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Book Costly Democracy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christoph Zürcher
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2013-01-09
  • ISBN : 0804784671
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Costly Democracy written by Christoph Zürcher and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peacebuilding is an interactive process that involves collaboration between peacebuilders and the victorious elites of a postwar society. While one of the most prominent assumptions of the peacebuilding literature asserts that the interests of domestic elites and peacebuilders coincide, Costly Democracy contends that they rarely align. It reveals that, while domestic elites in postwar societies may desire the resources that peacebuilders can bring, they are often less eager to adopt democracy, believing that democratic reforms may endanger their substantive interests. The book offers comparative analyses of recent cases of peacebuilding to deepen understanding of postwar democratization and better explain why peacebuilding missions often bring peace—but seldom democracy—to war-torn countries.

Book Democracy and Conflict Resolution

Download or read book Democracy and Conflict Resolution written by Miriam Fendius Elman and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict typically focus on how international conditions drive the likelihood of conflict resolution. By contrast, Democracy and Conflict Resolution considers the understudied impact of domestic factors. Using the contested theory of "democratic peace" as a foundational framework, the contributors explore the effects of various internal influences on Israeli government practices related to peace-making: electoral systems, political parties, identity, leadership, and social movements. Most strikingly, Democracy and Conflict Resolution explores the possibility that features of democracy inhibit resolution of conflict, a possibility that resonates far outside the contested region. In reflecting on how domestic political configurations matter in a practical sense, this book offers policy-relevant and timely suggestions for advancing Israel’s capacity to pursue effective peacemaking policies.

Book Democracy and Peace Making

Download or read book Democracy and Peace Making written by Philip Towle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-01-14 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy and Peace Making is an invaluable and up-to-date account of the process of peace making, which draws on the most recent historical thinking. It surveys the post-war peace settlements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including: * the Vienna congress of 1815 * the Treaty of Versailles * the peace settlements of the Second World War * peace talks after the Korean War * the Paris Peace Accords of 1973.

Book Peacemaking by Democracies

Download or read book Peacemaking by Democracies written by Norrin M. Ripsman and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Challenging this assumption, Peacemaking by Democracies breaks down the category of "democracy" to argue that differences in structural autonomy among democratic states have a lot to do with how foreign security policies are chosen and international negotiations are carried out. The more structural autonomy the foreign security policy executive possesses, the greater the policy independence from public and legislative opinion it is able to achieve."--Jacket.

Book From War to Democracy

Download or read book From War to Democracy written by Anna K. Jarstad and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts to introduce democracy in the wake of civil war face a critical problem: how can war-torn societies move towards peace and democracy when competitive politics and hard-fought elections exacerbate social and political conflict? Through a study of six themes (peacekeeping, management of violence, power sharing, political party transformation, elections, civil society and international reactions to democratization crises) this volume considers the dilemmas that arise in pursuing peace after civil war through processes of democratization. The contributors' research highlights the complex relationship between democratization, which is competitive, and peacebuilding or efforts to achieve reconciliation. The book offers insights into more effective action in peacebuilding in light of the short-term negative effects that democratization can introduce. It is a thought-provoking work that seeks both to advance theory and to provide policy-relevant findings to facilitate more effective and durable transitions from war to democracy.

Book Contemporary Peacemaking

Download or read book Contemporary Peacemaking written by Roger Mac Ginty and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully updated third-edition of Contemporary Peacemaking is a state of the art overview of peacemaking in relation to contemporary civil wars. It examines best (and worst) practice in relation to peace processes and peace accords. The contributing authors are a mix of leading academics and practitioners with expert knowledge of a wide arrays of cases and techniques. The book provides a mix of theory and concept-building along with insights into ongoing cases of peace processes and post-accord peacebuilding. The chapters make clear that peacemaking is a dynamic field, with new practices in peacemaking techniques, changes to the international peace support architecture, and greater awareness of key issues such as gender and development after peace accords. The book is mindful of the intersection between top-down and bottom-up approaches to peace and how formal and institutionalized peace accords need to be lived and enacted by communities on the ground.

Book Problems for Democracy

Download or read book Problems for Democracy written by John H. Kultgen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, based on the premise that democracy promotes peace and justice, explores theoretical and practical problems that can arise or that have arisen in democratic polities. Contributors address, with clarifying analyses, such theoretical issues as the relationship between recursivist metaphysics and democracy, the relationship between the economic and political orders, and the nature of justice. Contributors offer, as well, enlightening resolutions of practical problems resulting from a history of social, political or economic injustice. Philosophy of Peace (POP), in conjunction with Concerned Philosophers for Peace, explores socio-political and ethical perspectives on modern warfare, peacemaking, and conflict resolution, including the many forms of domestic and global violence, such as sexism, racism, and classism.

Book From War to Democracy

Download or read book From War to Democracy written by Anna Jarstad and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Peacemaking and Democratization in the Western Hemisphere

Download or read book Peacemaking and Democratization in the Western Hemisphere written by Tommie Sue Montgomery and published by University of Miami Iberian Studies Institute. This book was released on 2000 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: international missions and the promotion of peace and democracy / (c)lvaro de Soto -- pt. 1. Political missions. Introduction / Stephen Baranyi. Resettling the Contras: the OAS Verification Commission in Nicaragua / Jennie K. Lincoln and C(c)♭sar Sereseres. Under the best of circumstances: ONUSAL and the challenges of verification and institution building in El Salvador / David Holiday and William Stanley. Beyond the mountains, more mountains: demobilizing the Haitian army / Johanna Mendelson Forman. Between two worlds: the United Nations in Guatemala / Susanne Jonas -- pt. 2. Electoral missions. Introduction / Aida Arag(c)Đo-Lagergren. ONUVEN: electoral observation as conflict resolution / Shelley A. McConnell. The good, the bad, and the ugly: observing elections in El Salvador / Tommie Sue Montgomery with Ruth Reitan. Electoral observation: the 1995 presidential election in Haiti / Colin Granderson. Observing elections in the Dominican Republic / Rosario Espinal. The United Nations in Mexico: the 1994 presidential elections / Ra(c)ðl Ben(c)Ưtez Manaut -- pt. 3. Diplomatic/military missions. Introduction: military aspects of peacemaking and peace building / V(c)Ưctor Suanzes Pardo. Missed opportunities and misplaced nationalism: continuing challenges to multilateral peacekeeping efforts in the Peru-Ecuador border conflict / David Scott Palmer. Peacekeeping in the Upper Cenepa Valley: a regional response to crisis / Glenn R. Weidner -- pt. 4. Challenges for the future. Scenarios for multilateral approaches to political transitions in the Western Hemisphere / Blanca Antonini.onini.

Book Contemporary Peacemaking

Download or read book Contemporary Peacemaking written by J. Darby and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-06-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Peacemaking draws on recent experience to identify and explore the essential components of peace processes. The book is organized around five key themes in peacemaking: planning for peace; negotiations; violence on peace processes; peace accords; and peace accord implementation and post-war reconstruction.

Book Democratic Peace building and Conflict Prevention

Download or read book Democratic Peace building and Conflict Prevention written by Luc Reychler and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The State of Peacebuilding in Africa

Download or read book The State of Peacebuilding in Africa written by Terence McNamee and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book on the state of peacebuilding in Africa brings together the work of distinguished scholars, practitioners, and decision makers to reflect on key experiences and lessons learned in peacebuilding in Africa over the past half century. The core themes addressed by the contributors include conflict prevention, mediation, and management; post-conflict reconstruction, justice and Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration; the role of women, religion, humanitarianism, grassroots organizations, and early warning systems; and the impact of global, regional, and continental bodies. The book's thematic chapters are complemented by six country/region case studies: The Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan/South Sudan, Mozambique and the Sahel/Mali. Each chapter concludes with a set of key lessons learned that could be used to inform the building of a more sustainable peace in Africa. The State of Peacebuilding in Africa was born out of the activities of the Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding (SVNP), a Carnegie-funded, continent-wide network of African organizations that works with the Wilson Center to bring African knowledge and perspectives to U.S., African, and international policy on peacebuilding in Africa. The research for this book was made possible by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Book Peaceful Approaches for a More Peaceful World

Download or read book Peaceful Approaches for a More Peaceful World written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is meant for readers to gain a deeper grasp of the challenges, unique to the present age, for realizing a genuinely peaceful order as well as to consider thoughtful proposals for meeting these challenges.

Book From War to Democracy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sisk Timothy D Jarstad Anna
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-05-14
  • ISBN : 9780511394928
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book From War to Democracy written by Sisk Timothy D Jarstad Anna and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Everyday resistance  peacebuilding and state making

Download or read book Everyday resistance peacebuilding and state making written by Marta Iñiguez de Heredia and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Everyday resistance, peacebuilding and state-making addresses debates on the liberal peace and the policies of peacebuilding through a theoretical and empirical study of resistance in peacebuilding contexts. Examining the case of 'Africa's World War' in the DRC, it locates resistance in the experiences of war, peacebuilding and state-making by exploring discourses, violence and everyday forms of survival as quotidian acts that attempt to challenge or mitigate such experiences. The analysis of resistance offers a possibility to bring the historical and sociological aspects of both peacebuilding and the case of the DRC, providing new nuanced understanding on these processes and the particular case. The book also makes a significant contribution to the theorisation of resistance in International Relations.

Book Stable Peace

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kenneth E. Boulding
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2014-12-15
  • ISBN : 1477305718
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book Stable Peace written by Kenneth E. Boulding and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human race has often put a high value on struggle, strife, turmoil, and excitement. Peace has been regarded as a utopian, unattainable, perhaps dull ideal or as some random element over which we have no control. However, the desperate necessities of the nuclear age have forced us to take peace seriously as an object of both personal and national policy. Stable Peace attempts to answer the question, If we had a policy for peace, what would it look like? A policy for peace aims to speed up the historically slow, painful, but persistent transition from a state of continual war and turmoil to one of continual peace. In a stable peace, the war-peace system is tipped firmly toward peace and away from the cycle of folly, illusion, and ill will that leads to war. Boulding proposes a number of modest, easily attainable, eminently reasonable policies directed toward this goal. His recommendations include the removal of national boundaries from political agendas, the encouragement of reciprocal acts of good will between potential enemies, the exploration of the theory and practice of nonviolence, the development of governmental and nongovernmental organizations to promote peace, and the development of research in the whole area of peace and conflict management. Written in straightforward, lucid prose, Stable Peace will be of importance to politicians, policy makers, economists, diplomats, all concerned citizens, and all those interested in international relations and the resolution of conflict.

Book Privatizing the Democratic Peace

Download or read book Privatizing the Democratic Peace written by H. Carey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With inevitable major economic and political transformations ahead, NGOs need to acknowledge and manage their policy dilemmas so that they can anticipate the many inevitable problems that consistently arise in attempting to avoid the return of war by building peace over the medium to long-term