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La 4e de couverture indique : "As of the end of 2015, there were 40.8 civilians who had been internally displaced by conflicts and effects of natural disasters in various parts of the world. Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are currently the largest group of persons receiving…
This book is the first study of displaced Mozambican men, women, and children2014from refugees and asylum seekers to liberation leaders, students, and migrant workers2014during the war for independence from Portugal (1964-1974). ?Throughout the war, two distinct communities of M…
Le premier volet de l'histoire mondiale du communisme s'attache à l'aventure politique qui a porté des millions d'hommes et de femmes aux plus folles espérances. Comment expliquer ce succès, pourquoi le communisme a-t-il triomphé dans certaines régions, pourquoi a-t-il partout é…
Le second volet de cette histoire mondiale du communisme est consacré à la part de tragédie humaine que ce système a engendrée. La guerre civile permanente que les régimes communistes ont menée contre leur population explique l'hécatombe sans précédent qui en a résulté. ©Electre…
Europe is facing a wave of migration unmatched since the end of World War II - and no one has reported on this crisis in more depth or breadth than the Guardian's migration correspondent, Patrick Kingsley. Throughout 2015, Kingsley traveled to 17 countries along the migrant trai…
Rwanda and Bosnia both experienced mass violence in the early 1990s. Less than ten years later, Rwandans surprisingly elected the world's highest level of women to parliament. In Bosnia, women launched thousands of community organizations that became spaces for informal politica…
Focusing on the explosion of civil wars since 1945, Bill Kissane asks what makes the contemporary challenge posed by civil wars different to that of past periods - and looks at what the insights from the historical literature, going back to the ancient Greeks, can add to our und…
This volume explores the nature of civil war in the modern world and in historical perspective. Civil wars represent the principal form of armed conflict since the end of the Second World War, and certainly in the contemporary era. The nature and impact of civil wars suggests th…