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| 9-11 | Report Error | | Author: Noam Chomsky | | Publication Date: October 2001 | | Publisher: Seven Stories Press | | Description: 'Noam Chomsky comments on terrorism, U.S. foreign policy, Osama bin Laden, and the long-term implications of America’s military response.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| Against the Wall: Israel"s Barrier to Peace | Report Error | | Author: Michael Sorkin | | Publication Date: November 2005 | | Publisher: New Press | | Description: "Called a "security fence" by the Israeli government and the "apartheid wall" by Palestinians, the barrier currently under construction in the West Bank has been the subject of intense controversy since the first olive tree was uprooted in its path. In violation of a ruling by the International Court of Justice and a resolution by the United Nations General Assembly, the structure juts deep inside Palestinian territory, altering not only the geographical landscape, but the political one as well. This groundbreaking book includes a collection of outstanding original pieces, along with photographs and maps, that offer a frank critique of the wall from a range of perspectives—legal, historical, architectural, and philosophical. Renowned writer and architect Michael Sorkin has assembled commentary from various international experts, including both Israeli and Palestinian voices. Together they reinforce a view widely held around the world (though not by the government of the United States): Israel"s wall can act only as a barrier to future peace."
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| Bridging a Gulf: Peace-Building in West Asia | Report Error | | Author: Majid Tehranian (Editor) | | Publication Date: 2003 | | Publisher: I.B. Tauris | | Description: 'From 1980 to the present, two bloody wars and the possibility of a third have characterized the Persian Gulf region. Emerging from a series of meetings of the International Commission for Security and Cooperation in West Asia, this volume consists of contributions from noted scholars and diplomats searching for the peaceful settlement of regional disputes and the establishment of a durable security regime. Peace scholars from Iran, Iraq and Kuwait edit the volume – the three countries that were at war in 1980-88 and 1990-91.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/5/2003 |
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| Building a Peace Economy | Report Error | | Author: Betty G. Lall, John Tepper Marlin | | Publication Date: January 1992 | | Publisher: Westview Press | | Description: 'Scholars from the Council on Economic Priorities explain the dangers and the opportunities for converting the US economy from war-based to peace-based, apparently on the assumption that planners and policy makers would do so if they only knew how. They consider various industries and each state.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention | Report Error | | Author: Barbara F. Walter (Editor), Jack Snyder (Editor) | | Publication Date: November 1999 | | Publisher: Columbia University Press | | Description: 'Since the end of the cold war, a series of costly civil wars, many of them ethnic conflicts, have dominated the international security agenda. The international community, often acting through the United Nations or regional organizations like NATO, has felt compelled to intervene with military forces in many of these conflicts -four of which comprise the heart of this book: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Somalia, Cambodia, and Rwanda. Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention is a detailed examination by a host of distinguished scholars of these recent interventions in order to draw lessons for today´s policy debates. The contributors view ethnic conflict and internal war through the prism of the concept of the security dilemma -a situation in which parties with strong incentives to cooperate wind up nonetheless in bloody competition out of distrust of the opponent. Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention assesses how international intervention can help solve the security dilemma in civil wars by designing political and military arrangements that make security commitments credible to the warring parties. The mixed record of partial successes, failures, and in some cases counterproductive interventions suggests an urgent need to extract lessons with a view toward developing a framework for making future policy choices.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/15/2003 |
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| Committing to Peace: Successful Settlements of Civil Wars | Report Error | | Author: Barbara F. Walter | | Publication Date: Princeton Univ Press | | Publisher: January 2002 | | Description: 'Why do some civil wars end in successfully implemented peace settlements while others are fought to the finish? Numerous competing theories address this question. Yet not until now has a study combined the historical sweep, empirical richness, and conceptual rigor necessary to put them thoroughly to the test and draw lessons invaluable to students, scholars, and policymakers. Using data on every civil war fought between 1940 and 1992, Barbara Walter details the conditions that lead combatants to partake in what she defines as a three-step process--the decision on whether to initiate negotiations, to compromise, and, finally, to implement any resulting terms. Her key finding: rarely are such conflicts resolved without active third-party intervention.
Walter argues that for negotiations to succeed it is not enough for the opposing sides to resolve the underlying issues behind a civil war. Instead the combatants must clear the much higher hurdle of designing credible guarantees on the terms of agreement--something that is difficult without outside assistance. Examining conflicts from Greece to Laos, China to Columbia, Bosnia to Rwanda, Walter confirms just how crucial the prospect of third-party security guarantees and effective power-sharing pacts can be--and that adversaries do, in fact, consider such factors in deciding whether to negotiate or fight. While taking many other variables into account and acknowledging that third parties must also weigh the costs and benefits of involvement in civil war resolution, this study reveals not only how peace is possible, but probable.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/15/2003 |
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| Cosmopolis: Prospects for World Government | Report Error | | Author: Donilo Zolo, Danilo Zolo, David McKie (Translator) | | Publication Date: February 1997 | | Publisher: Polity Press | | Description: 'This volume makes a challenging critique of the idea of Cosmopolis, the idea of world or global' government. In recent years this idea has been put forward as a way of averting the threat of war and international disorder, and as a way of avoiding the destruction of the planet. Proponents of this idea call for a radical reform of the United Nations which aims to legitimize this institution as an international police force and as a provider of global justice. Zolo criticizes this new cosmopolitan philosophy and rejects the idea of trying to eliminate international conflict through the use of centralized and superior military force. He seeks instead to develop a conception of international relations which takes account of their pluralistic, dynamic and conflicting nature. This conception moves away from the logic of hierarchical centralization, which dominates the UN Charter, and towards the logic of weak interventionism' and weak pacifism' which relies on self-organization, co-ordination and negotiation.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History | Report Error | | Author: Elise Boulding, Frederico Mayer | | Publication Date: 2000 | | Publisher: Syracuse University Press | | Description: 'Boulding examines structural violence in terms of the major institutional obstacles to a more peaceful future: the tension between the states and the people trapped inside them, the tension between the techno-sphere and the biosphere, and between global systems and local know-how. She describes social movements around the world that are developing alternative ways of handling the great diversity of human biospheric needs on the planet. In addition, Boulding brings together her experiences 'to empower the peace building activities if we are to do better in the twenty-first century than we have done in the twentieth century.'
The book will be of interest to scholars of peace studies, international relations, and the environment, as well as human rights activists and policy makers.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/5/2003 |
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| Ending Civil Wars: The Implementation of Peace Agreements | Report Error | | Author: Stephen John Stedman (Editor), Donald Rothchild (Editor), Elizabeth M. Cousens (Editor) | | Publication Date: December 2002 | | Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers | | Description: 'Based on a study of every intrastate war settlement between 1980 and 1998 in which international actors played a key role, Ending Civil Wars is the most comprehensive, systematic study to date of the implementation of peace agreements—of what happens after the treaties are signed. Covering both broad strategies and specific tasks and presenting a wealth of rich case material, the authors find that failure most often is related not only to the inherent difficulty of a particular case, but also to the major powers' perception that they have no vital security interest in ending a civil war.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/15/2003 |
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