• 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.
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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

• 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.
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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.
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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

• Paradiplomacy : concepts, definitions, questions and hypothesis
• Analyzing paradiplomacy comparatively and theoretically
• Paradiplomacy around the world
• Paradiplomacy in Mexico
• Paradiplomacy and international cooperation through inter-institutional agreements
• Paradiplomacy in Mexico through the eyes of the SSG international agencies
• The paradiplomacy of Mexico City.

"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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

• 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

• Acknowledgement Contributors Bio Preface
• 1. Introduction (Chanintira na Thalang, Soravis Jayanama and Jittipat Poonkham)
• 2. Why is there no Thai (Critical) International Relations Theory? Great Debates Revisited, Critical Theory, and Dissensus of IR in Thailand (Jittipat Poonkham)
• 3. Minding the Gap: Poststructuralist IR Theory in Thailand (Soravis Jayanama)
• 4. Postcolonial Theoretical Proposals in Thai International Relations (Chyatat Supachalasai)
• 5. Foreign Policy Analysis in Thailand (M.L. Pinitbhand Paribatra)
• 6. International Political Economy in Thailand:A Discipline in Stagnation? (Pongkwan Sawasdipakdi)
• 7. Security Studies in Thailand (Kasira Cheeppensook)
• 8. Peace Research and International Relations in Thailand: Mutual Dismissal and Disengagement? (Janjira Sombatpoonsiri)
• 9. The State of International Relations (IR) as a Discipline in Southeast Asian Studies in Thailand (Chanintira na Thalang)
• 10. The State of International Relations Theories in ASEAN Studies in Thailand (Pinn Siraprapasiri)
• 11. European Studies in Thailand (Natthanan Kunnamas)
• 12. Why is the conceptualisation of and theoretical debates in Thai politics a more common occurrence than that of IR in Thailand? Comparing and reflecting on the state and status of politics and IR in Thailand (Chanintira na Thalang)
• 13. The End of a Thai International Relations (IR)? A Plea for the Empirical Foundations of Critical Theory (Kullada Kesboonchoo Mead and Jittipat Poonkham)
• Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

There has long been considerable debate about the nature of non-Western IR theory. Most attempts to understand such a phenomenon begin by taking a top-down approach on a country by country basis. Instead, this book takes a bottom-up approach, involving specialists from a range of Thai universities, revealing the contours of the Thai IR community. It examines the state of various sub-fields under the IR rubric in Thailand such as foreign policy analysis, security studies, international political economy and area studies, and how Thai thinkers in these fields have contributed to IR as a discipline and IR theory development in Thailand. In doing so, it identifies factors unique to Thai academia which have hindered the development of an indigenous-sourced theory as well as exploring the similarities shared with other non-Western contexts that have posed an obstacle to the creation of a more general non-Western IR theory. Providing both an in-depth insight into the specific phenomena of Thai IR theory, and a broader perspective on the challenges of formulating non-Western IR theory, this book aims to push the debate on non-Western IR theory forward. It will be of particular interest to readers looking for a better understanding of IR theory in Thailand, but also for those more generally looking to formulate and characterise non-Western approaches to the discipline.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780815396819 20181227

• Foreword
• Notes on contributors
• Preface
• Introduction: A New Framework for Understanding Sub-Regions/Sub-Regionalism (Hidetoshi Taga and Seiichi Igarashi)
• Toward a New Analytical Framework of Subregions: Cross-scale Regional Governance (Hidetoshi Taga and Hideo Kojimoto)
• Small States' Strategies in the Mekong Region: Perspectives from Laos (Yuji MORIKAWA)
• Alternative Mekong Regionalism: From the Perspective of Regional Hegemony and Civil Society (Seiichi Igarashi)
• Civil Society vs. GMS States in Terms of Infrastructure and Hydropower Development Projects (Kosum Saichan and Hiroshi Komatsu)
• Changing Borderland Local Communities with Development of the GMS Program (Ekamol Saichan)
• The Mekong Region and Changing Borders: A Focus on the CBTA and BCPs (Tetsu Sadotomo and Kenji Nakayama)
• Normative Politics in the European Union's External Actions: The Case of ENI Cross-Border Cooperation (Yoichiro Usui)
• Sub Regionalism in the Border Regions between the EU and Russia (Kazu Takahashi)
• The Parallel Evolution of Functional Macroregions and Cross-scale Regional Governance as Emerging Political Instruments in the North Sea Region (Hideo Kojimoto, Yoshitaka Ota, and Ann Bell)
• Index.
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In the context of the end of the Cold War and the spread of globalism, sub-regions are attracting attention as new social units of international society never before observed. In the "second wave" of regionalism that became active in the 1980s, a new regionalism, which differed qualitatively from the old regionalism, expanded globally. This "new regionalism" is characterized by multi-dimensionality, complexity, fluidity, and non-conformity, and within it we cannot overlook the fact that spaces on a new scale, such as sub-regions, are being formed in various parts of the world. The sovereign state system that has continued unbroken since the Westphalia Treaty is being transformed, and within this context, the increase in the number of sub-regions as new social units adds to the sense that we have arrived at a post-Westphalian international order. This book focuses on sub-region as a new social unit of international society. It is based on the findings obtained through meticulous fieldwork and joint studies conducted over the past 10 years by about 20 researchers, primarily from Japanese universities and Chiang Mai University, Thailand. The sub-regions described here are mostly international cross-border spaces or units in the interior of a certain region, which include: multiple states, states and parts of states, or more than two parts of states (often referred to as micro-regions). Such sub-regions have been formed in various parts of the world since the end of the Cold War. However, studies on sub-regions remain unexplored in the existing studies of regionalism. The few studies that do exist mainly focus on the economic aspects of sub-regions. In contrast, this book will specifically examine the sub-regions in Asia (especially the Mekong region and Europe) as main cases from a political science and international relations perspective, aiming to establish a new/alternative international relations by carving out a political angle of sub-region as a new social unit of international society and attempting to shift the paradigm of conventional international relations. To understand the political dimension of a sub-region, this book will mainly focus on three aspects: sub-regions and state strategies, bottom-up dimension of sub-regions, and sub-regions and borders.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781138093256 20181227

• List of illustrations Introduction: Resistance and Resilience Laurent Dousset and Melissa Nayral
• Chapter 1. A Story in and on Signs: Making Resistance and Acquiescence Legible as Forms of Resilience Yasmine Musharbash
• Chapter 2. Global Models and Local Management of Land Ownership in Rapa (French Polynesia) Christian Ghasarian
• Chapter 3. Between Vulnerability, Resilience and Resistance: Fiji Islander Women Activists and the Ethno-Nationalist Political Crises in
• 2000 Sina Emde
• Chapter 4. Resisting UN Ideals to Make Men and Women Equal in Politics: When a Humanist Concern Turns into Arithmetic in Ouvea (New Caledonia) Melissa Nayral
• Chapter 5. Independence from Independence: History, Landownership and Politics in South Malekula, Vanuatu Laurent Dousset
• Chapter 6. The Reasonableness of Leaders and the Gaming of Mining Incomes in Papua New Guinea John Burton Conclusion: Values in Flux - Reflections on Resilience and Change in Melanesia Martha Macintyre Index.
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Throughout the Pacific region, people are faced with dramatic changes, often described as processes of "glocalization"; individuals and groups espouse multilayered forms of identity, in which global modes of thinking and doing are embedded in renewed perceptions of local or regional specificities. Consequently, new forms of resistance and resilience - the processes by which communities attempt to regain their original social, political, and economic status and structure after disruption or displacement - emerge. Through case studies from across the Pacific which transcend the conventional "local-global" dichotomy, this volume aims to explore these complex and interwoven phenomena from a new perspective.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781789200409 20190128

• 1. Introduction Part One: Natural Resources, Armed Conflict and Peacebuilding
• 2. International Peacebuilding: Origins, Development and Strategies
• 3. Natural Resources, Armed Conflict and Peacebuilding Part Two: Conflict, Forests and Peacebuilding in Liberia
• 4. From Settlement and State Consolidation to Civil War and "Conflict Timber"
• 5. International Intervention and Post-Conflict Forest Governance Part Three: Conflict, Diamonds, Minerals and Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone
• 6. Colonialization and One-Party Rule to Civil War and "Conflict Diamonds"
• 7. International Intervention to Govern Diamonds and Minerals Part Four: Transforming Conflict Resources into Peace Resources in Liberia and Sierra Leone
• 8. The Limits of Securing and Marketizing Natural Resources and a Way Forward.
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This book argues that a set of persuasive narratives about the links between natural resource, armed conflict and peacebuilding have strongly influenced the natural resource interventions pursued by international peacebuilders. The author shows how international peacebuilders active in Liberia and Sierra Leone pursued a collective strategy to transform "conflict resources" into "peace resources" vis-a-vis a policy agenda that promoted "securitization" and "marketization" of natural resources. However, the exclusive focus on securitization and marketization have been counterproductive for peacebuilding since these interventions render invisible issues connected to land ownership, environmental protection and sustainable livelihoods and mirror pre-war governing arrangements in which corruption, exclusion and exploitation took root. Natural resource governance and peacebuilding must go beyond narrow debates about securitization and marketization, and instead be a catalyst for trust-building and cooperation that has a local focus, and pursues an inclusive agenda that not only serves the cause of peace, but the cause of people.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9783319631653 20181105

• PART I Conceptual Debate
• Introduction: Peacebuilding in Contemporary Africa
• Kenneth Omeje
• The Peacebuilding and Development Debate: Is Contemporary Peacebuilding Development in Disguise?
• Mala Mustapha & Usman A. Tar
• PART II Neglected Dimensions of Peacebuilding: Micro-Level Conflicts
• Peacebuilding in Micro-level Inter-Community Conflicts in West Africa: Examples from Ghana and Nigeria
• Afua Boatemaa Yakohene
• Marginalization and Violent Conflict in the Karamoja Region of Uganda
• Tony Karbo
• Peacebuilding in Micro-Level Inter-Community Conflicts: Examples from Selected Countries in Southern Africa
• Pamela Machakanja and Chupicai Manuel
• PART III Conventional Wisdom and Practices in Peacebuilding: Macro-Level Conflicts
• Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone One and Half Decades after the Civil War: At What Stage Does a Country Cease to be Post-Conflict?
• Ibrahim Bangura
• The Task of Rebuilding Liberia
• T. Debey Sayndee
• Conflict Intervention, Insecurity and the Challenges of Peacebuilding in South Sudan
• Nicodemus Minde
• Boko Haram Insurgency, Terrorism and the Challenges of Peacebuilding in the Lake Chad Basin
• Usman A. Tar and Bashir Bala
• Obstacles to Peace and Security in North Africa
• Ibrahim Bangura and Sampson Lau
• PART IV In Search of Alternative Strategies
• Peacebuilding through Peace Education in the Horn of Africa: A Transformative Cosmopolitan Perspective
• Yonas Adaye Adeto
• Transiting from Armed Conflict to Peace in Contemporary Africa: Changing Tides, Research Findings and Future Directions
• Kenneth Omeje.
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Peacebuilding in Contemporary Africa explores the challenges and opportunities faced by countries and societies transitioning from armed conflicts to peace in contemporary Africa. It evaluates the effectiveness, outcomes and failures of existing peacebuilding initiatives implemented by stakeholders, and proposes new strategies and approaches to facilitate the transition. The book investigates both micro- and macro-level conflicts in various parts of Africa, as well as the efforts made to resolve them and build peace. The book pays particular attention to grassroots-based micro-level conflicts often disregarded in peacebuilding literature, which tends to focus on macro-level, neo-liberal state reconstruction and peacebuilding efforts. The book adopts an evidence-based, policy-relevant approach to peacebuilding in Africa. The various chapter contributors offer a lucid analysis and critique of some of the prevailing paradigms and strategies of peacebuilding practiced in Africa. Together, the authors recommend innovative strategies to mobilise and coordinate governance institutions and partnerships at all levels (international, regional, national, and local) to prevent conflict escalation in volatile states and advance the rebuilding of violence-affected states and communities. Peacebuilding in Contemporary Africa provides a much-needed perspective from African scholars, and will be of interest to students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners with an interest in promoting legitimate policy interventions and sustainable peace in Africa.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781138492028 20190107

• 1. Introduction: From Conflict to Enduring PeaceJames Ockey Part I: Theoretical Perspectives
• 2. The Tripartite Formula and Peacebuilding in the PacificBethan K. Greener
• 3. The Missing Link: Patterns in Leadership Changes and Mediation in Civil Wars Carmela Lutmar and Lesley G. Terris Part II: Case Studies
• 4. Making Peace in the Southern Philippines: Negotiated Settlements and the Search for a Durable PeaceNaimah S. Talib
• 5. Power Sharing and Power Dividing in the Asia-PacificBenjamin Reilly
• 6. Buying Peace in Timor-Leste: Crisis, Side-payments, and Regime-BuildingDouglas Kammen
• 7. Conflict Resolution and Political Change in TongaIan C. Campbell
• 8. Peace and Conflict in Samoa: The Role of Tradition and Traditional Institutions Iati Iati
• 9. From Conflict to Peaceful Participation: a Case Study of the Ongoing Conflict in Southern ThailandThanikun Chantra
• 10. Resident Evil at the Gate of the Holy Land: Brewing socio-politico tensions in post-conflict AcehJovanie Camacho Espesor Part III: Conclusions
• 11. ConclusionsCarmela Lutmar.
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This book explores theories of conflict and peacebuilding and applies them to case studies from the Asia Pacific region, seeking to shift attention to the inherency of conflict, the constant danger of re-emergence, and the need to establish mechanisms to resolve it. The authors argue that the central focus of peacebuilding should not be state-building per se, but rather the creation of effective mechanisms for peaceful resolution of both past and newly emerging conflicts. To do so, it is important to consider the entire process of creating peace, to contemplate the linkages between conflict, resolution, and post-conflict peacebuilding, rather than focus only on the period of institution-building.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9783319785943 20181126

• List of Figures & Tables
• List of Abbreviations
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 Pacifism and Political Sociology
• 2 Article
• 9 and the Constitution of Japan: The Structural Condition of Japan's Polity
• 3 The Japan- US Security Alliance: The Underside of the Structural Condition of Japan's Polity
• 4 Roots and Nature of Japanese Pacifism
• 5 Political Sociology of Japanese Pacifism
• 6 Japan's Contested Pacifism
• Conclusion
• Appendix I Constitution of Japan
• Appendix II Security Treaty between Japan and the United States of America
• Appendix III Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between Japan and the United States of America
• Index.
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While Japanese pacifism is usually seen as a national policy or an ideology rooted in the provision of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, it cannot be adequately understood without grasping Japanese social discourses on peace, war and justice. The perspective of political sociology provides a more in-depth understanding of Japanese pacifism and helps us to find the reasons for the critical changes that have occurred in Japan's policies since the mid-2000s. These changes include sending its self-defense force to Iraq and Afghanistan outside UN missions and the enactment of new security legislation in 2015. Nishikawa explores Japanese pacifism in a changing domestic and regional context, from the perspective of political sociology. Getting to grips with the social bases of politics, she examines whether Japan is likely to remain a pacifist country or retain its pacifist image in changing regional and global context. This book comprehensively examines Japanese pacifism by fully examining the social forces in action. Employing a multidisciplinary approach, the book contributes to theoretical debates on political sociology as well as Japanese and Asian studies. Japan is in an important transitional period and Japanese pacifism is being brought into question in changing national and international contexts.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781138058712 20181217

• Contents Preface Chapter One: Introduction - Questioning Connectivity Chapter Two: Against Hierarchy Chapter Three: Entropic Barbarism Chapter Four: Being There Chapter Five: Fantastic Invasion Chapter Six: Livelihood Regime Chapter Seven: Instilling Remoteness Chapter Eight: Edge of Catastrophe Chapter Nine: Connecting Precarity Chapter Ten: Post-Humanitarianism Chapter Eleven: Living Wild Chapter Twelve: Conclusion - Automating Precarity.
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The world has entered an unprecedented period of uncertainty and political instability. Faced with the challenge of knowing and acting within such a world, the spread of computers and connectivity, and the arrival of new digital sense-making tools, are widely celebrated as helpful. But is this really the case, or have we lost more than gained in the digital revolution? In Post-Humanitarianism, renowned scholar of development, security and global governance Mark Duffield offers an alternative interpretation. He contends that connectivity embodies new forms of behavioural incorporation, cognitive subordination and automated management that are themselves inseparable from the emergence of precarity as a global phenomenon. Rather than protect against disasters, we are encouraged to accept them as necessary for strengthening resilience. At a time of permanent emergency, humanitarian disasters function as sites for trialling and anticipating the modes of social automation and remote management necessary to govern the precarity that increasingly embraces us all. Post-Humanitarianism critically explores how increasing connectivity is inseparable from growing societal polarization, anger and political push-back. It will be essential reading for students of international and social critique, together with anyone concerned about our deepening alienation from the world.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780745698588 20190121

• The strategic-tactical gap in U.S. grand strategy
• Toward a framework for foreign-policy evaluation
• Historical progenitors of preponderance and the OPM model
• The strategic-tactical gap of the Vietnam War
• The Iraq War : FPDM prisms and the man behind the curtain
• The infinite multidimensionality of foreign-policy evaluation.

• List of figures and tables
• Notes on contributors
• Introduction
• DAVID WALTON AND THOMAS S. WILKINS
• PART I Theoretical approaches
• 1 Middle powers: A comprehensive definition and typology
• TANGUY STRUYE DE SWIELANDE
• 2 The historical determination of the middle power concept
• GABRIELE ABBONDANZA
• 3 Defining middle powers through IR theory: Three images
• THOMAS S. WILKINS
• 4 Interlocutors for peace? Bringing middle powers in from the theoretical cold
• ALLAN PATIENCE AND CHIRAAG ROY
• 5 Middle powers in the agency-structure debate
• FEDERICA DE PANTZ
• 6 Too big to fit? Locating "rising powers" regarding the middle power category
• JOAN DEAS
• 7 Interrogating middle powers' behaviour
• CATHERINE JONES
• 8 Faith no more: Reflections on the distinction between traditional and emerging middle powers
• EDUARD JORDAAN
• 9 Middle power assertiveness as a behavioural model in foreign policy
• ANDRIY TYUSHKA
• PART II
• Case studies
• 10 Middle powers and power shifts: Australian foreign policy towards China and Japan
• DAVID WALTON
• 11 Adjusting the middle to fit the frame: Canada in the changing global order
• JEREMY PALTIEL AND KIM RICHARD NOSSAL
• 12 India: Breaking out of the middle power straitjacket?
• EMILIAN KAVALSKI
• 13 The case of Pakistan: Middlepowermanship as a role
• DOROTHEE VANDAMME
• 14 The Singapore paradox: The "little red dot" as a "middle power"
• LAM PENG ER
• 15 Meddling middle powers: Can diplomacy crack the North Korean conundrum?
• VIRGINIE GRZELCZYK
• 16 Middle power hybridisation and China
• JONATHAN H. PING
• Conclusion
• TANGUY STRUYE DE SWIELANDE AND DOROTHEE VANDAMME
• Afterword
• ANDREW F. COOPER
• Index.
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The term "middle power" is conceptually fragile. Some scholars have even argued for abandoning it. This book argues that the concept needs to be analysed more profoundly and that new analytical tools need to be developed to better understand the phenomenon. The traditional approach, based on Western states, is insufficient and has become increasingly irrelevant in a transformed global environment. Instead of drawing from a single theory of international relations, the contributors have chosen to build upon a wide range of theories in a deliberate demonstration of analytic eclecticism. A pluralistic approach provides stronger explanations while remaining analytically and intellectually rigorous. Many of the theory contributions are reconsidering how the largely "Western" bases of such theorising need revising in light of the "emerging middle powers", many of which are in Asia. Presenting a strong argument for studying middle powers, this book explores both the theory and empirical applications of the concept by rethinking the definition and characteristics of middle powers using a range of case studies. It examines changes in the study of middle powers over the last decade, proposing to look at the concept of middle powers in a coherent and inclusive manner. Finally, it aims to further the discussion on the evolution of the international system and provides sound conclusions about the theoretical usefulness and empirical evolution of middle powers today.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781138614871 20190206

• Introduction
• 1. A Short History of the Cambodian Conflict and Peace Process
• 2. The Social Structure of the Insurgency
• 3. Leadership
• 4. Mid-Ranking Operators
• 5. Rank-and-File Soldiers
• 6. Blank Pages' Symbolic Reconstruction
• 7. Note on Female Combatants of the Khmer Rouge
• 8. The Diaspora Conclusion.
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Drawing on data from three different insurgent groups within the Cambodian conflict, the book shows how the social backgrounds of combatants and commanders cause them to pursue different strategies during a decade-long transition into various postconflict settings, thereby creating different "pathways to peace." By highlighting different vertical and horizontal ranks within the insurgent groups and the role of belligerents' resources and networks, this qualitative study tackles an imbalance in the current research on Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR), which tends to focus on top-down planning and the technicalities of reintegration programs. It helps explain why conflict dynamics and path-dependencies differ among various social groups within the field of insurgency. By analyzing the social position, life courses and postconflict trajectories of various groups within the insurgency, the book emphasizes the diversity of transitions to peace and "brings the social back in." The study is grounded in in-depth fieldwork conducted in Cambodia and its diaspora, including 168 firsthand interviews with ex-combatants from groups as diverse as Buddhist monks and Christian converts, intellectuals, powerful warlords, civil servants, and female communist soldiers. Using these details, the book not only builds a theory of the social structure and internal logic of armed groups, but also emphasizes the crucial importance of fighters' own narratives about their roles in society. Therefore, in addition to advancing a sociological perspective on post-conflict transitions, the study also provides the most detailed treatment to date of the social fields of the insurgents who fought in the civil war that followed the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979. These social fields continue to have a profound influence on Cambodian politics, even today.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781498580540 20190204