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Peace Research Foundation
| Searching for Peace: The Road to Transcend | Report Error | | Author: Johan Galtung, Carl G. Jacobsen, Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen | | Publication Date: 2002 | | Publisher: Pluto Press | | Description: 'This new, updated and extensively revised edition of 'Searching for Peace' is one of the first books to bridge the gap between peace and conflict studies, world order and globalization. Revealing deep structures and deep cultures of violence and finding in them the reasons for increasing violence and peacekeeping failures, it presents the lessons that can be learned from the TRANSCEND approach, adopted as a UN training guide. A critical and piercing analysis of the short-comings of conventional approaches to conflict resolution, realpolitik and worsening dynamics of global violence which, if not resolved, threaten even more catastrophic destruction in the future. The book maps the conditions and path to sustainable peace, and the challenge for peace by peaceful means.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/5/2003 |
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| Security and Environment in the Mediterranean. Conceptualising Security and Environmental Conflicts | Report Error | | Author: Brauch, Hans Guenter; Liotta P.H. et al. | | Publication Date: Germany: June 2003; New York: August 2003 | | Publisher: Springer-Verlag | | Description: 'Security specialists, peace researchers, environmental scholars, demographers, climate, desertification, water, food and urbanisation specialists from the Middle East and North Africa, Europe and North America review security and conflict prevention in the Mediterranean, analyse NATO's Mediterranean security dialogue, offer conceptualisations of security and perceptions of security challenges as seen in North and South. The latter half analyses environmental security and conflicts in the Mediterranean and environmental consequences of World War II, the Gulf War, the Balkans wars and the Middle East conflict and examines factors of global environmental change: population growth, climate change, desertification, water scarcity, food and urbanisation issues as well as natural disasters. It draws conceptual conclusions for a fourth phase of research on human and environmental security and peace as well as policy conclusions for cooperation and partnership in the Mediterranean in the 21st century.' | | http://www.afes-press.de/html/b | Date Added: 12/25/2003 |
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| Stable Peace | Report Error | | Author: Kenneth Boulding | | Publication Date: 1978 | | Publisher: Austin, TX: University of Texas Press | | Description: Kenneth Boulding presents policies for creating stable international peace. He argues that proactive policies for promoting peace must be developed and adopted. | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 9/27/2003 |
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| Stable Peace Among Nations | Report Error | | Author: Arie M. Kacowicz, Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov, Ole Elgstrom, Magnus Jerneck, Alexander L. George, Siman Tov Yaacov Bar | | Publication Date: 2000 | | Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield | | Description: 'This book builds on the original conceptualization of stable peace by Kenneth Boulding and adds contemporary theoretical and empirical understandings of its nature, causes, conditions, dimensions, and prospects for consolidation and expansion. In original research, fifteen international scholars assess the policy relevance of stable peace for the Middle East peace process and for the future of Europe.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 9/27/2003 |
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| Strategy for Stable Peace: Toward a Euroatlantic Security Community | Report Error | | Author: James E. Goodby, Piet Buwalda, Dmitrii Trenin | | Publication Date: 2002 | | Publisher: United States Institute of Peace | | Description: 'After first outlining the concept of stable peace, the volume describes the current political, economic, and security climates within Russia, the European Union, and the United States, and then assesses various models before recommending a strategy for achieving a stable peace. Drawing on their extensive experience, the authors recommend a series of concrete, practicable policies, both long- and near-term, that the leaders of their nations can adopt.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 9/27/2003 |
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| The American Dream: Stories From the Heart of Our Nation | Report Error | | Author: Dan Rather | | Publication Date: May 2001 | | Publisher: HarperCollins/Morrow | | Description: ''Where is the American Dream today?' asks celebrity broadcast journalist Rather in this spinoff from the popular CBS Evening News feature on this question that ran for more than a year. Interviewing people all over the country, he finds a resounding answer: the American Dream is everywhere. By turns inspiring and awesome, the stories of people achieving their dreams of family, education, service, financial success, happiness and even celebrity make a fine tour of the territory. Rather's everyday heroes and heroines overcome illiteracy and become cookbook writers; escape religious persecution to come to the United States; and overcome grinding poverty to become CEOs.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 9/13/2003 |
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| The OSCE in the Maintenance of Peace and Security: Conflict Prevention, Crisis Management, and Peaceful Settlement of Disputes | Report Error | | Author: Michael Bothe (Editor), Natalino Ronzitti (Editor), Allan Rosas (Editor) | | Publication Date: January 1998 | | Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff | | Description: 'This book illustrates the OSCE institutional system and critically evaluates its ability to cope with an evolving European security order. It extensively covers the three-fold core of the OSCE: human rights, peaceful settlement of disputes, and peace-keeping. In doing so, it includes discussion of the High Commissioner of National Minorities, long-term missions, peace-keeping instruments and OSCE relations with the United Nations and European security organizations, the Valletta mechanism, and the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration. The OSCE in the Maintenance of Peace and Security benefits from diverse perspectives via the efforts of lawyers, career diplomats, international relations scholars, and international officials. Its extensive index facilitates consultation on a broad range of complex issues including the practice of the Organization, with an analysis of case-studies such as Nagorno-Karabakh and the former Yugoslavia; the theoretical foundation of OSCE instruments and functions; and a chapter on OSCE's Mediterranean dimension, examining the OSCE periphery and the possibility of its geographical expansion. The OSCE in the Maintenance of Peace and Security's complete account of the OSCE structure, functions, and perspectives makes it an invaluable tool for lawyers, international relations experts, diplomats, and international civil servants.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century | Report Error | | Author: Thomas P. M. Barnett | | Publication Date: 2004 | | Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group | | Description: A groundbreaking reexamination of U.S. and global security, certain to be one of the most talked about books of the year.
Since the end of the Cold War, America's national security establishment has been searching for a new operating theory to explain how this seemingly 'chaotic' world actually works. Gone is the clash of blocs, but replaced by what?
Thomas Barnett has the answers. A senior military analyst with the U.S. Naval War College, he has given a constant stream of briefings over the past few years, and particularly since 9/11, to the highest of high-level civilian and military policymakers-and now he gives it to you. The Pentagon's New Map is a cutting-edge approach to globalization that combines security, economic, political, and cultural factors to do no less than predict and explain the nature of war and peace in the twenty-first century.
Building on the works of Friedman, Huntington, and Fukuyama, and then taking a leap beyond, Barnett crystallizes recent American military history and strategy, sets the parameters for where our forces will likely be headed in the future, outlines the unique role that America can and will play in establishing international stability-and provides much-needed hope at a crucial yet uncertain time in world history.
For anyone seeking to understand the Iraqs, Afghanistans, and Liberias of the present and future, the intimate new links between foreign policy and national security, and the operational realities of the world as it exists today, The Pentagon's New Map is a template, a Rosetta stone. Agree with it, disagree with it, argue with it-there is no book more essential for 2004 and beyond. | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 12/26/2004 |
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| The Words of Peace | Report Error | | Author: Irwin Abrams | | Publication Date: 2000 | | Publisher: Newmarket Press | | Description: 'Updated to include all the voices of the century, The Words of Peace is a unique, moving, and inspiring collection of selections from the acceptance speeches of the Nobel Peace Prize's winners and lectures given by laureates since the Award's inception in 1901, and provides a fascinating look at the history of the past 100 years through the eyes of those humanitarians who worked to better our world.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 8/13/2003 |
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