Peace and Conflict Studies

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Between Rebels and Relief

Negotiating Humanitarian Access in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

By Myfanwy James
Subjects: African Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Anthropology, Social Anthropology
Series: African Perspectives

How do humanitarian organizations negotiate access to areas controlled by rebel groups?

Memories of Violence

Artists and the Curation of Mnemonic Peace

By Stefanie Kappler
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

When artists engage in pluri-local processes of remembrance and repair

Interrupting Genocide

A Model for Reconciliation and Social Healing

By Jocelyn R. Barrett
Subjects: Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, Human Rights, Education
Series: Ethnic Conflict: Studies in Nationality, Race, and Culture

A practical and human-centered model of reconciliation to implement during genocide

Claiming Impartiality

Peacebuilding Organizations as Actors in Multiple Fields of Global Governance

By Andrea Warnecke
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

Uncovering the foundational dilemma between the objectives and the institutional mandates of peacebuilding agencies

Beyond International Intervention

Politics of Improvement in Serbia

By Katarina Kušic
Subjects: Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, International Relations, European Studies, Eastern European Studies
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

What do peacebuilding interventions look like to the people involved?

Greenland in Arctic Security

(De)securitization Dynamics under Climatic Thaw and Geopolitical Freeze

Edited by Marc Jacobsen, Ulrik Pram Gad, and Ole Wæver
Subjects: Political Science, Political Communication, Peace and Conflict Studies, International Relations, Political Theory

How a nation at the center of the Arctic region fits into security studies

A Passion for Cooperation

Adventures of a Wide-Ranging Scientist

By Robert Axelrod
Subjects: Memoir, Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Ann Arbor/University of Michigan, Politics
Series: Campus Voices: Stories of Excellence from the University of Michigan

A lifetime of achieving the gold standard of interdisciplinary research

How Informal Institutions Matter

Evidence from Turkish Social and Political Spheres

with a foreword by B. Guy Peters

By Zeki Sarigil
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Peace and Conflict Studies

Informal institutions are core to political life

Making Endless War

The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law

Edited by Brian Cuddy & Victor Kattan
Subjects: Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, International Relations
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

How two conflicts have shaped the relationship between law and war since 1945

Turkey and the Kurdish Peace Process

Actors, Issues, and Context

By Arin Savran
Subjects: Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, International Relations, Middle and Near Eastern Studies

The Kurdish peace process represents a major shift in theoretical and practical approaches to peace studies

Complex Rivalry

The Dynamics of India-Pakistan Conflict

By Surinder Mohan
Subjects: Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, International Relations, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia

A new model to understand the India–Pakistan rivalry

First Nationalism Then Identity

On Bosnian Muslims and Their Bosniak Identity

By Mirsad Kriještorac
Subjects: Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, European Studies, Eastern European Studies
Series: Ethnic Conflict: Studies in Nationality, Race, and Culture

Understanding the relationship between nationalism and identity, through a native European Muslim group

Twenty-First Century Military Innovation

Technological, Organizational, and Strategic Change beyond Conventional War

By Marcus Schulzke
Subjects: Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies

How the military actively reengineers for success on and off the battlefield

Torture, Humiliate, Kill

Inside the Bosnian Serb Camp System

By Hikmet Karcic
Subjects: Political Science, European Studies, Balkans, Peace and Conflict Studies
Series: Ethnic Conflict: Studies in Nationality, Race, and Culture

Detention camps as instruments of torture and collective trauma

Pride, Not Prejudice

National Identity as a Pacifying Force in East Asia

By Eunbin Chung
Subjects: Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, Asian Studies, China, Japan, Korea, International Relations

Nationalism as a path to international peace

Normalization in World Politics

By Nicolas Lemay-Hebert & Gëzim Visoka
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies

The imposition of normalcy on fragile states and crises and its implications for world politics

European-Russian Power Relations in Turbulent Times

By Mai'a Cross & Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Comparative Politics

Getting poked by the Bear?

The Politics of Military Force

Antimilitarism, Ideational Change, and Post-Cold War German Security Discourse

By Frank A. Stengel
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, German Studies
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

Examines the dynamics of discursive change that made participation in military operations possible against the background of German antimilitarist culture

Coexistence in the Aftermath of Mass Violence

Imagination, Empathy, and Resilience

By Eve Zucker & Laura McGrew
Subjects: Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies

The process of choosing peace after violence

American Dove

US Foreign Policy and the Failure of Force

By Zachary Shirkey
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, American Politics, Peace and Conflict Studies

A framework for a moral grand strategy

Resisting Europe

Practices of Contestation in the Mediterranean Middle East

By Raffaella A. Del Sarto & Simone Tholens
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies

Examines the ways that MENA states reject, resist, challenge, modify, or entirely change European policies and preferences

Battle for Allegiance

Governments, Terrorist Groups, and Constituencies in Conflict

By Seden Akcinaroglu & Efe Tokdemir
Subjects: Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, International Relations

The ways in which terrorist groups, the government, and the citizens relate to each other in a triadic web of action

Thucydides’s Trap?

Historical Interpretation, Logic of Inquiry, and the Future of Sino-American Relations

By Steve Chan
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies

History is not doomed to repeat itself

Friendship in Islamic Ethics and World Politics

Edited by Mohammad Jafar Amir Mahallati
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Islamic Studies, Public Policy and Governance

Friendship studies can model behavior both intellectual and actual

Decency and Difference

Humanity and the Global Challenge of Identity Politics

By Steven C. Roach
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

A critical examination of the many difficulties and possibilities of advancing decency in world politics

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