The Lord's Resistance Army is Africa's most extraordinarily persistent and notorious 'terrorist' group. From the issue of child soldiers to the response of the Ugandan government, this book looks at the various aspects of this most brutal of conflicts
After civil wars end, what can sustain peace in the long-term? In particular, how can outsiders facilitate durable conflict-managing institutions through statebuilding - a process that historically has been the outcome of bloody struggles to establish the state's authority over …
Englands historie 1637-1649 herunder den engelske borgerkrig. I bogen beskrives forholdene i England, Skotland og Irland, der udløste borgerkrigen i 1642, borgerkrigen 1642-1646 og den efterfølgende revolution 1646-1649.
Om de politiske forhold i Afghanistan i perioden 1979 til nu
In 1991 the politicians of Northern Ireland sat down at the formal negotiating table for the first time in seventeen years. This book tells the fascinating story of the Initiative's three years of painstaking political deals in an enlightening and entertaining narrative, using t…
We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and what it isn't, have a long and contested history, from its fraught origins in republican Rome to debates in early modern Europe to our present day. Defining the term is acutely political, for ideas about wha…
In his Commentarii de Bello Civili Julius Caesar sought to re-invent his image and appear before his present and future readers in a way which he could control and at times manipulate. Offering a new interpretation of the Bellum Civile this book reveals the intricate literary wo…
Examines the Bolshevik Revolution and the Russian Civil War through narrative history and analysis, biographies, and primary documents; also includes a glossary, an annotated bibliography, and a time line.
The Spanish Civil War was fought not only on the streets and battlefields from 1936 to 1939 but also through memory and trauma in the decades that followed. This fascinating book reassesses the eras of war, dictatorship and transition to democracy in light of the memory boom in …
This is a critique of IRA strategy from a Belfast journalist with a personal insight. Malachi O'Doherty grew up as a Catholic nationalist in West Belfast, as part of the same generation as the men who were to be the leaders of Sinn Fein and the IRA. O'Doherty was immediately av…
This is a critique of IRA strategy from a Belfast journalist with a personal insight. Malachi O'Doherty grew up as a Catholic nationalist in West Belfast, as part of the same generation as the men who were to be the leaders of Sinn Fein and the IRA O'Doherty was immediately ave…
Beskrivelse af IRA's lange og blodige historie fra den irske opstand i 1916 til bogens udgivelse i 1970. Søgeord: Ulster; Bombing Campain; Irske Republikanene; Irland og Nazisterne; Irland's Grænseproblemer; Curragh; Voldspolitik; Tyrone; Sunger Strikes; Orange Order; Orangemen…
Krigshistorie. To bindsværk om latinamerikansk militærhistorie m.v. 1791 - 2001, herunder om årsagerne til krige, grænsestridigheder, konflikter, interne stridigheder og politisk uro samt udenlandsk intervention (politisk, militær og økonomisk) bl.a fra Portugal, Spanien, Storbr…
Krigshistorie. To bindsværk om latinamerikansk militærhistorie m.v. 1791 - 2001, herunder om årsagerne til krige, grænsestridigheder, konflikter, interne stridigheder og politisk uro samt udenlandsk intervention (politisk, militær og økonomisk) bl.a fra Portugal, Spanien, Storbr…
Krigshistorie. To bindsværk om latinamerikansk militærhistorie m.v. 1791 - 2001, herunder om årsagerne til krige, grænsestridigheder, konflikter, interne stridigheder og politisk uro samt udenlandsk intervention (politisk, militær og økonomisk) bl.a fra Portugal, Spanien, Storbr…
