In this powerful account of Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni's 30 year reign, Helen Epstein chronicles how Western leaders' single-minded focus on the War on Terror and their na©ve dealings with strongmen are at the root of much of the turmoil in eastern and central Africa. Muse…
Perilous desert: insecurity in the Sahara
'The Puzzle of Peace' moves beyond defining peace as the absence of war and develops a broader conceptualization and explanation for the increasing peacefulness of the international system.
Ukraine and Russia: people, politics, propaganda and perspectives
by Sakwa, Richard, Kuzio, Taras, Laruelle, Marlene, Galeotti, Mark, Wilson, Andrew, Hutchings, Stephen, Dyczok, Marta, Rutland, Peter, Chaisty, Paul, D'Anieri, Paul, Connolly, Richard, Marples, David, Katchanovski, Ivan, Pikulicka-Wilczewska, Agnieszka, Petro, Nicolai N., Onuch, Olga, Kiryukhin, Denys, Uehling, Greta, Pogrebinskiy, Mikhail, Walker, Edward W., Whitefield, Stephen, Chebankova, Elena, Szostek, Joanna, Molchanov, Mikhail A., Bacon, Edwin, Osipov, Alexander
"When, on 21 November 2013, former Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych decided to postpone an EU Association Agreement, few would have predicted that this would lead to a prolonged inter-communal conflict in Europe's borderland. What started as a peaceful demonstration of supp…
"In 2013, the Central African Republic was engulfed by violence. In the face of the rapid spread of the conflict, journalists, politicians, and academics alike have struggled to account for its origins. In this first comprehensive account of the country's recent upheaval, Louisa…
Routledge handbook of African security
Overcoming Evil describes the origins or influences leading to genocide, violent conflict and terrorism. It identifies principles and practices of prevention, and of reconciliation between groups after violence, or before violence thereby to prevent violence. It uses both past c…
This book examines the multifaceted nature of conflict and the importance of the socio-economic and political contexts of conflict and violence and shows how to support ongoing initiatives and programs to build sustainable peace on the African continent. Drawing on a range of co…
This work focuses on how, why and when ethnic conflicts either diffuse by precipitating similar conflicts elsewhere or escalate by bringing in outside parties and how such transnational ethnic conflicts can be managed. It focuses specifically on the conflicts in Eastern Europe a…
The 1990s heralded waves of spectacular forms of local resistance and globalized protest against oil exploitation and environmental pollution in oil-producing regions of the developing world. One of the most spectacular local uprisings against global oil multinationals was led b…