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| Diplomacy on the Jordan: International Conflict and Negotiated Resolution | Report Error | | Author: Munther J. Haddadin | | Publication Date: January 2002 | | Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers | | Description: 'The Jordan River waters are essential for the development and well being of the people of its basin. Plans for the development of its water resources were considered since the beginning of the twentieth century, and have long been central to dispute between riparian nations. This volume reviews the roots of conflict over the Jordan between Arabs and Jews and the development of that conflict over the past 150 years. It analyzes the positions of Arabs and Israelis and the role of the United States in promoting a settlement. The work then presents the development of a negotiated resolution of that part of the conflict related to Jordan and Israel through the Middle East Peace Process. This book approaches the Jordanian-Israeli water affairs in the Jordan River Basin with a wide interdisciplinary perspective. It unfolds the full history of the dispute and negotiation process, beginning in the 1950s and ending with the water accord in 1974.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| Ethnic Conflict in World Politics: Dilemmas in World Politics | Report Error | | Author: Ted Robert Gurr, Barbara Harff | | Publication Date: September 1994 | | Publisher: Westview Press | | Description: 'New ethnic wars flared up from Bosnia to the Caucasus to the Horn of Africa when the Cold War ended in 1990 but most subsided as new democracies were established and the international community actively sought to promote peaceful solutions to ethnic conflicts within states. This book is an introduction to this new era in which civil society, states, and international actors attempt to channel ethnic challenges to world order and security into conventional politics. From Africa's post-colonial rebellions in the 1960s and 1970s to anti-immigrant violence in the 1990s, this second edition of Ethnic Conflict in World Politics surveys the historical, geographic, and cultural diversity of ethnopolitical conflict. Using an analytical model to elucidate four well-chosen case studies—the Kurds, the Miskitos, the Chinese in Malaysia, and the Turks in Germany—the authors give students tools for analyzing emerging conflicts based on the demands of nationalists, indigenous peoples, and immigrant minorities throughout the world. The international community has begun to respond more quickly and constructively to these conflicts than it did to civil wars in divided Yugoslavia and genocide in Rwanda by using the emerging doctrines of proactive peacemaking and peace enforcement that are detailed in this book. The text is illustrated with maps, tables, and figures to enhance students' understanding of the quest of unfamiliar peoples for autonomy and rights, putting it into the context of international politics. An appendix surveys nearly fifty serious ethnopolitical conflicts at the beginning of the 21st century-keyed to a global map. The appendix identifies the groups and issues as well as counting the number of lives affected, showing the enormous geopolitical and cultural reach of this issue. The bibliography identifies representative websites plus books, articles, and other sources to guide students' own research.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| Ethnic Groups and Boundaries | Report Error | | Author: Fredrik Barth | | Publication Date: March 1998 | | Publisher: Waveland Press | | Description: 'When published in Norway nearly thirty years ago, Ethnic Groups and Boundaries marked the transition to a new era of ethnic studies. Today this much-cited classic is regarded as the seminal volume from which stems much current anthropological thinking about ethnicity. Ethnic Groups and Boundaries opens with Barth's invaluable thirty-page essay that introduces readers to important theoretical issues in the analysis of ethnic groups. Following is a collection of seven essays--the results of a symposium involving a small group of Scandinavian social anthropologists--intended to illustrate the application of Barth's analytical viewpoints to different sides of the problems of polyethnic organization in various ethnographic areas, including Norway, Sudan, Ethiopia, Mexico, Afghanistan, and Laos.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/15/2003 |
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| Ethnic Groups in Conflict | Report Error | | Author: Donald L. Horowitz | | Publication Date: 1987 | | Publisher: University of California Press | | Description: 'Drawing material from dozens of divided societies, Donald L. Horowitz constructs his theory of ethnic conflict, relating ethnic affiliations to kinship and intergroup relations to the fear of domination. A groundbreaking work when it was published in 1985, the book remains an original and powerfully argued comparative analysis of one of the most important forces in the contemporary world.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/4/2003 |
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| Ethnicity | Report Error | | Author: John Hutchinson (Editor), Anthony D. Smith (Editor) | | Publication Date: December 1996 | | Publisher: Oxford University Press | | Description: 'Although the term 'ethnicity' is recent, the sense of kinship, group solidarity, and common culture to which it refers is as old as the historical record. Ethnic communities have been present in every period and on every continent, and have played an important role in all societies. The sense of a common ethnicity remains a major focus of identification for individuals even today. Ethnic community and identity are also often associated with conflict, particularly with political struggles in various parts of the world. Yet there is no essential connection between ethnicity and conflict, and in many instances, relations may in fact be peaceful and cooperative.
This Oxford Reader offers explanantions for the often contentious nature of ethnicity, its worldwide effects, and the possible means for overcoming conflicts. It includes extracts by all the major contributors to debates on ethnicity, including Weber, Brass, Hechter, and Horowitz, and focuses on ethnic groups in the Middle East, the Balkans, Africa, and North America, as well as other areas.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/15/2003 |
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| From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict | Report Error | | Author: Jack L. Snyder | | Publication Date: August 2000 | | Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company | | Description: 'A trenchant analysis of the attempts to mediate the transition from oppression to freedom, and a warning of the potentially disastrous challenges that face burgeoning democracies. With the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, many proclaimed the triumph of liberal democracy as they watched democratization sweep through formerly authoritarian countries in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and East Asia. Yet the 1990s turned out to be a decade marked by chronic nationalist conflict, and the sense of democratic triumph turned to frustration. In From Voting to Violence, Jack Snyder shows how democratization can actually exacerbate nationalist fervor and ethnic conflict if the conditions permitting a successful transition are not in place. Arguing that international organizations can cause conflict rather than averting it in their rush to establish democratic governments and punish outgoing leaders, he prescribes policies that will make transitions less dangerous and allow fledgling democracies to flourish. In the light of such tragic examples as Weimar Germany and contemporary Bosnia--each drawn into a spiral of ethnic hatred and civil war by political leaders manipulating nationalist sentiments--From Voting to Violence questions the sometimes rash optimism of liberal democracy that would rush to democracy at the cost of freedom.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/15/2003 |
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| Intermediaries in International Conflict | Report Error | | Author: Thomas Priencen | | Publication Date: April 1995 | | Publisher: Princeton Univ Press | | Description: 'Few scholars have attempted to evaluate critically the role mediators play in managing international conflicts. Thomas Princen examines where mediation fits in the larger realm of diplomatic practice, going beyond the usual state- centric focus to account for the mediating activities of a wide range of actors-from superpowers to small states, from international organizations to nongovernmental groups. Few scholars have attempted to evaluate critically the role mediators play in managing international conflicts. Thomas Princen examines where mediation fits in the larger realm of diplomatic practice, going beyond the usual state- centric focus to account for the mediating activities of a wide range of actors-from superpowers to small states, from international organizations to nongovernmental groups.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| International Conflict Resolution Using System Engineering | Report Error | | Author: Harold Chestnut | | Publication Date: March 1990 | | Publisher: Pergamon Press | | Description: 'Finding an alternative to supplement military ways of resolving international conflicts has been taken up by many people skilled in various areas such as political science, economics, social studies, modelling and simulation, artificial intelligence and expert systems, military strategy and weaponry as well as private business and industry. The Workshop will therefore be of use as it looks at various control methods which would create a conciliatory social and political environment or climate for seeking and obtaining non-military solutions to international conflicts and to solutions to national conflicts which may lead to international conflicts.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| International Dispute Settlement | Report Error | | Author: J. G. Merrills (Author) | | Publication Date: January 1999 | | Publisher: Cambridge University Press | | Description: 'This is a completely updated edition of this definitive overview of peaceful settlement of international disputes. The book will appeal to lawyers, political scientists and students with an interest in international law. This third edition includes a completely new chapter on the dispute settlement of international trade disputes with particular reference to the World Trade Organisation. Documents in the Appendix have been reviewed and added to in the new edition.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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