Overview: Guatemala's thirty-six-year civil war culminated in peace accords in 1996, but the postwar transition has been marked by continued violence, including lynchings and the rise of gangs, as well as massive wage-labor exodus to the United States. For the Mam Maya municipal…
Beginning in late 1945 national courts convened to prosecute Japanese military personnel for war crimes. The defendants included ethnic Koreans and Taiwanese who had served with the armed forces as Japanese subjects. From the first investigations during the war to the final rele…
Beginning in late 1945, the United States, Britain, China, Australia, France, the Netherlands, and later the Philippines, the Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China convened national courts to prosecute Japanese military personnel for war crimes. The defendants include…
Success in war ultimately depends upon the consolidation of political order. Consolidating the new political order is not separate from war, rather Nadia Schadlow argues that governance operations are an essential component of victory. Despite learning this the hard way in past …
"This book explains why international post-conflict interventions have fallen short of the weighty aspirations they embody. It reframes the peacebuilding puzzle by presenting a new theory of how domestic elites construct political order during and after peacebuilding interventio…
Introduction : working the system in boomtown Africa -- 2002, year zero : the foundations of the new Angola -- Sambizanga : the affects of place and memory -- Angolanidade : mediating urbanity through race and class -- Cunhas : situational kinship and everyday authority -- A cul…
The Marshall Plan: dawn of the Cold War
by Steil, Benn
fromA Council on Foreign Relations Book
"The trend for international engagement in post-conflict reconstruction has produced a host of best-practice postulates on topics such as local involvement in decision making, accountability for past atrocities, sensitivity to context, and the construction of democratic institut…
Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Jennifer M. Kapczynski and Caroline A. Kita -- Chapter 1. Imperiled Democracies: History and the Legacy of the Weimar Republic for the 21st Century -- Kathleen Canning -- Chapter 2. Intellectuals and the People: C…
Following his prizewinning studies of the Vietnam War, renowned anthropologist Heonik Kwon presents this groundbreaking study of the Korean War's enduring legacies seen through the realm of intimate human experience. Kwon boldly reclaims kinship as a vital category in historical…
"Following his prizewinning studies of the Vietnam War, renowned anthropologist Heonik Kwon presents this groundbreaking study of the Korean War's enduring legacies seen through the realm of intimate human experience. Kwon boldly reclaims kinship as a vital category in historica…
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Note on the Croatian language -- Introduction. Heritage at the margins -- Chapter 1. Dubrovnik's world heritage: between the universal and the particular -- Chapter 2. The Past in the present -- Chapter 3. Pos…
