MANAA Book Archive

This distinctive comparative research examines minority illustration and powersharing in Canada, Kenya, South Africa, Fiji, India, Malaysia, and Yugoslavia. providing a brand new thought of the 'consociational party', Bogaards explores how variety differs inside events and why it concerns for social peace and democracy.

This edited quantity breaks new floor via innovatively drawing on a number of disciplines to augment our realizing of diplomacy and conflict.  the growth of data throughout disciplines and the more and more blurred barriers within the genuine global either let and insist considering throughout highbrow borders. whereas multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary are famous buzz phrases, remarkably few books increase them. but doing so can sharpen and extend our standpoint on educational and actual international matters and difficulties. This booklet deals the main entire remedy up to now and is a useful source for college kids, students and practitioners.

This e-book utilises the turning out to be phenomenon of British soldier narratives from Iraq and Afghanistan to discover how British infantrymen make feel in their function on those advanced, multi-dimensional operations. It goals to intrude within the debates inside serious feminist scholarship over no matter if squaddies can ever be brokers of peace.

This booklet analyses the connection among Fascist Italy and the League of countries within the interwar years. via uncovering the strains of these Italians operating within the association, this quantity investigates Fascist Italy’s club of the League, and explores the dynamics among nationalism and internationalism in Geneva. the connection among Fascist Italy and the League of countries was once contradictory, moving from energetic collaboration to open war of words. prior literature has now not mirrored this oscillation in coverage, focusing disproportionally at the difficulties Italy brought on for the League, similar to the Ethiopian drawback. but Fascist Italy remained within the League for greater than fifteen years, and was once the 3rd greatest energy in the establishment. How did a Fascist dictatorship healthy into a firm espousing rules of liberal internationalism? through the use of archival resources from 4 nations, Elisabetta Tollardo indicates that Fascist Italy used to be even more thinking about, and concerned with, the League than at the moment believed.

By Patrick W. Quirk

This booklet bargains an unique and theoretically wealthy exam into the dynamics of alliances that groovy powers and susceptible states shape to defeat threats, akin to uprising or insurgency, in the smaller state’s borders. the writer examines modern examples of such “internal hazard alliances,” together with Russia’s collaboration with Syria’s Assad regime to defeat anti-government rebels and U.S. cooperation with Afghanistan’s ruling political elite to strive against the Taliban. In every one case, the weaker state’s management desired to stay in strength whereas the good strength sought to shield its pursuits associated with the regime’s balance. The e-book provides to diplomacy (IR) thought by way of providing a different conceptual framework that explains why inner probability alliances shape, why a few are extra cohesive than others, and why a few are potent whereas others usually are not. It thus promises to be of curiosity to IR students and scholars operating within the parts of safeguard experiences, alliance dynamics, political violence, and civil battle, but additionally to policy-makers grappling with the best way to salvage pursuits, reminiscent of entry to normal assets or local balance, imperiled by way of violence in susceptible states.

This booklet examines the polarization of positions surrounding the transnational boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) circulate aimed toward finishing the Israeli career. the writer compares 4 US-based case reviews within which activists for and opposed to BDS fight over problems with id, morality, legitimacy, and conceptions of "peace."

The commercial results of the Peace was once written and released via John Maynard Keynes. After international battle I, Keynes attended the Versailles convention as a delegate of the British Treasury and argued for a way more beneficiant peace. It was once a most sensible vendor during the global and was once serious in setting up a normal opinion that the Versailles Treaty used to be a "Carthaginian peace." It helped to consolidate American public opinion opposed to the treaty and involvement within the League of countries. The notion through a lot of the British public that Germany were taken care of unfairly in flip used to be a very important think about public aid for appeasement. The luck of the publication verified Keynes' popularity as a number one economist. whilst Keynes was once a key participant in constructing the Bretton Woods method in 1944, he remembered the teachings from Versailles in addition to the nice melancholy. The Marshall Plan after the second one global warfare is an identical method to that proposed by way of Keynes within the fiscal outcomes of the Peace.

By Maria Montessori

Schooling and Peace by means of Maria Montessori translated via Helen Lane. a suite of Maria's lectures as she involves grips with the nice challenge of the way forward for humanity, within which she supplies passionate expression to her insights with reference to "Educate for Peace" among international battle I and international conflict II.

The industrial Reconciliation method develops hybrid cross-border types in keeping with the loose fiscal quarter, the economic district, and the cluster to generate a typical monetary curiosity among nations and populations in declared or capability clash within the heart East.

Enlightened conflict investigates the a number of and complicated interactions among battle and Enlightenment proposal. even if the Enlightenment is often pointed out with the beliefs of growth, everlasting peace, cause, and self-determination, Enlightenment discourse spread out in the course of a interval of lengthy ecu struggle from the Seven Years' warfare to the Napoleonic conquest of Europe. The essays during this quantity discover the palpable effect of conflict on eighteenth-century inspiration and argue for an ideological affinity between conflict, Enlightenment suggestion, and its legacy. The essays are interdisciplinary, enticing with historical past, paintings historical past, philosophy, army conception, gender reports, and literature and with ancient occasions and cultural contexts from the early Enlightenment via German Classicism and Romanticism. the quantity enriches our realizing of war within the eighteenth century and exhibits how theories and practices of warfare impacted recommendations of subjectivity, nationwide id, gender, and paintings. It additionally sheds gentle at the modern dialogue of the legitimacy of violence via juxtaposing theories of conflict, options of revolution, and human rights discourses. participants: Johannes Birgfeld, David Colclasure, Sara Eigen Figal, Ute Frevert, Wolf Kittler, Elisabeth Krimmer, Waltraud Maierhofer, Arndt Niebisch, Felix Saure, Galili Shahar, Patricia Anne Simpson, Inge Stephan.