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Peace Research Foundation
| The Arab-Israeli Accords: Legal Perspectives | Report Error | | Author: Eugene Cotran (Editor), Chibli Mallat (Editor), David Stott (Editor) | | Publication Date: June 1996 | | Publisher: Kluwer Law International | | Description: 'The Arab-Israeli Accords: Legal Perspectives brings together, for the first time ever, independent and well established lawyers and jurists from both sides of the century-old conflict, to reflect over matters of common interest. As violence recedes before negotiation and compromise, all issues covered by the ongoing negotiations will be determined by the emerging rule of law. Part of the originality of the book stems from the professional and experienced legal contributions of the best authors in the field on strategic issues: reflections on history and law, on key international treaties, on the domestic dimensions of the process, on water arrangements, on economic issues, and on the legal institutions which are being created and must adapt to the new scene. Another feature of the book is that, as an end result, it succeeds in showing that the old legal opposition of Israeli and Arab views is giving way to a common, informed reflection on a joint and informed endeavour on the way to a coexistence primarily determined by law.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| The Deadly Ethnic Riot | Report Error | | Author: Donald L. Horowitz | | Publication Date: University of California Press | | Publisher: January 2003 | | Description: 'Donald L. Horowitz's comprehensive consideration of the structure and dynamics of ethnic violence is the first full-scale, comparative study of what the author terms the deadly ethnic riot--an intense, sudden, lethal attack by civilian members of one ethnic group on civilian members of another ethnic group. Serious, frequent, and destabilizing, these events result in large numbers of casualties. Horowitz examines approximately 150 such riots in about fifty countries, mainly in Asia, Africa, and the former Soviet Union, as well as fifty control cases. With its deep and thorough scholarship, incisive analysis, and profound insights, The Deadly Ethnic Riot will become the definitive work on its subject.
Furious and sadistic, the riot is nevertheless directed against a precisely specified class of targets and conducted with considerable circumspection. Horowitz scrutinizes target choices, participants and organization, the timing and supporting conditions for the violence, the nature of the events that precede the riot, the prevalence of atrocities during the violence, the location and diffusion of riots, and the aims and effects of riot behavior. He finds that the deadly ethnic riot is a highly patterned but emotional event that tends to occur during times of political uncertainty. He also discusses the crucial role of rumor in triggering riots, the surprisingly limited role of deliberate organization, and the striking lack of remorse exhibited by participants.
Horowitz writes clearly and eloquently without compromising the complexity of his subject. With impressive analytical skill, he takes up the important challenge of explaining phenomena that are at once passionate and calculative.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/15/2003 |
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| The Far Side of Revenge: Making Peace in Northern Ireland | Report Error | | Author: Deaglan De Breadun | | Publication Date: August 2001 | | Publisher: Collins Press | | Description: 'For the long-beleaguered residents of Northern Ireland, 1998 was a landmark year highlighted by the signing of the Good Friday peace accord. The much-heralded accord commanded prime coverage in the American media. And yet, for all the publicity on this side of the Atlantic, gaps remain in Americans' understanding of the remarkable process by which the Good Friday agreement came to be. Now comes this masterful account from a firsthand observer. As former Belfast bureau chief for the Irish Times, de Br‚adŁn sat in on scores of political meetings leading up to the treaty, and was privy to the sorts of intimate details that are only accorded to insiders. He punctures a few misconceptions and underscores just how fragile the peacemaking actually was. Even in Ireland, for example, many people assume today that the official government peacemakers quite naturally embraced the participation of the controversial Sinn Fein, which has functioned as a legal front for Ireland's outlawed Irish Republican Army. It was in fact nearly excluded from the peace negotiations. This is a significant point: Excluding Sinn Fein would have crippled any peace agreement; and yet, moderate Irish leader John Hume had to fight mightily to secure the group's inclusion. Fortunately for an American readership, de Br‚adŁn takes pains to clarify and explain. He translates Irish colloquialisms and charts the key players and parties but avoids a tedious rendition of Ireland's centuries of grievances against Britain. The result is a timely and well-paced examination of a significant historical event. This is a well-researched, literate and highly readable account that sheds much light on a subject whose shadows are continuously shifting.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/17/2003 |
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| The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict | Report Error | | Author: David A. Lake (Editor), Donald Rothchild (Editor) | | Publication Date: March 1998 | | Publisher: Princeton Univ Press | | Description: 'The wave of ethnic conflict that has recently swept across parts of Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Africa has led many political observers to fear that these conflicts are contagious. Contributors argue that ethnic conflict is not caused by intergroup differences so much as by anxieties over security and other factors--and search for ways whereby such transnational ethnic conflicts best can be managed peacefully.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/15/2003 |
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| The Settlement of Disputes in International Law: Institutions and Procedures | Report Error | | Author: John G. Collier, Vaughan Lowe | | Publication Date: October 1999 | | Publisher: Oxford University Press | | Description: 'For many years it was said that the weakness of international law was the lack of a system for the enforcement of legal obligations. Commentators pointed to the paucity of cases in the International Court and the unwillingness of States to undertake binding obligations to settle their disputes. This position has now changed beyond recognition. The number of international tribunals has increased and many of them, such as ICSID and the International Court of Justice, are busier than at any time in their history. Increasingly, the classical procedures of diplomatic protection are circumvented as corporations and individuals litigate in their own right against States in international tribunals. This book surveys the range of procedures for the settlement of international disputes, whether the disputes arise between States or between States and corporations or individuals. The first part of the book examines non-judicial procedures such as negotiation, mediation, fact-finding, as well as judicial procedures. This book is intended for scholars and practitioners of international law, in particular those concerned with the mechanisms of international dispute resolution. Also companies, government representatives and political scientists and organizations concerned with international non-judicial and judicial settlement procedures.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| The States System of Europe, 1640-1990: Peacemaking and the Conditions of International Stability | Report Error | | Author: Andreas Osiander | | Publication Date: 1994 | | Publisher: Oxford Univ Press | | Description: 'This work provides a novel analysis of the evolution of the states system of Europe since the mid-seventeenth century. The author looks at the four major European congresses: Munster and Osnabruck, Utrecht, Vienna, and Paris, and shows how a prevailing consensus on certain structural concepts, such as the balance of power or national self-determination, has influenced the evolution of the system and determined its stability (or imbalance). The author argues that the structure of the international system is neither a given quantity nor determined primarily by conflict between international actors, but is essentially the result of a general agreement expressed in 'consensus principles.' His approach provides a more plausible analysis of international relations and the causes of conflict than traditional theories, and the study concludes with an interpretation of the period since 1920.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/5/2003 |
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| The Territorial Management of Ethnic Conflict | Report Error | | Author: John Coakley (Editor) | | Publication Date: March 2003 | | Publisher: Frank Cass & Co | | Description: 'This is a second, revised and expanded edition of the collection first published ten years ago. The intervening decade has shown that ethnic conflicts continue to occur at an alarming regularity and with them the need to tackle underlying problems. The original edition grew out of a meeting of the Research Committee on Politics and Ethnicity of the International Political Science Association in 1990. The writers of the papers published three years later have had a chance to revise their individual essays and, in a few cases, to rewrite them completely. Three new contributions have been added to deal with developments in South Africa and Northern Ireland and to discuss the dissolution of Yugoslavia (formally wound up only this year). The editor has also dropped one essay from the first edition, that dealing with Kenya and Tanzania where peace now reigns.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| The Transformation of Palestinian Politics: From Revolution to State-Building | Report Error | | Author: Barry M. Rubin | | Publication Date: October 1999 | | Publisher: Harvard Univ Press | | Description: 'This book is a comprehensive overview and analysis of the Palestinians' travail as they move from revolutionary movement to state. Barry Rubin outlines the difficulties in the transition now under way arising from Palestinian history, society, and diplomatic agreements. He writes about the search for a national identity, the choice of an economic system, and the structure of government. Rubin finds the political system interestingly distinctive-it appears to be a pluralist dictatorship. There are free elections, multiple parties, and some latitude in civil liberties. Yet there is a relatively unrestrained chief executive and arbitrariness in applying the law because of restraints on freedom. The new ruling elite is a complex mixture of veteran revolutionaries, heirs to large and wealthy families, professional soldiers, technocrats, and Islamic clerics. Beyond explaining how the executive and legislative branches work, Rubin factors in the role of public opinion in the peace process, the place of nongovernmental institutions, opposition movements, and the Palestinian Authority's foreign relations-including Palestinian views and interactions with the Arab world, Israel, and the United States. This book is drawn from documents in Arabic, Hebrew, and English, as well as interviews and direct observations. Rubin finds that, overall, the positive aspects of the Palestinian Authority outweigh the negative, and he foresees the establishment of a Palestinian state. His charting of the triumphs and difficulties of this state-in-the-making helps predict and explain future dramatic developments in the Middle East.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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Half of World's Refugees are Children
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