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Johan Galtung, one of the founders of modern peace studies, provides a wide-ranging panorama of the ideas, theories and assumptions on which the study of peace is based.
The book is organized in four parts, each examining the one of the four major theoretical...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
1996-04-16
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This work is the classic history of the development of modern diplomacy in Renaissance Europe. Sometime after the year 1400, the diplomatic traditions of civilized cultures - which have existed as far back as the records of human history extend - took a sharp turn that...
Editeur :
Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2025-03-18
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When President Barack Obama demanded formally in the summer of 2011 that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down, it was not the first time Washington had sought regime change in Damascus. The United States had waged a long war against Syria from the very moment the...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2017-03-22
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For the first time in a book, defence counsel, investigators, journalists, and academics pool their knowledge and experience to answer the burning questions. What has happened to the fundamental principles of the sovereign equality of nations and the right of...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2014-10-08
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The book comprises three parts.The first part addresses the little-discussed but crucial events preceding the assassination of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi
Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared, "The Rwandan genocide was 100% American...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2013-11-27
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NATO’s war in Libya was proclaimed as a humanitarian intervention—bombing in the name of “saving lives.” Attempts at diplomacy were stifled. Peace talks were subverted. Libya was barred from representing itself at the UN, where shadowy NGOs and “human rights” groups...
Editeur :
Baraka Books
Parution :
2012-11-20
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Global warming has had a dramatic impact on the Arctic environment, including the ice melt that has opened previously ice-covered waterways. State and non-state actors who look to the region and its resources with varied agendas have started to pay attention. Do new...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2011-11-10
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From Civil Strife to Peace Building examines peace-building efforts in the fragile West African states of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d’Ivoire, with a focus on the role of the private sector in leading the reconstruction initiatives. Given that aid and debt relief,...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2011-04-07
Collection :
Studies in International Governance
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How can bitter enemies who have inflicted unspeakable acts of cruelty on each other live together in peace? At a time in history when most organized violence consists of civil wars and when nations resort to genocidal policies, when horrendous numbers of civilians have...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-10-30
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The early twenty-first century has seen the beginning of a considerable shift in the global balance of power. Major international governance challenges can no longer be addressed without the ongoing co-operation of the large countries of the global South. Brazil,...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-10-30
Collection :
Studies in International Governance
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Two high-level commissions—the Sutherland report in 2004, and the Warwick Commission report in 2007—addressed the future of the World Trade Organization and made proposals for incremental reform. This book goes further; it explains why institutional reform of the WTO...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-05-06
Collection :
Studies in International Governance
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CONTENT OF THE BOOK
Human history does not proceed like a mechanical construct, the world is too complex for that. And yet, a certain direction and consistency in historical development become visible. Certain decisions made in 1919 by the victorious powers of the First...
Editeur :
BoD - Books on Demand
Parution :
2024-09-05
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH EMMANUEL MACRON As it faces a critical moment of truth, is Europe finally developing its own strategy? Without losing sight of its hopes and ambitions in terms of green and digital transition, energy autonomy, space and maritime conquest,...
Editeur :
Marie B
Parution :
2024-05-21
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There is no shortage of climate-neutral energy.There is only the global task of tapping climate-neutral energy sources both locally on a small scale and globally on a large scale and connecting them to the centres of consumption. This book focuses on the enormous...
Editeur :
Books on Demand
Parution :
2023-12-12
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Terrorism usually is a consquence of geopolitical decisions. Therefore, this book chooses a historical approach: it shows the most important terrorist attacks and their contexts. After all, terrorism is ultimately not a string of disconnected events; rather follows a...
Editeur :
Books on Demand
Parution :
2023-04-28
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Foreign policy rethought
Do you sometimes worry that globalisation is doing you more damage than good? And do you also wish for a similar standard of living for all humans in this world? What kind of policy can unify states without war and avoid the causes of...
Editeur :
Books on Demand
Parution :
2022-09-13
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Foreign policy rethought
Do you sometimes worry that globalisation is doing you more damage than good? And do you also wish for a similar standard of living for all humans in this world? What kind of policy can unify states without war and avoid the causes of...
Editeur :
Books on Demand
Parution :
2022-09-13
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For over a year now, the world has been going through the ordeal of the pandemic. Multilateralism has suffered as a result. Far from creating a movement of solidarity, the virus has left it even more vulnerable.However, the pandemic does not explain...
Editeur :
Ginkgo éditeur
Parution :
2021-09-14
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100 Jahre Frauenwahlrecht,100 Jahre Ende des 1. Weltkriegs – ein Grund zurückzuschauen und gleichzeitig den Blick nach vorne zu richten, wie Gerechtigkeit und Frieden umgesetzt werden können und welche Rolle die Frauen dabei spielen.
100 years of women's suffrage,100...
Editeur :
Books on Demand
Parution :
2019-11-06
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A complete book to understand better the affairs of the European Union in 2019, drafted by specialists.The Schuman Report 2019 on the State of the Union offers a complete panorama of the European Union.The latest edition of this reference book is an update on the many...
Editeur :
Marie B
Parution :
2019-05-15
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