume, drawing on the work of a variety of scholars, contributes to identifying and understanding the challenges and opportunities presented ...

These readings in international relations in Africa grapple with the continent's changing place in the world. The essays confront issues such as th...

North Korea is perilously close to developing strategic nuclear weapons capable of hitting the United States and its East Asian allies. Since their...

The just peace movement offers a critical shift in focus and imagination. Recognizing that all life is sacred and seeking peace through violence is...

The United States and its allies have been fighting the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan for a decade in a war that either side could still win....

How are refugee crises solved? This has become an urgent question as global displacement rates continue to climb, and refugee situations now persis...

The West’s actions in the Middle East are based on a fundamental misunderstanding: political Islam is repeatedly assumed to be the main cause of co...

The key to the impact of international election support is credibility; credible elections are less likely to turn violent. So argues Inken von Bor...

Proscribing peace offers a systematic examination of the impact of proscription on peace negotiations. With rare access to actors during the Colomb...

Stalemate reveals the history and contemporary politics of the United Wa State Army (UWSA), Asia's strongest insurgent army on Myanmar's border wit...

Challenging the conventional wisdom that mass mobilization warfare fosters democratic reform and expands economic, social, and political rights, Wa...

On February 15, 2003, the largest one-day protest in human history took place as millions of people in hundreds of cities marched in the streets, r...

An Introduction to Political Science in Nigeria attempts to fill the void in the literature for undergraduate and graduate students in the Third Wo...