Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution

This title was first published in 2001. An authoritative look at the operational role of the OSCE in South-Eastern Europe, this book provides in-de...

When its all said and done, penetration testing remains the most effective way to identify security vulnerabilities in computer networks. Conductin...

Amnesty, Serious Crimes and International Law examines the permissibility of amnesties for serious crimes in the contemporary international order. ...

This book explores the positions of small EU members in approaching external energy security, using Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia as cas...

Powers to outlaw or proscribe terrorist organisations have become cornerstones of global counter-terrorism regimes. In this comprehensive volume, a...

The right to self-determination has played a crucial role in the process of assisting oppressed people to put an end to colonial domination. Outsid...

In recent years, the term sectarianism has been widely used to explain contemporary affairs across the Middle East and North Africa. A range of ass...

In historical writing the interwar years are often associated with the rise of extreme forms of nationalism. Yet paradoxically this period also saw...

This book challenges the understanding of difference in the field of peacebuilding and offers new ways to consider diversity in the context of inte...

This book analyzes the factors that drive Boko Harams violence, arguing that the movement is rooted in the historical and religious context of west...

Far from being an anachronism, much less a kit-bag of techniques, peoples war raises what has always been present in military history, irregular wa...

This book cuts through the misunderstandings about Russias geopolitical challenge to the West, presenting this not as hybrid war but political war....

For a long time, India and China have been seen as the rising economic giants on the Asiatic mainland. Studies of the conflicts which have plagued ...

Little is known about how far-reaching decisions in UN Security Council sanctions committees are made. Developing a novel committee governance conc...

This book investigates counterterrorism responses from a strategic-culturalist perspective, focusing on France and Italy in the post-9/11 era. Terr...

This book will consider a rapidly emerging guiding general principle in international relations and, arguably, in international law: the Responsibi...

Why do international policing missions often fail to achieve their mandate? Why do United Nations Police officers struggle when serving in foreign ...

Indian Ocean studies, which once lagged behind studies of the Atlantic and the Pacific, is an important emerging academic field which has come into...

This title was first published in 2001. An authoritative look at the operational role of the OSCE in South-Eastern Europe, this book provides in-de...

This volume discusses the entry of Greece and Turkey to NATO in 1952 from the perspective of history and international relations. The chapters were...

International organisations such as the World Bank began to intervene in the transboundary water governance of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river ...

Security Blurs makes an important contribution to anthropological work on security. It introduces the notion of security blurs to analyse manifesta...

Why do some individuals choose to protest political grievances via non-violent means, while others take up arms? What role does whom we trust play ...

This book examines the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute from a foreign policy perspective, focusing on three key stakeholders: China, Japan and the U...

This volume is a collection of articles that critically examine the efficacy, ethics, and impact of the War on Terror as it has evolved since 9/11....

Fifteen years after the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 which establishes the Women, Peace and Security agenda, there is now a need...

In the twenty-first century, the United States confronts an international system of great complexity and shifting security challenges. Among these...

The field of humanitarianism is characterised by profound uncertainty, by a constant need to respond to the unpredictable, and by concepts and prac...

The Western Balkans have seen rapid changes since the end of the violent conflicts in the 1990s. The EU has been one of the main drivers for change...

Transnational organizations and practitioners who use sport for international development often position sport as a unique option for tackling deve...

Through a multidisciplinary approach, African Frontiers counters the superficial, Eurocentric and gender insensitive dominant discursive representa...

The Arctic-Barents Region is facing numerous pressures from a variety of sources, including the effect of environmental changes and extractive indu...

This book integrates peace operations into the paradigm first articulated in Uncomfortable Wars, edited by Max Manwaring. It not only addresses soc...

Urban centres are at the heart of the dynamics of war and peace, of stability and violence: as safe havens for those seeking protection, as concent...

This book investigates demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration (DDR) in Colombia during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The six lar...

Utilising Northern Ireland as a case study, this book presents an analysis of the gender and sexual politics of conflict transformation.The book sy...