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 explores why some episodes of mass political violence and genocide are so much deadlier than others and under what conditions perpetrator...

Clear and accessible, this illustrated book offers solutions to enable every one of us to establish or re-establish a new dialogue, even if it has ...

This edited volume traces the tragic history of state collapse and statebuilding, radicalisation and conflict in Chechnya, focusing on the conteste...

This book intends to reflect the variety and diversity of the musical responses that arose in favour of the Republic and against fascism during the...

This book investigates the ways in which the lethality of terrorist violence depends on how rebel organizations finance their rebellion.The leaders...

This book examines how civil society engages with transitional justice in Russia, demonstrating a broad range of roles civil society can undertake ...

Insurgency in Indias Northeast provides a systematic analysis of every major secessionist group and insurgency in the region within a unified and o...

This volume is a timely contribution to the current debates and potential efforts to study and counter the phenomena of extreme right violence in a...

This book brings together a diverse range of scholars and practitioners working at the nexus of peace and development to reflect, at the mid-way po...

This book analyses the main events and turning points in the building of pre- and post-independent South Sudan. It covers the historical perspectiv...

This volume is a timely contribution to the current debates and potential efforts to study and counter the phenomena of extreme right violence in a...

This book examines how major powers in the Indo-Pacific region cope with and respond to the potential order transition against the background of th...

This book examines the European Unions everyday statebuilding practices, using the case of Kosovo as an example of how it uses informal practices t...

This book examines the growing phenomenon of armed banditry in Nigeria and its implication for national security.Nigerias banditry crisis and deepe...

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by I...

Are new forms of activism emerging in Algeria? Can civil society effect political reform in the country? The violence between radical Islamists and...

This book offers an in-depth exploration of the early history of Palestine, providing a rigorous analysis of pivotal events and underlying dynamics...

This volume charts a new frontier of applied ethnomusicology by highlighting the role of music in both inciting and resolving a spectrum of social ...

Excessive military spending reduces the available financial reserves for health, education, and other human needs. For poor countries, it increases...

Drawing on innovative research into sectarian-political struggle in Beirut, Mohamad Hafeda shows how boundaries in a divided city are much more tha...

This book, part of a two-volume exploration, examines the trajectory of India-China relations, spanning from the making of a common border to the e...

Trinidad and Chua provide invaluable insights on various dimensions and directions of twenty-first-century Philippines-Japan relations from Filipin...

National security, war and strategy are mostly considered male preserves across the world even when, as professional scholars or policy practitione...

This Handbook explores the ways in which religion among the African people has been applied in situations of conflict and violence to contribute to...

This book centres refugees and asylum seekers as agents of global politics, broadening our thinking about political agency beyond statism, citizens...

This interdisciplinary volume portrays Indias removal of Article 370 and of Jammu and Kashmir's special status in August 2019 as an effort to stop ...

What does it mean to fight for womens rights in the 21st century? Around the globe, women stand up to repression, violence, and authoritarianism to...

This book examines the processes and dynamics of cooperation between different actors in civil peace service projects in Kenya, Sierra Leone and Li...

Liberalism and Naval Strategy (1986) examines the role that liberalism played in shaping the naval strategy of the Pax Britannia. Liberalism was li...

This book identifies why presidents, prime ministers, and other leaders of countries often make blunders in foreign policy. Blunders have been reco...

When dehumanisation and destruction become the norm, the cycle must be broken. For over twenty years, Ittay Flescher has worked as an educator, jou...

We are, once again, a world at war. Geopolitical elites are deploying the implacable forces of ethnocentric hatred and religious nationalism; ordin...

We are, once again, a world at war. Geopolitical elites are deploying the implacable forces of ethnocentric hatred and religious nationalism; ordin...

This book shifts the focus of peacebuilding away from nation-states and international organisations to make a powerful argument that sustainable pe...

This book shifts the focus of peacebuilding away from nation-states and international organisations to make a powerful argument that sustainable pe...

This book examines how the Treaty of Peace with Japan, a momentous agreement that delineated postwar order in the Pacific, was negotiated between J...

This volume explores the determinants of state power, the strategic options of rising powers, the drivers of conflict in dynamic international syst...

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