• 1. Introduction
• 2. Expanded Peacekeeping Training Needs - Demands Posed by the Normative and Tactical Dimensions of Today's Missions
• 3. Peacekeeping Training Centres in Africa and Their Training Efforts: The Cases of KAIPTC and ACCORD
• 4. African Peacekeeping Training Centres as Bridges Between Doctrine and Action
• 5. Peacekeeping Training as a Form of Socialisation
• 6. Training Needs, Training Realities and Expectations of Training Impact
• 7. Conclusion.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Peacekeeping training centres play a crucial role in preparing peacekeepers for their deployment. However, despite their popularity within the international community as a tool for achieving international security, development, and state-building objectives, they have not received a great deal of analysis or academic attention. This book provides an in-depth analysis of peacekeeping training in Africa, tracing how centres have adapted to the operational and normative changes of peace operations over time and raising questions about the expectations attached to these training efforts and their impact. The book examines training content and methods in detail, exploring the potential of peacekeeping training centres as sites for socialisation and diffusing international norms in an effort to change and shape peacekeepers' behaviour. The analysis is based on two contrasting case studies, selected to show the spectrum of training centres operating in Africa, namely the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in Accra, Ghana, and the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) in Durban, South Africa. At a time when impact is being determined by the number of course attendees, this book provides an important critical assessment of training efforts and what they are supposed to achieve. It will be of interest to scholars and practitioners within the fields of international security, peacekeeping, and African development.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780815346623 20190129

• A history of the nonreligious
• The politics of "Shinto" environmentalism
• Making a universal furusato (homeplace)
• Muddy labor
• Being like family
• Discipline as care.

International development programs strive not only to alleviate poverty but to transform people, aid workers and recipients alike. Becoming One grapples with this process by exploring the work of OISCA, a prominent Japanese NGO in central Myanmar. OISCA's postwar origins at the intersection of Shinto, secularism, and rightwing politics, and its vision of inter-Asian solidarity and a sustainable future helped shape the organization's ideology and activities. By delving into the world of its aid workers-their everyday practices, discourses, and aspirations-author Chika Watanabe seeks to understand the NGO's political, social, and ethical effects. At OISCA training centers, Japanese and local staff teach sustainable agricultural skills and organic farming methods to rural youth. Much of the teaching involves laboring in the fields, harvesting produce, and caring for livestock: what they can't use themselves is sold at nearby markets. Watanabe's detailed and multi-sited ethnography shows how Japanese and Burmese actors mobilize around the idea of "becoming one" with Mother Earth and their human counterparts within a shared communal lifestyle. By exploring the tension between intentions and political effects-spanning environmentalism, cultural-nationalist ideologies of "Japaneseness, " and aspirations to make the world a better place-Watanabe highlights fascinating questions and both positive and negative outcomes. Becoming One.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780824875268 20190408

• Chapter 1: Italy in the post-Cold War landscape: in search of a new identity1.1. Craxi's children: 1980s neo-nationalism and its legacy1.2. Cold War nostalgia 1.3. Paving the way for the Cavaliere
• Chapter 2: Populism and foreign policy in Italy: an overview2.1. In the promised land of populism? 2.2. What international relations means for Berlusconi's populism 2.3. The challenge of Italian populism to foreign policy in Europe
• Chapter 3: (Re-)Public Diplomacy. Silvio the storyteller 3.1. From institutional to personal diplomacy 3.2. Foreign policy explained to the Italians 3.3. Berlusconi's intellighenzia
• Chapter 4. The `new diplomatic look'. Silvio the reformer 4.1. Branding Italy 4.2. The Farnesina besieged 4.3. Berlusconi the European?
• Chapter 5: Security policy and the global finance crisis5.1. The politics of Berlusconi's foreign policy5.2. From Afghanistan to Libya: Italian dilemmas on war and peace5.3. Sailing into the storm: Italy and the global financial crisis
• Chapter 6: Berlusconi and the EU6.1. Between enthusiasm for Europe and Euroscepticism 6.2. Assessing the peculiarities of Berlusconi's Euroscepticism 6.3. Concluding remarks
• Chapter 7: Populism and foreign policy in Italy: the legacy7.1. The diplomat beyond the Cavaliere7.2. Turning back the clock: populism in the post-Cold War period7.3. Ready to throw in the towel?
• Chapter 8: Epilogue.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This book analyses the foreign policy of Silvio Berlusconi, Italian media tycoon and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments. The authors examine the Italian position in the international arena and its foreign policy tradition, as well as Berlusconi's general political stance, Berlusconi's foreign policy strategies and the impact of those strategies in Italy. Given that Berlusconi is considered a populist leader, the volume considers his foreign policy as an instance of populist foreign policy - an understudied but increasingly relevant topic.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9783319972619 20181126

• 1. China and International Nuclear Weapons Proliferation
• 2. Why Support Nuclear Proliferators?
• 3. Friends with Nuclear Benefits: China and the Pakistani Bomb
• 4. Circumspect Supporter: China and the Iranian Nuclear Program
• 5. Give Them Shelter: China and North Korean Nuclear Brinkmanship
• 6. Extending the Argument: Minor and Non-Chinese Cases of Nuclear Assistance
• 7. Conclusion: A Rising China and the Future of Nuclear Proliferation.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This book explores China's approach to the nuclear programs in Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea. A major power with access to nuclear technology, China has a significant impact on international nuclear weapons proliferation, but its attitude towards the spread of the bomb has been inconsistent. China's mixed record raises a broader question: why, when and how do states support potential nuclear proliferators? This book develops a framework for analyzing such questions, by putting forth three factors that are likely to determine a state's policy: (1) the risk of changes in the nuclear status or military doctrines of competitors; (2) the recipient's status and strategic value; and (3) the extent of pressure from third parties to halt nuclear assistance. It then demonstrates how these factors help explain China's policies towards Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea. Overall, the book finds that China has been a selective and strategic supporter of nuclear proliferators. While nuclear proliferation is a security challenge to China in some settings, in others, it wants to help its friends build the bomb. This book will be of much interest to students of international security, nuclear proliferation, Chinese foreign policy and International Relations in general.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781138494596 20190114

• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1: PARADIPLOMACY: CONCEPTS, DEFINITIONS, QUESTIONS AND HYPOTHESIS
• Introduction
• 1.1. Concepts and definitions
• 1.2. Questions and hypothesis
• Conclusions
• CHAPTER 2: ANALYZING PARADIPLOMACY COMPARATIVELY AND THEORETICALLY
• Introduction
• 2.1. Theories and Methodologies of IR to explain paradiplomacy comparatively
• 2.2. Federalism
• 2.2.1. The Origins of the Central-Local Division of Power
• 2.2.2. Types of Central-Local Division of Power
• 2.3. The Central-Local Division of Power: Institutional Configuration and Partisan Composition
• 2.4. Constitutional powers in international affairs and participation in foreign policy
• Conclusions
• CHAPTER 3: PARADIPLOMACY AROUND THE WORLD
• Introduction
• 3.1. Inclusive countries
• 3.1.1. Belgium
• 3.1.3. Canada
• 3.1.4. Australia
• 3.2. Complementary countries
• 3.2.1. Argentina
• 3.2.2. Brazil
• 3.2.3. South Africa
• 3.2.4. United States of America
• 3.3. Exclusive countries
• 3.3.1. India
• 3.3.2. Russia
• Conclusions
• CHAPTER 4: PARADIPLOMACY IN MEXICO
• Introduction
• 4.1. The international and domestic factors
• 4.2. Mexican constitutional and institutional design
• 4.3. The legal framework of Mexican paradiplomacy
• 4.4. Measuring and classifying paradiplomacy in Mexico
• 4.5. Comparatively analyzing paradiplomacy in Mexico
• 4.5.1. Economic factors: SSG income
• 4.5.2. Political variables: Juxtaposed government
• 4.5.3. Geography: Border location
• Conclusions
• CHAPTER 5: PARADIPLOMACY AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION THROUGH INTER-INSTITUTIONAL AGREEMENTS
• Introduction
• 5.1. Measuring paradiplomacy through IIA
• 5.2. Increasing IIA in time
• 5.3. Partners and regions
• 5.4. Areas of cooperation
• Conclusions
• CHAPTER 6: PARADIPLOMACY IN MEXICO THROUGH THE EYES OF THE SSG INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES
• Introduction
• 6.1. Asking the SSG public officials their perceptions
• 6.2. Institutional organization and capacities
• 6.3. Personnel and capacities
• 6.4. Legal and institutional framework
• 6.5. International and coordination activities
• 6.6. Domestic and international partners
• 6.7. Perceived challenges and strategies
• 6.8. Professionalization, knowledge and evaluation of paradiplomacy
• Conclusions
• CHAPTER 7: THE PARADIPLOMACY OF MEXICO CITY
• Introduction
• 7.1. From Lopez Obrador to Encinas
• 7.2. Ministries and administrative units of the Federal District in international affairs
• 7.3. Change of administration: change to an internationalist vocation
• Conclusions
• CONCLUSIONS.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Studying paradiplomacy comparatively, this book explains why and how sub-state governments (SSG) conduct their international relations (IR) with external actors, and how federal authorities and local governments coordinate, or not, in the definition and implementation of the national foreign policy. Sub-state diplomacy plays an increasingly influential international role as regions, federal states, provinces and cities seek to promote trade, investments, cooperation and partnership on a range of issues. This raises interesting new questions about the future of the state system. Schiavon conducts a comparative study of paradiplomacy in 11 federal systems which are representative of all the regions of the world, stages of economic development and degree of consolidation of their democratic institutions (Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and the United States). The author constructs a typology to measure and explain paradiplomacy based on domestic political institutions, especially constitutional provisions relating foreign affairs and the intergovernmental mechanisms for foreign policy decision making and implementation. This comparative, systematic and theoretically based analysis of paradiplomacy between and within countries will be of interest to scholars and students of comparative politics, diplomacy, foreign policy, governance and federalism, as well as practitioners of diplomacy and paradiplomacy around the world.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781138540866 20190225

• Introduction
• State
• Nation-state
• Empire
• International, transnational, and subnational organizations
• Foreign policy
• The states system
• Nationalism, postcolonialism, and Euro-centrism
• Globalization and global governance
• Security
• International society
• Great powers
• Diplomacy
• War and peace
• Balance of power
• International law and human rights
• Power and sovereignty
• Intervention: military, economic, humanitarian
• Gender, class, ethnicity.

Concepts of International Relations, for Students and Other Smarties is not a stereotypical textbook, but an instructive, entertaining, and motivating introduction to the field of International Relations (IR). Rather than relying on figures or tables, this book piques the reader's interest with a pithy narrative that presents apposite nutshell examples, stresses historical breaks, and throws in the odd pun. Based on Iver B. Neumann's introductory lectures to his students at the London School of Economics, this book is proven in the classroom. In his intimate style, Neumann introduces the long-term historical emergence of concepts such as state (European), state (global), empire, non-state agents, foreign policy, state system, nationalism, globalization, security, international society, great powers, diplomacy, war and peace, balance of power, international law, power and sovereignty, intervention, gender and class. He demonstrates how such phenomena have been understood in different ways over time. First, the reader learns how the use of concepts is an integrated part of politics. Second, the reader sees how social change has worked in the past, and is working now. Third, the book demonstrates how historical and social context matters in ongoing international relations.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780472054077 20190415

• Introduction the benefits and challenges of field-based courses in conflict zones / Agnieszka Paczynska and Susan F. Hirsch
• Considering ethics
• Ethics and field-based courses : how to prepare students for the challenges of practice / Susan F. Hirsch and Agnieszka Paczynska
• Framing "experience" in international field-based learning / Leslie Dwyer and Alison Castel
• Field-based courses as transformative education : the role of practical ethics as a framework / Pushpa Iyer
• Improving pedagogy
• Developing leaders through innovative education : the olive tree initiative's experiential learning approach to teaching about intractable conflicts / Daniel R. Brunstetter and Daniel Wehrenfennig
• Windows and mirrors in the wall : experiential learning in Northern Ireland / Jennifer M. Ramos
• The use of service learning in teaching about conflict / Allyson M. Lowe and Sandi DiMola
• Field-based service learning pedagogy and its effects / Patricia A. Maulden and Lisa Elaine Shaw
• Effecting change
• Making change makers : integrating service learning into NGO management courses / Maryam Z. Deloffre
• When context and pretext collide : reflective practice as an ethical framework for field-based learning / Gina M. Cerasani and rj nickels
• Cultivating transformation in field-based courses / Alexander Cromwell
• To hell and back with good intentions : global service learning in the shadow of Ivan Illich / Anthony C. Ogden and Eric Hartman
• Conclusion best practices and next directions / Susan F. Hirsch and Agnieszka Paczynska
• References
• Contributors
• Index.

By taking students out of their comfort zone, field-based courses-which are increasingly popular in secondary and postsecondary education-have the potential to be deep, transformative learning experiences. But what happens when the field in question is a site of active or recent conflict? In Conflict Zone, Comfort Zone, editors Agnieszka Paczynska and Susan F. Hirsch highlight new approaches to field-based learning in conflict zones worldwide. As the contributors demonstrate, instructors must leave the comfort zone of traditional pedagogy to meet the challenges of field-based education. Drawing on case studies in the United States and abroad, the contributors address the ethical considerations of learning in conflict zones, evaluate the effectiveness of various approaches to teaching these courses, and provide guidelines for effecting change. They also explore how the challenges of field-based classes are magnified in conflict and postconflict settings, and outline the dilemmas faced by those seeking to resolve those challenges. Finally, filling a crucial gap in existing literature, the contributors identify best practices that will assist aspiring instructors in developing successful field-based courses in conflict zones. Contributors: Daniel R. Brunstetter, Alison Castel, Gina M. Cerasani, Alexander Cromwell, Maryam Z. Deloffre, Sandi DiMola, Leslie Dwyer, Eric Hartman, Pushpa Iyer, Allyson M. Lowe, Patricia A. Maulden, rj nickels, Anthony C. Ogden, Jennifer M. Ramos, Lisa E. Shaw, Daniel Wehrenfennig.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780821423455 20190408

• Foreword / Abu Bah
• Preface: Accolade to Professor P. G. Okoth: an icon in international relations and diplomatic history / Edmond Were and Francis Onditi
• Introduction: Contemporary Africa and the foreseeable world order / Francis Onditi, Gilad Ben-Nun, Cristina D'Alessandro, and Zach Levey
• Rethinking the new world order and its implications for Africa / Tom Ondicho
• Africa and the remaking of global order / Tim Murithi
• Toward a new peace and security agenda : contributions from Pan Africanism / Cheryl Hendricks
• The AU's new funding mechanisms : self-financing at last? / Kasaija Apuuli
• Can the African Union innovate in conflict prevention? Evidence from mediation and preventing and countering violent extremism / Adriana Erthal Abdenur and Giovanna Kuele
• Antidotes to extremism : Africa's refugee hospitality paradigm / Gilad Ben-Nun
• Relational African values between nations : bringing communion to the global order / Thaddeus Metz
• Between atavism and modernity : Sub-Saharan Africa's strained relationship with constitutionalism / Tom Syring
• Another round of plunder? China, Africa, and international politics through the lens of the Mugabe government, ca.
• 2000 to
• 2016 / Wesley Mwatwara and Ushehwedu Kufakurinani

• How "organized hypocrisy" within the standby force is pulling African institutions from the global influence / Francis Onditi
• Balance of power and the
• 2017 African Union commission elections / Kizito Sabala
• Hydropolitics of resource exploration in eastern Africa / Edmond Were
• Politics of oil in eastern Africa : does it present another geopolitical pivot? / Paul Opondo
• State-led development in Ethiopia : a failing legacy or an existential threat to the nation? / Frew Yirgalem
• Regime construction and sustainable stability in the Nile Basin : the East African community multilateral diplomacy in a theoretical context / Korwa Adar and Mercy Kaburu
• The future of Kiswahili is bright : the potential of East Africa's lingua franca in the emerging world order / Ken Walibora
• Kenya's national security and international refugee law in the dynamic world order / Ken Oluoch
• Can "African centered journalism" contain the terror threats in the new world order? / Fredrick Ogenga
• African foreign policy making in the African Union : peace and security / Solomon Dersso
• Kenya's foreign policy (2013-2017) and African renaissance / Rosemary Anyona
• The making of "gender diplomacy" as a foreign policy pillar in Kenya and Namibia / Francis Onditi
• Conclusion: Contemporary Africa and the foreseeable world order / Francis Onditi, Gilad Ben-Nun, Cristina D'Alessandro, and Zach Levey.

Contemporary Africa and the Foreseeable World Order brings together rich and diverse contributions from seasoned scholars from around the globe. Anchored in a wide array of disciplinary perspectives, the contributors explore the interesting and complex dynamics at play in Africa's interactions with the rest of the world--Provided by publisher.

• Contemporary security issues in Africa
• Weak and fragile states
• Ethno-religious conflict and civil wars
• Natural resources and environmental security
• Violent extremism and terrorism
• Piracy and maritime security
• Food security and extreme poverty
• International responses
• Linkages and future prospects.

This compelling book serves as a comprehensive resource for readers interested in contemporary security issues in Africa. It details the impact of complex challenges in Africa and explains why addressing them grows increasingly important. * Acknowledges principal terms, underlying concepts, and specific case studies in an exploratory overview of contemporary security issues in Africa * Emphasizes the international and regional security threats caused by contemporary security issues in Africa as a continent as well as in the context of individual countries * Employs a case study methodology, which should prove useful in a range of courses on topics including security studies, international relations, comparative politics, military history, and African history * Examines linkages between various security issues, offering an integrated appraisal of how and why these issues impact one another while considering developments, trends, and future prospects.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781440851902 20190401

• 1. Introduction: Critical approaches to security in Central Asia Edward Lemon
• Part I: State Security Discourses and the Geopolitics of Authoritarianism
• 2. Framing Andijon, narrating the nation: Islam Karimov's account of the events of
• 13 May
• 2005 Nick Megoran
• 3. Disorder over the border: spinning the spectre of instability through time and space in Central Asia Natalie Koch
• 4. Islamic discourses in Azerbaijan: the securitization of `non-traditional religious movements' Galib Bashirov
• 5. The terrorist attacks in the Volga region, 2012-13: hegemonic narratives and everyday understandings of (in)security Renat Shaykhutdinov
• Part II: The Discourses of Danger and Conflict Management in Central Asia
• 6. Locating danger: Konfliktologiia and the search for fixity in the Ferghana valley borderlands Madeleine Reeves
• 7. The paradox of peacebuilding: peril, promise, and small arms in Tajikistan John Heathershaw
• 8. `A wash with weapons'?: the case of small arms in Kyrgyzstan S. Neil MacFarlane and Stina Torjesen
• 9. In search of harmony: repairing infrastructure and social relations in the Ferghana valley Christine Bichsel
• Part III: Everyday (In)security: Harmony, Accommodation and Resistance
• 10. Living dangerously: securityscapes of Lyuli and LGBT people in urban spaces of Kyrgyzstan Marc von Boemcken, Hafiz Boboyorov and Nina Bagdasarova
• 11. Security matters in marriage: Uyghurs' perceptions of security in Xinjiang, China Mei Ding
• 12. Navigating the safety implications of doing research and being researched in Kyrgyzstan: cooperation, networks and framing Nurbek Bekmurzaev, Philipp Lottholz and Joshua Meyer
• 13. Kyrgyzstan's informal settlements: yntymak and the emergence of politics in place Bert Cramer
• 14. `The state starts from the family': peace and harmony in Tajikistan's eastern Pamirs Till Mostowlansky
• 15. Counter-extremism, power and authoritarian governance in Tajikistan Edward Lemon and Helene Thibault.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Central Asia remains on the periphery, both spatially and in people's imaginations. When the region does attract international attention, it is often related to security issues, including terrorism, ethnic conflict and drug trafficking. This book brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplines including geography, anthropology, sociology and political science to discuss how citizens and governments within Central Asia think about and practise security. The authors explore how governments use fears of instability to bolster their rule, and how securitized populations cope with (and resist) being labelled threats through strategies that are rarely associated with security, including marriage and changing their appearance. This collection examines a wide range of security issues including Islamic extremism, small arms, interethnic relations and border regions. While coverage of the region often departs from preconceived notions of the region as dangerous, obscure and volatile, the chapters in this book all place emphasis on the way local people understand security and harmony in their daily lives. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of Central Asian Studies as well as Security Studies and Political Science. The chapters were originally published in the journal Central Asian Survey.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780367086756 20190311

• Preface Introduction (Kosuke Shimizu)
• 1) What is Missing in the Ongoing Debate over Non-Western IR Theory Building? (Yong-Soo EUN) 2) Appealing to Humane Capitalism as the International Relations of Economics: Comparing Early and Late Globalizing Asia via Tome Pires' Suma Oriental (1515) and Mahathirist Thought (1970-2008) (Alan Chong) 3) Indigenization of International Relation Theories in Korea and China: Tails of Two Essentialisms (Jungmin Seo and Hwanbi Lee) 4) Koanizing IR: Flipping the Logic of Epistemic Violence (L.H.M. Ling) 5) International Relations Concerning Post-Hybridity Dangers and Potentials in Non-Synthetic Cycles (Chih-yu Shih and Josuke Ikeda) 6) Identity, Time, and Language: Nishida Kitaro's Philosophy and Politics in Non-Western Discourse (Kosuke Shimizu) 7) On the Necessary and Disavowed Subject of History in Postwar "Japan" (Hitomi Koyama) 8) Pacific for Whom: The Ocean in Japan (Atsuko Watanabe)
• Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

What do we study when we study International Relations (IR)? This book interrogates the meanings of the established ontology and subjectivity embedded in the discourse of "Western" and "non-Western" IR. We are predisposed to see a nation-state as a unified entity, everlasting and moving towards a particular end. This leads us to say, for example, "Japan is threatened by the possible Chinese attack' without questioning what "Japan" and "China" mean in this context. This book tries to locate and unearth the consistent structure and system of the world, with a particular focus on subjectivity and temporality in IR that captures the way in which we conceive and misconceive the world. The contributors reveal the extent to which contemporary IR discourses are a part of the culture of linear progress and pre-given autonomous sovereign individuals. Our targets of inquiry therefore inevitably include not only "Western" IR, but "non-Western" discourses as well. The contributors focus on the fluid identities of contemporary world affairs with special attention to temporality, and strive to develop a new approach to understanding the contemporary world and the meanings of world affairs.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781351110211 20190423

• Introduction
• 1. Continuous Demobilisations: State-building Without Peace
• 2. DDR Design: Security or Development
• 3. Social Reintegration and DDR organisations: DDR programmes and Ex-combatant's NGOs
• 4. Economic Reintegration
• 5. Political Reintegration
• Conclusion.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This book investigates demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration (DDR) in Colombia during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The six large peace processes and amnesties that took place in Colombia over this period were nation-led, providing an interesting case study for the wider DDR literature, which has historically focused on Africa and Asia. The continuous process of creating and demobilising illegal armed groups has been pivotal in building the Colombian state. Although the peace settlements and amnesties have brought renewed cycles of violence, they have also been key to the negotiation of democracy and citizenship rights for both ex-combatants and wider sectors of the population. Here the author analyses the role of DDR programmes in building state and citizenship. Comparing DDR during Alvaro Uribe's presidency and the peace process with the FARC guerrilla under the presidency of Juan Manuel Santos, the book draws on extensive fieldwork conducted with local authorities, officers on the ground and ex-combatants themselves. It details the process of creating and implementing DDR policy and explores the difficulties, challenges and security dilemmas ex-combatants may face in integrating within a post-conflict society in social, economic and political dimensions. Bringing us right up to date with the implementation of the FARC's peace process and the challenges ahead in the reintegration of ex-combatants under a new president, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of politics and development in Colombia, and to those with an interest in peace-building, state-building and DDR in other countries and conflicts.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780815357360 20190408

• Introduction: The difference that gender makes to international peace and security
• Sara E. Davies, Nicole George and Jacqui True
• 1. The politics of counting and reporting conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence: the case of Myanmar
• Sara E. Davies and Jacqui True
• 2. A "shift in attitude"? Institutional change and sexual and gender-based crimes at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
• Emma Palmer and Sarah Williams
• 3. Invisible labor, invisible bodies: how the global political economy affects reproductive freedom in the Philippines
• Maria Tanyag
• 4. Policing "conjugal order": gender, hybridity and vernacular security in Fiji
• Nicole George
• 5. The logic of protection: narratives of HIV/AIDS in the UN Security Council
• Maria Jansson
• 6. Women in power and power of women: the Liberian experience
• Oasis Kodila-Tedika and Simplice A. Asongu
• 7. Gender, peace and security in the Australian Defence Force: Sarah Hewitt in conversation with Captain Jennifer Wittwer, CSM, RAN
• Sarah Hewitt
• 8. Making these beautiful resolutions real: Sara E. Davies in conversation with Devanna de la Puente
• Sara E. Davies.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Fifteen years after the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 which establishes the Women, Peace and Security agenda, there is now a need to assess the impacts of gender equality efforts, and to understand why and how gender equality reforms have advanced to the extent that they have. This book examines how international peace and security is re-envisioned from a gender perspective by mostly focusing on the nuances presented by the Asia Pacific region. It argues that despite the diversity of political, socio-cultural and economic systems in the Asia Pacific, women and girls in the region continue to experience similar forms of insecurities. Several countries in the Asia Pacific have demonstrated relative peace and stability. In addition, women's leadership and participation in peacebuilding are and continue to be increasingly recognized in the region too. However, as the chapters in this book demonstrate, applying a critical gender analysis allows for the interrogation of `veneers' of political order which can then mask or normalise everyday gendered insecurities. The analysis of country cases such as Myanmar, Cambodia and Fiji underscores a rethinking of the political order in the Asia Pacific which leaves existing gender inequalities intact. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue in the International Feminist Journal of Politics.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781138607613 20181227

• A new kind of woman is following the army: canteening on the Western Front
• Take your prettiest dresses and go: a touch of home in World War II
• The difference between savagery and civilization: women in faraway places
• Dancing for democracy: entertaining citizen-soldiers in the early Cold War
• Look, but don't touch: sexuality and entertainment in the Vietnam War
• No beer, no booze, no babes: entertaining the all-volunteer military.

The story of the intrepid young women who volunteered to help and entertain American servicemen fighting overseas, from World War I through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The emotional toll of war can be as debilitating to soldiers as hunger, disease, and injury. Beginning in World War I, in an effort to boost soldiers' morale and remind them of the stakes of victory, the American military formalized a recreation program that sent respectable young women and famous entertainers overseas. Kara Dixon Vuic builds her narrative around the young women from across the United States, many of whom had never traveled far from home, who volunteered to serve in one of the nation's most brutal work environments. From the "Lassies" in France and mini-skirted coeds in Vietnam to Marlene Dietrich and Marilyn Monroe, Vuic provides a fascinating glimpse into wartime gender roles and the tensions that continue to complicate American women's involvement in the military arena. The recreation-program volunteers heightened the passions of troops but also domesticated everyday life on the bases. Their presence mobilized support for the war back home, while exporting American culture abroad. Carefully recruited and selected as symbols of conventional femininity, these adventurous young women saw in the theater of war a bridge between public service and private ambition. This story of the women who talked and listened, danced and sang, adds an intimate chapter to the history of war and its ties to life in peacetime.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780674986381 20190401