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Thinking about War and Peace

By Denise DeGarmo, E. Duff Wrobbel

Rich in pedagogy and clearly structured throughout, this textbook combines theoretical analysis with both historical and contemporary examples to explain, compare, and evaluate the various...

December 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77372-0 (Routledge)

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Thinking about War and Peace

By Denise DeGarmo, E. Duff Wrobbel

Rich in pedagogy and clearly structured throughout, this textbook combines theoretical analysis with both historical and contemporary examples to explain, compare, and evaluate the various...

December 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77445-1 (Routledge)

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Understanding Contemporary Strategy

By Thomas M. Kane, David J. Lonsdale

This new co-authored textbook explains and describes the key intellectual debates around military strategy in the early twenty-first century. The book emphasizes the connections between...

August 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46166-5 (Routledge)

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Understanding Contemporary Strategy

By Thomas M. Kane, David J. Lonsdale

This new co-authored textbook explains and describes the key intellectual debates around military strategy in the early twenty-first century. The book emphasizes the connections between...

August 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46167-2 (Routledge)

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Understanding Internal Wars and Conflicts

By Richard H. Shultz, Itamara V. Lochard

This book aims to track the evolution of internal wars, examining its various aspects, patterns and armed-group actors. It presents both an overview and assessment...

July 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77096-5 (Routledge)

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Understanding Internal Wars and Conflicts

By Richard H. Shultz, Itamara V. Lochard

This book aims to track the evolution of internal wars, examining its various aspects, patterns and armed-group actors. It presents both an overview and assessment...

July 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77097-2 (Routledge)

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War, Conflict and Human Rights

By Chandra Lekha Sriram, Olga Martin-Ortega, Johanna Herman

This book addresses the relationship of human rights to armed conflict in three distinct sections.

  • Section 1 examines the tensions and complementarities between protection of human...

July 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45205-2 (Routledge)

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War, Conflict and Human Rights

By Chandra Lekha Sriram, Olga Martin-Ortega, Johanna Herman

This book addresses the relationship of human rights to armed conflict in three distinct sections.

  • Section 1 examines the tensions and complementarities between protection of human...

July 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45206-9 (Routledge)

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Conflict Management and Resolution

An Introduction

By Ho-Won Jeong

This upper-level textbook provides a theoretical understanding of conflict resolution, and a knowledge base on how to respond to the complex phenomena of international conflict....

July 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45040-9 (Routledge)

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Conflict Management and Resolution

An Introduction

By Ho-Won Jeong

This upper-level textbook provides a theoretical understanding of conflict resolution, and a knowledge base on how to respond to the complex phenomena of international conflict....

July 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45041-6 (Routledge)

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Understanding Northern Ireland

Colonialism, Control and Consociation

By Brendan O'Leary, John McGarry

The third edition of this classic textbook continues to provide the best introductory account of the politics of Northern Ireland.

Completely revised and updated, it...

July 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34905-5 (Routledge)

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Understanding Northern Ireland

Colonialism, Control and Consociation

By Brendan O'Leary, John McGarry

The third edition of this classic textbook continues to provide the best introductory account of the politics of Northern Ireland.

Completely revised and updated, it...

July 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34906-2 (Routledge)

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Critical International Relations - An Introduction

From the Barbarian to the Cyborg

By James Der Derian

In Critical International Relations - An Introduction, the radical IR theorist James Der Derian provides an innovative text based on the critical encounters throughout history...

July 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77244-0 (Routledge)

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Critical International Relations - An Introduction

From the Barbarian to the Cyborg

By James Der Derian

In Critical International Relations - An Introduction, the radical IR theorist James Der Derian provides an innovative text based on the critical encounters throughout history...

July 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77245-7 (Routledge)

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Peacebuilding

From Concept to Commission

By Robert Jenkins

The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) was established in December 2005. Its emergence was the culmination of a long and contentious process, stretching back to...

June 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77643-1 (Routledge)

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Peacebuilding

From Concept to Commission

By Robert Jenkins

The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) was established in December 2005. Its emergence was the culmination of a long and contentious process, stretching back to...

June 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77644-8 (Routledge)

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International Conflict Management

By Michael J. Butler

This new textbook provides students with an accessible overview of the logic, evolution, application and outcomes of the five major approaches of the growing field...

April 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77229-7 (Routledge)

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International Conflict Management

By Michael J. Butler

This new textbook provides students with an accessible overview of the logic, evolution, application and outcomes of the five major approaches of the growing field...

April 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77230-3 (Routledge)

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The Dilemmas of Statebuilding

Confronting the contradictions of postwar peace operations

Edited by Roland Paris, Timothy D. Sisk

This book explores the contradictions that emerge in international statebuilding efforts in war-torn societies.

Since the end of the Cold War, more than 20 major peace...

December 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77628-8 (Routledge)

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The Dilemmas of Statebuilding

Confronting the contradictions of postwar peace operations

Edited by Roland Paris, Timothy D. Sisk

This book explores the contradictions that emerge in international statebuilding efforts in war-torn societies.

Since the end of the Cold War, more than 20 major peace...

December 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77629-5 (Routledge)

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Century of Genocide

Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts

Edited by Samuel Totten, William S. Parsons

Through powerful first-person accounts, scholarly analysis, and compelling narrative, Century of Genocide details the causes and ramifications of the genocides perpetrated in the twentieth century and...

September 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99084-4 (Routledge)

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Century of Genocide

Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts

Edited by Samuel Totten, William S. Parsons

Through powerful first-person accounts, scholarly analysis, and compelling narrative, Century of Genocide details the causes and ramifications of the genocides perpetrated in the twentieth century and...

September 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99085-1 (Routledge)

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Global Ethics

Anarchy, Freedom and International Relations

By Mervyn Frost

This provocative and original book challenges the commonplace that contemporary international interactions are best understood as struggles for power. Eschewing jargon and theoretical abstraction, Mervyn...

September 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46609-7 (Routledge)

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Global Ethics

Anarchy, Freedom and International Relations

By Mervyn Frost

This provocative and original book challenges the commonplace that contemporary international interactions are best understood as struggles for power. Eschewing jargon and theoretical abstraction, Mervyn...

September 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46610-3 (Routledge)

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Politics of Civil Wars

Conflict, Intervention & Resolution

By Amalendu Misra

Civil war is one of the critical issues of our time. Although intrastate in nature, it has a disproportionate and overwhelming effect on the overall...

May 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40345-0 (Routledge)

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Politics of Civil Wars

Conflict, Intervention & Resolution

By Amalendu Misra

Civil war is one of the critical issues of our time. Although intrastate in nature, it has a disproportionate and overwhelming effect on the overall...

May 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40346-7 (Routledge)

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Understanding Global Security

By Peter Hough

Fully revised to incorporate recent developments in world politics, the second edition of Understanding Global Security analyzes the variety of ways in which people's lives...

April 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42141-6 (Routledge)

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Understanding Global Security

By Peter Hough

Fully revised to incorporate recent developments in world politics, the second edition of Understanding Global Security analyzes the variety of ways in which people's lives...

April 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42142-3 (Routledge)

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Understanding Conflict and Violence

Theoretical and Interdisciplinary Approaches

By Tim Jacoby

This book examines and interprets a wide range of approaches to the causes of violence and conflict.

The causes of violence and conflict are often...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36910-7 (Routledge)

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Understanding Conflict and Violence

Theoretical and Interdisciplinary Approaches

By Tim Jacoby

This book examines and interprets a wide range of approaches to the causes of violence and conflict.

The causes of violence and conflict are often...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36911-4 (Routledge)

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War, Peace and International Relations

An Introduction to Strategic History

By Colin S. Gray

This new volume explores the theory and practice of war and peace in modern historical context.

In fifteen clear and concise chapters, this book hits the high and low...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-38638-8 (Routledge)

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War, Peace and International Relations

An Introduction to Strategic History

By Colin S. Gray

This new volume explores the theory and practice of war and peace in modern historical context.

In fifteen clear and concise chapters, this book hits the high and low...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-38639-5 (Routledge)

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Peacekeeping and the International System

By Norrie MacQueen

A comprehensive, clearly presented and accessible text covering the totality of the peacekeeping experience since the early twentieth century.

This is essential reading for all...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35353-3 (Routledge)

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Peacekeeping and the International System

By Norrie MacQueen

A comprehensive, clearly presented and accessible text covering the totality of the peacekeeping experience since the early twentieth century.

This is essential reading for all...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35354-0 (Routledge)

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Seapower

A Guide for the Twenty-First Century

By Geoffrey Till

The sea has always been central to human development as a source of resources, and as a means of transportation, information-exchange and strategic dominion. It...

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-7146-5542-0 (Routledge)

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Seapower

A Guide for the Twenty-First Century

By Geoffrey Till

The sea has always been central to human development as a source of resources, and as a means of transportation, information-exchange and strategic dominion. It...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-8436-9 (Routledge)

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