"Four generic motives have historically led states to initiate war: fear, interest, standing and revenge. Using an original dataset, Richard Ned Lebow examines the distribution of wars across three and a half centuries and argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, only a min…
Based on fieldwork at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - the facility that designed the neutron bomb and the warhead for the MX missile - Nuclear Rites takes the reader deep inside the top-secret culture of a nuclear weapons lab. Exploring the scientists' world of dark…
Introduction : Screen media and witnessing publics. - To acquaint America with ravished Armenia. - Witness for the prosecution : films at Nuremberg. - Reflections on the world stage : imagining fields of witnessing for Rwanda and the Balkans. - The work of WITNESS : negotiating …
With case-studies drawn from Mozambique, Ethiopia and Afghanistan, this title provides a critical and historically informed analysis of the NGO movement, humanitarian intervention, sustainable development, human security, coherence, fragile states, migration and the place of rac…
Dit proefschrift benadert het diplomatiek onderhandelingsproces van verschillende kanten en tracht daarmee aan de hand van gevalstudies in verleden en heden de essentie en de evolutie van het proces beter in beeld te krijgen. Een goed begrip daarvan zal, zo wordt gehoopt, bijdr…
"Reporting War examines the nature of contemporary war reporting in a range of locales, including Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East - especially Iraq - and southern Asia. The contributors, both practising and former journalists and leading academics, consider issues including…
"How does a state determine if another state is an important military or economic threat? The issue of threat perception drives a wide variety of behaviors, from alliance formation and defense spending to trade relations and regime membership. Although liberal theorists and real…
"In the transition from war-torn society to stable multiparty democracy, what is the role of former rebel leaders? Can rebel movements effectively transform themselves from military into political organizations? From Soldiers to Politicians explores how militias succeed or fail …
Overzicht in kaartvorm van alle belangrijke aspecten van het Israëlisch-Arabische conflict vanaf het begin van de twintigste eeuw tot heden.
For Policy-makers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Environmental change in security discourse -- 2.1. Redefining security -- 2.2. Current security policy strategies -- 2.3. WBGU's aims and use of terms -- 3. Known conflict impacts of environmental change -- 3.1. State of conflict resear…
