Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution

Conveniently structured into five sections, The Routledge Research Companion to Outsourcing Security offers an overview of the different ways in wh...

Peace and Conflict is a biennial publication that provides cutting-edge data and analysis concerning domestic and international conflicts and corre...

This book analyses the growth of sectarian-based terrorist violence in Pakistan, one of the Muslim majority states most affected by sectarian viole...

Transitional justice processes are now considered to be crucial steps in facilitating the move from conflict or repression to a secure democratic f...

While many have argued in the past decade that peace and conflict studies must engage more with local actors and communities, and scholars regularl...

Is violent conflict inevitable? What is it in our social nature that makes us conduct wars, genocides and persecutions? The answer lies in how we a...

This book builds a bridge between current research in space policy and contemporary European political studies by addressing developments in Europe...

Looking beyond and beneath the macro level, this book examines the processes and outcomes of the interaction of economic reforms and socio-economic...

This book shows how one of the most powerful tools of security studiesstrategic cultureilluminates the origins and implications of the Asia-Pacific...

Despite calls for the decolonisation of knowledge, scholars who come from conflict-affected societies remained marginalised, excluded from the exam...

This book analyzes energy security dynamics in Europe through the prism of security logics.Drawing on the literature on securitization, security lo...

This book interrogates the common perception that liberal peace is in crisis and explores the question: can the local turn save liberal peacebuildi...

This book investigates the power of civil society in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), in the context of the post-Arab Spring era, as well a...

At no time since the end of the Cold War has interest been higher in Russian security issues and the role played in this by the modernization of Ru...

This book critically examines arguments about obligation and responsibility in relation to the responsibility to protect (R2P) and situates it with...

Security studies and international relations have conventionally relegated gendered analysis to the margins of academic concern, most commonly thro...

Postmodern global terrorist groups engage sovereign nations asymmetrically with prolonged, sustained campaigns driven by ideology. Increasingly, tr...

Claims to land and territory are often a cause of conflict, and land issues present some of the most contentious problems for post-conflict peacebu...

The war in Afghanistan came to an end in 2014 after nearly thirteen years of conflict. Throughout that period, British officials have described UK ...

In this volume, Terrence Paupp critically describes the various dimensions of today's global crisis. Among other things, this volume analyzes nucle...

How do former enemies reconcile after civil wars? Do they ever really reconcile in any complete sense? How is political reunification related to lo...

Following successive international legal verdicts, Bangladesh is now an accredited maritime state. Possessing a spacious territorial sea and an ext...

This book examines the changes in Indonesian foreign policy during the 21st century as it seeks to position itself as a great power in the Indo-Pac...

This book examines the self-representation and identity politics of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs).PMSCs have become increasingly ...

This is the story of the great coalition formed by the United States, Great Britain, and Soviet Russia to combat the Axis in World War II. Mr. Feis...

This book investigates the intricacies of resource management performance across various sectors within the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. With 13 in-de...

This reference work collates academic discourses and practices around family, gender, and violence in social work.  A huge body of discourse is av...

Culture in Crisis The right of access to, and enjoyment of, cultural heritage is enshrined in human rights norms and the devastating effects of ar...

This book offers new and cutting-edge analyses of under-explored subjects and issues in the realm of soft power. It attempts to fill significant sc...

How do two conventionally powerful, nuclear armed, but commercially oriented great powers, reliant on sea lanes and global maritime infrastructure,...

The book focuses on the main security threats, defence industry, arms trade, defence policies and military capabilities related issues in the Asia-...

This book weaves theoretical-empirical threads beyond pragmatic philosophy, quantum cosmology and world affairs. Overall, the book offers a quantum...

In curriculum studies, we pay critical attention to violence in various forms; why not to nonviolence? This original and inspirational book foregro...

This book will be the 9th Volume of Contemporary Issues in Mediation (CIIM), a thought-leadership publication which compiles the top submissions fr...

This book presents a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study into the various goals assigned to international criminal trials. It starts from the ...

A remarkable compilation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s reflections on love and its transformative powera stellar addition to Dr. Kings archives pu...

This book captures the essence of the period when Russians and Americans collaborated in creating new structures of government and new businesses i...

In 2020, feminist scholars and activists celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the United Nations' Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, a land...

Combining conflict studies and feminist perspectives on everyday violence, this book analyses games and push-back which are vectors to migrants' bo...

This book, a sequel to a well-received book titled Bridging Peace and Sustainability Amidst Global Transformations, delves deeper into the entwined...

A just peaceful world. How can that be achieved? What sorts of relationships might be needed? Could the concept of friendship assist? Assembling th...

Like shifting sands of a desert, the global nuclear landscape changes every few years across its three main constituents - nuclear energy, non-prol...

This book revisits and reframes the old, but active, debate on the relationship between criminality and civil war by bringing both the state and po...

The increase of new complex security challenges and the heightening significance of a diverse array of actors has simultaneously posed a challenge ...

Philosophers have wrestled over the morality and ethics of war for nearly as long as human beings have been waging it. The death and destruction th...

The United Nations Security Council, in 2000, unanimously passed a resolution calling for womens increased participation in conflict prevention and...

This title was first publishde in 2001. The author explores the role of peackemaker that Indonesia volunteered to play by way of resolving the comp...