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  • 1
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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9783031560385
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 266 p. 7 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Contributions to International Relations
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    Keywords: Peace. ; Security, International. ; International relations. ; Terrorism. ; Political violence. ; Religion and politics.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I: Conceptualizing Peace and War -- Chapter 2. Representing and Feeling Conflict: Lessons for Building Peace -- Chapter 3. Religions and Violence -- Chapter 4. The Notion of Unity in Russian Thought and Its Implications for Peaceful Coexistence -- Chapter 5. Peace with the Future. How Narratives of the Anthropocene Form Relational Concepts of Peace -- Chapter 6. Hermeneutical and Exegetical Approaches to the Concepts of Peace and Violence in the Qur'ān -- Chapter 7. War and Peace Through a Feminist Lens: The Need for a Gender-Responsive, Humanitarian Approach for ‘Conflict Resolutions’ and ‘Peace Processes’ -- Part II: Examples of War and Peacebuilding -- Chapter 8. New Approaches within the Peace Mission in Africa Using the Example of Uganda -- Chapter 9. Mohammed Merah and the Birth of Post-Modern Jihadism: The Genesis of Merah's Jihadist Extremism as a Rupture and its Effects on the French Society -- Chapter 10. War and Peace in the Understanding of Turkish Politics -- Chapter 11. Victim or Perpetrator? Child Returnees´ Perceptions of Peace and War -- Chapter 12. Women, Minors and Families Affiliated with Terrorist Groups: Reintegration and Peacebuilding in Morocco -- Chapter 13. The Meaning of War and Peace in Jihadist Online Radicalization -- Chapter 14. ‘I Need You As My Foe’. A Practical Perspective on the Need of Having Enemies in the Process of Radicalization.
    Abstract: This interdisciplinary anthology offers both theoretical reflections and empirical data on past, present and possible future war and crisis situations. In addition, against the background of the authors' academic and practical experience in the field of international political observation and consultancy, proposals are formulated for peacekeeping in crisis regions and with regard to extreme environments. Furthermore it addresses sensory and aesthetic perceptions of war and peace. Unlike other books on the subject, this contributed volume seeks solutions for lasting peace from various fields that could help improve quality of life for people around the world – especially in heterogeneous societies, which are often shaken by religious, ethnic or political crises.
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9783031581601
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 107 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Security, International. ; Peace.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: The Craft -- Chapter 2: Shaping Justice -- Chapter 3: Feeling Justice -- Chapter 4: Being Justice -- Chapter 5: Crafting.
    Abstract: This book is about the making of justice. Despite the growing scholarship on transitional and transformative justice, contested struggles for justice in times of political change fail to get the nuanced attention we think they deserve. It seeks to understand how the making of justice is a craft and how this process of craft making is itself a source of political change. The authors introduce a new and novel conceptual framework of justicecraft which sheds light upon political change by unpacking five key elements—the skills, knowledge, labor, affect, and materiality—involved in contested struggles for justice. Justicecraft illuminates the stories and struggles for justice, enabling a greater understanding of accompanying social, political, and cultural shifts in society which unfold during times of conflict. By framing justice as craft, the authors offer a more fluid understanding of how people are producing justice on the ground—and identify the means, the instruments, the language, and claims involved in the process. Each chapter applies the framework of justicecraft to diverse global case illustrations of struggles against past, present, and future injustices and wrongdoings and draws out the key elements embedded in these processes. Lauren Balasco is Associate Professor of Political Science at Stockton University in Galloway, New Jersey. Eliza Garnsey is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in International Relations at the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, London. Arnaud Kurze is Associate Professor of Justice Studies at Montclair State University. Christopher Lamont is Professor of International Relations at Tokyo International University and Visiting Senior Researcher at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) at the University of Tokyo.
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9783031445842
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 427 p. 18 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Political science. ; Human rights. ; International relations. ; Diplomacy. ; Internationaler Konflikt ; Grenzkonflikt ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Internationale Politik ; Innere Sicherheit ; Menschenrecht ; Governance ; Europa
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Migration Policies in the OSCE Region (Anisa Abeytia) -- Chapter 2. Early Warning Models in the OSCE: Adoption and Re-Invention (Alina Isakova) -- Chapter 3. NATO and EU Strategic Security Environment (Aybike Yalcin-Ispir) -- Chapter 4. Patterns of Border Disputes Amongst OSCE Countries (Halina Sapeha) -- Chapter 5. Assessing Water (Ir)Rationality in the Disputed Region of Nagorno-Karabakh (Leonardo Zanatta) -- Chapter 6. Vetting as a Tool for Strengthening Judicial Integrity in the OSCE Region (Teodora Miljojkovic) -- Chapter 7. Human Rights Adjudication in Central Asia (Saniia Toktogazieva) -- Chapter 8. Human Rights and Social Media: Challenges and Opportunities for Human Rights Education (Joanna Kulesza) -- Chapter 9. Digital Citizen Activism in Central Asia: Beyond Contestation and Cooperation (Bakhytzhan Kurmanov) -- Chapter 10. The Dilemma of Good Governance vs. Power Grab in Georgia (Shalva Dzebisashvili) -- Chapter 11. Transformations of Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine towards EU Membership (Malkhaz Nakashidze) -- Chapter 12. Backsliding Rule of Law and “Stabilotocracy” in Montenegro (Mirko Đuković).
    Abstract: This open-access book explores the security dynamics amid the polarization, shifting borders, and liquid governance that define the Zeitenwende era in Europe's eastern neighbourhood and Central Asia. Presenting various case studies, the volume unveils the intricate web of border dynamics and practices, including the nuanced interplay of border disputes within the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) member states. The contributions shed new light on how contested borders and liquid modes of governance have impacted the engagement of international organizations such as the European Union (EU), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and OSCE in security crises and conflict prevention. Delving deeper, a special part dissects the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict and examines European and international responses. By analyzing the stances of diverse European countries, their neighborhood, and international organizations, this section uncovers commonalities and disparities in their approaches to the Ukrainian crisis.
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  • 4
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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031504587
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 244 p. 7 illus., 6 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in International Relations
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Krieg ; Stellvertreterkrieg ; Internationale Politik ; Internationale Kooperation ; Internationaler Konflikt ; Politisches Feld ; Ethik ; Moral ; Internationale Norm ; Erde
    Abstract: Chapter 1 The Nature of Proxy Relationships and their Ethics -- Chapter 2 A Brief History of Proxy Wars Part 1: Ancient to Modern -- Chapter 3 A Brief History of Proxy Wars Part 2: The Cold War -- Chapter 4 Jus ad Bellum and the Implications for Proxy Warfare -- Chapter 5 Mitigating the Moral Hazards of Proxy Warfare -- Chapter 6 Conclusion: Applying the Proxy Moral Framework.
    Abstract: “At a time when proxy wars are being fought across the globe, this book should be required reading for senior military and national security officials. Professor Pfaff, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on Just War, gives us a fresh and indispensable guide to the ethics and legality of proxy wars and how they fit into the long tradition of Just War. He also provides a much-needed blueprint for the containment and resolution of such conflicts from Ukraine to the Middle East.” –Michael Hirsh, Columnist, Foreign Policy Magazine “Professor Pfaff's book brings clarity and rigor to an increasingly important feature of international relations: states' use of proxies to achieve indirectly what they prefer not to do directly. It makes a crucial contribution to the normative analysis of international competition by carefully identifying the potential moral harms and hazards of this type of relationship. In an era in which many conflicts feature hostilities between proxies, this book is an essential guide to understanding their nature and complexity.” --Mitt Regan, McDevitt Professor of Jurisprudence, Georgetown University Law Center "Tony Pfaff's excellent book examines the ethics of an increasingly important aspect of warfare: supporting proxies who do the actual fighting and dying to accomplish their national objectives while furthering their sponsor's interests. Highly recommended for those who care about keeping America both safe and morally strong." --Dr. John Nagl, Professor Warfighting Studies, US Army War College, and author of Eating Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya to Vietnam Proxies can effectively transfer risk and lower the costs of international competition; however, they set conditions for moral failure and hazard. Applying the framework of the Just War Tradition, this book addresses how international actors can address those challenges and establish ethical and effective security relationships. DR. C. Anthony Pfaff (Colonel, U.S. Army, Ret.) is the research professor for Strategy, the Military Profession and Ethics at the US Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute, a Senior Non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy. .
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  • 5
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031418501
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 391 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Security, International. ; International economic relations.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Permanent Counterrevolution, Technocracy, and World War III -- Chapter 2: Shock and Stress -- Chapter 3: Trauma-Based Mind Control -- Chapter 4: Fear and Thread -- Chapter 5: Cognitive Attack -- Chapter 6: Weaponised Deception -- Chapter 7: Mass Paranoia and Hysteria: Turning Society against itself -- Chapter 8: The coming Unrest.
    Abstract: David Hughes was one of the few academics who questioned the mainstream narrative following the attacks that triggered the War on Terror. That gave him a crucial advantage when the Covid emergency was declared. In this provocative study he explores in depth how governments have declared war on their populations to achieve a transformation to a technocratic dictatorship. The combination with psychological techniques developed over many decades makes this a particularly grave danger, which requires careful dissection to be understood and resisted. This book, the first of a two-volume set, provides that analysis. ~ Kees van der Pijl, author of States of Emergency. Keeping the Global Population in Check (Clarity Press, 2022) (The Netherlands) The silent coup engineering global central control depends heavily on asymmetrical warfare – including extensive investment in and application of psychological and neurological weaponry. In this book, David Hughes documents the development and application of a wide portfolio of soft and hard – and often invisible – weapons to brutally manipulate minds and emotions to engineer the adoption of technocracy. The first step to not falling victim is to see these 21st century weapons of war clearly. Hughes’ formidable scholarship helps you to do so. ~ Catherine Austin Fitts, Publisher, The Solari Report (United States) David A. Hughes is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Lincoln. He received his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Oxford University and holds doctorates in German Studies (Duke University) and International Relations (Oxford Brookes University). His research focuses on psychological warfare, "9/11," "Covid-19," the deep state, technocracy, global class relations, and resurgent totalitarianism. Camouflaged by “Covid-19,” an undeclared global class war was initiated in 2020, aimed at replacing liberal democracy with technocracy, a novel, biodigital form of totalitarianism. The opening campaign involved the largest psychological operation in history, intended to demoralise, disorientate, and debilitate the public. This volume deals with the application of shock and stress, trauma-based mind control, the use of fear and threat, cognitive attack, weaponised deception, and techniques for turning society against itself.
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9783031445460
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 133 p. 5 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: The European Union in International Affairs
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    Keywords: Europe ; Political planning. ; Security, International. ; International relations. ; Integration ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Staatensystem ; Internationale Organisation ; Entwicklung ; Politisches Mandat
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Conceptual framework -- 3. A differentiated European defence architecture in the making -- 4. EU (rope) and regional resilience -- 5. Conclusion.
    Abstract: “The successive crises the EU has undergone, notably with the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have highlighted dramatically how European security includes while spans well beyond defence. Picking up from this cue, this book masterfully expands the notion of European strategic autonomy across different areas while highlighting its fundamental compatibility with the goal of building stronger partnerships beyond the EU’s borders.” — Nathalie Tocci, director at IAI in Rome “European Actorness in a Shifting Geopolitical Context is a timely and thought-provoking contribution to the discourse on European strategic autonomy. Rieker and Giske go beyond conventional notions of defence to highlight the pressing need to address the growing risk of hybrid threats. With meticulous research and a nuanced understanding of contemporary debates on European integration and security, this volume presents a comprehensive approach to fleshing out European strategic autonomy. A must-read for policymakers, academic experts and anyone interested in understanding Europe’s evolving role on the international stage.” — Mark Leonard, director of ECFR “Rieker and Giske provide an innovative analysis of how external differentiation can help improve EU actorness and security. This is the first study that systematically brings together two core issues in European integration: external differentiation and strategic autonomy. Building on a broad empirical basis, the book makes an important contribution to current political and academic discussions on Europe’s foreign and security policy.” — Frank Schimmelfennig, Professor, ETH Zurich This is an open access book. Over the past decade, the global geopolitical context has changed significantly, with a geopolitical power shift and a more assertive Russia and China. With the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine, European security has been put on high alert. The implications of the Russian military invasion are many and difficult to grasp in full. But the need for greater European strategic autonomy appears increasingly evident. But how can this be achieved in the short run? A common answer to this question is that it is impossible or that this can only be achieved in the long run, if at all. The aim of this book is to present a different perspective. It aims at showing that it should be possible to make the most out of the current European system if we adjust our understanding of how it works. The book argues that strategic autonomy may be reached—also in the short run—if differentiated integration (DI) is seen as an asset rather than a challenge. While the EU remains the core in such a system (together with NATO in the military domain), there is a multitude of other (bilateral and minilateral) regional and sub-regional integration processes that need to be considered to get the full idea of how a more differentiated European strategic autonomy can be achieved. This book starts by presenting a theoretical framework for how to study European actorness beyond the EU (ch.2), then this framework is applied both to understand Europe as a global actor (ch. 3), Europe as an actor in security and defence (ch. 4) and Europe as a regional actor (ch. 5). Pernille Rieker holds a position as a research professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and a part-time full professor at the Inland University College (INN). Rieker is part of NUPI's research group on security and defence and is responsible for NUPI's Center for European Studies (NCE). Furthermore, she is the co-editor of the Scandinavian journal for international studies, 'Internasjonal Politikk'. Mathilde E. Giske is a Ph.D. candidate, Department for Political studies, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
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  • 7
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031421747
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 218 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Twenty-first Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict
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    Keywords: Peace. ; Diplomacy. ; Security, International. ; International relations. ; Nichtstaatliche Organisation ; Politischer Konflikt ; Innenpolitik ; Friede ; Schlichtung ; Mediation ; Norm ; Diffusion ; Myanmar
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Unsettled Reflections from Golden Valley, Myanmar -- Chapter 2: Promoting Peace or Pushing Norms? Understanding Normative Agency in Mediation Processes -- Chapter 3: New Kids on the Block: The Rise of NGO Mediators in Mediation and Peacemaking -- Chapter 4: The Promised Land of Inclusive Peace: NGO Mediators as Norm Promoters of Inclusion -- Chapter 5: What’s in a Norm? What Normative Frameworks in Myanmar Reveal about Inclusivity -- Chapter 6: Chronicles of a Norm for Sale: Norm Entrepreneurship in the Myanmar NCA Negotiations -- Chapter 7: “The Trouble with Inclusivity”: How Promoting Inclusive Peace led to an Exclusive Outcome -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: The Life and Death of Inclusive Peace in Myanmar.
    Abstract: Can informal actors such as NGOs mediate peace agreements? If so, how does it work and what are the consequences for international peace mediation? This book tackles these questions and more through looking at the role of nongovernmental (NGO) mediators in promoting “inclusive peace” to negotiating parties in Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) negotiations from 2011-2015. The author argues that NGO mediators, traditionally seen as part of civil society or as weak mediators with little power or leverage, have become established mediation actors alongside more formal actors and are redefining the mediation field through norm promotion. However, even if NGO mediators can promote norms, the book questions whether they should promote norms in the first place, as the NCA process shows how the promotion of inclusivity contributed to a more exclusive outcome of years of peace negotiations in Myanmar. The outcome of the NCA process presents a critical and cautionary tale of promoting a presumed universal norm into a given locale and expecting a certain outcome without understanding how an external norm interacts with existing normative frameworks. This is an open access book. Julia Palmiano Federer holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Basel and a Master in International Affairs from The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Palmiano Federer is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa and the Head of Research at the Ottawa Dialogue, an organisation that specializes in the resolution of armed conflicts around the world through Track Two diplomacy, a form of unofficial and informal dialogue between warring parties. She is also currently a Senior Fellow at the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Collaboratory at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership.
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    Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031501968
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 289 p. 4 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Studies in Iranian Politics
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Middle East ; International relations. ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Militärische Kooperation ; Völkerrechtlicher Vertrag ; Multilateraler Vertrag ; Kernenergie ; Kerntechnik ; Iran
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I Iran Nuclear Deal and Its Fracture -- Chapter 2: The Much-Awaited Deal of 2015 -- Chapter 3: The US Exit from the Deal in 2018 -- Chapter 4: Scholarship on the Ramifications of the Fractured Deal -- Part II Theory -- Chapter 5: Cooperation, Spill-over Effects, and Integration -- Chapter 6: Fast-Paced Spill Back Effect -- Chapter 7: Fractured Deal and Triggers to Renewed Proliferation Interest -- Part III Case Study: Iran -- Chapter 8: Iran’s Nuclear Ambition and Its Conflicts in the Pre-Deal Period -- Chapter 9: The Deal and Iran’s Muted Nuclear Status -- Chapter 10: US Exit from the Deal and Tehran’s Intense Proliferation Interest -- Part IV -- Chapter 11 Conclusion.
    Abstract: “This important book offers a new theory and policy-related insights with respect to the Iran nuclear deal. It is the first study to see the nuclear deal as a means toward confidence-building between longstanding enemies. Iranian proliferation activities prior to the deal emerged as a result of simultaneous protracted conflicts with the US, Israel and Iraq. The volume offers a unique comparative analysis of Iranian nuclear policy over time and will be of great interest to academics and foreign policy practitioners alike.” - Patrick James, Dean’s Professor of International Relations, University of Southern California This in-depth study perceptively illuminates how the Iranian nuclear deal unraveled after the Trump administration withdrew, and with what consequences. The case reveals how relations between rival states can be improved through the positive spill-over effects of cooperative arrangements, but also how rapid and comprehensive spill-back can result from their unravelling. With her compelling analysis Khan persuasively demonstrates the importance of a renewed agreement with Iran backed by the United States.” - Annette Freyberg-Inan, Professor of International Relations Theory, University of Amsterdam This book introduces a novel theory surrounding the spillback effects stemming from the fracture of cooperative arrangements, exemplified by the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and rigorously examines its applicability through an in-depth analysis of the Iranian context. The book draws connections between the JCPOA and the broader landscape of conflict resolution and contends that cooperation can manifest between protracted conflict states, and once established through trust and confidence-building measures, can lead to spill-over effects into other domains. This comprehensive study undertakes a unique comparative analysis, scrutinizing Iran's proclivity towards proliferation before the JCPOA, the period of subdued proliferation during the deal's existence, and the subsequent surge in proliferation activities following US withdrawal. This book marks essential reading for researchers interested in Iranian politics, Middle Eastern politics, nuclear proliferation, US foreign policy, and international relations theory. Saira Khan is an international affairs expert with a career spanning over twenty years as a Professor of International Relations.
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    ISBN: 9783031553455
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 182 p. 26 illus., 16 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; International relations. ; Diplomacy.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2.The American Military and Football -- Chapter 3 International Relations Theory -- Chapter 4. Strategic Theory -- Chapter 5. Football and U.S. Military Strategy -- Chapter 6. Levels of War -- Chapter 7.Operations and the Principles of War -- Chapter 8. Application of Joint Doctrine and Joint Functions -- Chapter 9. Design, Planning, and Problem Solving -- Chapter 10. Revolution, Innovation, and Adaptation -- Chapter 11. Civil-Military Relations -- Chapter 12. The Similarities -- Chapter 13. The Differences -- Chapter 14. Conclusion / Epilogue -- Bibliography.
    Abstract: This book provides the reader with a history on the linkages between American Football and the American Way of War. It provides concise summaries of aspects of tactics, operations, and strategy, as well as international relations theory using football as a metaphor to simplify the concepts. International relations theory and military strategy tend to be complicated subjects often explained with jargon that puts the average reader to sleep. A book about war and foreign policy explained through football analogies and comparisons is designed to liven the topic and explain various military theories, strategies, and concepts. War and football tend to dominate national media. War is often a topic of debate from the highest levels of government to local bars and coffeehouses. Football is the monolith of sports that blankets sports television and radio throughout the year. This book provides the reader an understanding of how military professionals formulate and execute strategy in an easily understandable manner. Daniel Sukman is an Army Strategist who served as the Chief of Strategy Development on the Joint Staff”.
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    ISBN: 9783031587306
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 152 p. 5 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; International organization. ; Politics and war.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Research questions, methodology and limitations -- Chapter 3: Relationships -- Chapter 4: Australia -- Chapter 5: Canada -- Chapter 6: New Zealand -- Chapter 7: United Kingdom -- Chapter 8: United States -- Chapter 9: Analysis and Findings -- Chapter 10: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book analyzes the ‘Five Eyes’ nations’ concerns and policies relating to national security threats through an interdisciplinary theoretical engagement with the Political, Information, Security and Economic (PISE) Model. Through the analysis of secondary data sources such as scholarly and government reports, policy documents, press releases and interviews, the author analyzes the five case studies—Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, and the USA—to determine how and why nations use the PISE variables to shape favorable homeland security outcomes, to determine what the points of homeland intersectoral collaboration are among the ‘Five Eyes’ nations. In so doing, Weaver determines that although the ‘Five Eyes’ countries have concerns about homeland security and each, individually, identifies threats and hazards, they do also employ collaborative measures to build resilience and increase efforts to prepare for anticipated security breaches. John Weaver is an associate professor of Intelligence Analysis at York College of Pennsylvania (USA), a retired DOD civilian from the United States’ Intelligence Community, and has served as an officer in the US Army (retiring at the rank of lieutenant colonel). He has lived and worked on four continents and in 19 countries respectively, spending nearly eight years overseas (on behalf of the US government). His experience includes multiple combat deployments, peace enforcement, peacekeeping, humanitarian relief and disaster assistance support in both conventional and unconventional/non-traditional units. John has trained and certified multinational NATO reconnaissance teams based in the Netherlands, Germany and Spain for worldwide deployment in full-spectrum mission sets. He has also personally led several reconnaissance missions throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Asia (including multiple missions in Afghanistan).
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    ISBN: 9783031569326
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 409 p. 15 illus., 8 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: New Security Challenges
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    Keywords: Africa ; Environmental policy. ; Security, International. ; Economics. ; Power resources.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Oil and Gas Pipeline Structural Resilience, Nigeria and the Global South -- Chapter 3: The Impact of Oil and Gas in Bayelsa, Niger Delta -- Chapter 4: Security and Theoretical Explanation of Pipeline Vandalism in Bayelsa State -- Chapter 5: Research Design and Methodology -- Chapter 6: The Effect of Oil and Gas Activities on Pipeline Vandalism: The Perspectives of Professional Operators -- Chapter 7: Pipeline Vandalism and the Impact of Oil and Gas Activities on Communities: Community Perspectives -- Chapter 8: Discussion and Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book offers a comprehensive analysis of infrastructure insecurity issues in the historic Niger Delta, drawing on empirical fieldwork involving host communities, regulators, and multinational oil and gas operators. It introduces innovative models and theories, such as a pipeline life cycle model focusing on community development, community neglect aggression displacement theory, social aggression theory, stakeholders’ policy development model, contemporary poor governance cycle model, and an infrastructure insecurity nexus model, linking governance, socio-economic conditions, and infrastructure insecurity in resource-rich regions of the Global South. The book bridges gaps left by previous publications, providing depth and applicability of data. It employs the Frustration- Aggression Displacement theory to explain underlying triggers of violence and uses real-world case studies, diagrams, and charts to facilitate understanding. Suitable and engaging for individuals, communities, or regulators involved in oil and gas activities alike, this book offers valuable insights into onshore pipeline infrastructure insecurity in Nigeria, West Africa, and the broader Global South, addressing regulation, compliance, environmental concerns, social aspects, and technological innovations. Abdul L. Abraham Jatto’s research is focussed on oil and gas pipeline infrastructure insecurity in the Niger Delta, with expertise in contemporary political security and resilient infrastructure security. Following a PhD in Politics from the University of Lincoln, focusing on onshore oil and gas pipeline infrastructure insecurity problems in the Niger Delta region. It involved the design of integrative security and socio-economic models for safe transportation of oil and gas, infrastructure security. He has developed a proven interest and experience in the broad spectrum of Nigeria’s human and national security architecture and community development drawing on multi-disciplinary academic qualifications and professionalism. He is an appointed subject expert Judge in Politics and International Relations for the Global Undergraduate Award, Dublin, and has published across many reputable scholarly journals in the field. .
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    ISBN: 9783031587917
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVIII, 175 p. 7 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Social policy. ; Emigration and immigration ; Human services. ; Emigration and immigration ; Public administration. ; Security, International.
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Introduction: The History of Managing Forced Migration in the U.S.: Political Climate and Global Events -- Chapter 2 The U.S. Legal and Institutional Frameworks of the Resettlement of Syrian Refugees -- Chapter 3 Integration as a Proxy Theory and Governance -- Chapter 4 Synergizing Vulnerability and Cultural Sensitivity in Studying Forced Migrants -- Chapter 5 Real Voices from Syrian Refugees in the U.S.: State of Michigan -- Chapter 6 The Syrian Refugees' Integration Challenges in the U.S. and the Roadmap for Integration Policies.
    Abstract: This book investigates the integration of Syrian refugees in the United States, and it identifies the challenges that hinder their successful integration. After providing a comprehensive analysis of the U.S. legal instruments in national and international laws and obligations to receive forced migrants, the book then highlights the resettlement process and programs as a coordinated interagency process that entails a collaboration between the UN Refugee Agency and the related U.S. departments and agencies and the nongovernmental partners and refugee advocacy organizations. Moreover, it delves into integration as a proxy theory and governance that entails an analytical component from a theoretical lens to understand some aspects of realities that revolve around the resettlement of forced migrants' concepts, principles, and policies. Built on rich qualitative data from Syrian refugees in the U.S. to understand their resettlement experiences and their integration in multidimensional analysis, the book shows how the lack of federally driven integration policies and institutions in the U.S. negatively affects just integration. Relying on voluntary organizations leads to uneven outcomes among forced migrants, affecting social equity. Alongside this book's theoretical and practical implications, it highlights the ethical consideration of studying forced migrants and the synergy between forced migrants' vulnerability and cultural sensitivity. Ultimately, the book discusses the roadmap for implementing integration policies in the U.S. Among the topics covered: Introduction: The History of Managing Forced Migration in the U.S.: Political Climate and Global Events The U.S. Legal and Institutional Frameworks of the Resettlement of Syrian Refugees〈 The Syrian Refugees' Integration Challenges in the U.S. and the Roadmap for Integration Policies Navigating Integration Policies of Forced Migration in the United States: The Case of Syrian Refugees is relevant reading for researchers who are interested in integration and refugee-related topics; academics who conduct research in social policies, refugee integration, and resettlement; public policymakers who are involved in formulating refugee integration policies; practitioners at various levels who assist resettled forced migrants; and graduate students studying political science, public administration, social work, and sociology. Politicians with left-wing views who are advocating for improved human security for everyone also would find the book a useful resource.
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    ISBN: 9783031541650
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 200 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Economic development. ; Data protection. ; Humanitarian law.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Securitizing aid -- Chapter 3. Screening as data processing operation -- Chapter 4. Screening as data processing operation -- Chapter 5. The politics of (non-)transparency in non-European contexts -- Chapter 6. Conclusion.
    Abstract: Aid organizations usually embrace the idea of digitalization, both in terms of using diverse technologies and processing data digitally for improving their services, making their operations more efficient and even mitigating various risks. While digital fundraising, the use of biometric ID systems or digitalized cash and voucher assistance enjoys widespread attention both in academic and practitioner circles, it is less known how aid organizations navigate between counterterrorism legislations and data protection laws in technical terms. Limiting the discussion to the EU General Data Protection Regulation and by conceptualizing screening — commonly used to prevent the use of donor money for illicit purposes, money-laundering, terrorism finance or corruption — as a data processing operation conducted by larger international aid organizations operating in the Global South, this book focuses on the matter of ‘transparency’ and ‘right to information’ being at the nexus ofsurveillance studies and privacy studies. By means of legal and social science methods, it simultaneously explores screening in light of classic surveillance and analyses whether opacity around screening by NGOs (data controllers) is in line with the spirit of European Union data protection regime from the perspective of individuals (data subjects). In so doing, Paragi also contributes to the discussion on the politics of transparency and highlights the dilemmas and challenges aid organizations operating in authoritarian regimes or conflict settings may face. Beata Paragi is Associate Professor at the Institute of Global Studies at Corvinus University of Budapest. She earned her PhD in Political Science (Multidisciplinary International Relations) in 2008, and additionally holds a MA-degree in ICT Law from the University of Oslo (2022). Her research interests and teaching focus on development and humanitarian studies, the digital dimension of aid operations, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and qualitative research methods.
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    ISBN: 9783031513701
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 214 Seiten) , Diagramme, Illustrationen
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Diplomacy. ; Security, International.
    Abstract: This book is required reading to grasp the dynamics of economic sanctions. Drawing on recent Western sanctions imposed on the Russian economy, it provides a persuasive corrective to the dominant perspective that sanctions undermine target countries. -Immanuel Ness, Chairperson and Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, NY. This is an outstanding contribution to the literature. It provides a comprehensive and balanced analysis of the role of sanctions in the contemporary era. -Alan W. Cafruny, Henry Bristol Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Hamilton College, USA. This important study shows how Russia has survived being the most sanctioned country in the world by reorienting its trade towards the East and creating import-substitution policies and investment in local industries. -Jeremy Kuzmarov, author of The Russians are Coming, Again: The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce. A timely contribution to the growing sanctions literature that urges policy adjustment to new geopolitical realities. -Dr. Ksenia Kirkham, Lecturer in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. This book analyses the goals of Western sanctions imposed on Russia from 2014 to 2023. It explores the effects of sanctions on the Russian economy and its political course, as well as the repercussions of the sanctions to the senders and third parties, including spillover effects on neighboring countries and boomerang effects on the senders. While sanctions can be considered relatively effective in terms of economic consequences, the Russian economy is far from being crushed. Importantly, sanctions proved to be ineffective as an instrument of foreign policy. They have failed to alter Moscow’s resolve to continue its military operation and are unlikely to change it in the near future. Dr. Angela Borozna is Adjunct Professor at California State University, Fullerton. Dr. Lada V. Kochtcheeva is Professor of Political Science in the School of Public and International Affairs at the North Carolina State University. .
    Note: Tabellen, Literaturverzeichnisse , Introduction , Sanctions : a theoretical review , Annexation of Crimea : Western sanctions and Russia’s response (2014-2021) , Thewar in Ukraine : avalanche of Western sanctions and Russia’s reaction , Sanctions busting : the role of various states in Russia’s resistance to sanctions , Assessing sanctions effectiveness , Implications of sanctions to the rest of the world , Conclusion
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 288 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: 1st ed.
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    Keywords: Europe ; Security, International. ; Economics. ; Law
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Perspectives on the significance of borders in Europe: Past challenges, future developments -- Chapter 2. EU Border Policy: Enhanced Border Security and Challenges to Free Movement -- Chapter 3. TThe return of borders in the world economy: An EU-perspective -- Chapter 4. The boundaries of the internal market in- and outside the EU -- Chapter 5. EU norm promotion in a conflictual world. An existential necessity with obstacles? -- Chapter 6. The ability of the EU to extend its model of a social market economy beyond its borders -- Chapter 7. The EU's dependence on Russian energy — A force that divides or unites the Union? -- Chapter 8. The EU's fight against money laundering and terrorist financing in a digital and fragmented world.-Chapter 9. The European security order: Is this the end of the road? -- Chapter 10. A European Marshall Plan for a Ukraine on the way to the EU -- Chapter 11. The EU’s internal and external borders in a world torn by conflict.
    Abstract: “This book takes a sophisticated multi-disciplinary approach to the central issue of the EU’s borders in a changing and turbulent world, and the content of the volume reflects the breadth and the significance of the problem. The focus on borders is distinctive and enables some important insights about European and world order more generally. This will be an important contribution to a growing literature on the implications of the European crisis.” - Michael Smith, Honorary Professor in European Politics, University of Warwick, UK This open access book examines the implications for the EU of a radically changed international context characterized by systemic rivalry, competition over norms and regulations, and growing strategic tension. Globalization that once tied national economies together and internationalized social phenomena, such as education, research and innovation, and tourism, has gone in reverse. An opposite trend is driving the world into distinct spheres of competing models of governance, regulation, technological development, and communication. Facing the most extensive rupture of economic and inter-state relations since the onset of the Cold War, the management of the EU’s internal and external borders is taking on a completely new meaning. The open access book brings together scholars from economics, law, and political science to provide up dated assessments and policy advice on the insecurity in the neighborhood and war in Ukraine, the EU’s role in the future European security architecture, weaponized energy dependence, and the global competition on norms. Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt is Professor of European Law and Board Director of the Institute for European Law at the Faculty of Law of Stockholm University, Sweden. Per Ekman is a researcher in Political Science at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden. Anna Michalski is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden. Lars Oxelheim is Professor of International Business and Finance at University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, Professor Emeritus at Lund University, and affiliated with the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Sweden.
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    ISBN: 9783031510199
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 243 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Economic development. ; International relations. ; Political science. ; Africa
    Abstract: This book presents the reality of democratic reversals and waves of coups cutting through Africa, explores the political economy of coups, and through a case study approach, provides a nuanced analysis of the negative impacts of coups in Africa and interrogates the roles of African regional organisations in curtailing coups and foreign powers in distorting the security architecture of African states, particularly in the Sahel region. It proffers sustainable policy templates for politicaldevelopment,professionalism of the military and the subsequent withdrawal of the military from African politics. Apart from its policy relevance, it will serve as a resource pool for researchers working in the area of African political development, peace and security, and security sector reforms. With the incremental exit of France from the Sahel, the book will also offer a nuanced perspective on the ‘scramble for the soul’ of the Sahel by non-Western powers, such as China, Russia, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. Dr Adeoye O. Akinola is Head of Research and Teaching, and Head of the African Union Studies Unit at the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation / Institute for Global African Affairs, University of Johannesburg in South Africa. He obtained a doctorate in Political Science from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. He was a Visiting Professor at the United Nations University for Peace (UPEACE) Africa Regional Programme in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; and a Lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, between 2007-2012.
    Note: Political Economy of Coup d’États and Spectre of the Domino Effect in Africa in the 2020s , Historicising Coup d’États in Africa , The Nature of Post-Colonial African States and Military Coups : a Convergence , Military Coups and the Question of Misgovernance : a Malian Case Study , Patterns and Case Studies of Military Coups in Contemporary Africa : 1952–2022 , The Impact of Economic Sanctions as a Response to Coups in Africa : Case of Mali , Coups and Internal Military Dynamics , Military Coups and Democratisation in Africa : Rethinking the Role of Foreign Military Actors , Eliciting Compliance from Member States : Coups and the Role of African Regional Organisations , Of Democratic Deficit, Reversals, and the Return of Coups in Africa
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    ISBN: 9783031538810
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 236 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Contemporary African Political Economy
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Africa ; Agriculture ; International economic relations. ; International organization.
    Abstract: -- Chapter 1: Introduction. -- Chapter 2: Echoing the Debate on Food Security in the West African Region. -- Chapter 3: Methodological Problems in Food System Research in the West African Region. -- Chapter 4: Theoretical Linkages and Underpinnings. -- Chapter 5: The World Trade Organisation and the Global Structuring of the Agrifood System. -- Chapter 6: The WTO, ECOWAS, and the Prospects for Food Security in West Africa. -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book explores the multilateral control of agro-economic spaces in West African developing countries through international trade, spearheaded by the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Agriculture. Responding to growing food insecurity in the region, Ichimi here examines the web of intricacies in this arrangement by discussing some of the main international trade policies directly and indirectly impacting on food security in West Africa and critically engaging with empirical praxis as well as the theoretical underpinnings vis-a-vis multilateral strategies adopted for the amelioration of the crisis. In so doing, he expose how multilateral trading agreements under the auspices of the World Trade Organization produce negative outcomes for the food security status of a large and growing population in West Africa, privileging primary commodity production and export, maintaining the preference for food imports, and driving the pattern of agricultural investment towards an inexorable dependence of the sector on the dictates of the international market. Godwin S. Ichimi is a Senior Research Fellow at the Nigeria Institute of International Affairs. He heads the Division of African Politics and Integration as well as the institute’s Center for Ocean Governance and the Blue Economy and Early Warning Systems Center. He holds a PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Aberdeen, and his research interests span international political economy with emphasis on international development cooperation as well as human and national security issues.
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    ISBN: 9783031581991
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 207 p. 33 illus., 13 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Global Power Shift
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Politics and war. ; International law. ; Communication in politics.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Cyberspace: Structure, Functionality and Vulnerabilities -- Chapter 3. Sovereignty, Power, International Security and a Lack of International Law -- Chapter 4. Cyber Warfare: Global Trends and Proxy Wars -- Chapter 5. Mis/Disinformation and National Resilience: Are Countries Immune to Fake News? -- Chapter 6. Secure Cyber Domains (SCD): Mature Models -- Chapter 7. Vulnerable Models of Cyber Domains -- Chapter 8. The Future of the Internet.
    Abstract: The internet has become a battleground for global power struggles, with nations and even terrorist organizations wielding cyber-attacks to exert control. As the absence of binding international laws and norms leaves cyberspace largely unchecked, countries are seeking to establish their Sovereign Cyber Domains (SCD) - tightly controlled cyberspaces. In this illuminating monograph, the author explores how Russia, China, Iran, and others perceive the internet as a means for the United States and its allies to maintain global dominance and influence foreign audiences, driving their pursuit of strict regulations over domestic cyber affairs and mass communication. Yet, even the United States is now susceptible to foreign cyber operations, mainly foreign influence that undermines its domestic affairs. Even International Blocs like the European Union had expressed concerns about foreign influence and privacy rights abuses, leading to regulatory initiatives like the General Data Protection Regulation, Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act. As nations prioritize cybersecurity and sovereignty over free speech and convenience, the book predicts a future of increased regulation across all layers of the cyber domain, mirroring the historical emergence of the concept of sovereignty. Drawing on a combination of political science, international relations, and cyber domain practices, this monograph offers valuable insights for policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and students. By analyzing existing cyber sovereignty processes and predicting future trends, the book contributes to international relations theories, sheds light on the challenges of an unregulated cyber domain, and provides guidance for a secure and controlled digital future.
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    ISBN: 9783031587474
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 293 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; International relations. ; Mass media ; Europe ; Political science.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Disinformation and propaganda -- Chapter 3. Method and Material -- Chapter 4. Sources and Frames -- Chapter 5. The liberal left a threat to traditional Sweden -- Chapter 6. Liberalistic Defiance during a Pandemic.
    Abstract: It is a well-known fact both among scholars of propaganda and disinformation, and among political leaders that Sputnik and RT are using their news coverage for disinformation purposes to harm Western and European societies. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which enhanced the security threat by disinformation, the EU decided to ban these two media. Against this backdrop, the study asks what the disinformation about Sweden in Sputnik and RT looked like prior to the ban (It should be noted that both channels still publish news for a European audience by way of VPN and other pathways.) It is done by way of a narrative approach, which means that the analyses seek to trace what stories that were told and how. The study thus analyzes the narrative logic of propaganda and disinformation narratives promulgated by Russian state-sponsored media platforms Sputnik and RT, and aim to show how these media have sought to denigrate Sweden. This is an open access book. Maria Hellman is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Economic History and International Relations, Stockholm University. Her research interests include global communication, global journalism, security studies and international relations. She has published her work in journals such as International Political Sociology, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Media, War and Conflict and New Media and Society.
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    ISBN: 9783031566950
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 323 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Africa ; Security, International. ; Economic development.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: In Search of Governance, Development and Peace in Africa. By Adeoye O. Akinola and Emmaculate Asige Liaga -- Chapter 2: African Union and the Quest for Peace and Security in Africa: A Critique. By Adiat A. Abiodun -- Chapter 3: Operationalisation of the Abuja Treaty (1991) and the Impact of Economic Regionalism on the African Union’s Peace and Security Architecture. By Michael Washaya -- Chapter 4: A Critical Assessment of the Challenges of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS). By Abdisalan M Habib and Emmaculate Asige Liaga -- Chapter 5: African Union at 20: Taking Stock of the AU’s normative and institutional frameworks on Human Rights and Governance. By Tendai Shephard Mbanje -- Chapter 6: EndSARS Protest and Political Participation of Youths in Nigeria. By Zainab Monisola Olaitan -- Chapter 7: Women-focused Legislation, Economic Empowerment and Sustainable Development in Africa. By Omowumi Omodunni Idowu -- Chapter 8: SADC Peacekeeping Missions, and the Quest for Regional Security: From Congo to Mozambique. By Ramontja Naledi and Adeoye O. Akinola -- Chapter 9: African Union and the Consequences of Coup d’états in West Africa. by Arushi Singh -- Chapter 10: Regionalism, Trade, and the Development of Member States: A Perspective of ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation Scheme in Nigeria. By Ganiyu L. Ejalonibu.-Chapter 11: The Role of RECs in Mitigating the Impact of Natural Disasters in Africa: The Case of SADC. By Siphumelele Duma and Rich Mashimbye -- Chapter 12: The Global Gateway Africa: Europe Investment Package and the Future of EU-AU Relations. By Gabriele Casano and Eleonora Panizza -- Chapter 13: Peace and Security: The Question of ‘Reunification’ or ‘Unification’ of Cameroon. By Gallous Atabongwoung -- Chapter 14: MNCs, Conflict and the Contradictions of Resource Extraction in the DRC. By Divine K. Yamulamba and Adeoye O. Akinola -- Chapter 15: Pan-African Integration: Afrophobia Conundrum and Migration Politicking in South Africa. By Farai Joseph Chidhume, Olawale Akinrinde, and Mandiedza Parichi -- Chapter 16: Insights from Niger Delta Coastal Communities on Decolonial Climate Adaptation. By Fidelis Allen.
    Abstract: This book critically engages with the development-security nexus in contemporary Africa, coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of the African Union (AU). Despite widespread discourse on the 'Africa Rising' narrative, many African states grapple with persistent economic challenges, violent conflicts, Afrophobia, and democratic setbacks. The AU's efforts, alongside those of other regional actors, to leverage regionalism for driving socio-economic and political development while ensuring peace and security have yielded limited results. Consequently, this edited volume takes an incisive approach to unpack the complex and vexed issues obstructing sustainable advancements in security and development in Africa. While existing studies have predominantly centered on conventional conflict and development concerns, this book sheds light on the emerging realities and evolving dynamics shaping the region's trajectory. Utilising a comprehensive case study approach, the book places Africa's challenges within both historical and contemporary contexts, aiming to present sustainable policy options to bridge the myriad gaps in the continent's peace, security, and governance architecture. By addressing the intricacies of balancing individual state interests with collective regional advancement, this volume offers a pathway toward unlocking Africa's potential for development and fostering a prosperous and harmonious 'Africa We Want'. Adeoye O. Akinola is Head of Research and Teaching, and African Union Studies at the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC), University of Johannesburg in South Africa. He obtained a doctorate from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He specialises in African political economy, African Union Studies, migration, conflict, and peace studies. Among his recent book publications are Contemporary Issues on Governance, Conflict and Security in Africa (Palgrave, 2023), and Worlds Apart? Perspectives of Africa-EU Migration (Jacana Media, 2022). Emmaculate Asige Liaga is a Postdoctoral researcher at the IPATC, University of Johannesburg in South Africa. She obtained a doctorate from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Her research investigates the strategies of peacebuilding employed by both local and international organizations of peace operations in post-conflict communities, analysing the top-down and bottom-up approaches by both foreign intervention and local-level organizations.
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    ISBN: 9783031204951
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 392 S. 12 Abb., 9 Abb. in Farbe.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Politics and war. ; Europe ; Security, International. ; Political science. ; Russia ; Europe, Eastern ; Soviet Union ; Political planning.
    Abstract: Kapitel 1: Einleitung -- Kapitel 2: Der Blick auf das große Ganze -- Kapitel 3: Unterschiedliche Auffassungen von ziviler Kontrolle -- Kapitel 4: Überarbeitung des Rahmens für zivile Kontrolle -- Kapitel 5: Institutionalisierte Formen ziviler Kontrolle -- Kapitel 6: Heterogene Landschaft von Basisinitiativen -- Kapitel 7: Öffentliche Kontrolle von Streitkräften als soziale Praxis -- Kapitel 8: Die Auswirkungen von zivilem Aktivismus auf die Militärgesetzgebung (AGS-Gesetz) -- Kapitel 9: Fazit.
    Abstract: Der Band befasst sich mit den Grundlagen der gegenwärtigen Beziehungen zwischen zivilen Akteuren und staatlichen Machtstrukturen. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf dem Themenfeld der öffentlichen Kontrolle von Streitkräften und der Frage, warum zivile Akteure ein wachsames Auge auf die militärische Institution sowie zivile Behörden, die den Einsatz von Gewalt legitimieren, haben sollten. Am Beispiel von Wehrpflicht und Rekrutierung als Schnittstelle zwischen Militär und Gesellschaft analysiert die Studie den institutionellen Wandel im politisch-militärischen Bereich im postsowjetischen Russland. In kritischer Auseinandersetzung mit der konventionellen Militärsoziologie verlagert das Buch den Fokus weg von der exklusiven Machtbeziehung zwischen politischen und militärischen Eliten im Kontext der nationalen Sicherheit. Stattdessen berücksichtigt es die menschliche und gesellschaftliche Sicherheit, d.h. die Bedürfnisse und Forderungen von Individuen und Gruppen an der Basis, die vom Militär und der herrschenden Sicherheitslage in Russland betroffen sind. Das Buch richtet sich an Leser mit Interesse an zivil-militärischen Beziehungen, gegenwärtiger russischer Gesellschaftspolitik und Theorien sozialer Bewegungen. Die Autorin Nadja Douglas ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien (ZOiS), Berlin. Sie hat ihren Master-Abschluss in Internationalen Beziehungen an Sciences Po Paris erworben und promovierte (zum Dr. phil) an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Zuvor arbeitete sie als Referentin für Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik im Deutschen Bundestag und bei der Organisation für Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit in Europa (OSZE). Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Menschenrechte sowie die politisch-militärische Dimension der OSZE.
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    ISBN: 9783031586699
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 179 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Political science. ; International relations. ; Security, International.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Kremlin -- Chapter 3: The People -- Chapter 4: The Economy -- Chapter 5: The Military -- Chapter 6: The (Dis-) Information Machine -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book is about Russia. Yet, this book is not about Russia per se. To those, whose sole interest is a better understanding of the Kremlin’s decision making and how it shapes Russia’s present and future, we would refer to a rather long list of sources that we dutifully noted throughout the book. Instead, based on our expertise in Russian studies and the challenges that we experienced in the past 2 years, this book aims to offer a methodology to address questions when there is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answer (due to lacking reliable information). Any attempt to answer this sort of questions using the commonly accepted deductive approach, based on scientific methods is bound to fail, because of the very nature of these questions. Therefore, using Russia as a case study, this book aims to advance a way of analysing (however limited, biased and uncertain) available information to advance a more critical understanding of the subject in question by using the methodology of dialectic inquiry. Ofer Fridman is Senior Lecturer at the Department of War Studies, King's College London and Director of Operations at Sympodium Institute for Strategic Communications. Vera Michlin-Shapir is Director of Education at Sympodium Institute for Strategic Communications and Visiting Research Fellow at King’s Russia Institute, King’s College London.
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    ISBN: 9783031159718
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 190 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: International Political Economy Series
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    Keywords: International economic relations. ; International relations. ; Security, International.
    Abstract: Chapter One: Introduction: Who and What Does “the Economy” Serve? -- Chapter Two: The Origins of Statecraft -- Chapter Three: The Public Purpose of Political Economy -- Chapter Four: National Economic Policy: History, Culture, and the Limits of Developmentalism -- Chapter Five: The Delicate Order of Liberalism -- Chapter Six: The Transgressive Economy -- Chapter Seven: Neoliberal Governmentality and the Promise of the Demotic Economy -- Conclusion: Political Economy as a Liberal Art.
    Abstract: Rising inequality, the advance of far-right populism, ecological and climatic catastrophe and the scourge of global pandemic disease – these are among the defining crises of our time. Addressing the governing challenges posed by each requires a more expansive vision of the scope and possibilities of state action than political scientists and economists have furnished to date. In Statecraft and the Political Economy of Capitalism political economists Scott G. Nelson and Joel T. Shelton examine several key social and political dynamics of advanced capitalism for insights into the fate of equality, community and solidarity. In chapters addressing divergent problems and spanning several centuries, statecraft is presented as a conceptual lens through which the art and practice of public action is continually rearticulated in response to the shifting economic, social and political conditions of a given epoch. The authors examine several consequential moments in the long tradition of political economy in relation to the governing predicaments of the present day, highlighting those predicaments that bear upon the well-being of all people, especially society’s most vulnerable. The book thus reintroduces the creative and purposive aspects of governing to the study and practice of Political Economy, a field that has been too preoccupied with technical, institutional and procedural aspects of economic management. Framing problems of governing national and global economies in relation to the craft of the state means searching out continuities between capitalism's early promise and present peril. Scott G. Nelson is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech. His most recent book (co-authored with Bradley S. Klein) is Citizenship After Trump: Democracy versus Authoritarianism in a Post-Pandemic Era (Routledge, 2022). Joel T. Shelton is Associate Professor of Political Science & Policy Studies at Elon University and Coordinator of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) program at Elon. He is the author of Conditionality and the Ambitions of Governance: Social Transformation in Southeastern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and co-author of Research and Writing in International Relations, 3rd ed (Routledge, 2020). .
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    ISBN: 9783031122095
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 246 p. 5 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Gender and Politics
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Identity politics. ; Security, International. ; Europe ; Europäische Union ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Frau ; Menschenhandel ; Prostitution ; Feminismus
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Internal Security and the EU: The Securitisation by Contagion of Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation -- 3. Prostitution and the EU: Neoliberalism, Vulnerability and Security -- 4. The Intersection of Security and Neo-abolitionism in the EU’s Anti-trafficking Policies -- 5. Desecuritising Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation Through a Neo-Abolitionist Approach? the European Women’s Lobby -- 6. Desecuritising Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation Through a Sex Work Approach? Aradau Post-anarchism and Whore-Walks -- 7. Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book explores the triangular dynamics of securitisation and desecuritisation that underpin the EU’s approach to trafficking in women for sexual exploitation. That is, its progressive securitisation within the EU’s anti-trafficking policies and the existence of two distinct and competing approaches that coexist among feminist struggles against such trend: a neo-abolitionist approach, on the one hand, that is increasingly defended from within EU institutions, and has thus become increasingly entangled with the securitisation of trafficking in women; and a sex work approach, on the other, that has been largely relegated to the domains of academia and civil society. As such, this book addresses the intersection of security and feminist neo-abolitionism within the EU’s anti-trafficking policies, as well as the desecuritising potential of the anti-trafficking advocacy of both transnational neo-abolitionist and sex worker organisations. This book unprecedentedly brings together three bodies of literature that rarely interact: Critical Security Studies, EU Gender Studies and the feminist literature on prostitution and trafficking in women and demonstrates their fruitful interaction in an extensive empirical analysis of the EU’s internal security, violence against women and anti-trafficking policies. Lucrecia Rubio Grundell is UNA4CAREER Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
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    ISBN: 9783031200366
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 183 p. 17 illus., 14 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Politics and war. ; Political science.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Introduction to Strategic Trade Analysis -- Fundamental Systems of Strategic Trade Analysis -- Introduction to STA Methodologies -- Scripting an Illicit Strategic Trade Transaction -- Strategic Trade Risk Assessment -- Mirror Statistics -- Market Share Analysis -- Transshipment and Re-Export Analysis -- Machine Learning for Strategic Trade Analysis -- Network Analysis -- Applying Strategic Trade Analysis.
    Abstract: This book addresses ways that governments, international organizations, and other stakeholders can utilize data to uncover illicit trade in materials and equipment that could be used to support chemical, biological, nuclear, and advanced conventional weapons systems. Key concepts of strategic trade are introduced, including examples of strategic goods and their potential uses in weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and weapons systems, the interplay between the Harmonized System and strategic trade control regimes, and the data available for analysis in the field. Innovative, yet practical methodologies to analyze strategic trade cover the use of crime scripts, risk assessment indicators, mirror statistics, market share analysis, and transshipment and re-export analysis. There are also chapters on leading-edge techniques involving machine learning and network analysis that have shown promise in other areas of crime and illicit trade investigations. Each chapter provides step-by-step instructions on applying the technique, numerous case studies and examples, and discussions of the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. This volume is designed to provide all types of analysts with practical pathways for understanding, detecting, and disrupting illicit procurement of materials and equipment needed to produce WMDs and advanced weapons.
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    ISBN: 9783031078125
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 443 p. 8 illus., 7 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Politics and war. ; Security, International.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Theme One: Defence Forces Capabilities & The Threat Environment. Chapter 1. Ensuring the Jungle Doesn’t Grow Back: The Obligations Inherent to Irish Defence Policy -- Chapter 2. The GOC’s Perspective -- Chapter 3. A Critical Analysis of the Intellectual and Communications Culture of the Irish Defence Forces at a time of Emergent/Imminent Domestic and International Threats -- chapter 4. The Irish Naval Service: The Burden of the Minimalist Approach -- Chapter 5. Small Navies: Lessons for the Irish Naval Service -- Theme Two: The Reserve Defence Forces. Chapter 6.Revitalizing the Irish Army Reserve post-Commission on the Defence Forces: Moving from the Single Force Concept to a Total Force Policy -- Chapter 7. The Army Reserves – The Force-multiplier for Irish Defence -- Chapter 8. Ireland’s Naval Service Reserve – An Analysis of Current Capabilities and Role for the Future -- Theme Three: Peacekeeping Operations. Chapter 9. Decolonisation, Conflict, and Independence: The Impact of History on Ireland’s Approach to Peacekeeping -- Chapter 10. Ireland’s Largest Peacekeeping Mission – The Irish Defence Forces in UNIFIL -- Chapter 11. Peacekeeping in the Digital Age: Future Threats and Capability Requirements -- Theme Four: Cyber Security in the Digital Age. Chapter 12. Irish Cyber Security -- Chapter 13. Cyber resilience for Europe’s armed forces in the 21st Century – a German Perspective -- Chapter 14. The Irish Defence Forces in the Drone Age -- Theme Five: Defence Forces Institutional Innovation and Civil-Military Relations. Chapter 15. The Defence Forces Research Technology Initiative -- Chapter 16. Shared Norms but Policy Incoherence: Analysing the Irish Defence Forces’ Marketplace Aspirations -- Chapter 17. Representation, Negotiation, and Frustration. What path lies ahead for civil-military industrial relations -- Theme Six: The Principle of Irish Neutrality. Chapter 18. Ireland, NATO and the “Return of Geopolitics” in Europe -- Chapter 19. Irish Military Neutrality 1924-1945: A Historical Perspective for Modern Consideration -- Chapter 20. Generating More Heat Than Light? The Debate over Ireland’s Neutrality and the “European Army” -- Chapter 21. Conclusion. .
    Abstract: “This book is a critical and insightful contribution to the debate on Irish defence and the role of the Defence Forces.” — Ben Tonra, Professor, MRIA, The School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRe), University College Dublin, Ireland “By mainly examining Ireland’s defence policy and the Irish Armed Forces, this edited volume provides valuable knowledge to both practitioners and scholars. Undoubtedly, any reader interested in international relations and/or security studies, and especially those focusing on small states studies and/or comparative strategy, will gain new insights by exploring this book.” — Håkan Edström, Associate Professor in Political Science, Swedish Defence University, Sweden. This book aids any researcher, policymakers and military personnel in researching small states and militaries, European defence and security policy, as well as contemporary and emerging threats. This edited collection gathers academic commentators on Irish defence policy, military leaders from across the service components of the Irish Defence Forces and European defence experts to contribute to the first in-depth conversation and analysis on modern Irish defence and its application within the European Union. The aim of this edited book is to ascertain what capabilities are robust, which are lacking, what future threats need to be catered for, and what action is needed to ensure those threats will be addressed going forward. This book will explore emerging issues and applications of modern and contemporary threats within the context of Ireland, Europe and Western institutions. We have invited submissions from scholars, commentators, policymakers and military practitioners to evaluate the Irish Defence Forces and to illustrate the complexities facing small nations in formulating and resourcing defence and national security policy. Jonathan Carroll is a PhD Candidate in Military History at Texas A&M University, USA. Matthew G. O’Neill is a Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Cybersecurity and Society (LINCS) postgraduate researcher in Political Science at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Mark Williams is a Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Cybersecurity and Society (LINCS) postgraduate researcher at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.
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    ISBN: 9783031232497
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 269 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Frontiers in International Relations
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    Keywords: Europäische Union ; Europe—Politics and government. ; Security, International. ; International relations. ; Political science. ; Peace. ; Europe ; Mitgliedsstaaten ; Außenpolitik ; Staatensystem ; Internationale Organisation ; Erweiterung ; Nachbarstaat ; Grenze ; Grenzgebiet ; Identität ; Mobilität ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Interdisziplinarität ; Analyse ; Mitteleuropa ; Osteuropa ; Ukraine ; Russland
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: Identities, Borders and Orders in Central & Eastern Europe -- Chapter 2. Conceptualising the Borderscape -- Chapter 3. Interpretively Researching the CEE Borderscape -- Chapter 4. A Diverse Archipelago: Borderscape Features -- Chapter 5. Euro-renovations: Borderscape Discourses -- Chapter 6. Limiting Europe: Borderscape Practices -- Chapter 7. Conclusion A Moveable East and the EU’s Unfulfilled Potential -- Chapter 8. Epilogue: Europe Through the Prism of Russia’s War on Ukraine.
    Abstract: This book provides a pre-history of Russia's war on Ukraine and Europe’s relations to it, illuminating the deep roots of the EU’s neighbourhood crisis as well as the migration crises it created in the last decade. To do so, the book employs a new and innovative framework that allows for a comprehensive, yet nuanced analysis of borders and a more cogent interpretation of their socio-political consequences. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship the book analytically examines the key common elements of borderscapes and links them in related arrays to allow for nuanced evaluation of both their particular and cumulative effects, as well as interpretation of their overall consequences, particularly for issues of identities and orders. The book offers a significant conceptual and theoretical advance, providing a transferable conceptualization of borderscape to guide research, analysis, and interpretation. Drawing on the author’s experience in policy, practice and academia, it also makes a methodological contribution by pushing the boundaries of reflexivity in interpretive International Relations (IR) research. Analyzing three main sites in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the book challenges conventional critical wisdom on EU bordering in the Schengen zone, at its external frontiers, and in its Eastern neighborhood. In so doing, it sheds new light on the post-communist transitions as well as the contemporary politics of CEE. It also shows how European Union bordering and its relations to identities and orders created great benefits for many Europeans, but also hindered the lives of many others and became self-defeating. This book is a must-read for scholars, students, and policy-makers, interested in a better understanding of Critical Border Studies (CBS) in particular, and International Relations in general. It will also appeal to anyone interested in CEE or wishing to get a deeper understanding of Russia’s war and the fight for Europe’s future.
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    ISBN: 9783031068829
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXVII, 441 p. 9 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Africa—Politics and government. ; International relations. ; Political science. ; Diplomacy. ; Security, International. ; Comparative government. ; Africa
    Abstract: Part 1: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Introduction: understanding Nigeria’s foreign policy: reflections on Nigeria’s journey so far -- Part 2: The domestic dimensions of Nigeria’s foreign policy and external relations -- Chapter 2: Bureaucratic model: the ministry of foreign affairs and Nigerian foreign policy -- Chapter 3: Nigerian foreign policy and challenges of economic development -- Part 3: Afrocentricity and the regional dimensions of Nigeria’s foreign policy -- Chapter 4: A critical review of Nigeria's Afrocentric policy: rationale, gains and consequence -- Chapter 5: Natural resource endowment and regional integration in west Africa: the setbacks and implications for Nigerian foreign policy -- Part 4: Nigeria and the global and emerging powers -- Chapter 6: The dynamics and strategic interests in Nigeria-US relations -- Chapter 7: Nigeria-UK relations in the 21st century -- Chapter 8: The foreign policy of emerging big power? Nigeria and china’s belt and road initiative -- Chapter 9: Nigeria-South Africa relations: prospects and challenges of a strategic partnership -- Chapter 10: Nigeria-Brazil relations: ties that bind and binds that tie -- Part 5: Contemporary issues and challenges in Nigeria's foreign policy environment -- Chapter 11: Nigeria's foreign policy since independence: problems, challenges and opportunities -- Chapter 12: Nigeria foreign policy in the age of globalization: issues and challenges -- Chapter 13: “Gulliver's Odyssey”: assessing Nigeria's role in Ecowas -- Chapter 14: Migration and Nigeria's external relations: a trend analysis of its nature and dynamics in the last 60 years -- Chapter 15: Nigeria's foreign policy and diaspora engagements: the unharnessed strategic asset -- Chapter 16: Climate change and Nigeria's foreign relations -- Chapter 17: Nigeria relations with the organisation of Islamic countries -- Part 6: Conclusion -- Chapter 18: Conclusion: future prospects of Nigeria's foreign policy beyond 60 years of independence: emerging trends and tasks ahead.
    Abstract: 'This is a timely contribution that responds to the concerns of a renowned political scientist, Joseph Nye, who expressed deep concern about the widening gap between academic theory and foreign policy practice.' –Professor Eghosa Osaghae, Director-General, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) ‘The book is a welcome addition and deserves a distinct place among the many academic works on Nigeria’s foreign policy. The rich insights by authors carefully selected to contribute to this book will be useful for both academics and policy makers with deep interest in the area of Nigeria’s foreign policy architecture. –Otunba Olusegun Akinsanya, mni, Former Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to Ethiopia ‘A timely work of scholarship devoid of propaganda offering a rich mix of optimism and criticism of Nigeria’s foreign policy in the past 60 years.’ –Ambassador Zango Abdu, mni, Retired Diplomat This book covers critical issues in Nigeria’s external relations since 1960. As an independent nation, Nigeria has stood out as the most populous black country in the world and contributed immensely to the search for solutions to pressing international issues, notably in Africa affairs. Nigeria has also participated actively in global affairs and used the platform of international organisation to advance her national interests, cognisant also of its regional and global obligations and responsibilities. Contributors to this thought-provoking book make a strong case for Nigeria to press for a foreign policy that puts Nigerian people at the centre. One of the strong points also emanating from the contributors of this book is the imperative for Nigeria to address domestic challenges that continue to impinge on the country’s external image. Usman A. Tar is Endowed Professor of Defence and Security Studies, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the Nigerian Defence Academy. Sharkdam Wapmuk is Associate Professor at the Department of Defence and Security Studies, Nigerian Defence Academy.
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    ISBN: 9783031242397
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 274 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Security, International. ; Politics and war. ; Politische Wissenschaft ; Internationale Politik ; Theorie ; Popkultur ; Kultur ; Film ; Hörfunksendung ; Fernsehsendung
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Fantasy and Politics: Worlds of Possibility -- Chapter 2. Hobbits, Elves, Dwarves, and Men/Women: The Politics and IR of Lord of the Rings -- Chapter 3. Winning or Dying: The Politics and IR of Game of Thrones -- Chapter 4. Magic and Community: The Politics and IR of Harry Potter -- Chapter 5. When You Wish Upon a Star: Children’s Fantasies and Politics -- Chapter 6. When Women Rule: Women’s Fantasy Politics in Television and Movies.
    Abstract: “This is a masterful examination of fantasy films and television series, and the ways that they illustrate political themes. The book effectively employs constructivist theory to show how fantasy franchise norms, values, and institutions have changed over time. Looking in detail at Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, the Harry Potter movies, along with fairytales and children’s tales, readers gain a sense of the usefulness of these stories as vehicles for understanding politics. They also come to appreciate these movies and TV shows as allegories of contemporary politics and international relations.” —Hieyeon Keum, University of Seoul, South Korea “Fantasy movies create…a broad canvas on which authors and filmmakers weave amazing yarns that express our fondest hopes and greatest fears. This book is one of the best studies of fantasy films and television and their expression of political ideas. I was particularly struck by the author’s illustration of the changing roles of women and girls in many of these stories, as female empowerment recently has become a major theme of fantasy projects. You can learn much about both fantasy stories and politics. Buy this book.” —Barry Pollick, Okinawa University, Japan This book uses several fantasy movies or movie series and television series to explain political and international relations (IR) concepts and theories. It indicates the importance of fantasy in literature, film and television, and its increasing impact on politics and International Relations. It then presents the political, IR, and social issues in each franchise, and in five chapters uses these tales’ key story arcs or plot points to illustrate major political and IR themes. The volume pays particular attention to such fantasy franchises as Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, the Harry Potter films, recent fairytale and children’s stories, and female-led fantasy projects. Joel R. Campbell is Associate Professor of political science at Troy University. He teaches in the Masters of Science in International Relations (MSIR) program in Troy's Pacific Region (Japan and Korea).
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    ISBN: 9783031164194
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 353 p. 8 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Contributions to Political Science
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Security, International. ; Comparative government. ; Europe ; Internationale Politik ; Außenpolitik ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Staat ; Politischer Wandel ; Politischer Konflikt ; Innenpolitik ; Mitteleuropa ; Osteuropa ; Südosteuropa
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction (Ryszard Zięba) -- Chapter 2. Peripherality of the CEE region (Tomasz Pawłuszko) -- Chapter 3. From Authoritarianism to Neo-Totalitarianism in Belarus (Pavel Usov) -- Chapter 4. Illiberal Turn in Hungary (Andrea Schmidt) -- Chapter 5. Illiberalism and Nationalism in Poland’s Politics (Ryszard Zięba) -- Chapter 6. EU and NATO Eastern Policy (Ryszard Zięba) -- Chapter 7. Ukraine’s Attempts to Join the West (Marharyta Blyzniuk) -- Chapter 8. Russia’s Challenge to Central & Eastern Europe (Agnieszka Bryc) -- Chapter 9. Militarization of Security Policies in Central and Eastern Europe (Tomasz Pawłuszko) -- Chapter 10. A Fragile Peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Marlena Drygiel-Bielińska) -- Chapter 11. Energy Security of Central and East European Countries (Remigiusz Rosicki) -- Chapter 12. Visegrad Group – Real Entity or Mirage (Andrea Schmidt) -- Chapter 13. Three Seas Initiative (Ryszard Zięba) -- Chapter 14. Central and Eastern Europe in US Foreign Policy (Ewelina Waśko-Owsiejczuk) -- Chapter 15. Central and Eastern Europe in Germany's Foreign Policy (Aleksandra Kruk & Beata Molo) -- Chapter 16. Central and Eastern Europe in France’s foreign policy (Marlena Drygiel-Bielińska) -- Chapter 17. Central and Eastern Europe in China’s Foreign Policy (Zoltán Vörös).
    Abstract: This book analyzes major contemporary political and security problems in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Presenting case studies on various CEE countries, it highlights the persistence of non-democratic political trends in the region, with particular emphasis on authoritarianism in Belarus and the illiberal shift in the politics of Hungary and Poland. Also, the book examines the growing geopolitical and military rivalry between the West and Russia in the CEE region, which led to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. After addressing the increasing involvement of external entities such as NATO, the EU, the USA, Germany, France, and China, it highlights serious internal and external challenges to the democratic institutions and international security of CEE that call for new formats of multilateral cooperation to be established by the region’s countries. This book is intended for scholars and students of European politics, international relations and security studies, and for anyone interested in the political and security challenges facing the CEE region.
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    ISBN: 9783031191084
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 125 p. 7 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Politics and war. ; Biology. ; Chemische Waffe ; Biologische Waffe ; Nonproliferation ; Massenvernichtungswaffe ; Rüstungsbegrenzung ; Völkerrechtlicher Vertrag ; Kontrolle ; Dual-Use-Gut ; COVID-19
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Novel Neuroweapons -- Chapter 3: Neuroscience Developments of Concern -- Chapter 4: The Chemical Weapons Convention -- Chapter 5: The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book offers an analysis of how the Chemical and Biological Weapons (CBW) regime has responded in the immediate aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Coronavirus has highlighted the need to better protect modern societies from natural, accidental and deliberate disease affecting humans, animals and plants. Within that context preventing the deliberate hostile use of biological and chemical agents will be of increasing importance. Dando asks to what extent there has been a significant strengthening to the CBW non-proliferation regime in the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic using an analysis focused on two proposals to strengthen the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention which aim to constrain advances in science and technology developments that could be misused. On this basis he concludes that it would be hard to argue that to date there has been a significant strengthening of the CBW regime. Malcolm Dando is Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, Division of Peace Studies and International Development, School of Social Studies, University of Bradford, UK.
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    ISBN: 9783031202704
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 246 p. 4 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Global Power Shift
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    Keywords: Asia—Politics and government. ; International relations. ; Security, International. ; Politics and war. ; Asia
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction (Silvio Beretta) -- Chapter 2. A Rising India in the Crossfire of Competing Grand Strategies (Gautam Chikermane) -- Chapter 3. The Indian State and its Foreign Relations (Mario Prayer) -- Chapter 4. Rethinking “Interdependence”: The Changing Nature and Context in India-China Economic Relations (Priyanka Pandit) -- Chapter 5. India: Candidate Player in the Asian Economic Space. Problems and Perspectives (Giuseppe Iannini) -- Chapter 6. India And International Trade (Gianluca Rubagotti) -- Chapter 7. China’s Expanding Footprint in the Indian Ocean Region and the Indian Pushback (Harsh V Pant) -- Chapter 8. India and China – Two Countries Marching the March of Folly (Axel Berkofsky) -- Chapter 9. Kashmir as Frontier in Narendra Modi’s Ethno-Nationalist Idea of India (Emanuela Mangiarotti) -- Chapter 10. India’s US Policy 1991-2014: the Gradual Loss of Strategic Autonomy (Michelguglielmo Torri) -- Chapter 11. Framing India-Japan Ties for a Progressive Indo-Pacific (Jagannath Panda) -- Chapter 12. India and The Gulf: The Indo–Pacific Strategy Goes West (Francesco Mazzucotelli) -- Chapter 13. A “Nodal Centre”: Competing Interests in India’s Relations with ASEAN after Covid-19 (Giulia Sciorati) -- Chapter 14. India’s responses to the Belt and Road Initiative: a case study of Indo-Pakistani relations (Filippo Boni).
    Abstract: This book provides a state-of-the-art analysis of India’s foreign and security policies, examining e.g. the country’s security, economic and trade ties and interactions with Pakistan, China, the United States, Japan, the Middle East and ASEAN. Furthermore, the contributors provide the reader with an overview and analysis of the quality and challenges of India’s regional and global trade and investment policies. While in the past India has been a reluctant and not particularly prominent foreign and security policy actor in East and Southeast Asia as well as globally, China’s resurgence and its assertive and increasingly aggressive regional security policies have led India’s policymakers to reconsider the country’s decades-old non-alignment policies and opt for expanding security and defence ties with the United States, Japan and others. The Indian-Chinese border clashes in 2020 and China’s unlawful occupation of disputed territories along the Indian-Chinese border in the Himalayas have convinced Delhi’s policymakers and the country’s security and defence elites that India is well advised to join and contribute to US-led China containment policies. The expansion of India’s security and defence ties with Japan over recent years in particular will continue to be instrumental to keeping Beijing’s territorial expansionism in Southeast and South Asia in check. This volume analyses India’s involvement and engagement in regional and global trade and investment structures and flows in great detail. Written by a team of prolific European and Indian scholars, the book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of international relations and security studies, as well as policymakers at governmental or international organizations.
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    ISBN: 9783031247446
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 318 p. 7 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Perspectives on Development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Haberl, Ferdinand J. Jihadi intelligence and counterintelligence
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    Keywords: Terrorism. ; Political violence. ; Security, International. ; Politics and war. ; Islamischer Staat ; Terrorismus ; Dschihadismus ; Ideologie ; Organisation ; Struktur
    Abstract: Glossary of Terms -- Introduction -- Strategic Intelligence Background -- Collection Sources -- Intelligence Analysis and “Lessons Learned” -- The Three Levels of Jihādi Warfare – The Interrelation of Jihādi Operational Art and Jihādi Intelligence -- The “Urtext” of Jihādi Intelligence Culture -- The First Islamic State and its Intelligence Services -- Jihādi Intelligence and Epistemology -- Counterintelligence -- Encryption and Secret Communication Counterfeiting -- Safe Houses -- Covert Operations -- Economic Warfare and Destabilisation -- The Elimination of the Greyzone as a Jihādi Covert Operation -- Jihādi Intelligence Activities in the Digital Realm -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
    Abstract: This book analyzes the ideological roots, structures and operational methods of Jihadi intelligence and counterintelligence activities. Based on a substantive collection of data on terrorist attacks, communication channels, recruitment methods, manuals and statements released by various Jihadi groups, it examines and compares the nature, ideology and realities of Jihadi intelligence operations. The author, an expert on Jihadist ideology and paramilitary intelligence, compares the modus operandi of terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda and the IS with those of governmental intelligence agencies, and subsequently analyzes the role of historical and religious narratives that help Jihadist groups justify their actions and military management. Further topics covered include encryption, counterfeiting, covert operations and Jihadi intelligence activities in the digital realm. The insights shared here will allow readers to gain a comprehensive understanding of Jihadist groups and their intelligence operations, while helping practitioners and policymakers develop better counterterrorism activities and counternarratives.
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    ISBN: 9783031283369
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 243 p. 32 illus., 30 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Peace. ; International relations. ; International law.
    Abstract: PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND INTRODUCTION -- Part 1 - European perspective -- Chapter 1. Sovereignty and Defence in the future of the European Union -- Chapter 2. The hegemonic rivalry between the PRC and US: EU’s place -- Chapter 3. The Russia–Ukraine conflict from an international law perspective -- Chapter 4. The Russian commitment to Eurasianism: A crazy idea for European Security and Defence? -- Chapter 5. Eurasia vs. West: history, causes, and issues related to de Ukrainian war -- Chapter 6. Security of the Eastern Borders of the EU in the context of the Functions of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency. Selected elements -- Part 2 - Far East Challenges -- Chapter 7. Chinese expansionism without borders. Threat to international security -- Chapter 8. Chinese influence in the southern cone: Bolivia, Chile and Argentina -- Chapter 9. The role of the Philippines in the South China Sea -- Chapter 10. Artificial Islands in the South China Sea. Territorial Disputes in the Area. United Nations Conference of the Law of the Sea proposals -- Chapter 11. The arbitral decision regarding historic rights and the lawfulness of certain actions of China in the South China Sea under Annex VII to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea -- Part 3 - Global Risks -- Chapter 12. The risk of misuse of nuclear technology in the context of geopolitical conflict between the west and the east -- Chapter 13. Returned foreign terrorist fighters: different responses to a common security threat to Asia and the West? -- Chapter 14. Cyber intelligence over Cyber security in the Asia-West conflict -- Chapter 15. Jihad in Europe: Towards a predictive model for the neutralization of terrorist threats -- Chapter 16. Developments oblige the new Iranian Government to give a higher priority to its neighbouring countries -- Chapter 17. Analysis of Crisis management systems in the contexts of the Global Economic Crisis and Military-Political Changes -- EPILOGUE.
    Abstract: This book aims to analyze from a multidisciplinary perspective the current geopolitical conflict between East and West, between two differentiated and apparently conflicting cosmogonic visions. The geopolitical evolution of the current panorama seems to lead to a new world in the field of international relations, a new board played on a planetary level. Once again, bloc geopolitics can be glimpsed in the immediate future, in which the most important actors such as Russia, China, the United States of America, and the European Union are called to position themselves with respect to the territorial and strategic ambitions of the opponent. International law seems to be overwhelmed by military actions and factual pressure on the ground, while the battle of ideas extends to the technological field and cyberspace. The different origins of the authors, with extensive academic, military, police forces, and business experience undoubtedly enriches the unique perspective that this work intends to address, always in the attempt to enforce international law and the channels of dialogue between nations, such as the best solution to conflicts.
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    ISBN: 9783031245138
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 223 p. 13 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Middle East—Politics and government. ; Globalization. ; Security, International. ; Development economics. ; Statistics . ; Terrorism. ; Political violence. ; Middle East
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. Development -- Chapter 2. Development Theory: The Social-Liberal Approach -- Chapter 3. Analysing Inequality, Dependence, and Poverty in the World System -- Chapter 4. Politics Means Shaping the Shape -- Chapter 5. Multinational Firms and the Pattern and Structure of Foreign Direct Investment -- Part II. Globalization -- Chapter 6. Global Studies Meets World-Systems Theory -- Chapter 7. World-scale Problems and the Policy Response of Multilateral Institutions -- Chapter 8. On the Hidden Pattern in the History of Wars -- Chapter 9. Russia and Germany in the System of Powers -- Part III. Global values -- Chapter 10. Globalization, Islamism and the Persistence of Religion -- Chapter 11. Studies on Global Catholicism -- Chapter 12. Tausch and Political Controversies in Austrian Media: ‘Political Islam’ in the Austrian Debate -- Part IV. Security -- Chapter 13. States of Emergency: In Whose Interest Are They Invoked? -- Chapter 14. Rabin and the Intelligence Services on the Eve of the Oslo Accords -- Chapter 15. Tausch on Terrorism -- Chapter 16. Terror in the 21st Century The Modus Operandi of the Islamic State – What we know and what we can learn from it!.
    Abstract: This book, written in honor of Arno Tausch, presents cutting-edge research on globalization, development, and global values. Internationally renowned authors cover topics such as global economic and political cycles, global values, and support for terrorism. Over the last five decades, the Austrian political scientist Arno Tausch was a pioneer in studies on globalization, development and global values. This collection of essays takes up the issues dealt with by Tausch and presents perspectives for the 21st Century. Throughout his work, Tausch applied quantitative methods to study the fundamental issues of the global political economy and the global political system, like dependency, economic and political cycles, and global values, based on a rigorous study of available social scientific data, like the World Values Survey and the Arab Barometer. The thematic catholicity of this volume offers a fine reflection of the width and breadth of Arno Tausch's scholarship. The collected essays address crucially important topics of our age all of which comprised TAUSCH's many publications. Kudos to the editors and contributors for assembling such a fine anthology celebrating a fine scholar. Andrei S. Markovits. Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA To shape all levels of the world so that peace will prevail - this has been the scientific and political impulse of Arno TAUSCH all lifelong. Dieter Senghaas, Professor of Peace, Conflict and Development Research, Frankfurt University, Germany This book with contributions from experts in the filed represents well Professor Arno TAUSCH’s major contributions to the literature on development, welfare, institutions, globalization, global values, and security using large datasets and advanced composite index methodology in large cross-country comparative studies. Almas Heshmati, Professor of Economics, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden.
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    ISBN: 9783031260148
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 400 p. 17 illus., 14 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science 33
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Security, International. ; Peace. ; Economic development. ; Klimaänderung ; Klimaschutz ; Umweltpolitik ; Umweltsicherheit ; Umweltgefährdung ; Weltproblematik ; Securitization ; Internationale Organisation ; Mitgliedschaft ; Erde
    Abstract: 1.Introduction: A Framework for Assessing Climate Security -- 2.The Rise of Belgium as a Multilateral Climate-Security Actor: Analysis of Evolving Climate and Security Policies (2009-2021) -- 3.Climate Security in China: An Issue for Humanity Rather than the Nation -- 4.Dominican Republic: Security Perspective from Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Policies -- 5.Securitisation of Climate Change in Estonia: Widening Security Concepts in National Strategies and Foreign Policy Activities -- 6.Preventing and Managing Climate Risks: France’s Approach to Climate Security -- 7.Climate Security Discourses in Germany: The Transformation of Climate Change towards a Development and Foreign Policy Priority -- 8.The Climate-Security Nexus in Indonesia: A Multitude of Threats and Approaches -- 9.Conception, Perception, and Approach to Climate Security in Niger -- 10.Climate Change in Security Perceptions and Practices in Russia -- 11.Securing a Climate-Resilient Pathway for South Africa -- 12.Climate Security and Global Climate Injustice: The Case of St. Vincent and the Grenadines -- 13.Climate Security Perceptions in Tunisia: Food Security as a Dominant Paradigm -- 14.Climate Change as a ‘Threat Multiplier’: The Construction of Climate Security by the United Kingdom - 2007-2020 -- 15.Climate Security at the UN and in the United States, 2007-2020: The Contradictory Leadership and Silence of the US -- 16.The Climate-Security Nexus in Vietnam: Effect on the Pathway to Sustainable Development.-17.Climate Security at a Crossroads: The Evolution and Future of Climate Security in the United Nations Security Council and its Member States.
    Abstract: The speed and scale of climate change presents unique and potentially monumental security implications for individuals, future generations, international institutions and states. Long-dominant security paradigms and policies may no longer be appropriate for dealing with these new security risks of the Anthropocene. In response to this phenomenon, this book investigates how states have reacted to these new challenges and how their different understandings of the climate-security nexus might shape global actions on climate change. It focuses on the perceptions, framings, and policies of climate security by members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), the world's highest ranking multilateral security forum. Empirically, the book presents detailed, bottom-up case studies from local authors of every UNSC member state in 2020. It combines this with an innovative theoretical approach spanning national, human and ecological security that helps to capture the complex dynamics of state-led approaches to dealing with security in the Anthropocene. This book therefore offers readers a compelling picture of climate-security politics in the UNSC, beyond Council debates and resolutions. By comparing and contrasting how different framings of climate security impact various policy sectors of members states, the authors are able to assess the barriers and opportunities for addressing climate security locally and globally. • First systematic study of the different framings of climate security and policy responses by United Nations Security Council members • Innovative framework and methodology that includes multiple security approaches including traditional, human, and ecological • Case studies written by local, experienced researchers who draw from an extensive number of primary and secondary sources.
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    ISBN: 9783031296352
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 368 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Africa—Politics and government. ; Security, International. ; Political science. ; Africa ; Politischer Konflikt ; Innenpolitik ; Bewaffneter Konflikt ; Innere Sicherheit ; Governance ; Friedenskonsolidierung ; Ursache ; Konflikt ; Fallstudie ; Afrika
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Africa and the Scourge of Conflict and Insecurity -- Chapter 2. African Conflict and the ‘Post-colonial’ State -- Chapter 3. Climate Change and Emerging Conflict between Herdsmen and Farmers in Nasarawa and Plateau States, Nigeria -- Chapter 4. Grassroots conflict over ecosystem services provided by the Inner Niger Delta: The case of Mali -- Chapter 5. Conflict, Police impunity and the governance question in Nigeria: Reflecting on the #EndSARS protest -- Chapter 6. Trapped in the Ivory Tower: Using social movement theory to analyse a ‘movement in distress’ -- Chapter 7. Terrorism in Sub-Sahara Africa: Assessing its Economic and Social Implications -- Chapter 8. Violent Conflict in the Sahel: Causes, Dynamics, and Actors -- Chapter 9. The Resurgence of Military Coups in Africa: The Case of West Africa and the Sahel -- Chapter 10. Media and Election Disputes in Nigeria -- Chapter 11. Governance, Security and Development Nexus in Galkayo, Somalia: A New Approach to Explaining Somalia’s Chronic Instability -- Chapter 12. Ceasefire arrangements as pre-conditions for independence in Southern Africa: implications for land conflicts in Zimbabwe and South Africa -- Chapter 13. The Security Sector in Zimbabwe’s Diamond Governance (2006-2015) -- Chapter 14. Ethnic Federalism, Exclusionary Self-Determination Rights, and Conflicts in Ethiopia: Consociational Democracy as an Alternative Approach to Peace and security -- Chapter 15. Somaliland’s Plural Justice System and its Influence on Peacebuilding and Development -- Chapter 16. Exploring the impact of women’s organizations in peacebuilding in South Sudan: Post-independence progress -- Chapter 17. Gender-based violence in South Africa: The second pandemic? -- Chapter 18. A Reflection on Gender-Based Violence in Nigeria -- Chapter 19. Food security as a new frontier of war: A geo-historical perspective of food security and armed conflict in sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 20. IGAD and the Quest for Economic and Security Regionalism -- Chapter 21. Ethnic Federalism, Exclusionary Self-Determination Rights, and Conflict in Ethiopia: Consociational Democracy as an Alternative Approach to Peace and Security.
    Abstract: This edited volume reflects on some of the important discussions on the trends of governance, conflict and security in Africa. It explores some of the emerging concerns and offers a holistic understanding of the remote and immediate causes of the conflict and how the neo-colonial African states have been structured in a manner that makes violent conflict inevitable. The book thereby provides an overview of Africa’s security challenges and proffers some sustainable policy options for curtailing lawlessness and armed conflict on the continent. Literature is exhaustive about the nexus between governance, peace, and security; however, discourse on the impact of ‘new’ conflict on governance has been scant. Understanding these new trends has become a necessity and precondition for sustainable development, as reflected in both the African Union (AU) Agenda 2063 and the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Adeoye O. Akinola is Head of Research and Teaching at the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
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    ISBN: 9783031341632
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 262 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Security, International. ; Krieg ; Theorie ; Internationale Politik ; Ordnungspolitik ; Außenpolitik ; Internationales Recht ; Politischer Realismus ; Wirtschaftssanktion ; Rechtfertigung ; Russland ; Ukraine
    Abstract: Chapter.1 Introduction -- Chapter 2. Main International Relations Theories -- Chapter 3. NATO During the Cold War and Dissolution of the Soviet Union -- Chapter 4. Ukrainian Desire for Political Autonomy and NATO Accession -- Chapter 5. Russian Responses, the Invasion, Sanctions and International Law -- Chapter 6. Conclusion.
    Abstract: “Danny Singh’s latest book provides a timely analysis of the war in Ukraine. Drawing on detailed political history of the region and theories of international relations, he maintains that the realist doctrine of self-interest on the part of state actors best explains the major decisions made by Ukraine, Russia, and NATO, while liberal idealism explains little. Singh hopes that an accurate account of why the war was begun would help it come to an end.” —Thaddeus Metz, University of Pretoria, Pretoria “Danny Singh offers a persuasive, multi-layered exploration that makes for great reading. It is a compelling, fresh, and fascinating text. Singh has done the international community a service by offering an account with a remarkable balance, which is exactly what is badly missing right now.” — Georgios A. Antonopoulos, Northumbria University, Newcastle The book offers a detailed analysis on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A book needs to be written on this to make sense, from a theoretical perspective, why this invasion has occurred and what the main actors are pursuing. The originality rests on testing main international relations theories: realism, liberalism and constructivism to the war that emerges with the practices and approaches during the Cold War to date from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), the Soviet Union (and now Russia) and Ukraine. The monograph commences with a historical overview of NATO and how it has engaged in expansionism policy to further contain Russia in contemporary international affairs with the accession of additional former Soviet states. This helps to explain the current Russian invasion of Ukraine that would attract great readership. The main argument presented rests on the pursuance of realist interests by NATO, Ukraine and Russia for containment, national security interests and as a response to the security dilemma respectively. This has served as the main catalyst of this conflict that has made diplomacy, international law and collective security measures problematic to implement. Danny Singh is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Teesside University, UK.
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    ISBN: 9783031364761
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 269 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Maritime Politics and Security
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Security, International. ; Meer ; Herrschaftssystem ; Internationales politisches System ; Position ; Großmacht ; Rivalität ; Internationale Politik ; Strategie ; Außenpolitik ; Politik ; Seeschifffahrt ; Sicherheit ; Geopolitik ; Südliche Hemisphäre
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Between threats and capabilities: maritime strategies in the era of great power competition -- Part 1: Maritime Strategies of Great Powers in the 21st Century -- Chapter 2: United States: naval hegemony faces the Eurasian challenge -- Chapter 3: People's Republic of China: the ‘blue’ dream of a maritime challenger -- Chapter 4: Russia’s maritime strategy: between naval modernization and power projection -- Chapter 5: Republic of India: a democratic power with maritime aspirations -- Part 2: Naval Competition in the Oceans of the Global South -- Chapter 6: Indo-Pacific: clash of the titans -- Chapter 7: The South Atlantic and the global strategic competition.
    Abstract: Great power competition is the watermark of the current global scenario. In this regard, the maritime and naval dimension have a particular relevance on the struggle for regional and global hegemony. This book has the potential to engage with multiple audiences, since develops an analytic approach to understand naval great power competition in the maritime spaces of the Global South. It is set within a neoclassical realism approach, while engaging literature from international relations, international security, and studies on the Indo-Pacific and the South Atlantic security dynamics. The book offers a unique conceptual framework to understand how great powers select their maritime strategies, presents a series of regional and global maritime strategies by the United States, China, Russia and India, while assess their impact in the Southern Oceans, focusing in the Indo-Pacific realm and the South Atlantic. Dr. Ariel González Levaggi is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Sciences and International Relations of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina. He is also Senior Researcher at the Center for Research and Strategic Studies of the Argentine Navy, Associate Researcher of the regional think tank CRIES, Co-Chair of the Section ‘Asia and the Americas’ at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and Senior Associate (Non- Resident) at the Americas Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). .
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    ISBN: 9783031350962
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 478 S. 44 Abb., 42 Abb. in Farbe.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Security, International. ; Organized crime. ; International relations. ; Transnational crime. ; Europe
    Abstract: 1. Thematische Einführung -- 2. Methodischer Aufbau der Arbeit -- 3. Transnationale Bedrohungen -- 4. Transnationale organisierte Kriminalität -- 5. Migration im Kontext des EU-Grenzschutzes.
    Abstract: Dieses Buch thematisiert die Prozesse des Wandels von Grenzkontrollen und der Grenzverwaltungen in den letzten 30 Jahren nach dem Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs, des Zusammenbruchs des ehemaligen Jugoslawien in Bezug auf das strategische Sicherheitsmanagement, sowie die Abschaffung stationärer Grenzkontrollen im Schengen-Raum und der gleichzeitigen Einführung notwendiger Ersatzmaßnahmen. Im 21. Jahrhundert schafft ein sich ständig weiterentwickelndes Sicherheitsumfeld zusammen mit dem Prozess der Globalisierung neue Dimensionen von Bedrohungen und Herausforderungen für die Sicherheit und Stabilität transnationaler Natur. Dies erfordert umfassende, multidimensionale, kollektive und gut koordinierte Antworten. Nach Auffassung der Union sollte ein modernes, kosten- und nutzenorientiertes und effektives Grenzschutzsystem sowohl offene Grenzen als auch ein Höchstmaß an Sicherheit gewährleisten. Daher ist die Union bestrebt, die innere Sicherheit aller Mitgliedstaaten effektiv zu gewährleisten durch eine koordinierte Gefahrenabwehr, der Bekämpfung irregulärer Migration und grenzüberschreitenden Kriminalität, um einen reibungslosen Grenzübertritt für legitime Reisende und deren Hab und Gut, sowie Waren und Dienstleistungen sicherzustellen. Aus diesem Grund wurde das Konzept der integrierten Grenzverwaltung entwickelt, um eine wirksame Grenzkontrolle und -überwachung, sowie eine kosteneffiziente Grenzverwaltung der Außengrenzen der EU zu gewährleisten. Die Politik der Union wird auch in Zukunft auf der Grundlage der drei wichtigsten Bereiche entwickelt: gemeinsame Rechtsvorschriften, enge operative/taktische Zusammenarbeit und finanzielle Solidarität. Darüber hinaus wurde die integrierte Grenzverwaltung als vorrangiger Bereich für die Stärkung der Zusammenarbeit mit Drittländern im Rahmen des strategischen Sicherheitsmanagementkonzepts der Europäischen Kommission bestätigt, in dem Nicht-EU-Länder als Partner ermutigt werden, ihre Grenzsicherheits-, Überwachungs- und Grenzverwaltungssysteme zu verbessern. Die Übersetzung wurde mit Hilfe von künstlicher Intelligenz durchgeführt. Eine anschließende menschliche Überarbeitung erfolgte vor allem in Bezug auf den Inhalt.
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    ISBN: 9783031365386
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 181 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Contributions to International Relations
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    Keywords: Identity politics. ; Terrorism. ; Political violence. ; Security, International.
    Abstract: An Introduction on Constructing Motherhood Identity against Political Violence: Beyond Crying Mothers -- Motherhood, Agency, and Violence: The Personal Is Political -- Mothers will Stop at Nothing: The Responses of Mothers of Terrorists -- Grieving Mothers Who Nurture Sustainable Peace and Women’s Political Agency in Argentina -- Empowering or Entrapping in Indigenous Patriarchy? Political Motherhood in India’s Northeast Conflict Zones” -- Motherhood and the Combatant Role: A Case Study of Women Politically-Motivated Prisoners in The Context of Violent Conflict -- Motherhood in Iraq: Between the Matrix of Domination and the Matrix of Agency -- Identity, Trauma, and Resistance: The Lived Experience of Palestinian Motherhood in the West Bank -- In the Shadow of Genocide: Mothers of Srebrenica and New Social Power -- Women’s Peace Activism and The Construction of Motherhood in North Macedonia -- The Psychopolitics of Motherhood and Political Violence: The Case of the Waiting Mothers in Turkey.
    Abstract: This volume offers a nuanced understanding of female agency in political violence by reviewing and analyzing the political construction of motherhood as a form of social agency against political violence committed by both state and non-state actors in different parts of the world. While the international relations discipline has traditionally viewed the relationship between women and violent actors as an exploitative one, this book demonstrates that taking maternal bodies seriously creates important intellectual space to examine the types and kinds of violence the discipline of IR takes seriously and the types and kinds of resistance practiced by mothers but often overlooked (at least by male/mainstream IR). Focusing on motherhood as an agency of change, this volume will appeal to scholars in the field of gender and international security, think tanks working on political and security affairs, social activists, policymakers, an interested public audience, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking study or research associated with gender and political violence.
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    ISBN: 9783031444494
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 338 p. 10 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: International Political Economy Series
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Zajontz, Tim The Political Economy of China’s Infrastructure Development in Africa
    Keywords: International economic relations. ; International relations. ; Security, International. ; Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Wirtschaftskooperation ; Infrastruktur ; Verkehrsinfrastruktur ; Schulden ; Tansania ; Sambia ; China
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Chinese capital and its spatio-temporal fix -- Chapter 3: Theorising African state agency -- Chapter 4: The destiny of the Freedom Railway: From anti-imperialism to accumulation by dispossession? -- Chapter 5: Divergent state agency: Zambia’s debt impasse and Magufuli’s nationalist infrastructure state -- Chapter 6: The price of the Sino-Zambian ‘road bonanza’ -- Chapter 7: The political economy of ‘not so public’ procurement -- Chapter 8: Towards a ‘new era’ of Sino-African infrastructure cooperation.
    Abstract: “Theoretically informed and enriched by fieldwork, this book sheds light on the sometimes-murky depths of Chinese infrastructure engagement in Africa. Using Tanzania and Zambia to ground the research, Zajontz highlights the African state strategies that shaped disparate outcomes. This perceptive analysis has global implications. It will be a useful resource for scholars and policymakers trying to understand the expansion of Chinese capital across Africa, and beyond.” --Deborah Brautigam, Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy Emerita, Johns Hopkins University “This is one of the first studies to develop an innovative, synthetic and overarching theoretical framework to understand the Belt and Road Initiative’s operation. It demonstrates its applicability through detailed, definitive and defining empirical research. This is vital reading to understand China’s current and ongoing impacts in Africa.” --Pádraig Carmody, Professor in Geography, Trinity College Dublin “This book is a welcome addition to the China-Africa field. Empirically detailed and rich, its real strength lies in its theoretical sophistication and valuable engagement with the notion of Africa’s agency in relations with China. A compelling analysis of China’s evolving role in Africa’s infrastructure economy, the book is sure to be a landmark text in the field.” --Scarlett Cornelissen, Professor in Political Science, Stellenbosch University This book sheds light on structural drivers that led to the Chinese omnipresence in African infrastructure markets and offers a strategic-relational approach to the study of African agency in Sino-African infrastructure encounters. Case studies cover the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA), Zambia’s road sector as well as Tanzania’s Bagamoyo port and Standard Gauge Railway. It is shown that African (state) agency in the infrastructure sector is contingent upon dynamic state-society relations and distinct political-economic contexts and constraints. The book problematises contradictions related to infrastructure debt, the emergence of Sino-African public-private partnerships and the intensifying geopolitics-cum-geoeconomics of infrastructure across Africa. Tim Zajontz is Lecturer in Global Political Economy at the University of Freiburg, Research Fellow in the Centre for International and Comparative Politics at Stellenbosch University and Research Associate in the Second Cold War Observatory.
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    ISBN: 9783031452109
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 367 p. 10 illus., 8 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Peace. ; Security, International. ; Diplomacy.
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Yugoslavia: A Brief Background 1919-1990 -- Chapter 2 Britain’s Role in Post War Yugoslavia and the Slovene and Croat Secessions -- Chapter 3 Nationalism in Bosnia and Western Approaches -- Chapter 4 British Initiatives and the Vance-Owen Peace Plan and its Failure -- Chapter 5 Engaging the Americans and Russians for Armed Mandated Military Intervention -- Chapter 6 Britain’s Intervention during the Insurgency and the War in former Yugoslavia and Kosovo 1998-1999 -- Chapter 7 British Diplomacy and the Build up to the Kosovo War -- Chapter 8 Britain and NATO’s Military Intervention in Kosovo -- Chapter 9 Ethics and Morals.
    Abstract: British Foreign Policy in former Yugoslavia 1989-1999: Brotherhood and Unity Lost, gives a broad analysis of Britain’s foreign policy during the wars of Yugoslav secession from 1992 to 1999. Normative approaches to Britain’s foreign policy during this period ‘have tended to place it’ in to two halves. The notion, there was a new morality in Britain’s foreign policy appeared after New Labour‘s election victory on 1 May 1997. Robin Cook declared shortly after the victory there would be an ‘ethical dimension’ to Labour‘s foreign policy, and this appeared to chart new territory. This would be a departure from what former US Assistant Secretary of State, James Rubin, believed was the hyper-realism of the traditional British kind under Major. In due course, the acceptance that there was a radical change in the British government’s policy direction irritated Conservative politicians such as Tony Baldry, and Douglas Hurd, who commented in 1997, ‘What is slightly irritating….is to pretend that a shift of two to three degrees is a shift of 180 degrees and that all his (Robin Cook‘s) predecessors are immoral rogues’. Thus, this book includes interviews with key actors, provides new archive material and re-examines claims by the ‘New Orthodoxy’ which became prevalent after 1999. John P McCumiskey received his PhD from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2013. He has taught Critical Thinking and History at various universities in Asia and Europe.
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    ISBN: 9783031452338
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 139 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Rüstungsbegrenzung ; Atomare Rüstung ; Nonproliferation ; Kernwaffe ; Internationales politisches System ; Position ; Staat ; Atommacht ; Wirtschaftssystem ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Nordkorea
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. North Korea and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. By Chan Young Bang -- 3. Only one approach to denuclearization will work, and it will bring economic benefits to South Korea. By Chan Young Bang -- 4. North Korea's nuclear capability and what the implications are for wider East Asia. By Sung-wook Nam -- 5. Learning to Love the Bomb: Depictions of Nuclear and Missile Technology in North Korean Literature. By Meredith Shaw -- 6. The North Korean Nuclear Issue: Root Causes and Solutions. By Zhibo Zou -- 7. The situation on the Peninsula out of the vicious circle requires consideration of the concerns of all sides. By Guohong Qiu -- 8. Can the DPRK Preserve Its Sovereignty Without Nuclear Armaments?. By John Everard -- 9. Armistice, North Korean nuclear crisis and peace regime on the Korean Peninsula. By Lei Wang.
    Abstract: This book focuses on three main subjects: the DPRK's inability to survive as a nuclear state; the importance of China’s role in encouraging denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula; and the possibility of an alternative political organization for the DPRK including a transition to a market-economy in exchange for giving up its nuclear weapons. The book approaches North Korean issues from the perspective that the regime cannot survive without nuclear weapons which, rather than being a genuine danger to other states, are bargaining chips for security and survival. The book includes views from prominent academics and practitioners, including a former British ambassador to North Korea, putting forward an ambitious set of recommendations and analyses based on hands-on experience in the region. Chan Young Bang, PhD, is president of KIMEP University in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Principal Investigator of its DPRK Strategic Research Center, and a former economic adviser to Nursultan Nazarbayev, first president of Kazakhstan. He has published numerous articles and books on the prospects for a peaceful settlement of the North Korean nuclear conflict.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(45 illus., 35 illus. in color. eReference.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; International relations. ; Politics and war. ; Sicherheit ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Alternative Sicherheitspolitik ; Menschliche Sicherheit ; Enzyklopädie ; Lexikon ; Erde
    Abstract: 1. Conflict and Security -- 2. Human Rights and Societal Security -- 3. Poverty and Economic Security -- 4. Environmental Security -- 5. Food Security -- 6. Energy Security -- 7. Health Security. .
    Abstract: This encyclopedia provides an authoritative guide intended for students of all levels of studies, offering multidisciplinary insight and analysis of over 500 headwords covering the main concepts of Security and Non-traditional Security, and their relation to other scholarly fields and aspects of real-world issues in the contemporary geopolitical world.
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    ISBN: 9783031242632
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 174 p. 1 illus.)
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    Keywords: Peace. ; International economic relations. ; Security, International. ; Invasion ; Angriff ; Reaktion ; Internationale Politik ; Geopolitik ; Einflussgröße ; Internationales politisches System ; Ost-West-Konflikt ; War in Ukraine ; Second Cold War ; Russian invasion of Ukraine ; Globalization ; Authoritarian regimes ; Great power competition ; Russia and NATO ; US foreign politics ; Geopolitics ; Economics of sanctions ; Peace ; Erde ; Russland ; Ukraine
    Abstract: 1. In a dark shadow -- 2. This world of ours got into a trap -- 3. Nothing justifies Russia’s invasion of Ukraine -- 4. The US should not provoke Taiwan to declare independence -- 5. The fifth partition of Poland is being prepared? -- 6. How many years will this war last? -- 7. Against whom the people’s anger turns -- 8. The economics of sanctions work differently from their politics -- 9. Sanctions are intended to bring about the results desired by their enforcers -- 10. Great inflation is a delayed invoice for a pandemic and a prepayment for war -- 11. A very expensive war is getting even more expensive -- 12. Globalization has taken a few powerful blows but has not been knocked out -- 13. Help Ukraine to rise from the ruins -- 14. The Second Cold War is a world war -- 15. The more NATO grows, the less secure Europe is? -- 16. Nostalgia for authoritarian regimes sets in -- 17. All scenarios are black, although the geography of the frying will vary -- 18. Where to get these billions and trillions -- 19. Euro-Atlantic and Euro-Asian mega-systems can peacefully compete and cooperate -- 20. Something far worse than the seven plagues of the Bible -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Abstract: This book highlights the geopolitical and economic consequences of the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The author, a key architect of Polish eco- nomic reforms and the most frequently cited economist from post-Com- munist countries, shares new insights into the causes and mechanisms of the Second Cold War. Written in an unorthodox, bold and lucid style, the book raises provocative issues and provides convincing answers to some of the most difficult questions, such as who the true beneficiaries and interest groups behind the war are, and what their motives and con- flicting goals are. The book also introduces readers to the greatest challenge of our time, climate change, and explores the long-term effects of the current arms race and rearmament spiral on global warming. This interdisciplinary book, which also addresses the challenges of inflation, mass migrations and clashes between democracy and authoritarianism, will appeal to anyone interested in the contemporary geopolitical shifts triggered by the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but also in the dynamics and directions of the evolution of the new cold war. .
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    ISBN: 9783031207730
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXVII, 248 p. 13 illus., 12 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Emigration and immigration—Government policy. ; Security, International. ; International relations. ; Identity politics. ; Europe ; Emigration and immigration ; Politischer Wandel ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Einflussgröße ; Internationaler Konflikt ; Geschichtsbild ; Name ; Innenpolitik ; Außenpolitik
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Macedonia’s Long Transition: An overview of the key issues -- 3. Macedonia’s Revolving Security Threats: Perpetual Instability on the Edge of Europe -- 4. The Impossible Reconciling of Historical Narratives: The Macedonian name dispute and prospects for the future -- 5. The Economic Transition of Macedonia -- 6. Privatisation in Macedonia and Communities in Transition -- 7. Political Parties and the Trials of Democracy -- 8. Euro-Atlantic Integrations on Hold -- 9. Migration Movements and their Implications for Macedonia -- 10. The Identity Shift: Claims on Antiquity in Macedonian Fiction and Drama -- 11. The Dissonant Narratives of the Skopje 2014 Project -- 12. An Analysis of Bulgaria’s Rejection of the Macedonian Ethno-Linguistic Identity and its Implications.
    Abstract: “This is a most worthy and timely contribution which will clearly have an impact on regional studies of the Balkans, the new Eastern Europe, and post communism.” — Martyn Rady, Masaryk Professor Emeritus of Central European History, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK This book provides a broad, interdisciplinary analysis of events impacting on North Macedonia since its independence, particularly during the last decade. In the past thirty years, the country has gone through deep political, social and economic transition, along with a name change from ‘Macedonia’ to the ‘Republic of North Macedonia’ following the Prespa Agreement signed with Greece. The contributors consider Macedonia’s challenges, its multi-ethnic make-up and its ambition to enter the European mainstream through the auspices of the European Union and NATO. The volume includes chapters on international politics and North Macedonia’s place in the region’s security architecture as well as the difficulties of the privatisation of socially owned enterprises, political corruption, state capture and backsliding. The book also covers the controversial ‘Skopje 2014’ project in addition to the impact of migration along the ‘Balkan Route’ and the current wranglings with Bulgaria over identity politics. Robert Hudson is Emeritus Professor in European History and Cultural Politics at the University of Derby, UK, Professor honoris causa at University American College Skopje, North Macedonia and the former Director of the Identity, Conflict, and Representation Research Centre. Ivan Dodovski is Professor in Critical Theory and Dean of the School of Political Science at University American College Skopje, North Macedonia.
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    ISBN: 9783031220531
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 313 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in International Relations
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Security, International. ; Internationale Politik ; Rivalität ; Militärisches Gleichgewicht ; Strategische Stabilität ; Bedrohungsvorstellung ; Rüstungswettlauf ; Geschichte ; Japan ; USA ; Pazifischer Raum
    Abstract: 1. Overbalancing as a Systemic Pathology -- 2. Explaining Japan’s Rush to the Pacific War -- 3. Appropriate Balancing in the Naval Arms Control Era, 1920-1931 -- 4. The Manchurian Crisis as an Exogenous Shock, 1931-1933 -- 5. Overbalancing and Japan’s Rush to the Pacific War, 1933-1941 -- 6. Beyond Japan and the Pacific War.
    Abstract: This book investigates the phenomenon of overbalancing through an analysis of Japan’s foreign policy during the interbellum. In the mid-1930s, Japan withdrew from a naval arms control framework that had restrained military buildup on both sides of the Pacific Ocean since the early 1920s. By doing so, Japan not only triggered a naval arms race with the United States that exhausted its economy, it also destroyed the last institutionalized structure regulating the relationship between the two Pacific powers. Japan and the United States became caught in a spiral of tensions that culminated with the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Puzzling is the fact that the international environment in the Asia-Pacific was relatively stable in the mid-1930s, while Washington was pursuing a policy of accommodation toward Tokyo. By rejecting arms control and engaging in unfettered naval expansion, Japan overbalanced against the United States and began its rush to the Pacific War. The book explains Japan’s overbalancing with a neoclassical realist model that combines the literatures on threat perception and civil-military relations. Amid the Manchurian crisis of 1931-1933, as the Japanese government collaborated with the military institution to address the situation in China, military influence on the formulation of foreign policy surged. The perceptual and policy biases of the military, which include the tendency to distrust other countries’ intentions, to adopt worst-case analyses of international dynamics and to strive to maximize military power, gradually penetrated the decision-making process. Dysfunctions in the preexisting structure of Japanese civil-military relations, engendered by an over-depoliticization of the military institution, allowed the navy to convince policymakers that the United States was inherently hostile to Japan, hence the necessity to prepare for war. The government was brainstormed, adopting the biased military perspective on international affairs. Japan overbalanced in a myopic but conscious way. Lionel P. Fatton is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Webster University Geneva, Switzerland, and Research Collaborator at the Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, Meiji University, Japan.
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    ISBN: 9783031251511
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 188 p. 7 illus., 6 illus. in color.)
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    Series Statement: The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science 36
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    Keywords: Human ecology—Study and teaching. ; Security, International. ; International relations. ; Political science. ; Peace. ; Human ecology ; Sicherheit ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Alternative Sicherheitspolitik ; Internationale Kooperation ; Regionale Kooperation ; Risikofaktor ; Afrika
    Abstract: Introduction -- Contending Conceptions of African Security -- Homer-Dixon’s Environmental Scarcity Theory and Potential for Conflict in the Nile River Basin (NRB) -- Climate-Security and the Anthropocene: The Case of Mali -- The State, African Security and the African Union in the Anthropocene Age 49-64 -- Resource-Based Conflicts in Africa -- Democratization vs Authoritarianism including coups in Africa -- Identity and Security -- The Role of Foreign Actors in African Security -- Insecurity and Regional Actors’ Role in Securing African Security:An Analysis of the Role of ECOWAS, SADC and IGAD -- The Future of African Security: Final Thoughts. .
    Abstract: Much has been written on security in Africa—its democratic deficit, poor civil-military relations, and myriad conflicts—but these are often treated in isolation from one another. This book takes a different approach, as it links all of these issues to the dynamics of the Anthropocene. Penned by African scholars on the continent and in the diaspora, it examines the different challenges not as separate entities but as outcomes of the Anthropocene Age. In this geological epoch, humans have become a global force—unfortunately, not necessarily for good. The interaction between humans and the climate, the effects of waste, the impact of pollution on marine and terrestrial ecosystems, the loss of biodiversity, and the change in the chemical composition of the soil, oceans and atmosphere are key identifiers of the age of the Anthropocene. This has fueled conflict and instability from the vast swathes of the Sahel to Somalia. Responding to these issues of insecurity without understanding their inter-connectedness and how this relates to the environment can only result in failure. From this perspective, the current structures in place are inadequate for the task of confronting insecurity at the state and continental levels, as represented by the African Union. What is needed is a radical reevaluation of Africa’s security architecture and approach to security. This necessitates pooling sovereignty on a continental and global level. It necessitates less state-centric responses that include civil society and the business community as equal partners of states in order to collectively confront insecurity in the age of the Anthropocene. • The authors are academics, policy makers and military veterans who have worked in building capacity on the African continent • The book is comprehensive in scope, strong on theory, pragmatic in policy and reflects experience from the field. • The authors approach makes the book easy, interesting and intriguing.
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    ISBN: 9783031182198
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVII, 321 p. 8 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Twenty-first Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict
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    Keywords: Peace. ; International relations. ; Security, International. ; Bewaffneter Konflikt ; Friedenskonsolidierung ; Friedenssichernde Maßnahme ; Friede ; Konfliktregelung ; Konflikt ; Transformation ; Anpassung ; Politische Beteiligung ; Fallstudie ; Erde
    Abstract: 1 Introduction. Exploring Alternative Approaches to Peacebuilding - Cedric de Coning, Rui Saraiva, and Ako Muto -- 2 Adaptive Peacebuilding: Leveraging the Context-specific and Participatory Dimensions of Self-sustainable Peace - Cedric de Coning -- 3 How Can the UN Sustaining Peace Agenda Live Up to Its Potential? - Youssef Mahmoud -- 4 Experiencing Adaptive Actions Within a Complex Peacebuilding Framework: The Colombian Case - Lina Penagos -- 5 Adaptive Peacebuilding in Mozambique: Examples of Localized International Non-Governmental Organizations (L-INGOs) in a Complex and Uncertain Environment - Rui Saraiva -- 6 Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH): Impartiality and an Adaptive Peacebuilding Approach in Structural Asymmetry - Ryoji Tateyama -- 7 The Challenges and Effects of Externally Driven and Locally Driven Peacebuilding Approaches in a Complex Context: A Case Study of the Syrian Conflict - Ako Muto -- 8 Accommodating Incomplete DDR, Security Sector Development, and Veterans’ Issues to Peacebuilding Efforts: National Responses, Suco, and Local Security in Timor-Leste - Yukako Tanaka-Sakabe -- 9 China’s Peacebuilding in South Sudan: “Top-down” Adaptation and Its Effectiveness - Miwa Hirono -- 10 The Role of Adaptive Peacebuilding in Japan’s Assistance of the Mindanao Peace Process in the Philippines - Miyoko Taniguchi -- 11 Conclusions. What Have We Learned About Adaptive Peacebuilding from Comparing Determined-Design with Context-Specific Peacebuilding Experiences? - Cedric de Coning, Rui Saraiva, and Ako Muto.
    Abstract: Adaptive Peacebuilding is an invaluable contribution to our thinking and practice. The various cases studied demonstrate that context specific peacebuilding help to sustain peace because they stimulate, facilitate, and support local agency and resilience. - Elizabeth Spehar, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support Adaptive Peacebuilding is a welcome addition to the literature on peacebuilding. It captures the complexities needed to making peacebuilding work in different contexts. - Kwesi Aning, Professor, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Accra, Ghana This book responds to the urgent need to improve how we prevent and resolve conflict. It introduces Adaptive Peacebuilding through evidence-based research from eight case studies across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. It also considers how China and Japan view and practice peacebuilding. The book focuses on how peacebuilders design, implement and evaluate programs to sustain peace, how interactions between external and local actors have facilitated or hindered peacemaking, and how adaptation to complexity and uncertainty occurred in each case study. Cedric de Coning is Research Professor with the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), and Senior Advisor with the African Center for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD). Rui Saraiva is Research Fellow at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development. Ako Muto is Executive Senior Research Fellow at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development.
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    ISBN: 9783031253003
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVII, 157 p. 5 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
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    Keywords: Middle East—Politics and government. ; Security, International. ; Terrorism. ; Political violence. ; Middle East ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Bedrohungsvorstellung ; Securitization ; Entscheidungsprozess ; Internationale Politik ; Politische Kommunikation ; Akzeptanz ; Theorie ; Nahostkonflikt ; Israel ; USA
    Abstract: 1. An Archeology of Knowledge on Securitization and the Middle East -- 2. Securitization and the Audience Component: Reconceptualising and Operationalising the Concept -- 3. The Six Day War -- 4. The Oslo Accords 1993-1995 -- 5. Operation "Defensive Shield" -- 6. Operation "Outside the Box" -- 7. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book is the first comprehensive, book-length analysis of Israel and securitization processes. It develops an original analytical framework to ameliorate the theoretical understanding of the audience component during the securitization process, drawing upon insights from both securitization theory, political psychology, and IR theory. This gives us significant new insights into why some audiences are essential to be persuaded for securitization to occur, while others are not. This book also examines the role of the United States in defining what matters in Israeli National Security. In essence, since the United States is Israel's most significant ally, it is essential for the Israeli leadership to gain the American government's support (or its lack of resistance) for almost any securitization acts. The book analyses a highly original set of interviews with prominent figures in Israel who were at the top level of the Israeli decision-making process, including members of the political and military echelons. "Through unparalleled access to Israel's political and security echelons, Israel: National Security and Securitization provides a unique overview of Israel’s decision-maker's political perception over the years". Ehud Olmert, Prime Minister of Israel 2006-2009 "Israel: National Security and Securitization provides a powerful analysis of how the State of Israel confronted security threats, and what was the American involvement in the Israeli decision-making process". Amos Yadlin, IDF Military Intelligence Directorate Chief 2006-2010 "This book makes us understand securitization in a novel and enlightening way, thus making a substantial contribution to our understanding of national security in general and Israeli security in particular". Gabriel Ben-Dor, University of Haifa "Wertman and Kaunert's book makes an important and unique contribution to the existing and developing literature on securitization". Kobi Michael, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)- Tel Aviv University.
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    ISBN: 9783031297588
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 125 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Peace. ; International relations. ; Security, International. ; Politischer Konflikt ; Innenpolitik ; Minderheitenfrage ; Innerstaatlicher Konflikt ; Beilegung ; Internationaler Konflikt ; Friede ; Versöhnung ; Gesellschaft ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Zypern
    Abstract: CHAPTER ONE: Cyprus, a Special Case -- CHAPTER TWO: Rethinking the “Cyprus Problem” -- CHAPTER THREE: “On-the-Ground” Perspective: Cyprus is a Perfect Example of a Negotiation Culture Inherent in Lengthy Peace Processes -- CHAPTER FOUR: Greek Cypriot Vassiliou and Turkish Cypriot Akinci Bridge the Cyprus Divide -- CHAPTER FIVE: Reflections and Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book follows the author's 22-year journey through Cyprus and surrounding countries beyond in an exploration of conflict resolution with regard to the Cyprus Problem. The struggle is emblematic of numerous international attempts over the years to resolve this identity-based ethnic conflict historically referred to as the Cyprus Problem. So far all have failed miserably. The current situation indicates any solution other than a formal partition of the island between the two communities seems increasingly remote as the years pass.This has led the author to conclude a resolution to the Cyprus Problem no longer is a realistic political goal, but rather one eclipsed by the need for a non-political solution, which at least may succeed in convincing people on both sides to live together peacefully for their joint benefit. A. Marco Turk is Professor and Director Emeritus of the Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding Program at the California State University Dominguez Hills. .
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    ISBN: 9783031200892
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 183 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: New Security Challenges
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    Keywords: America—Politics and government. ; Asia—Politics and government. ; Europe—Politics and government. ; Security, International. ; International relations. ; America ; Asia ; Europe ; Internationale Politik ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Postkommunismus ; Internationales politisches System ; Politischer Wandel ; Politischer Prozess ; Liberalismus ; Demokratie ; Autoritarismus ; Erde
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Management of the Liberal International Order -- 3. Russian – Western Relations: A Trust Never Built -- 4. The Rise of China and the China – Russia Relationship -- 5. The Limits of Liberal Universalism and the Crisis in Ukraine -- 6. Pluralism and Pragmatism in International Relations. .
    Abstract: ❝An exceptionally well-informed, balanced and perceptive analysis of the origins and course of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. Essential reading.❞ — Richard Sakwa, Emeritus Professor of Russian and European Politics, University of Kent, UK ❝As war rages in Ukraine yet the prospect of a world after Putin becomes more thinkable, this is an essential moment to examine the way naive assumptions about the triumph of liberalism after the Cold War led to renewed confrontation. This book unpicks the power but also the limits of liberal hegemony, and makes a clear-eyed pitch for a more pragmatic approach in the future.❞ — Prof. Mark Galeotti, author of 'Putin's Wars: from Chechnya to Ukraine' This book analyzes international affairs in the post-Cold War era by taking a special look at identity, norms and interests and the limits of liberal normative universalism. The book assesses the causes of the deterioration of Russian – Western relations, the management of the liberal international order, the challenges liberal democracies face today, the rise of China and its consequences on global governance, and the war in Ukraine as an outcome of the dynamics described throughout the book. China and Russia represent different normative frameworks, have their own national interests, have increased their relative strength and influence and represent alternative economic and diplomatic partners for the Global South. Meanwhile, rising populist sentiment in western liberal democracies reflects important dissatisfaction with establishment policies. This research is particularly important for crafting creative solutions to the dynamic changes of the 21st century and the rise of nonwestern powers with different identities, interests and norms. Suzanne Loftus is Research Fellow in the Russia/Eurasia program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Her publications include “Legitimacy and Societal Consent under Putin’s Leadership: State Capacity and National Identity,” in Russian Politics, and her book, Insecurity and the Rise of Nationalism in Putin’s Russia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). .
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    ISBN: 9783031300813
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 127 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
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    Keywords: Peace. ; International relations. ; Security, International. ; Internationaler Konflikt ; Politischer Konflikt ; Innenpolitik ; Friede ; Beilegung ; Friedenssichernde Maßnahme ; Misserfolg ; Weltordnung ; Erde
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Conceptualising the Counter-Peace -- 3. Locating the Counter-Peace -- 4. Stalemate Pattern -- 5. Limited Peace Pattern -- 6. Unmitigated Counter-Peace -- 7. The Rise of Counter-Peace on the International Stage -- 8. Transitions in International Order and the Tools of Peacemaking: Back to the Future? -- 9. On Entanglement and the Impact on International Order -- 10. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book investigates why peace and reform processes across the world have recently been stagnating or have become blocked. They have failed to maintain security, rights, development, and justice in the liberal international order. The book identifies the related rise of counter-peace processes at the heart of failed peacemaking efforts, and explores the implications for an emerging multi-polar order where local and international tools for peace and reform appear to be ineffective. Across a range of recent cases, from Cambodia, the Balkans, the Sahel region, DRC, Colombia, Afghanistan, and many others, such dynamics are becoming clearer. In particular, small-scale blocking tactics across different peace processes have been evolving into larger political strategies which are then disseminated within revisionist and revanchist international networks. Ultimately, this phenomenon has undermined liberal international order. Spoilers and tactical blockages to peace have connected across local, national, regional and international scales, highlighting ideological divisions. Drawing on counter-revolutionary theory, the concept of counter-peace is used as a tool to critically interrogate a systemic array of blockages to peace. Distinct counter-peace patterns are now entangled in peace and reform processes, including the stalemate pattern, the limited counter-peace, and the unmitigated counter-peace patterns. Across cases, once tactical blockages begin to form these patterns, they become systemic and ultimately enable conflict escalation. Consequently, the intimate entanglement of the existing international peace architecture with counter-peace processes points to ideological divisions in international order, as well as the growing gulf between diminished practices of peace and reform with critical scholarship on peace, justice, and sustainability. Sandra Pogodda is Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at the Department of Politics, University of Manchester, UK. Oliver P. Richmond is Research Professor at the Department of Politics, University of Manchester, UK. He is also International Professor at Dublin City University, Ireland, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at EWHA University, Seoul, Korea. Gëzim Visoka is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Ireland.
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    ISBN: 9783031324321
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 374 p. 21 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Contributions to International Relations
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Security, International. ; Peace. ; Politics and war. ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Rüstungspolitik ; Rüstungswettlauf ; Rüstung ; Proliferation ; Waffe ; Außenpolitik ; Regionalpolitik ; Naher Osten ; Mittlerer Osten
    Abstract: Part 1: Contemporary Dynamics of the Arms Race in the Middle East -- Introducing the arms race in the Middle East in the XXI century: a ‘powder keg’ in the digital era? -- The Security Order in the Persian Gulf and its Challenges -- Hybrid Deterrence in the Middle East -- The Challenges and Implications of Military Cyber and AI Capabilities in the Middle East: The Geopolitical, Ethical and Technological Dimensions -- A New Arms Race Frontier: The Emerging Drone Competition Between Iran and its Regional Rivals -- Missile Politics of the Middle East -- Part 2: Arms Race in the Middle East from the Perspective of Regional States -- The Cold War in the Middle East: Iranian Foreign Policy, Regional Axes, and Warfare by Proxy -- Israel and the Regional Arms Race in the Digital Era -- Neoclassical Realist Perspective on Militarization of Turkish Foreign Policy -- The Gulf Cooperation Council Alliance: Leading Causes and Consequences of an Unending Regional Arms Race -- Arming Palestine: Resistance, Evolution, and Institutionalisation -- Weapons, Rentier Governance and Identity Dynamics in Iraq -- Yemen: Civil War as a Driver of Regional Arms Dynamic -- Part 3: The Role of External Actors in the Arms Race in the Middle East and its Implications for Extra-Regional Countries -- Between Arms Control and Arms Transfer: The US Arms Policy towards the Middle East -- Arms sales as an Instrument of Russia’s Foreign Policy and the Shifting Security Dynamics of the Middle East -- China’s Growing Presence in the Middle East’s Arms Race and Security Dynamics -- Competition, Harmonization, and Security Dilemmas: Europe’s Contribution to the Arms Race in the Middle East -- Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Pakistan’s Foreign Policy, Saudi Arabia, and Iran -- Conflict in the Insulator State: The Roots of the War in Afghanistan and Prospects Ahead -- The UK's Arms Sales to the Middle East: Current Trends and Lessons for Future -- The Crisis in the Periphery: Arms Race in the Middle East and Greece’s Role in the Regional Security Architecture -- Armenia as a Small State: Affected by the Arms Race among Middle and Great Powers in the Middle East.
    Abstract: This edited volume discusses security policy and strategic policymaking in the Middle East region. Due to its unique geopolitical, geoeconomic and geostrategic features, the Middle East region has been confronted with challenging security issues. Combined with a lack of an efficient regional security regime this has led to the formation of a full-fledged arms race. This book draws together contributions from international experts to address the factors that have been contributing to the ongoing formation of an arms race in the Middle East as well as the impact of this phenomenon on the regional and global security environment. The book is organized in three sections. The first section outlines the contemporary dynamics of the arms race in the Middle East by focusing on its most recent dynamics and their implications for regional and international security. The second section conducts systematic analysis of case studies of country-specific drivers of the arms race. The third and final section examines the role of external actors in the arms race, evaluating both the responses of regional actors to external interventions as well as the implications of the arms race for extra-regional countries.
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    ISBN: 9783031337246
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 316 p. 53 illus., 24 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Contributions to Political Science
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Comparative government. ; Political science. ; Europe ; Communication in politics.
    Abstract: Part 1. National Security: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches -- Chapter 1. Review of the Ukrainian Discourse Field of National Security Issues of the Modern State -- Chapter 2. Societal Content and Main Determinants of “National Security” Phenomenon in the Information and Communication Context -- Chapter 3. Systematization of Main Threats to the National Security of the State in Modern Conditions -- Part 2. Informational Security Phenomenon -- Chapter 4. Post Industrial Society and Global Informational Space as Infrastructure Medium and Factor for Actualization of the State Informational Security -- Chapter 5. Substantive Essence and Components of the Societal Phenomenon “Information Security” in the Age of Information Society -- Chapter 6. Formation of Information Security Systems of the State: Current Status, Trends and Problems -- Part 3. Strategic Communications -- Chapter 7. Theoretical Models of Information and Communication Interaction of State and Society in the Context of National Security -- Chapter 8. Place and Role of Strategic Communications in Public Management System -- Chapter 9. Structure and Function of Strategic Communications in the System of National and Informational State Security -- Chapter 10. Current State of Strategic Communications in Ukraine and Their Functional Influence on Efficiency of State Management System -- Part 4. Legitimacy and Legitimation -- Chapter 11. Essence and Content of State-Administrative Duality “Legitimacy” – “Legitimation” and its Place in the Information Security System of the Modern State -- Chapter 12. Comparative Analysis of Conceptual Models of Power Legitimation in Authoritarian, Democratic and Transitional Societies -- Chapter 13. Project Approach in the Executive Bodies Activity of United Territorial Communities as a Modern Mechanism of Local Public Authorities’ Legitimation in Ukraine -- Chapter 14. “Legitimacy Crisis” and its Impact on the Stability and Security of the System of Public Authorities of the State During the Formation of the Global Information Space -- Part 5. Informational Wars -- Chapter 15. Information Wars: Historical and Comparative Analysis, Specifics and Factors of Actualization in the Modern World -- Chapter 16. Information Weapons: Forms and Technologies of Modern Information Wars -- Chapter 17. Tools for Counteracting Information Aggression Use of Elements of Information War in Ukraine -- Chapter 18. Mental and Value Features of Ukrainian Society in the Context of “Civilizations Clash” as the Main Object of Information War in Ukraine.
    Abstract: This volume presents the key informational, communication, and socio-political drivers of the Ukrainian state's national security. Since the beginning of the third millennium, there has been an aggravation of global inter-civilizational confrontations, which in 2022 has already resulted in an open military aggression against Ukraine. The hybrid wars against the world of democracy have put ensuring the national security of states on the front pages of world and national agendas. Using the example of Ukraine, the book demonstrates how, in order to achieve their geopolitical interests, authoritarian regimes incite information wars as a prerequisite for the transition to an armed "hot" war. It further shows how these processes actualize the formation of a fundamentally new state policy to ensure information and, more broadly, national security. The book identifies the main threats to national security in modern states and identifies ways of protecting Ukraine's national interests. The book will appeal to scholars, students, and researchers of political science, international relations, social sciences, and neighboring disciplines, as well as practitioners and policy-makers interested in a better understanding of national security drivers and protecting national interests.
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    ISBN: 9783031385964
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 279 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
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    Keywords: Peace. ; Economic development. ; Security, International. ; Friedenssichernde Maßnahme ; Friedenssicherung ; Internationale Organisation ; Politisches Mandat ; Entwicklung ; Gastland
    Abstract: 1. The Future Trajectory of UN Peace Operations (Alexander Gilder, David Curran, Georgina Holmes and Fiifi Edu-Afful) -- Part 1 Reforming Security -- 2. Reforming Security Institutions: Implications of Local Actors’ Incorporation on the Construction of Democratic Security Environments (Alessandra Jungs de Almeida and Juliana Viggiano) -- 3. International Policing and/as the Future of UN Peace Operations (Charles T Hunt) -- Part 2 Resolving Conflict and Ensuring Protection -- 4. Attack Helicopters and Other Technologies for Enforcement in UN Peace Operations (Walter Dorn) -- 5. The Future Dynamics Between UN Stabilisation and UN Peace Operations: Conflict Management Versus Conflict Resolution (Shannon Zimmerman) -- 6. UNTSO: The Future of UN Peacekeeping in the Middle East (Diego Salama) -- Part 3 Strengthening Partnerships -- 7. The Future Of United Nations-African Union (UN-AU) Cooperation On Peace And Security (Ruth Adwoa Frimpong) -- 8. The Islamic Conception of Peacebuilding (hifz al-salam) Under the Auspices of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the United Nation’s Sustaining Peace Agenda (Mohammad Sabuj) -- 9. Advancing a Children, Peace and Security Agenda for the Future of UN Peacekeeping (Dustin Johnson, Catherine Baillie Abidi, Laura Cleave, and Shelly Whitman) -- Part 4 Ensuring Future Accountability -- 10. Accountability for Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse: Rethinking Relationships (Sabrina White) -- 11. Safeguarding from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Peace Operations: Lessons for the Future (Sarah Blakemore, Rosa Freedman and Nicolas Lemay-Hébert) -- 12. An Alternative Approach: The African Union’s ’s SEA Regulatory Framework (Ai Kihara-Hunt and Roisin Burke).
    Abstract: “This collection of essays is a rich survey of the challenges facing the UN and an examination of the opportunities offered by partnerships, technology and reform.” — Roger Mac Ginty, Professor in Defence, Development and Diplomacy, Durham University, UK. “This volume shines because its contributions showcase the complex nature of contemporary peacekeeping and the multiple operational challenges it must evolve to address.” — Dr Katharina P. Coleman, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia, Canada. “This book brings together new voices and fresh ideas on future pathways for UN peace operations.” — Dr Jenna Russo, Head of the Brian Urquhart Center for Peace Operations, International Peace Institute, USA Alexander Gilder is Associate Professor of International Law and Security at the School of Law, University of Reading, UK and Associate Faculty at the School of Humanitarian Studies, Royal Roads University, Canada David Curran is Associate Professor and Research Group Leader: Security, Vulnerability and Resilience at the Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations, Coventry University, UK Georgina Holmes is Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at the School of Social Sciences and Global Studies, The Open University, UK. Fiifi Edu-Afful is Senior Research Fellow at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Ghana.
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    ISBN: 9783031414824
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 144 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lin, Leo S. F. Asian organized crime and the anglosphere
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    Keywords: Transnational crime. ; Organized crime. ; Security, International. ; Comparative government. ; International relations. ; Political science. ; Asien ; Kriminalität ; Bekämpfung ; Organisiertes Verbrechen ; Internationale Politik
    Abstract: 1. Theoretical Frameworks -- 2. Developments of Asian Organized Crime -- 3. United States -- 4. Canada -- 5. United Kingdom -- 6. Australia -- 7. New Zealand -- 8. Conclusion.
    Abstract: In this book, "Asian Organized Crime and the Anglosphere," the author uncovers the multifaceted phenomenon of Asian Organized Crime (AOC) and its profound impact on nation-states, with particular emphasis on English-speaking countries. From the United States and Canada, to the United Kingdom, to Australia and New Zealand; each chapter delves into the intricate dynamics and transnational operations of Asian criminal groups. The book explores the diverse responses and strategies employed by these countries, shedding light on the categories of AOC, ranging from traditional criminal activities rooted in Asian countries to high-tech transnational crimes that have rapidly expanded into Western nations. Readers will gain insights into the presence and impact of prominent Asian criminal groups operating within the Anglosphere. Focusing on national and homeland security implications, this book equips professionals, students, practitioners, and academics with the knowledge to understand, counter, and combat Asian organized crime.
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031354489
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 174 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in International Relations
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Security, International. ; Internationale Politik ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Militärische Kooperation ; Internationales politisches System ; Position ; Ungleichgewicht ; Kleinstaat ; Erde
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Weaker Voice in Asymmetric Alliances -- Chapter 3: The Anglo-Egyptian Alliance in the Early Cold War: a case of alliance termination -- Chapter 4: The Anglo-Iraqi Alliance in the Early Cold War: a case of alliance persistence -- Chapter 5: New Zealand’s exit from ANZUS in the mid-1980s: a case of alliance termination -- Chapter 6: The U.S.-Australian relation in the mid-1980s: a case of alliance persistence -- Chapter 7: Conclusions.
    Abstract: “Alliances are commonly conceived as tools that major powers use to control weaker partners. From this perspective, then, whether alliances endure or collapse depends on the patron’s will. Andrea Leva challenges this view: while acknowledging the implications of power asymmetry in inter-allied management, the author argues that junior allies may have a critical role in bringing the alliance to an end. Through an elegant five-case comparison, Leva uncovers the mechanisms at play in junior allies’ relations with major partners. By shedding light on a previously underscored phenomenon, this book is an important contribution to the theoretical literature on alliances.” —Andrea Locatelli, Associate Professor, Università Cattolica, Milan (Italy) “In a well-argued book, Andrea Leva sheds light on an overlooked area of alliance theory. Contrary to the realist and institutionalist arguments, Leva suggests that junior allies’ quest for autonomy and voice opportunity can critically affect their security relationship with the patron, even affecting the alliance’s persistence or termination. The book’s model is then applied to several interesting case studies. A must-read for those interested in questioning a simplistic view of asymmetric alliances.” —Andrea Carati, Associate Professor, Università degli Studi, Milan (Italy) Military alliances are a constant feature in international politics, and a better understanding of them can directly impact world affairs. This book examines why alliances endure or collapse. As a distinctive feature, it analyses asymmetric alliances focusing on the junior allies’ decision to continue or terminate a military agreement. It deepens our knowledge of alliance cohesion and erosion, investigating the relevance of the weaker side’s preferences and behavior in alliance politics. The author examines the literature on alliance persistence and termination and puts forward a theoretical model that helps interpret historical and contemporary cases in a way that is useful for expert researchers and non-expert readers alike. Andrea Leva received a Ph.D. from Università degli Studi di Milano Statale, Milan (Italy). He is a Policy Officer of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance, working on European Affairs.
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    ISBN: 9783031396557
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 172 p. 7 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Contributions to International Relations
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Regionalism. ; International relations. ; World politics. ; Internationale Politik ; Regionalisierung ; Politischer Prozess ; Regionalentwicklung ; Forschungsgegenstand ; Disziplin ; Erde
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Bridging the gaps between International Relations and Area Studies (Silvia D’Amato) -- Chapter 2. Global and Post-Western IR, area studies, and the rise of China. Promises and limits (Matteo Dian) -- Chapter 3. Africa in the study of International Relations: the (double) realist bias of Global IR (Luca Raineri) -- Chapter 4. Middle Eastern Studies and International Relations: towards a transformative dialogue? (Irene Costantini) -- Chapter 5. Regionalisms as a middle-path between Area Studies and IR. A political sociology of Central American regionalism (Kevin Parthenay) -- Chapter 6. Connecting the local and the global: how International Practice Theory can become a fruitful trading zone for International Relations and Area Studies scholars (Chiara De Franco) -- Chapter 7. International Relations in the margins. Education for peace, education against extremism in Kosovo (Ervjola Selenica) -- Chapter 8. Political Ecologies of Landmines in the Borderlands of Myanmar (Francesco Buscemi) -- Chapter 9. Dyadic approach and quantitative analysis: easing the dialogue between IR and Area Studies (Paolo Rosa) -- Chapter 10. In lieu of a conclusion: the ongoingness of a debate (Silvia D’Amato).
    Abstract: Discover the intricate tapestry of international politics and governance with this book. The book delves into the diverse nature of globally significant actors and systems across multiple regions. From Africa to Asia, Europe to the Middle East, this collection of thought-provoking case studies explores the role of regional actors in the international system. Combining theoretical innovation with empirical analysis, this volume expands the boundaries of International Relations (IR) and Area Studies (AS), showcasing their interconnections throughout history and in contemporary contexts. Through illuminating case studies drawn from the fields of "Comparative Regionalism" and "Non-Western IR Theory," the book sheds light on pressing international events. Unpacking complex questions, the contributors examine the application of IR scholarship to global events and provide fresh insights into political dynamics, conflicts, and state instability across various regions. By offering a comparative perspective on threats, political contestation, and security policies, this book challenges existing perspectives and enriches the debate. With its methodological and epistemological explorations, this book is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of international relations and security studies, as well as researchers focusing on specific world areas. Embark on a captivating journey through the multifaceted landscape of global affairs.
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    ISBN: 9783031216343
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 57 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Geography
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    Keywords: Economic geography. ; Economics. ; Security, International. ; Production management.
    Abstract: Chapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2. Maritime Security – Call of the Seas -- Chapter3. Jurisdictional Issues of the Seas -- Chapter4. Coastal and Port Security -- Chapter5. Blue Economy and Smart Sea Transport Systems -- Chapter6. Towards a Sustainable Global Growth -- Chapter7. Maritime Clusters -- Chapter8. Public Private Partnerships and Port- Land Interface Projects -- Chapter9. The Pandemic, the Blue Economy and the Way Forward.
    Abstract: Focusing on maritime security, this book discusses Blue Economy and Smart sea transport systems in the context of the Indian Ocean rim countries and the multifaceted challenges that they are likely to face while attempting to develop such systems. It introduces Blue Economy as a concept with an emphasis on lower costs, reduced waste, greater efficiency, and value addition in all services associated with the near and deep oceans, with the establishment of Smart sea transport systems as the adaptive response in a global trade system. It highlights the roles of maritime security in politics, economics, and environmental management issues that constitute the challenges of achieving such goals. In this regard, the authors approach the issues from the institutional perspective to examine ways in which relevant transport and supply chain stakeholders can collaborate to build secure, resilient global systems of maritime trade. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in marine policy and global supply chains, especially in maritime security, its impacts and risks on transport and supply chain infrastructures, and the related socioeconomic activities likely to be affected. Readers will gain insight into the effective ways to adapt to such risks and how to benefit from the generated opportunities on transport, supply chains, and the global economy. Also, it is an ideal companion to policymakers and practitioners who are eager to learn about the dynamics between maritime security and Blue Economy which, in turn, enhances the quality of strategic planning, policies, and practices in addressing these issues. Finally, it inspires researchers and postgraduate students to conduct innovative research on this topic.
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    ISBN: 9783031207341
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 265 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: New Security Challenges
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Downing, Joseph Critical security studies in the digital age
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Politics and war. ; Terrorism. ; Political violence. ; Social media. ; Communication in politics. ; Sicherheit ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Vorstellung ; Risikofaktor ; Alternative Sicherheitspolitik ; Militärwissenschaft ; Cyberspace ; Social Media ; Information warfare ; International relations ; Internationale Beziehungen ; Kommunikationswissenschaft ; Krieg und Verteidigung ; Media studies ; Medienwissenschaften: Internet, digitale Medien und Gesellschaft ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Terrorism ; Political science & theory ; Politische Strukturen und Prozesse ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies ; Terrorism, armed struggle ; Terrorismus, bewaffneter Kampf ; Warfare & defence
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction to Social Media and Critical Security Studies in the Digital Age -- Chapter 2. Conceptualizing Social Media and Critical Security Studies in the Digital Age -- Chapter 3. Social Media, Digital Methods and Critical Security Studies -- Chapter 4. Social Media, Security and Terrorism in the Digital Age -- Chapter 5. Social Media and Vernacular Security in the Digital Age -- Chapter 6. Social Media, Security and Democracy in the Digital Age -- Chapter 7. Social Media, Security and Identity in the Digital Age -- Chapter 8. Conclusions on Social Media and Security in the Digital Age.
    Abstract: This book demonstrates that the disciplinary boundaries present within international relations approaches to security studies are redundant when examining social media, and inter- and multi-disciplinary analysis is key. A key result of the analysis undertaken is that when examining the social media sphere security scholars need to “expect the unexpected”. This is because social media enables users to subvert, contest and create security narratives with symbols and idioms of their choice which can take into account “traditional” security themes, but also unexpected and under explored themes such as narratives from the local context of the users’ towns and cities, and the symbolism of football clubs. The book also explores the complex topography of social media when considering constructions of security. The highly dynamic topography of social media is neither elite dominated and hierarchical as the Copenhagen School conceptualises security speak. However, neither is it completely flat and egalitarian as suggested by the vernacular security studies’ non-elite approach. Rather, social media’s topography is shifting and dynamic, with individuals gaining influence in security debates in unpredictable ways. In examining social media this book engages with the emancipatory burden of critical security studies. This book argues that it remains unfulfilled on social media and rather presents a “thin” notion of discursive emancipation where social media does provide the ability for previously excluded voices to participate in security debates, even if this does not result in their direct emancipation from power hierarchies and structures offline. Joseph Downing is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Politics, Aston University, UK, and Visiting Fellow in the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He was previously Marie-Curie Fellow at the Laboratoire méditerranéen de sociologie, CNRS, Université Aix-Marseille Marseille, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has published and consulted widely on politics and security.
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    ISBN: 9783031235559
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 173 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: America—Politics and government. ; Europe—Politics and government. ; Peace. ; Security, International. ; Terrorism. ; Political violence. ; International relations. ; America ; Europe ; Krieg ; Kriegführung ; Verlauf ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Ursache ; Intervention ; USA ; Afghanistan
    Abstract: Chapter 1. 9/11 Reprisal -- Chapter 2. Overreach -- Chapter 3. War On Terror -- Chapter 4. Afghan War -- Chapter 5. Iraq War -- Chapter 6. Arab Spring -- Chapter 7. Return to Kabul -- Chapter 8. Conclusion.
    Abstract: Great powers have often found that military adventurism to force their will in distant lands comes with the risk of spending excessive military, economic, and moral capital to the extent that war is no longer sustainable. Written by a former BBC Afghanistan correspondent who set up the corporation’s bureau in Kabul in the early 1990s, this book draws both from scholarly knowledge as well as first-hand insights on how the Americans met that fate in Vietnam, and the Soviets and Americans in Afghanistan. America’s 1975 retreat from Vietnam was a consequential event, prompting US commentators to explain it as reluctance to get involved in foreign wars, a mindset described as the Vietnam Syndrome. As Deepak Tripathi points out, the Vietnam experience made the Americans determined to give the Soviets their own Vietnam. The 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and retreat after a decade of occupation, represented the revenge America sought. However, President George W. Bush’s decision to invade Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks was the beginning of a long military venture that ended in retreat in 2021. Addressing an academic as well as a general audience, Tripathi explores parallels between wars in Afghanistan and Vietnam, and shows how the United States and the Soviet Union met the same fate. "Anyone with an interest in world affairs should read Deepak Tripathi’s superb book Afghanistan and the Vietnam Syndrome." Richard Falk, Milbank Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton University, and Chair of Global Law, Queen Mary University of London "Combining the sharp judgments of an experienced foreign correspondent with the insights of the trained historian, Deepak Tripathi has produced an informed, insightful and wide-ranging study that helps us make sense of the challenges that both the Soviet Union and the United States encountered in Afghanistan's mountains and on Afghanistan's plains. No one will fail to benefit from reading it." William Maley, Emeritus Professor of Diplomacy, Australian National University.
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    ISBN: 9783031233326
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 169 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Frontiers in International Relations
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    Keywords: International organization. ; Diplomacy. ; Security, International. ; Political science. ; Public policy. ; Internationale Politik ; Konferenz ; Internationale Organisation ; Internationale Kooperation ; Politische Kommunikation ; Global Governance ; Arktis
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Arctic Governance: Actors, Processes, and Structures -- Chapter 3. Arctic Frontiers and Arctic Circle Assembly -- Chapter 4. Actors in the Arctic Conference Sphere -- Chapter 5. Conferences as Agenda Setting Arenas -- Chapter 6. Conferences within the Arctic Governance Architecture -- Chapter 7. Conclusions: Governance by Conference.
    Abstract: This book examines the functions of conferences within Arctic governance, as a third dimension between sovereign states and formalized cooperative arrangements. It analyzes conferences against the background of three main empirical topics. Firstly, the functions of conferences for different actor groups, both Arctic rights holders and emerging non-Arctic state actors claiming stakeholder status. From this, the book also analyzes how conferences contribute to altering the actor composition of Arctic governance as a whole. Secondly, conferences as agenda setting arenas – whether conference activities can contribute to influencing the broader agenda in the region, and conferences as arenas for agenda setting – whether participants can bring with them topics that are picked up and brought into other processes. Thirdly, the book considers the space for conferences within broader governance architectures, as links between units in the regime complex. The book further presents an in-depth case study of the two largest conferences on Arctic issues: the Arctic Frontiers and Arctic Circle Assembly. It illustrates the diverse functions conferences can have for elements within a broader governance system, beyond serving as meeting places and networking arenas. Therefore, it is a must-read for researchers, students, and policy-makers interested in a better understanding of Arctic governance in particular, and International Relations in general.
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    ISBN: 9783031233647
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 645 p. 7 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Security, International. ; International organization. ; Bündnis ; Verteidigung ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Internationale Organisation ; Militärische Kooperation ; Erweiterung ; Ost-West-Beziehungen ; Staatensystem ; Bündnispolitik ; Strategie
    Abstract: 1. Evaluating NATO enlargement: scholarly debates, policy implications, and roads not taken -- Part I. Foreign Policy and Strategy Debates -- 2. Patterns of Continuity in NATO’s Long History -- 3. NATO as a Political Alliance: Continuities and Legacies in the Enlargement Debates of the 1990s -- 4. NATO Enlargement and US Foreign Policy: Origins and Consequences -- 5. Myths and Realities of Putinism and NATO Expansion -- Part II. Great Power Relations -- 6. NATO Enlargement and US Grand Strategy: A Net Assessment -- 7. NATO Enlargement: Evaluating Its Consequences in Russia -- 8. The Tragedy of US-Russian Relations: NATO Centrality and the Revisionists’ Spiral -- 9. China Views NATO: Beijing’s Concerns About Transatlantic Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific -- Part III. European Security -- 10. Thank Goodness For NATO Enlargement -- 11. Good For Democracy? Evidence from the 2004 NATO Expansion -- 12. Ukraine’s Bid to Join NATO: Re-evaluating Enlargement in a New Strategic Context -- 13. Every Which Way But Loose: NATO Enlargement, European Strategic Autonomy, and Fragmentation -- Part IV. Organizational Politics and Debates -- 14. Assessing the Consequences of Enlargement for the NATO Military Alliance -- 15. From Peace to War: The Military Implications of NATO Enlargement -- 16. NATO Enlargement and The Failure of the Cooperative Security Mindset.
    Abstract: Mobilizing an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners, this book reviews the history and consequences of NATO’s post-Cold War enlargement into Central and Eastern Europe. It offers a nuanced discussion of the merits and drawbacks of NATO enlargement across the different actors involved and compares the results of the policy against potential alternatives that were not chosen. Particular attention is given to NATO enlargement’s influence on the course of U.S. foreign policy, democracy and security in Central and Eastern Europe, NATO’s own development as a political and military institution, and relations with China and Russia (including the 2022 Russia-Ukraine War). Written for an engaged audience, the book is designed to appeal to students, researchers, and policymakers alike while offering both policy insights and avenues for future scholarship. James Goldgeier is Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Professor of International Relations at the School of International Service at American University, where he served as Dean from 2011–17. Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson is Associate Professor with the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Senior Fellow with the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM), and Associate Editor of H-Diplo’s International Security Studies Forum (ISSF).
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    ISBN: 9783031233791
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 196 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Politics of Citizenship and Migration
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Religion and politics. ; Anthropology. ; Security, International.
    Abstract: Introduction: Debating Religion and Forced Migration Entanglements (Elżbieta M. Goździak) -- Part 1: Politics, values, and discourses mobilized by religion -- Chapter 1: Keleti Pályaudvar: Past and Present Refugee Crises in Hungary (Elżbieta M. Goździak) -- Chapter 2: A journey to reconciliation? Asylum, religion and LGBTQ+ identities in the UK (Moira Dustin) -- Chapter 3: Though Shalt Not Deport? Religious Ethical Discourse and the Politics of Asylum in Poland and Israel (Agnieszka Bielewska) -- Part 2: Lived experiences of religion: Belonging and identity. -Chapter 4: Class solidarity and sectarian politics: Quarantina and the refugees of Beirut, Lebanon (Diala Lteif) -- Chapter 5: Spaces of Experience and Horizons of Expectation: On the multidimensional role of religion in the Syrian Refugee Crisis (Ingrid Løland) -- Chapter 6: Exclusive inclusion: “Cultural values,” racialization of religion, and religious difference in the Netherlands’ politics of belonging (Aukje Muller) -- Part 3: Faith and faith actors in responses to forced migration -- Chapter 7: Local faith communities’ responses to forced migration (Susanna Trotta and Olivia Wilkinson) -- Chapter 8: Religion Resettles Refugees: Case studies of religion's role in resettlement in the United States (Mathew Weiner) -- Chapter 9: Religion and Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program: A Case Study with MCC Ontario (Luann Good Gingrich) -- Chapter 10: The occult and land access among peri-urban refugees: The case of Lydiate informal settlement in Zimbabwe (Johannes Bhanye) -- Conclusions: Religion and Forced Migration at the Crossroads (Elżbieta M. Goździak).
    Abstract: “This volume casts new light on an age-old issue--the role of religion in forced migration. With chapters by both academics and practitioners, it contributes immensely to our knowledge of forced migration and religion.” —Susan Martin, Donald G. Herzberg Professor Emerita of International Migration, Georgetown University “A welcome addition to the expanding literature on religion and forced migration. It both expands the theoretical framing of how we think about the religion and forced migration nexus and enriches the available case studies. By combining perspectives from both advocates and scholars, this book breaks down the false dichotomy between them.” —Dianna Shandy, Professor of Anthropology, Macalester College and Scholar-in-Residence, Elon University This open access book brings into dialogue migration and religion scholars with spiritual leaders and representatives of faith-based organizations assisting refugees. Migration has always been part of spiritual development. The current 'refugee crisis' has brought to the fore debates regarding the role of religion in defining difference, linking the ‘refugee crisis’ with Islam, and fear of the ‘Other.’ Many religious leaders and politicians invoke religious values and call for strict border controls while many humanitarians use religious values to welcome and assist refugees. This book focuses on politics and discourses mobilized by religious beliefs; lived experiences of religion; and faith actors’ responses to forced migration. Elżbieta M. Goździak is Visiting Professor in the Center for Migration Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. Izabella Main is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Ethnology and Director of the Centre for Migration Studies at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
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    ISBN: 9783031273384
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 232 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Languages at War
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    Keywords: Africa—History. ; African languages. ; Peace. ; Sociolinguistics. ; Security, International. ; Africa
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Swahili and the Maji Maji Resistance against German Rule -- Chapter 3: Swahili and African Military Formation: Between WWI and WWII -- Chapter 4: Swahili and Imperial Britain: Colonial Creation/African Appropriation -- Chapter 5: Swahili and the Conflicts of the Great Lakes Region -- Chapter 6: Swahili and the Cold War -- Chapter 7: Swahili and the War on Terrorism in the Post-Cold War Period -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.
    Abstract: This monograph examines the roles and functions of Swahili in war/conflict situations, and the impact of wars on the destiny of the language. Covering a period of over a century, the monograph explores this sociolinguistic theme in the context of six wars/conflicts: the Maji Maji resistance against German rule, the two World Wars, the anti-colonial resistance to British colonialism, the wars of the Great Lakes region, the cold wars, and the ongoing war against terrorism. In geographical focus, some of the war situations explored here are “local,” others are “transnational,” and others still rather “global” in scope and ramifications. In the final analysis, the monograph provides important snapshots of the conflict-based history of the Swahili language, demonstrating once again that language is a malleable tool that can be appropriated and galvanized to serve the interests of either party in a conflict and sometimes as a means of creating hegemonic and anti-hegemonic meanings. Alamin Mazrui is Professor at Rutgers University, USA. He has authored and edited several books and written numerous articles in sociolinguistics, education, literature, and culture. He has a special interest in human rights and civil liberties and has written policy reports on these subjects. Mazrui is also a published Swahili poet and playwright. Kimani Njogu holds a Ph.D in linguistics from Yale University (1994). He is the Executive Director of Twaweza Communications, Nairobi, and serves in the Kiswahili Commission at the African Academy of Languages (ACALAN), an organ of the African Union. His research interests revolve around language, culture and society.
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    ISBN: 9783031197369
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 271 S.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; International relations. ; International organization.
    Abstract: 1. Suche nach alternativen Verbindungen zwischen Zivilisation und Sicherheit -- 2. Die disziplinären Verbindungen der IR mit der westlichen Zivilisation -- 3. Individualisierung der Zivilisation: Das zivilisierte Subjekt der Sicherheit -- 4. Normen der Zivilisation: Architektur der Sicherheit, Ordnung und Hierarchie -- 5. Die tiefen Ursprünge der NATO (1939–1949): Den zivilisierten Habitus durchbrechen? -- 6. Die Entwicklung der NATO im Kalten Krieg: Die Zivilisation vom Referenzobjekt zur Norm -- 7. Die NATO nach dem Kalten Krieg: Neue Wege und Gründe für die Koexistenz -- 8. Die Individualisierung der Sicherheit: Eine neue Architektur für internationale Sicherheit -- 9. Die Individualisierung der Sicherheit innerhalb der NATO.10. Schlussfolgerung.
    Abstract: Dieses Buch setzt sich kritisch mit den beiden wichtigsten Sicherheitsreferenzen der NATO auseinander: der Zivilisation und den Menschen. Durch ein Überdenken der scheinbar selbstverständlichen Annahme dieser beiden Referenzobjekte wird die erkenntnistheoretische Bedeutung einer unbewussten Dimension für das Verständnis von Bedeutungsbildung und Verhaltensänderung in der internationalen Sicherheit aufgezeigt. Das Buch bietet einen historisierenden und genealogischen Ansatz für die Idee der Zivilisation, die den Kern des Bündnisses bildet und in der menschliche Bedürfnisse, Erzählungen und Sicherheitsvereinbarungen miteinander verknüpft sind. Es wird davon ausgegangen, dass im Zentrum der modernen westlichen Sicherheit ein zivilisiertes Sicherheitssubjekt steht, das ständig zivilisierte und sichere Subjekte in der ganzen Welt hervorgebracht hat, was die Entstehung der NATO auf der Grundlage eines zivilisatorischen Referenzpunktes erklärt. Anschließend wird in dem Buch die Individualisierung der Sicherheit nach dem Kalten Krieg als eine weitere Phase des Zivilisierungsprozesses anhand der militärischen Operationen der NATO in Bosnien und Herzegowina, im Kosovo und in Afghanistan untersucht. Sarah da Mota erforscht derzeit Astropolitik und die Auswirkungen der Weltraumforschung auf IR, Frieden und Sicherheit. Sie ist Mitautorin von Drones and the uninsurable security subjects (Third World Quarterly) und Visibility and Politics: an Arendtian reading of US drone policy (Nação e Defesa). Dieses Buch stellt die Übersetzung einer englischsprachigen Originalausgabe dar. Die Übersetzung wurde mit Hilfe von künstlicher Intelligenz erstellt (maschinelle Übersetzung mit DeepL.com). Eine anschließende manuelle Überarbeitung erfolgte vor allem nach inhaltlichen Gesichtspunkten, so dass sich das Buch stilistisch von einer herkömmlichen Übersetzung abweicht.
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    ISBN: 9783031336614
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 274 p. 9 illus., 7 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Politics and war. ; Security, International. ; International relations. ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Krieg ; Internationaler Konflikt ; Staat ; Souveränität ; Unabhängigkeit ; Internationales politisches System ; Position ; Erde
    Abstract: Chapter 1 (introduction) The contingency of the war-state-sovereignty triad. Updating a canonical debate -- Part I: Revisiting the Link Between War, State and Sovereignty -- Chapter 2 Is War still an Expression of State Sovereignty? Multidisciplinary round-table -- Chapter 3 Vladimir Putin's Territorial Trap. What the Invasion of Ukraine reveals about the Contemporary War-Sovereignty Nexus -- Chapter 4 The Omnipresent Absent. The State at the Centre of the War-Sovereignty Dialectic -- Chapter 5 The Failed Gamble of the 1920s. Sovereignty without War -- Chapter 6 Political-military relations. Civil Supremacy under the test of Sovereignty -- Part II: Case Studies of Contested and Renegotiated Sovereignty -- Chapter 7 Security and Regional Integration through a Maritime Lens. Shared Sovereignty and Non-Cooperation in the Inter-American Region Chapter 8 When the “war on terror” undermines the sovereignty of fragile, failing and failed states -- Chapter 9 De Facto sovereignty and multilateral sanctions for a return to constitutional order in a context of regional armed conflict. The case of Mali -- Chapter 10 New Spaces of Contested Sovereignty -- Chapter 11 Operational efficiency challenged by industrial sovereignty: the uncertainties of "participatory" innovation -- Chapter 12 Foreign military bases and the sovereignty of local communities. The case of Poland -- Chapter 13 (conclusion): War and sovereignty: “words that go together well” for an interdisciplinary approach.
    Abstract: This book addresses the links between war, state and sovereignty using an interdisciplinary approach. The authors and editors investigate the transformation of the state through the practices of security governance - an effective way to question the evolution of authority and legitimacy of state violence, and the organisation of human societies. This work contributes to the understanding of the transformation of state through the prism of security challenges and provides the means to identify the evolution of their regalian contours, the legal and technical forms of regulating violence, and the legitimisation of public power. This volume shows that the contribution of the social sciences is decisive for understanding the changes of the role and insertion of armed forces in their political, social and professional environment. Grégory Daho is Associate Professor of Political Science at University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France Yann Richard is Professor of Geography at University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France.
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    ISBN: 9783031370670
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 265 S. 14 Abb.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Regionalismus in Afrika und externe Partner
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    Keywords: Regionalism. ; International relations. ; Security, International. ; International organization. ; Regionalismus ; Regionalisierung ; Internationale Politik ; Politischer Prozess ; Regionalentwicklung ; Internationale Kooperation ; Regionale Kooperation ; Wirtschaftskooperation ; Internationale Organisation ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Wirtschaftliche Integration ; Nord-Süd-Beziehungen ; Afrika
    Abstract: Teil I. Einleitung - 1. Einführung und Theoretisierung: Regionalismus und externe Akteure -- Teil II. Umfassende Mapping-Studien -- 2. Regionale Handelsregime in Afrika: Erforschung organisatorischer Überschneidungen und externer Effekte -- 3. Externe Akteure und Sicherheitsregionalismus in Afrika: Ein neuer Datensatz zur externen Finanzierung -- Teil III. Fallstudien -- 4. Akteure und Ambitionen in der Sicherheitspolitik der Europäischen Union gegenüber Afrika -- 5. Frankreich, die EU und die Sicherheits(un)integration der Afrikanischen Union -- 6. Wüstenrose oder Fata Morgana? Die G5-Sahelzone und ihre Partnerschaft mit der Europäischen Union -- 7. Evaluierung der Wirksamkeit der interregionalen Partnerschaft zwischen ECOWAS und EU im Bereich Frieden und Sicherheit im Kontext der Mali-Krise - 8. Ursachen und Auswirkungen externer Unterstützung für regionale Organisationen: Der Fall der EU-Unterstützung für die ECOWAS-Kommission -- Teil IV. Schlussfolgerungen -- 9. Schlussfolgerung.
    Abstract: Dieser Band bietet systematische Forschung zum Regionalismus in Afrika und untersucht die Rolle und den Einfluss externer Partner auf die Dynamik, die institutionelle Gestaltung und die Leistung regionaler Integrationsprojekte. Dabei wird der mehrstufige und mehrdimensionale Charakter des Regionalismus mit seiner Vielfalt an kooperativen Institutionen und Politikbereichen berücksichtigt und herausgearbeitet, während die ungleichen Beziehungen zu externen Akteuren in afrikanischen Regionalorganisationen genau betrachtet werden. Die beiden umfassenden Mapping-Studien des Buches untersuchen Muster asymmetrischer Interdependenzen zwischen dem Regionalismus in Afrika und externen Partnern in Europa, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf Handel und Geberfinanzierung liegt, und zeigen strukturelle Ungleichgewichte und (un)beabsichtigte Folgen auf. Fünf weitere Fallstudien bieten eingehende Analysen verschiedener afrikanischer Regionalorganisationen, vor allem mit Schwerpunkt auf dem Sicherheitsregionalismus, und zeigen auf, wie externe Partner Integrationsprozesse und -projekte beeinflussen und beeinträchtigen. Obwohl der Regionalismus in Afrika von den Außenbeziehungen und Partnerschaften mit Europa profitiert hat, stellen die Beiträge in diesem Band diesen positiven Eindruck in Frage und zeigen einige der wichtigsten Faktoren und Akteure auf, die ihn untergraben. Johannes Muntschick ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Dozent am Institut für Politikwissenschaft der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Deutschland. Seine Forschungs- und Lehrerfahrung liegt in den Bereichen Theorie der internationalen Beziehungen, internationale Institutionen und Regionalismus im globalen Süden. Die Übersetzung wurde mit Hilfe von künstlicher Intelligenz durchgeführt. Eine anschließende menschliche Überarbeitung erfolgte vor allem in Bezug auf den Inhalt.
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    ISBN: 9783031382185
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 343 p. 24 illus., 22 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
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    Keywords: Peace. ; International relations. ; Security, International. ; Konflikt ; Auswirkung ; Transformation ; Friede ; Begriff ; Komplexes System ; Fotografie ; Friedensforschung ; Konfliktforschung ; Bosnien-Herzegowina
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Ambiguities in Local and Global Contexts -- Part I: Complexity and Ambiguity -- Chapter 2: Approaching Complexity in Peace and Conflict -- Chapter 3: Tolerance of Ambiguity -- Part II: New Photographies and Visual Ambiguities -- Chapter 4: The Crisis of Photojournalism and the Emergence of New Photographies -- Chapter 5: Visual Ambiguities: Controlling the Meaning of Images in a Digital and Interactive World -- Part III: Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace -- Chapter 6: Introducing Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace -- Chapter 7: Navigating Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace -- Chapter 8: The Grids: Architectural Space and Panel-to-Panel Transitions -- Chapter 9: Interactivity and the Author-Audience Relationship -- Part IV: Leveraging Ambiguity for Peace -- Chapter 10: Embracing Difference: Learning from Bosnia? -- Chapter 11: Exploring the Surround, Appreciating Complexity -- Chapter 12: Active Looking: Images in Peace Mediation -- Chapter 13: Concluding Reflections: Tolerance of Ambiguity and the Ambiguity of Tolerance.
    Abstract: This book argues that we can capitalize on the tolerance of ambiguity-enhancing potentialities inherent in visual images – their non-coherence – and thus increase our capability of tolerating ambiguities. Studying international relations equals studying ambiguity. The international system is complex, and where there is complexity, there is also ambiguity. Crucially, in a world saturated not only with ambiguities but also with visual images, it is mandatory to think ambiguity and visuality together. The authors analyze the constructive and peaceful potentialities of ambiguities through an exploration of journalistic imagery in the context of post-war Bosnia and post-siege Sarajevo. The book is a theoretically sophisticated, yet accessible, and politically relevant exercise in inter-disciplinary thinking, uniquely combining literature on complexity, ambiguity and visuality thus offering important readings for international relations, peace and conflict research, and security studies. Rasmus Bellmer is based in Berlin and currently works for the Berghof Foundation. He holds a master’s degree in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research. From 2020 to 2022, he worked as a project researcher in the research project Peace Videography, funded by Kone Foundation, and was affiliated with the Tampere Peace Research Institute, Tampere University, Finland. His research was published in journals such as International Political Sociology, Peacebuilding and Journal of Peace Education. Frank Möller is a peace and conflict researcher residing in Tampere (Finland). He is affiliated with Tampere University as Docent in Peace and Conflict Research. From 2020 to 2022, he was in charge of the project Peace Videography, funded by Kone Foundation, and in 2023, he received a scholarship grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Möller is the co-editor of Art as a Political Witness (2017) and the author of Visual Peace: Images, Spectatorship and the Politics of Violence (2013), Peace Photography (2019) and numerous journal articles and book chapters.
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    ISBN: 9783031391217
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 221 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in International Relations
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Globalization. ; Security, International. ; Internationale Politik ; Theorie ; Philosophie ; Kultur ; Postkolonialismus ; Weltbild ; Grenze ; Buddhismus ; Westliche Welt ; Erde
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Prologue: Half the World Away -- Chapter 2: Global IR: A Paradigm? No, a Research Programme -- Chapter 3: Global IR: A Glimpse of Somewhere? No, of Anywhere -- Chapter 4: Global IR: An Agenda of One or Many? No, of One and Many -- Chapter 5: Epilogue: A Passage Across the Three Worlds.
    Abstract: The Global IR research programme promulgates a borderless ecology of cultures that has only an inside without an outside. This borderless ecology of cultures reinvents the human condition (including the condition of ‘the international’) as perpetually interconnected at the level of consciousness. While Western-centric IR theories depend on (neo-)Kantian philosophies to emphasize the time-space bounded identities of human beings living in visibly divided phenomenal worlds, the de-Kantian philosophies of the Global IR research programme – exemplified by the Tianxia, Advaita, and Nishida Kitaro’s Buddhism-inspired theories – recuperate the temporally-spatially indivisible phenomenal-noumenal flow of human life, thereby facilitating back-and-forth movement between the Westdominated ‘one world’ and the non-West-embodied ‘many worlds’. The central objective of the book is to demonstrate how this back-and-forth movement offers opportunities to conceive of and found a new world order that recognizes the temporally-spatially indivisible human condition on earth. The book delineates a set of guiding principles to promote an innovative practice of theory-building and policy-making that transcends the geo-centric limitations of knowledgeproduction and knowledge-application, thereby establishing the futuristic foundation of the Global IR research programme. Deepshikha Shahi is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at the O. P. Jindal Global University, India.
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    ISBN: 9783031435522
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 119 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Security, International.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: A Case for a Critical Biopolitical Analysis of the Global Drug Control -- Chapter 2. Drug Control Dispositif, State of Exception and Democracy -- Chapter 3. Which Knowledge Deserves to Be Named Knowledge: The Place for Science and Evidence in Drug Policy -- Chapter 4. Migrants, Substances, and Borders: The Case of the Spanish Southern Border -- Chapter 5. Conclusion. .
    Abstract: This book presents an analysis tracing the operation of biopolitical mode of power in the global field of drug control. Through a series of theoretically framed investigations that relate current drug control policies to the broader frame of ‘vital politics,’ it attends to the relationship of drug control, democracy and authoritarianism and showcases these pressures on the case of the evolution of drug policy in the Czech Republic. Then, it turns attention to the relationship of power and knowledge, with a particular focus on ‘evidence-based’ policy that tends to more often sustain, rather than challenge coercive and punitive drug control policies. Last but not least, it looks at how the global drug control dispositif shapes those lives on one of Europe’s (internal) periphery, the Spanish Southern border. These investigations are intended to illuminate elements of the operation of the drug control dispositif and its far reaching (bio-)political effects in order to maintain and expand the space for thinking political alternatives. Ondrej Ditrych is Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague. In his current research, inspired by continental philosophy, he explores revolution and political violence in global politics, ethnopolitics and geopolitics in Europe and Postsoviet space, and global risks. Constanza Sánchez Avilés is Law, Policy and Human Rights Director at the International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research and Service (ICEERS) and Research Associate at the Global Drug Policy Observatory (UK). Her main areas of research and work are national and international drug policies, the political economy of illicit drugs and the intersection between drug control, human rights and social justice.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 258 p. 6 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Contributions to Political Science
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Peace. ; Politics and war. ; International relations. ; Diplomacy. ; Krieg ; Rüstungsbegrenzung ; Weltordnung ; Internationale Politik ; Kernwaffe ; Kontrolle ; Nonproliferation ; Russland ; Ukraine
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: How Has Russia’s War on Ukraine Changed the Global Nuclear Order? -- Part 1: The New Challenges and Threats to Global Nuclear Order -- Chapter 2. The Crisis of Global Security Architecture and Challenges for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Arms Control -- Chapter 3. Irregular Nuclear Warfare: Operating Top-of-the-spectrum Means in the Gray Zone Under the Threshold of Reaction. A Predictive Approach to the Ukrainian Battlefield -- Chapter 4. Russia’s Nuclear Blackmail as a Threat to the Global Nuclear Order -- Part 2: Missile and Disruptive Technologies -- Chapter 5. Emerging and Disruptive Technologies in Russia’s War Against Ukraine -- Chapter 6. Role of Missiles in Russia’s War on Ukraine and Its Implications for the Future of Warfare -- Part 3: Arms Control Deadlock and the Possible Ways Out -- Chapter 7. War in Ukraine and Us-Russian Arms Control: Is It Needed? Is It Possible? -- Chapter 8. Strategic Arms Control Deadlock and the Possible Ways Out -- Chapter 9. Gender Perspectives in Arms Control and the Risks Deriving From Russia’s War on Ukraine -- Part 4: the NPT Regime: Competing Narratives on Nuclear Deterrence and Disarmament -- Chapter 10. Nuclear Deterrence in Russia’s War on Ukraine: the Credibility Dilemma -- Chapter 11. The Future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament Regime -- Chapter 12. U-factor: Russia’s War on Ukraine and the Deterrence Vs. Disarmament Discussion. Pragmatic Internationalism -- Part 5: the Impact of Russia's War Against Ukraine on Regional Cases -- Chapter 13. Anchoring Us-Russia Relations: Perspectives, Strategic Cultures, and Nuclear Posture -- Chapter 14. NATO’s New Strategic Concept: the Changing Role of Nuclear Weapons, From Collective Security Back to Collective Defense -- Chapter 15. How Did the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Influence Iran’s Approach to the Nuclear Threshold? -- Chapter 16. The Impact of Russia's War Against Ukraine on Finland and Sweden's Decision to Join NATO: Effects on the Global Nuclear Order -- Chapter 17. Conclusion: Challenges and Prospects for the Current Global Nuclear Order.
    Abstract: This book explores how Russia’s War on Ukraine has changed the global nuclear order. The Russian aggression against Ukraine questioned the values of the liberal regimes and systems upon which the global nuclear order is built. At the heart of this nuclear order lies the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which remains until today the cornerstone of the global nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation regime. In this context, the book examines new challenges and threats to the global nuclear order. It discusses the deterioration of nuclear norms, as well as the increasing number of the states further challenging the NPT regime by attempts to develop nuclear weapons. The book further sheds light on a growing number of states trying to resolve their territorial claims using the nuclear coercion and the umbrella function of their nuclear arsenals. The authors present the loopholes in the existing arms control system and the arms trade, which became obvious in the course of the war, and analyze the further split between the supporters of the NPT and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Srutinizing the deepening polarization of the supporters and the opponents of nuclear weapons, the book includes a new debate about the competing narratives on nuclear deterrence and disarmament. Finally, the volume discusses the development and the increase of new missiles and disruptive technologies such as hypersonic missiles, drones, and artificial intelligence. This book will appeal to students and scholars of international relations and political science in general, and security studies, military and defense studies, peace and conflict studies, and foreign policy in particular, as well as policy-makers interested in a better understanding of nuclear deterrence, the global nuclear order, and the impact of Russia's war on Ukraine.
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    ISBN: 9783031386886
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 153 p. 27 illus., 23 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Peace. ; Politics and war. ; Security, International. ; Außenpolitik ; Strategie ; Sicherheit ; Kernwaffe ; Militärische Macht ; Nukleare Abschreckung ; Atomkrieg ; Militärisches Gleichgewicht ; Entscheidungstheorie ; Spieltheorie
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Deterrence -- 3. Disarmament -- 4. Warfighting -- 5. Modeling Nuclear Stability -- 6. Findings -- 7. Conclusion.
    Abstract: This timely book offers a comprehensive examination of the current state of nuclear stability postures worldwide, effectively highlighting their inherent limitations. Through their analysis, the authors illustrate how the seemingly contradictory perspectives of deterrence optimists, disarmament idealists, and warfighting pessimists can be reconfigured into a unified approach towards achieving regional and global peace. They suggest that these strategies can be reconciled as complementary, rather than substitute approaches, to achieve the common goal of nuclear stability. To achieve this objective, the book employs a game-theoretical framework to analytically define the conditions for nuclear war. Drawing from extensive observations of significant crises, the model incorporates identifiable systemic regularities that influence the strategic decision-making process during severe crises and establish the prerequisites for different levels of nuclear confrontation. Additionally, by tracing the strategic-technological trajectories of nuclear powers, the authors present a novel analysis that explores the potential for stable coexistence to replace unstable confrontation between global powers, ultimately fostering nuclear peace. The author's theoretical explorations lead to the policy conclusion that establishing a nuclear oligopolistic hierarchy, under the leadership of preponderant global powers committed to a no-first-use pledge, presents the most effective international system for enhancing both regional and global nuclear stability. This book aims to surpass the Cold War origins of current nuclear strategy and develop a comprehensive policy framework that guarantees enduring nuclear stability in the contemporary world.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 413 p. 59 illus., 53 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Security systems. ; International relations.
    Abstract: 1. Great Power Competition Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine -- 2. How the Ukraine war will impact U.S Special Force Operations -- 3. The Impact of Ukraine War on the Middle East in the Context of Great Power Competition -- 4. Great Power Competition and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine -- 5. Understanding the Mental Health of Ukrainian Refugees in Europe -- 6. Learning the wrong lessons from Russia’s invasion: Russia’s cyberspace lessons learned -- 7. Why Putin Gambled on Russian Military Mobilization -- 8. Great Power Clashes Will Reshape America: Case Study of Ukraine -- 9. The Effect of the Ukrainian War on Central Asia -- 10. Russia’s Invasion and the U.S. Response: The view from the Middle East and Central Asia -- 11. Is Russia Fascist? Unravelling Propaganda East and West on the Ukrainian conflict -- 12. How the Ukraine invasion will impact Russia-Iran relations -- 13. Security in the 21st Century: Democracy and Transatlantic Values in an Age of Great Power Competition -- 14. Learning the wrong lessons from Russia’s invasion: Russia’s cyberspace lessons learned -- 15. Ukraine: An examination of the evolving humanitarian crisis -- 16. Russia–Ukraine crisis: China’s Belt Road Initiative Role -- 17. Success or Failure: Intelligence in Ukraine and what it Signals for the Future -- 18. Moral Injury and Moral Crisis in Ukraine -- 19. How China-U.S. Cooperation will impact the Ukraine War -- 20. Weighing the Costs of War and Peace in Ukraine.
    Abstract: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and Implications for the Central Region addresses national security threats and strategic opportunities for the United States and its allies in the Middle East and Central Asia following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Recognizing that integrated deterrence is not constrained by geography or domain, this book focuses on the complex threats and challenges confronting U.S. national security and foreign policy in a post-Ukraine invasion environment. That is to say, what happens in Ukraine does not stay in Ukraine. It affects everyone from the region to the cyberspace domain to people on the other side of the world, due to changes in commodity prices. Specifically, this volume explores how revised analyses of Russia may alter U.S. and allied strategies in a shifting international system and within the framing of strategic competition. Experts in this volume examine how the war in Ukraine will influence Russian strategy and foreign policy in the Middle East, Central Asia, and globally; what effect the Ukraine invasion could have on global and regional geopolitics and geoeconomics; and the United States’ ability to protect national interests in the Central Region. The reasons for this are multiple and complex. In this volume, we explore many issues that have confounded security experts by asking questions such as: What happens after the Russian invasion? What lessons did the U.S., Ukraine, NATO, and the European Union learn about Russia? What lessons did Russia learn about itself and its military after the Ukraine invasion? What lessons did the U.S. learn in Afghanistan that apply to Ukraine? Why was the initial analysis of the Russian invasion so wrong? How has power shifted in the international system since the Ukraine invasion? How has the security environment shifted since the Ukraine invasion? For the U.S. to continue supporting its partners in the Middle East and Central Asia, it must anticipate what new opportunities will arise from Russia’s missteps in Ukraine. The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and Implications for the Central Region addresses these challenges and opportunities and informs policymakers on the changing contours of the Great Power Competition.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 298 p. 24 illus., 19 illus. in color.)
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    Series Statement: Contributions to Political Science
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    Keywords: Europe ; Security, International. ; Culture
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introductory chapter: cultural change in political communities and twenty years of crisis in the 21st century (Holger Mölder) -- Part I. Contemporary Conflict, Political Participation and Cultural Change -- Chapter 2. Societies open to conflict. Political Culture and Digitalization in the European Political Landscape (Camelia Florela Voinea) -- Chapter 3. Lower-Spectrum Conflict Mechanisms (Julien Theron) -- Chapter 4. Political culture and political agency: from Gaugamela to Mosul (Sebastian Fink) -- Chapter 5. Personalism, Symbolism and Power in San Luis, Argentina. Cultural Change and Political Practices in San Luis, Argentina (Sergio Quiroga) -- Chapter 6. The Changing Landscape of the Political Participation of Kazakhstan Citizens: Before and After the Political Transition Following 2019 (Shugyla Kilybayeva) -- Part II. Populism, Extremism and Cultural Change -- Chapter 7. Populism, extremism and cultural change as traceable in the European Value Study (Klaus G. Troitzsch) -- Chapter 8. Polish-Belarus border in the political narrative during the migration crisis in 2021-2022 (Katarzyna Jędrzejczyk-Kuliniak) -- Chapter 9. Make live and let die: biopolitical borders, migrants and refugees in PIS’ Poland (Alexandra Yatsyk) -- Chapter 10. Promoting Peace to end Russia’s War against Ukraine: An unholy alliance between the Far Right and Far Left in Germany? (Florian Hartleb) -- Chapter 11. The impact of war in Ukraine on the political and ideological agenda of European post-communist state conservative populists: the case of EKRE (Illimar Ploom) -- Chapter 12. The Russia Discourses of Estonian Populists: Before and After the War in Ukraine (Andrey Makarychev) -- Chapter 13. War of narratives and revisionist challenge – the evolving strategic partnership between the New Right movement in the United States and the Russian Federation (Holger Mölder).
    Abstract: In light of many crises in the last two decades, including democratic recession, climate change, economic crises, and massive waves of migration affecting perceptions of security around the world, this book examines the impact of cultural change in political communities on the global political and security environment. Through various case studies of political communities around the world, the book analyzes contemporary responses to cultural change, often culminating in the rise of political populism and extremism. The book is divided into two parts and presents a foreword by Larry Diamond and an afterword by Eric Shiraev. The first part focuses on the micro-level of cultural change in political communities and discusses conflict mechanisms and the role of political participation in producing changes. The second part features studies on extremism and populism, analyzing their impact on cultural change in Europe. The book is intended for scholars and students in a variety of disciplines, including international relations, security studies, cultural studies, and related fields.
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    ISBN: 9783031461699
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 220 p. 21 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Central and Eastern European Perspectives on International Relations
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    Keywords: Europe ; Political science. ; Security, International. ; International relations. ; Identity politics. ; Serben ; Securitization ; Bedrohungsvorstellung ; Gesellschaft ; Entwicklung ; Internationale Organisation ; Erweiterung ; Bosnien-Herzegowina
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Theoretical Framework -- 4. Imagining the Bosnian Serb Ethnic Identity: A Historical Overview -- 5. Discourse Analysis of Securitisation Acts of the Political Elite in Republika Srpska -- 6. Perceptions of the Voters in Republika Srpska on the Internat and External Other -- 7. Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book discusses the impact of the process of accession to the European Union (EU) – i.e. Europeanisation – on the formulation of the ethnic identity of Bosnian Serbs and the political identity of Republika Srpska (RS) in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The centrepiece of the book is an examination of how it is possible that the expected effect of Europeanisation on ethnic identities in a post-conflict environment – a transformation of ethnic identities through desecuritisation – does not materialise in the case of BiH and the RS. The book starts from the assumption that the political elite in the RS uses Europeanisation as a context for the securitization of two sources of threats – the internal and external Other. This prevents the transformation of ethnic identities in BiH, and as a result also the desecuritisation of antagonisms among the ethnic groups of BiH. The results show that any attempt at a more active engagement by the EU and international community was interpreted by the RS political elite as Bosniak agenda aimed against the RS. In this respect, the book demonstrates that BiH’s EU accession process or a clearer EU perspective alone in scrutinized critical junctures did not outweigh the potential costs for the RS political elite if reforms aimed at creating a more functional BiH were to succeed. In all three analysed critical junctures, the political elite in RS presented motions for a more functional BiH as attempts to centralise the country and framed them as the beginning of the end for the RS as a political entity. Faris Kočan is Assistant Professor at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences. His research is focused on the Europeanisation of the Western Balkans and the role of the European integration in addressing the troubled past of post-Yugoslav space. He has published, among others, in the Nationalities Papers, Ethnopolitics, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, and contributed chapters to monographs published in international publishing houses (Peter Lang, Ibidem). He has been working on many research projects, including those funded by Horizon 2020, JM/Erasmus+ and Slovenian Research Council.
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    ISBN: 9783031446337
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 283 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Middle East ; Security, International. ; Comparative government. ; Internationales politisches System ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Failed State ; Begrenzte Staatlichkeit ; Reaktion ; Herrschaftssystem ; Gleichgewicht ; Naher Osten ; Mittlerer Osten ; Nordafrika
    Abstract: Chapter 1: A Conceptual Framework: The State, State Failure and Its Consequences -- Chapter 2: Regional Powers: Grand Strategies of Revisionism vs. Status Quoism -- Chapter 3: Yemen (1962-1970): Failure by a Military Coup -- Chapter 4:Lebanon (1975-1989): From Consensus Democracy to Communal War -- Chapter 5: Iraq (2003-2020: From a Bulwark Power into a Failed State -- Chapter 6: Yemen (2004-2020): A New Round of State Failure.-Chapter Seven: Syria (2011-2020): From a Revisionist Power into a Conquered State -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book examines the strategies of regional powers in the Middle East regarding their response to cases of state failure in the region, thus connecting the theoretical concepts of statehood, state failure, and revisionist and pro-status quo interventionist behavior. Through a detailed comparative analysis of five case studies of failed states occurring in the region during 1960–2010s –Yemen (1962–1970), Lebanon (1975–1989), Iraq (2003–2020), Yemen (2004–2020), and Syria (2011–2020) – the author employs the conceptual theory of balance of power to analyze the behavior of five regional powers in the Middle East: Egypt, Iran, Israel, Syria (pre-2011), Saudi Arabia, and Turkey toward each one of those cases. The book proposes that when states become failed states, regional powers with revisionist strategies expand into them, which in turn induce status quo regional powers to react by imposing balancing action, and that this power struggle turns failed states into battlegrounds for regional power (im)balances. This book offers empirical and theoretical insights into regional politics of the Middle East over the past six decades, contributes to international policy and security studies scholarship from a Middle East regional perspective, and draws attention to the importance of analyzing the destabilizing and historical consequences of state failures for contemporary contexts. Aso M. Ali is an expert on regional politics and political transformations in the Middle East. He received his M.A in Politics and International Relations from the University of Kurdistan-Hawler in Iraq and his Ph.D. in Political Science from Southern Illinois University. He has worked as a lecturer at University of Salahaddin in Erbil (2010–2012) teaching international law and politics and modern political theories.
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031480638
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 183 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Security, International. ; Militärtechnik ; Gefechtskopf ; Waffensystem ; Modernisierung ; Kollektive Sicherheit
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Theoretical Analysis of Role of Missiles in International Security -- Chapter 2: Technological Aspects of Missiles: Missiles and Warheads -- Chapter 3: Role of Missiles in International Security -- Chapter 4: Why States Acquire Missile Systems -- Chapter 5: Historical and Contemporary Missile Development -- Chapter 6: Survivability of Nuclear Missile Force and Contemporary Debates -- Chapter 7: Can the World Do Without Missiles?.
    Abstract: The book attempts to understand the myriad roles of ballistic and cruise missiles in international security. They are for combat purpose, deterrence, coercive diplomacy and power and prestige of a state. The book also studies missile developments across the world. The book also aims to fathom the various possibilities to reduce the threat from missile systems. Debalina Ghoshal is Non-Resident Fellow at the Council on International Policy, Canada. .
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    ISBN: 9783031229343
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 462 p. 21 illus., 13 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Security systems. ; International relations. ; Militärische Intervention ; Kriegsfolge ; Notlage ; Humanität ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Abschätzung ; Evaluation ; USA ; Afghanistan
    Abstract: 1. America’s Longest War: A Twenty-Year Epiphany -- 2. A Problem We Fueled: Learning Lessons from Corruption in Afghanistan -- 3. How America’s Great Power Competitors Privatized the GPC -- 4. Organizing US: Regime Theory for Integrated Statecraft -- 5. A Cyber Solarium Commission Approach to Cyber Security Cooperation -- 6. Putting the Afghan Puzzle Together: Afghan and U.S. Perspectives on Legitimacy -- 7. The Taliban’s Exploitation of Afghan Information and Information Systems -- 8. 500 Men: An Alternate Approach to America’s War in Afghanistan -- 9. Reflections on the Fateful Collapse of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces -- 10. Restoring and Relinquishing Women’s Rights in Afghanistan: Fundamental but Fragile Gains.
    Abstract: Lessons Learned from Afghanistan: America’s Longest War examines the lessons of how America’s “longest war” came to an ignominious end with staggering consequences for the United States and the Afghan nation. Afghanistan today faces an unprecedented humanitarian crisis, looming threat of a civil war and a resurgence of violent extremism organizations similar to pre-9/11. As the U.S. enters a new era in the strategic geopolitical Great Power Competition, an analysis of the original mission intent, shifting policy and strategic objectives, and ineffective implementation of security, political and economic programs reveal critical lessons and questions such as: What led to the “strategic failure” of the U.S. in Afghanistan? What decisions resulted in the present-day humanitarian, civil, and political crises in Afghanistan? Were these consequences in fact avoidable? Was there an alternative approach that could have maintained the hard-fought gains of the last two decades, and better demonstrated America's standing as a defender of global human rights? Lessons Learned from Afghanistan: America’s Longest War further explores lessons of the past negotiations between the United States, Taliban, and former U.S. backed Afghan government to suggest alternative pathways that honor the original intent of the mission and meet present-day obligations to an Afghan nation in crisis.
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    ISBN: 9783031327032
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 229 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Central and Eastern European Perspectives on International Relations
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Security, International. ; International relations. ; Political sociology. ; Europe ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Verteidigung ; Planung ; Änderung ; Außenpolitik ; Strategie ; Sicherheit ; Bedrohungsvorstellung ; Geopolitik ; Einflussgröße ; Internationale Politik ; Diskussion ; Innenpolitik ; Politische Willensbildung ; Tschechien
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: The Problematic Politics of ‘hybrid warfare’ -- 2. Liminal Insecurities: Crises, Geopolitics and the Logic of War -- 3. Formation: Emergence of the ‘hybrid warfare’ Assemblage in Czechia (2014–2016/17) -- 4. Politicisation, Institutionalisation, Internationalisation: The Czech ‘hybrid warfare’ Assemblage in 2017–2021 -- 5. Differentiation: Three Main Narratives of ‘hybrid warfare’ -- 6. Boundaries: Expertise, Authority and Contestation in the Czech ‘hybrid warfare’ Debate -- 7. Conclusion: Reclaiming Politics from the Logic of War.
    Abstract: This book offers a timely and trenchant addition to the vanguard of critical political thought in Central Europe. Reclaiming politics from the logic of war, the book provides a sobering cut into the political work of hybrid warfare discourse. With its theoretical sophistication and thick empirical embeddedness in the stories from the ‘in-between zone’ of Czechia, this is a must-read for untangling the lazy causality between the problems with Western democracies and Russian subversive actions. -Maria Mälksoo, University of Copenhagen This is a first book-long analysis showing how the notion of ‘hybrid warfare’ was used to transform security policies and discourses in an EU/NATO country. Building on current debates in International Political Sociology, Critical Security Studies, and Critical Geopolitics, it provides a novel account of how crisis, geopolitics, uncertainty, and expertise are intertwined in the social construction of threats. Based on extensive and original empirical research of large textual archive and elite interviews in the Czech Republic and Brussels, the book shows how officials, bureaucrats, journalists, activists, and experts all participate in the reshaping of security in a new geopolitical environment. Zooming on the case of Czechia and its specific Central European context, it complements the predominantly Western-centric studies of insecurity with an account of how the liminal position on an East/West boundary influences security politics. As a first study of its kind and scope, it will be of interest to academics and students interested in Central European politics, practices and discourses of hybrid warfare, as well as critical approaches to security and geopolitics. Jakub Eberle is Research Director and Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague. He works on IR theory, Czech and German foreign policy, and politics of Central Europe. He is the author of Discourse and Affect in Foreign Policy: Germany and the Iraq War (2019). Jan Daniel is Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague. His research mostly draws on International Political Sociology and Critical Security and Peace Studies and focuses on politics of (in)security in Central Europe and the Middle East.
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    ISBN: 9783031339400
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 246 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Contributions to International Relations
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    Keywords: Europe—Politics and government. ; Security, International. ; Peace. ; Diplomacy. ; International relations. ; Europe ; Nachbarschaft ; Grenzgebiet ; Internationale Politik ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Geopolitik ; Stabilität ; Internationales politisches System ; Bedrohungsvorstellung ; Europa
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. A Theoretical Discussion on the Borderlands -- Chapter 3. The Core Borderland: Afghanistan -- Chapter 4. The Middle Powers and the Core Borderland -- Chapter 5. Iran: The Resurgent(?) Landlocked Power -- Chapter 6. The Connector Challenges -- Chapter 7. The Turkish Question -- Chapter 8. The Caucasus – Borderlands Meeting Point -- Chapter 9. The Landmass Pressure: Russia -- Chapter 10. The Nodes and the Re-Shifts: the Borderlands in Transition -- Chapter 11. The Geopolitical Node: The Black Sea and Beyond -- Chapter 12. Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book discusses the emerging threats to European stability in different borderland regions, from the Greater Middle East to the Eastern Mediterranean, the Balkans and the Black Sea. It highlights the specific geopolitical risks that could, left unchecked, have global repercussions. The book shows how recent events have exasperated underlying problems that have been slowly destabilizing each of these regions for years. It also looks at the geopolitical constraints and objectives of the countries within these regions to build a basis for understanding their current and future security challenges. While doing so, the book discusses the European borderlands in a non-traditional way, proposing a specific framework to study them, going beyond historical analysis and employing a heuristic process and in-depth socio-economic analysis to understand regional power relations and trends. It develops the key concepts of "core borderland" and "geopolitical node" to understand the future challenges that Europe in particular and Eurasia, in general, will face, discussing specific features shaping current affairs and identifying the main drivers - countries and specific regional elements - for the future stability of the borderlands. This book will appeal to students and scholars of international relations, as well as policy-makers, practitioners, and international organizations interested in a better understanding of current and future challenges at Europe's borderlands and the security risks the European continent faces.
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    ISBN: 9783031390432
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 235 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Peace. ; Security, International. ; Africa ; Friede ; Friedenspolitik ; Friedenssichernde Maßnahme ; Sicherheit ; Friedensforschung ; Konfliktforschung ; Beispiel ; Afrika
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Innovations in African Research and Writing on Peace and Security -- Chapter 2: Inculcating the Peace Innovation Approach in Shaping the Future of Peace and Security in Africa -- Chapter 3: Community’s Changing Social Structures as an Opportunity Rather than a Threat -- Chapter 4: Coping Mechanisms Employed by Survivors of Conflict Related Sexual Violence in the 2007/2008 Post-election Violence in Kenya -- Chapter 5: Transcending Inward Brokenness for Growth: A Determinant of Transformative Leadership -- Chapter 6: A Systematic Review on the Effects of PTSD Associated Alcohol Abuse on Social Economic Status Among Youth Living in Kiambu County, Kenya -- Chapter 7: The Nexus Between Peacekeeping and Counterterrorism: A Case of African Union Mission in Somalia -- Chapter 8: Cybersecurity and Online Child Trafficking in Africa: A Critique of the Legal Measures Adopted by African Countries.
    Abstract: “… Brings a breath of fresh air to scholarship in [peace and security] by including issues not usually canvassed in discussions … This is what makes for innovations as the authors and editors have ably demonstrated.” —Prof. Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Director, Law Division United Nations Environment Programme “… An accessible yet rigorous reflection by committed African scholars and practitioners on issues of peace and security …” —Dr. Odomaro Mubangizi, S.J., Former Dean of the Philosophy Department at the Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Editor of Justice, Peace and Environment Bulletin “… Helpful to social change organizations and policy-making bodies at local, national, and international levels.” —David Atwood, PhD, Former Director and Representative for Disarmament and Peace, Quaker United Nations Office, Geneva, and Consultant, Small Arms Survey, Geneva This edited volume harnesses African expertise to examine the local and global dimensions of peace. It is an outcome of a workshop in Nairobi, Kenya that convened African academics and practitioners with diverse specialisations. The authors’ contributions foreground local voices across a broad scope of inquiry, including rural community structures, health, trauma, sexual violence, peacekeeping and cybersecurity. African knowledge is essential to understanding peace on the continent – the complexities of conflict and insecurity, the lived experiences of individuals and communities, and their responses to such phenomena. This analytical approach underpins the book, creating fertile ground to identify and develop innovations that hold the promise for sustainable African solutions. Joseph Adero Ngala is Professor of International Relations and Diplomacy at the United States International University Africa, Kenya. Rachel Julian is Professor of Peace Studies at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Jonathan Henriques is Research Fellow at the South Sudan Center for Strategic and Policy Studies, South Sudan.
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    ISBN: 9783031322297
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 224 p. 13 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development
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    Keywords: Economic development. ; Africa ; Africa ; Security, International. ; Terrorism. ; Political violence.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Africa at the Crossroads: Moonwalking in Slow Motion -- Chapter 3. Channels of Corruption in Africa: an Analytical Review and Assessment of Trends in Economic and Financial Crimes -- Chapter 4. Revisiting the Corruption and Sustainable Development Nexus in Africa -- Chapter 5. Police Corruption and Its Security Challenges in Africa: Kenya as a Country Case Study -- Chapter 6. Peace, Justice and Inclusive Institutions: Overcoming Challenges to the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 16 in Africa and Beyond -- Chapter 7. Reducing Corruption and Bribery in Africa as a Target of the Sustainable Development Goals: Applying Indicators for Assessing Performance -- Chapter 8. Civilian Oversight for Democratic Policing and Its Challenges: Overcoming Obstacles for Improved Police Accountability and Better Security in Africa and Beyond.
    Abstract: This book sheds light on Africa’s development performance and dynamics arising from the interface between corruption and sustainable development on the one hand and the challenges that poses for peace, security and stability. Corruption also contributes to the spread of terrorism and violent extremism. Pervasive corruption networks often include politicians, civil servants working at all levels of state institutions, representatives of the private sector and members of crime syndicates. The consequences of corruption are detrimental in many aspects, such as undermining governments’ ability to serve public interests and eroding public trust in democratic processes. Presenting empirical evidence, the book explains why corruption and the looting of staggering amounts of national assets undermine the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and has a negative impact on peace, stability, security, the rule of law, gender equality, the environment and human rights. This makes the book a must-read for students, researchers and scholars of political science, international relations, and economics in general, as well as African studies, development studies, and security sector studies in particular, covering issues and themes on corruption, governance, socio-economic sustainable development, public administration and management, policing in an international context, police reform, and security sector reform. It will also serve as a helpful resource for policy-makers interested in a better understanding of the connection between corruption, sustainable development, and security challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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    ISBN: 9783031367021
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 70 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Law
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    Keywords: International law. ; Trade regulation. ; Security, International.
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- 2 (Geo-)Political Background: From Interdependence to “Permanent Exceptionalism”? -- 3 The Security Exceptions in the GATT and TRIPS as Interpreted and Applied -- 4 Methodological Aspects: Curtailing “Trump Cards” through Good Faith and Proportionality? -- 5 Concluding Remarks.
    Abstract: This book offers an in-depth analysis of the WTO security exceptions and relevant rulings by WTO dispute settlement panels. The WTO security exceptions are commonly regarded as the "box of Pandora" of the WTO system, since WTO Member States can invoke them in order to justify trade restrictions violating WTO law which they consider necessary for their essential security interests. The Members of the WTO and the GATT 1947 have hesitated for decades to rely on these security exceptions. In recent years, however, these clauses have been invoked for the first time in high-profile disputes involving Russia and Ukraine, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, as well as the US, China, the EU and other nations. This has been regarded as the turn of an era in view of the risk that the security exceptions could be instrumentalized to undermine the WTO and the international economic governance system more generally. This study therefore thoroughly analyses the WTO panel reports issued in these landmark cases. It also explains the geopolitical relevance of the increasing invocation of security clauses and argues that the legally and methodologically sound application of the WTO security exceptions, which have often been regarded as “self-judging” provisions, requires a proportionality analysis encompassing tests of the suitability and necessity of the trade measures to be justified under these truly exceptional clauses.
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    ISBN: 9783031376085
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 233 p. 12 illus., 11 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Security, International. ; Krieg ; Massenmedien ; Wirkung ; Internet ; Social Media ; Berichterstattung ; Ukraine ; Polen
    Abstract: I. MEDIA AS A CARRIER OF INFORMATION -- Chapter 1. Old front lines of new wars. The role of the media as a carrier of information about the war in Ukraine -- Chapter 2. Information and information technologies in the 2022 Russian-Ukrainian war -- Chapter 3. Conspiracy theory mobilisation mechanisms in the context of the war in Ukraine. A study of Polish Twitter -- Chapter 4. Online frontline – analysis of contents of Polish memes related to war in Ukraine -- Chapter 5. A Redefinition of the Essence of Social Media in Ukraine in the Era of Russian Aggression of 2022 -- Chapter 6. All the Faces of the First Lady. The Media Coverage of Olena Zelenska in Poland and Ukraine during the War -- I. EMOTIONS AS A CARRIER OF INFORMATION -- Chapter 7. Emotions during the war: interplay between emotions and information -- Chapter 8. My Home, My Ukraine. The Patriotic and Civic Attitudes of Young Ukrainians -- Chapter 9. Emotions and political knowledge and their role in the mobilization of the international community on the example of the war in Ukraine -- Chapter 10. Courage, Coincidence or Intricate Plan? Conditions for the President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s political leadership -- Chapter 11. The Need for Knowledge and the Fear of War. Ukrainian Students and Lecturers in the Face of War.
    Abstract: The aim of the book is to present the war in its two versions and dimensions, i.e., the media image and the human factor. The choice of these two areas has not been random. Due to the situation, communication, also the one that mobilizes and shapes attitudes toward war, has moved to the Internet. From the first days of the war, pieces of information have generated various emotions, which translated into individual feelings, but also evoked broadly understood movement—in the area of spreading (dis) information and direct behavior. This movement was multi-level—we see the mobilization of people in the area of conspiracy theories, the expression of difficult emotions in memes, as well as a test of strength in the information war between Russia and Ukraine. The presentation of Volodymir and Olena Zelenski in the media also had an undeniable impact of mobilization, and their attitude built the image of heroic Ukraine from the very beginning. These and other relationships between the indicated factors are presented in the book. Agnieszka Turska-Kawa is Director of the Institute of Political Science, specializing in psychology of politics, particularly in the context of political behavior, motivations and emotions ruling politics, and cognitive aspects of political choices at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. Agnieszka Kasińska-Metryka is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute of International Relations and Public Policy, specializing in political leadership, social communication, political marketing, and women political activity at the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland. Karolina Pałka-Suchojad is Political Scientist and Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Relations and Public Policy, specializing in social media analysis, management information in social media, and political marketing at the Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce, Poland. .
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    ISBN: 9783031477300
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 287 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: New Security Challenges
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Politics and war. ; Peace. ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Außenpolitik ; Strategie ; Sicherheit ; Regierungschef ; Militärtechnik ; Drohne ; USA
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Unmasking the Nexus: Exploring US Grand Strategy and the Dynamic Role of Drones -- Chapter 3: Historicising the role of drones in US Grand Strategy -- Chapter 4: Drone Warfare and US Grand Strategy during the Bush Administration -- Chapter 5: Obama’s Drone Wars and US Grand Strategy -- Chapter 6: The Trump Administration, Drones and US Grand Strategy -- Chapter 7: The Dialectics and Dilemma of US Drone Warfare in Afghanistan and Pakistan -- Chapter 8: The Implications of Drone Proliferation for US Grand Strategy, The Implications of Dron: e Proliferation for US Grand Strategy.
    Abstract: “Modern warfare has a lot to do with disruptive strategy and technology. The arrival of drones as an instrument of warfare is changing the way wars are planned, prosecuted, won, or lost. This development holds salient implications for statecraft globally. Francis Okpaleke’s book (Drones and US Grand Strategy in the Contemporary World) is a timely and modest contribution to the emerging scholarship on the strategic import of dronification in the context of the rapidly evolving international praxis of warfare. I strongly recommend the book for all stakeholders of the global community of Defence and Strategy.” — Al Chukwuma Okoli, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Political Science and Security Studies, Federal University of Lafia, Nigeria This book makes a compelling case that lethal drone deployment as a counterterrorism tool and instrument of statecraft in targeted states engenders far-reaching consequences for US grand strategy. By examining how successive US administrations since 9/11 have deployed drones in pursuant of different typologies of US grand strategic objectives, the book probes the putative political and strategic goals drones supposedly advance, and the impact of its continued proliferation for US for international security. The book provides a powerful base of evidence for policy makers and researchers by pointing to the perils of deployment of drone technology beyond their immediate or short-term objectives. It also explores how non-state actors and authoritarian regimes such as armed groups are harnessing armed drone technologies for their own political and military ends, as well as the underlying implications for US grand strategy and international security at large. Francis Okpaleke is a Senior Research and Policy Analyst for the Information and Communication Technology Council, Canada. He was formerly a Teaching and Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and Public Policy, University of Waikato, New Zealand. Francis holds a Ph.D. in International Relations and Security Studies, an MSc in Terrorism and Security Studies from the University of Salford, United Kingdom, and a BSc (First Class Honors) in Political Science from the University of Nigeria.
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    ISBN: 9783031499968
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 156 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Security, International. ; Russia ; Europe, Eastern ; Soviet Union ; World politics. ; Konzeption ; Strategie ; Internationales politisches System ; Position ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Schwarzmeer-Gebiet
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction - A Geopolitical Matryoshka -- Chapter 2: Russkiy Mir: Socio- Cultural Cognitive Framing of Russian Foreign Policy -- Chapter 3: Wind of Change: Russian Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World -- Chapter 4: Enemy at the Gates: NATO In The Black Sea -- Chapter 5: Socio-Economic Warfare with the “Collective West” Starts in the Black Sea -- Chapter 6: Nothing New on The Easter Front: Russkiy Mir in the Black Sea.
    Abstract: This distinctive book deconstructs the foundational elements of Russian foreign policy from a Russian perspective and with references to Russian sources, rather than the typical Western perspective. The author Olga Raluca Chiriac situates her work at the intersection of strategic studies and cognitive psychology, offering an analysis that goes deep into the roots of Russian strategic behavior, especially socio-cultural elements such as attitudes towards the West, language, culture. She highlights Russia’s unique decision-making process, sometimes overt and other times covert. The book aims to present a mechanism for analysis in both strategic choices and foreign policy, but it also points out that countries and nations are complicated entities, all having a particular historical experience, generational trauma, culture and traditions. Dr. Olga R. Chiriac is a social scientist and professor of political science. Her work is situated at the intersection of psychology and security studies (decision making and strategic culture) with a special interest in military applications of cognitive sciences and political warfare. Dr. Chiriac is the Project Europe Head of Engagement with the Irregular Warfare Initiative of the Modern War Institute, at West Point and Visiting Professor at the University of Bucharest where she leads engagement for the Black Sea Program. She is affiliated as an Associated Researcher with the Joint Special Operations University in Tampa, Florida and the Economic Conflict & Competition Research Group (ECCRG) at Kings College.
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    ISBN: 9783031431609
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 257 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
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    Keywords: Italy ; International relations ; Terrorism. ; Political violence. ; Security, International. ; Middle East ; Europe
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction - Fast Forward: Uses and Abuses of the Lodo Moro -- Chapter 2: Italy in the Maelstrom of International Terrorism -- Chapter 3: A Broader View from Sudan to Austria: The Construction of a Functional Archetype -- Chapter 4: 1973: Fiumicino Attack -- Chapter 5: European Appeasement, A State Decision: The Genesis of the Lodo -- Chapter 6: From Terrorist Movements to State Terrorism: Italy Faced with a Security Dilemma -- Chapter 7: The Evolution of the Lodo -- Chapter 8: Conclusions: Raison d’État and the Right to Truth.
    Abstract: This book sheds light on the so-called ‘Moro Doctrine’, an Italian state security policy which has been portrayed in literature as an under-the-counter agreement made between Italy and Palestinian movement during the Cold War. The Moro Doctrine, or ‘Lodo Moro’ as it is known in Italy, aimed to protect the peninsula from Palestinian attacks by allowing terrorists to use Italian territory as a base for weapons and guerrilla fighters. Responsibility for the ‘Lodo’ was instrumentally placed on Aldo Moro, the five- time Prime Minister of Italy, after his death, and since then his name has become indelibly linked with the shame of having negotiated with Palestinian terrorists. Thanks to records collected from over twenty archives in Italy, the USA, France, Germany, Britain and Russia, concrete evidence shows that the significance of this agreement needs to be rethought. The author argues that the decision to adopt the Lodo was not solely made by Moro, but also involved key figures of the Christian Democrat and Socialist parties, various magistrates and even the President of the Republic. It illustrates how terrorism was used as an effective tool in international diplomacy to influence foreign and domestic policies. Offering a re-examination of Italian counter-terrorist policy, this book analyses how Italy responded to international terrorism during the Cold War, providing a useful read for those researching Italian and European history, Cold War studies, the history of international relations and diplomacy, and Middle-East history. Valentine Lomellini is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies at the University of Padua in Italy. Here, she teaches Terrorism and Security in International History, and the History of International Relations. She is also the author of La diplomazia del terrore: 1967–1989 (2023).
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    ISBN: 9783031502002
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 373 p. 26 illus., 11 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Europe ; International relations ; Europe, Central ; Great Britain ; United States ; Security, International.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. From Herford to Heidelberg: The Structures of Liaison -- 3. Military Intelligence -- 4. Scientific and Technical Intelligence -- 5. Security Intelligence -- 6. Political Intelligence -- 7. Building A New Germany -- 8. Conclusion.
    Abstract: “A first-class contribution to the blossoming discipline of Intelligence Studies, taking certain debates and puzzles in fascinating new directions. Empirically and ideationally, this book oozes quality” —Christopher Moran, Professor, University of Warwick, and author of Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain “The British and American Intelligence Divisions in Occupied Germany, 1945-1955 unearths a trove of new material on Nazi-era and post-war Germany. Intelligence Divisions makes a very strong case for seeing German democracy as the result of relentless work by the Anglo-American secret states. Several sacred cows are slaughtered in the process” —Simon Ball, Professor, University of Leeds, and author of Secret History: Writing the Rise of Britain’s Intelligence Services This book provides the first history of the British and American Intelligence Divisions (IDs) in occupied Germany and the liaison between them. It reveals that after the fall of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, much of Germany was controlled by an Anglo-American secret system of rule which was the real backbone of the occupation and largely explains its successful outcomes. Based in Heidelberg, the American ID was the senior American military intelligence organisation in occupied Germany, responsible for the security of American forces in Europe. The British ID, based in Herford, was a purpose-built intelligence organisation designed to ensure the security of the British Zone of Germany and to help achieve the Allied occupation objectives. The IDs undertook military, scientific, security, political, and state-building intelligence tasks which each form the focus of a chapter in this book. Luke Daly-Groves is a Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Manchester. Prior to this, he lectured at the University of Central Lancashire where he developed a specialist module on modern Germany (1933-1965). He has also taught the history of Germany and secret intelligence at the University of Leeds. In 2021, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society by invitation of the society’s President, in recognition of his contribution to scholarship.
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    ISBN: 9783031182792
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 238 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Canada and International Affairs
    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Politics and war. ; Security, International. ; Militärische Intervention ; Operation ; Niederschlagung ; Strategie ; Militär ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Ressourcen ; Einsatz ; Bereitschaft ; USA ; Kanada ; Afghanistan
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Countries with Different Material Capabilities Behaving Similarly -- 3. Unipolarity and Irregular Warfare: Assessing the Afghanistan Intervention’s Strategic Environment -- 4. American and Canadian Security Beliefs: Transitioning to Similar Foreign and Security Policies during the Afghanistan Intervention -- 5. Domestic Hurdles, Canadian and American Foreign Policy Executives(FPEs)’ Structural Autonomy and Resource-Extraction Capability -- 6. Conclusion: Unravelling the Research Puzzle.
    Abstract: “Federman Rodriguez sets out to resolve an intriguing puzzle: How did two countries with so great a disparity of national power, Canada and the United States, come to adopt similar military policies in Afghanistan in 2006-2011? International Relations theory and historical precedent would have predicted otherwise. Rodriguez’s highly readable volume provides a compelling explanation of Canadian and US foreign policy and sheds light on the opportunities and limitations of power in the international system.” --Elinor Sloan, Carleton University, Canada. “Federman Rodriguez adapts the theory of neoclassical realism to explain, despite vastly different capabilities, how Canada and the United States’ foreign and security policy in Afghanistan converged on a counterinsurgency campaign. He provides a theoretically unique and empirically rich analysis of the decisions made by each country. This book is important in understanding what happened to the ill-fated intervention in Afghanistan.” --Brian C. Schmidt, Carleton University, Canada. The book aims to explain the factors that brought about a high degree of similarity between American and Canadian foreign and security policies during the Afghanistan intervention. Specifically, it seeks to explain why, despite their different positions in the international distribution of power, the United States and Canada embraced similar counterinsurgency (COIN) strategies from 2005/2006 to 2011. During this time, the United States and Canada fought against insurgent groups, sought to maintain stabilized areas by mentoring Afghan forces, and invested in infrastructure and governance. These goals, which corresponded to the ‘clear,’ ‘hold,’ and ‘build’ COIN components, entailed sending troops and civilian officials to a war zone and committing financial resources. Federman Rodriguez is Assistant Professor of the Faculty of International Relations, Political and Urban Studies at Rosario University, Bogotá, Colombia.
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    ISBN: 9783031164231
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 240 p. 8 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Militär ; Bewachungsgewerbe ; Privatisierung ; Mobilmachung ; Beschränkung ; Militärpolitik ; USA ; Großbritannien ; Italien
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Military Privatization and State Power in Historical Perspective -- 3. Domestic Political Constraints and Contractor Support to Military Operations: a new Theoretical Framework -- 4. Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization in the United States -- 5. Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization in the United Kingdom -- 6. Military Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization in Italy -- 7. Effectiveness, Norms, and Military Cultures: Assessing Mobilization Constraints against Competing Explanations -- 8. Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book investigates the connection between tightening mobilization constraints and the use of PMSCs in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Italy. Drawing on neoclassical realism and institutionalist theory, it conceptualizes democracies’ use of private military and security companies (PMSCs) as an attempt to circumvent the tightening constraints on the mobilization of military power. The use of private military contractors is less subjected to parliamentary restrictions and less visible to public opinion than the deployment of soldiers. Rather than cheaper in financial terms, PMSCs are therefore politically cost-effective, as they enable decision-makers to minimize the institutional obstacles on conducting military operations and the electoral costs attached thereto. The need to reduce the ex ante hurdles and the ex post costs of military deployments fills the blind spots of alternative explanations for the use of PMSCs based on effectiveness, ideology, and organizational interests. Eugenio Cusumano is Associate Professor of political science at the University of Messina, Italy.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 411 p. 15 illus., 12 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Organisation für Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit in Europa ; Security, International. ; Terrorism. ; Political violence. ; Human rights. ; Economic development. ; Comparative government. ; Mitgliedsstaaten ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Internationale Organisation ; Entwicklung ; Politisches Mandat ; Demokratisierung ; Menschenrecht ; Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Eurasien
    Abstract: Part I: Security Architecture in Eurasia: Speaking together: Regular Interaction and State Cooperation with OSCE Bodies -- The Impact of Development Aid on Democratic Progress, Economic Development and Corruption in the OSCE Area -- Placing the OSCE within the Eurasian Regional Integration Trends -- Population-based Study of the Eurasian Integration: Assessing the Anti-Eurasian Sentiment in Kazakhstan -- Development Aid in Central Asia: A ‘Chessboard’ for Great Powers? -- The Afghan Crisis: A Chance to Strengthen Russia’s Security Influence in Central Asia -- Main Securitizing and De-securitizing Actors of the OSCE Debate in the Western Balkan Region -- The Russian Policy in the Western Balkans -- Social Security of the States with Limited Recognition: The Case Study of the Republic of Kosovo -- New Opportunities for Peace and Cooperation in the South Caucasus -- Women’s Transformative Power in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict -- Legislating Gender Equality in Kyrgyzstan: Women’s Rights, Neo-Traditionalism and the OSCE -- Ending Gender-Based Violence in Kyrgyzstan: reflections on the Spotlight Initiative -- From Social Media To Social Change Online Platforms’ Impact On Kazakhstan’s Feminist And Civil Activisms -- The political impact of teahouse culture in Central Asia -- Part II: Special Section – China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Curse or a Blessing for Democracy in Eurasia?: China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Curse or Blessing for Democracy in Eurasia? -- An Overview of China's Belt and Road Initiative and its Development since 2013 -- Official Visions of Democracy in Xi Jinping’s China -- Varieties of Authoritarianism in Eurasia -- The Belt and Road Initiative and Sustainable Urban Development in Central Asia -- A Sceptical Neighbor: Perceptions of Chinese Investments in Kyrgyzstan -- Opportunities and Risks of the Belt and Road Initiative in Ukraine -- Chinese Linkage and Democracy in Pakistan -- Democracy and Human Rights in the Context of the Belt and Road Initiative -- The Belt and Road Initiative and Autocracy Promotion as Elements of China’s Grand Strategy -- Glocal Governance and Anocratic States along the BRI -- Part III: Future Research and Debates: Fracturing Technological Governance across the OSCE Domain and its Political Implications -- Heritage Diplomacy, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Balkans: A Soft Practice for Frozen Hardships.
    Abstract: This open-access book presents cutting-edge research on securitization and democratic development in the OSCE Region. Gathering contributions by practitioners and researchers from various disciplines, it presents case studies and highlights recent activities of proactive engagement in democratic institution-building and responding to security threats from the Balkans to Central Asia. The volume is divided into three parts, the first of which focuses on security-related matters, armed conflicts, minorities, and women’s safety, as well as the roles that civil society, foreign governments, social media, and external donors play in this area. These contributions illustrate how the OSCE’s informal approach to peace, security, and securitization as norm entrepreneur is closely linked to the level of democracy among its member states. The second part presents a special section on the political implications of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), assessing the impact of this infrastructural program on the levels of democracy and/or autocracy in Eurasia. The third part consists of short chapters outlining future research and debates. The book will appeal to students and scholars of international relations, security studies, and the human rights-politics nexus. This is the 2022 instalment in a series of books released by the OSCE Academy in Bishkek. The OSCE works to promote Minority Protection, Security, Democratic Development and Human Rights, guided by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), and to enhance securitization and development policies in Eurasia, Europe, Central Asia and North America. Since being founded in 1993, the OSCE and its agencies and departments have attracted a wealth of academic research in various fields and disciplines, ranging from economic development and election monitoring to enhancing global principles of human rights and securitization.
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    ISBN: 9783031152764
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 231 S. 2 Abb.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Nuclear engineering. ; Nuclear physics. ; Terrorism. ; Political violence. ; Atommacht ; Kernwaffe ; Proliferation ; Internationale Atomenergie-Organisation ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Einführung -- Fakten und Institutionen -- Fähigkeiten, Bedrohung, Reaktion -- Nukleare Krisen -- Nukleare Anwärter oder Möchtegern-Proliferatoren - Großer Naher Osten -- Nukleare Unfälle - Nukleare Zwischenfälle -- NPT-Kernwaffenstaaten -- Nicht-NPT-Kernwaffenstaaten -- Beobachtungen, Schlussfolgerungen, Perspektive.
    Abstract: Dieses Buch wurde von einem ehemaligen Nuklearinspektor der Internationalen Atomenergiebehörde (IAEO) und Experten für nukleare Sicherheit geschrieben und bietet einen umfassenden und authentischen Überblick über die aktuellen globalen Entwicklungen im Nuklearbereich. Der Autor gibt detaillierte Einblicke in aktuelle und vergangene Nuklearkrisen und legt die technischen Fähigkeiten, politischen Strategien und Motive der Besitzer von Atomwaffen offen. Durch die Analyse der Nuklearprogramme und -strategien verschiedener Länder, darunter die USA, Russland, China, Großbritannien und Frankreich, verdeutlicht dieses Buch die bestehende globale nukleare Bedrohung und die damit verbundenen Risiken für die Menschheit. Es beschreibt auch die derzeitigen Blockaden und zeigt mögliche Auswege auf. Aufgrund seines Umfangs wird das Buch Wissenschaftler und politische Entscheidungsträger ansprechen, die daran interessiert sind, neue Einblicke in sensible oder komplexe Nuklearprogramme verschiedener Länder zu gewinnen. Pantelis F. Ikonomou promovierte in Kernphysik an der Universität Wien, Österreich. Er war von 1967 bis 1979 als Nuklearforscher und von 1979 bis 2011 als Sicherheitsinspektor der Internationalen Atomenergie-Organisation (IAEO) für die Nichtverbreitung von Kernwaffen sowie als Experte für die Bekämpfung des Nuklearterrorismus tätig. Er wurde in den modernsten Nuklearanlagen in den USA, der ehemaligen Sowjetunion, dem Vereinigten Königreich und Frankreich ausgebildet.
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    ISBN: 9783031187698
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 159 p. 9 illus., 8 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict
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    Keywords: Criminology. ; Human rights. ; Peace. ; Security, International. ; Politics and war. ; International criminal law.
    Abstract: 1. CSDP and alignment with supranational goals of the Union -- 2. Where the EU has fitted in on the ground (integrated approach) -- 3. Getting under the Skin -- 4. Transformational Leadership, Soft Power, Building Trust and understanding the root causes of conflict for a sustaining peace -- 5. Conclusion – Connecting the Head with the Heart and Feet. .
    Abstract: This book explores the EU's approach to peacebuilding and questions the EU global role as crisis manager and capacity builder. It highlights the significant contributions of the EU to civilian peacebuilding and also critically evaluates the activities of the EU Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) within their rule of law and human rights peacebuilding missions. It draws on the author's twenty years of experience working on CSDP and EU defence matters including his research on EU police missions in Africa and Middle East. It exposes emergent tension between peacebuilding in its neighbourhood and security issues. It examines the practice of EU peacebuilding including performance of its missions and how deployed personnel can professionalise their diplomatic (mediation, negotiation and dialogue facilitation) capacity to fully realise the potential of missions and exploit opportunities for expanding the vision of peace. It formulates convincing policy recommendations for the future planning of EU external relations in post conflict environments and offers valuable insights into how to connect with people and communities in the aftermath of conflict. Kieran Doyle is Lecturer in the Department of International Development and Assistant Director of the Edward M Kennedy Institute for Conflict Intervention, Maynooth University, Republic of Ireland. He is Irish representative on the Academic Board of the European Security and Defence College (ESDC) based in the European External Action Service, Brussels, and has represented Ireland on the Academic Think Tank of the Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
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    ISBN: 9783031165825
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 217 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Springer Series in Social Work and Social Change
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Matusitz, Jonathan Andre, 1976 - From child terrorism to peace activism
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    Keywords: Social work education. ; Peace. ; Terrorism. ; Political violence. ; Developmental psychology. ; Security, International. ; Family policy. ; Children and terrorism ; Pacifists ; Case studies ; Terrorismus ; Kind ; Bekämpfung ; Friedensaktivist ; Psychische Entwicklung
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- 2 Reasons for Child Terrorism -- 3 Child Jihadism -- 4 Child Terrorism in Africa and Latin America -- 5 Child Separatist Terrorism and White Child Supremacism -- 6 From Child Terrorism to Peace Activism: An Overview -- 7 From Child Terrorism to Peace Activism: Case Studies -- 8 From Child Terrorism to Peace Activism: A Thematic Analysis -- 9 Discussion, Theoretical Implications, and Solutions.
    Abstract: This book examines the reasons for which children join terrorist movements and how they eventually become peace activists fighting the very crimes that they once committed. The transformation of child terrorists into peace activists has received scant attention from academics and practitioners alike. Particular focus is placed on child jihadism, child terrorism in Africa and Latin America, child separatist terrorism, and White child supremacism. These five groups of child terrorists represent about 80% of the problem across the world. The text serves as a primer for anti-terrorism and peace activism for global social change. It includes original, applied research and features personal accounts from former child terrorists who became peace activists themselves. One of the nine chapters provides an in-depth thematic analysis of the lives of 24 subjects (from all five aforementioned groups). The analysis produced four main themes that encapsulate the time and effort that it takes to become a peace activist today: metamorphosis, terrorist behavior, disillusionment, and anti-terrorist behavior. The book ends with multiple solutions from the perspective of social work, including the reintegration of former child terrorists into society. From Child Terrorism to Peace Activism is a resource of deep and broad appeal. The text is essential reading for upper-level undergraduate and Master’s students in political science, military studies, international relations, international law, and peace and conflict studies. It can be pertinent reading for students and instructors in international social work contemplating social work-related solutions to rehabilitate former child terrorists and child soldiers into society through peace activism, anti-terrorist endeavors, and other socio-psychological methods that will produce social change. The text also would appeal to faculty and students in childhood studies with an interest in child terrorism, child development, and child trauma and resilience. Given the essentials, depth, and possibilities that the book offers, it is a useful resource for audiences within counterterrorism institutes, national security agencies, and academic think-tanks. Information on motives, strategies, radicalization processes, and recruitment methods used by terrorist organizations as well as their effects on various audiences will draw readers from law enforcement agencies and institutions.
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    ISBN: 9783030917357
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XLII, 1029 p. 41 illus.)
    Edition: 3rd ed. 2022.
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The handbook of security
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    Keywords: Criminology. ; Organized crime. ; Politics and war. ; Business. ; Management science. ; Corporate governance. ; Security, International. ; Innere Sicherheit ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Computersicherheit ; Technologie
    Abstract: 1. Introduction, Martin Gill -- PART 1. The Subject Area of Security -- 2. Security: History, Genealogy, Ideology, Dodsworth, F -- 3. Shifting The Boundaries Of Security: Meanings And Applications, Dr Helen Forbes-Mewett -- 4. Explaining The Impact And Implications Of Covid-19 On Crime Rates: A Criminological Perspective , Rob Mawby -- 5. Forensic Intelligence And Traceology In Digitalised Environments: The Detection And Analysis Of Crime Patterns To Inform Practice, Olivier Ribaux Simon Baechler, Quentin Rossy -- 6. Changing Threats And Challenges In International Relations: Debating (In)Securities And Ways To Manage Them, Tochukwu Omenma And Silvia D’amato -- 7 -- PART 2. Offence Types. - Private Security/Private Military: One Phenomenon Or Two?, Adam White -- 8. The Evolution Of The Terrorism And Extremism Landscape In The Age Of Covid-19, Kumar Ramakrishna -- 9. Violence Against Shop Workers: Trends And Triggers In The United Kingdom, Emmeline Taylor -- 10. Burglary Research And Conceptualizing The Community Security Function, A Learning Organization, Jim Calder April -- 11. Meeting The Challenges Of Fraud In A Digital World, Cassandra Cross -- 12. Examining Private Sector Strategies For Preventing Insurance Fraud, Dr. Yuriy Timofeyev And Mike Skidmore -- 13. Economic And Industrial Espionage: Characteristics, Techniques And Response, Mark Button And Susanne Knickmeier -- 14. Combatting Money Laundering: Some Considerations For Security Professionals, Professor Mike Levi -- 15. - PART 3. Crime And Security In Different Domains. - Corruption, Bribery And Corporate Crime: Victims And Perpetrators, Hock, B., Shepherd, D And Button, M -- 16. Securing The Bioeconomy: Exploring The Role Of Cyberbiosecurity, Patrick Walsh -- 17. Border Security: An Essential But Effective Tool In Combating Cross-Border Crime, Prof Anthony Minnaar -- 18. Security In The Chemical Industry: Theory And Practice, Chao Chen And Genserik Reniers -- 19. The Evolution Of College And University Campus Security In The United States: Congressional Legislation, Administrative Directives, And Policing, Bonnie Fisher, Michelle Protas, Logan Lanson And John Sloan -- 20. Addressing The Security Issues Related To Illegal Commercial Fishing, Gohar A. Petrossian And Ron Clarke -- 21. Crime On The Darknet: The Case Of Brand Abuse, Victoria Wang. Jim Gee, Mark Button -- 22. - PART 4. Researching Security. - Representing Security: A Popular Criminology Of Private Policing In Film, Steven Kohm -- 23. Systematic Reviews And Meta-Analysis Of Security, Matthew Manning, Gabriel T.W. Wong, Hien-Thuc Pham -- 24. Realistic Evaluation And The 5is: A Systematic Approach For Evaluating Security Interventions, Andrew Newton -- 25. Script Analysis For Security Professionals: Past, Present And Future, Dr. Harald Haelterman -- 26. Using Mobile Applications And Physiological Sensing To Measure Perception Of Security In Built Environments, Reka Solymosi, Ines Guedes, Laura Vozmediano -- 27.Researching The Relationship Between Tourism And Crime: The Tourism Industry And The Disenfranchised Citizens, Rob I Mawby And Zarina I Vakhitova -- PART 5. Security Products And Services. - 28. Security Officers: The Public Face Of The Security Industry, Mahesh K. Nalla And Alison Wakefield -- 30. Private And Corporate Investigations – Internal Security Governance Within Organisation, Clarissa Meerts -- 31. Training And Education Within The Security Sector: Challenges And Opportunities For Development, Declan Garrett, Glen Kitteringham And Ken Livingstone -- 32. CCTV As A Socio-Technology, Markus Lahtinen And Benjamin Weaver -- 33. Intrusion Detection Systems In The Protection Of Assets, David J Brooks -- PART 6. Towards a Better Security. - 34. Crime And The Consumer Internet Of Things, Shane D Johnson, John M Blythe, Eon Kim And Nissy Sombatruang -- 35. Professional Security In The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Alison Wakefield And Mike Gips -- 36. Security Or Liberty? Human Rights And Protest, Kate Moss -- 37. Facilitating Best Practice In Security: The Role Of Regulation, Tim Prenzler And R Sarre -- 38. Formal And Informal (In)Security In South Africa, G. D. Breetzke -- 39. Facing Up To The Future: The Role Of Horizon-Scanning In Helping Security Keep Up With The Changes To Come, Paul Ekblom -- 40. The Securitization Of Terrestrial Protected Areas, William D. Moreto -- PART 7. The Impacts of Security. - 41. The Carbon Footprint Of Crime And Security,Helen Shoesmith (Nee Skudder), Ian Brunton-Smith, Andromachi Tseloni, Rebecca Thompson, And Angela Druckman -- 42. Security And International Crime Drops, Nick Tilley And Graham Farrell -- 43. The Role Of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (Cpted) In Improving Household Security Rachel Armitage, Lisa Tompson.-44. Examining The Use Of Video Technologies In Retailing, Adrian Beck -- 45. Making An Economic Case For Security, Matthew Manning, Christopher M. Fleming, Hien-Thuc Pham -- 46. Business Resilience To Crime: The Harms Of Crime, Business Fragility And The Role Of Security, Matt Hopkins -- 47. Security In Perspective, Martin Gill.
    Abstract: The substantially revised third edition of The Handbook of Security provides the most comprehensive analysis of scholarly security debates and issues to date. It reflects the developments in security technology, the convergence of the cyber and security worlds, and the fact that security management has become even more business focused. It covers newer topics like terrorism, violence, and cybercrime through various offence types such as commercial robbery and bribery. This handbook comprises mostly brand new chapters and a few thoroughly revised chapters, with discussions of the impact of the pandemic. It includes contributions from some of the world's leading scholars from an even broader geographic scale to critique the way security is provided and managed. It speaks to professionals working in security and students studying security-related courses.
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9783031154676
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 167 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Global Power Shift
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    Keywords: Security, International. ; Diplomacy. ; International relations. ; Globalization.
    Abstract: Part I. Global-Horizontal Perspectives -- Chapter 1. Globality: A New Paradigm of Thought -- Chapter 2. The Nature of Globality and Its Logic -- Chapter 3. Measurability of Globality and World Order -- Chapter 4. Compatibility of Globality and Global Navigation Satellite Systems -- Chapter 5. The Poverty of Eurocentrism in Light of Globality -- Chapter 6. Can American Exceptionalism Survive the Global Age? -- Chapter 7. How Vulnerable is Globality? -- Part II. Structural-Vertical Insights -- Chapter 8. Globality and Structural Power -- Chapter 9. The Search for Structural Power -- Chapter 10. The Nature of Structural Power -- Chapter 11. Dispositional Power and 5G Standards -- Chapter 12. Understanding the Meanings of Context of Power -- Chapter 13. The Illusion of “The Clean Network” -- Chapter 14. Open RAN: An Adventurous Antithesis to Globality of 5G -- Chapter 15. Epilogue: America, China, and the Future of the World.
    Abstract: In light of recent global trends and crises, including the hasty withdrawal of Western troops from Afghanistan and the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, this book sheds new light on global power shifts in multiple areas of international relations between industrialized countries and emerging powers. This book argues that “the global age” is rapidly supplanting “the modern age”, and that modernity is paving the way for globality. The events that are taking place in the 21st century can no longer be effectively described, understood or explained by the concept of modernity which originated more than 500 years ago. Further, this book challenges the academic and societal tendency to view international power-related phenomena on the basis of a dichotomy between hard and soft power. It assumes that another power source, independent of hard and soft power, does exist. Invisible, structure-manipulating, and effectively leveraged, it is precisely this “third power” that drives and shapes power phenomena in the “global age” more intensively than either hard or soft power. This book seeks to verify its core hypotheses by applying them to a set of selected global phenomena, particularly from the domains of geopolitics (Belt & Road Initiative, Iran conflict, war in Afghanistan, and competition for a new world order) and technology (Global Navigation Satellite Systems, 5G infrastructure, race for international standards, and ICT rivalry). Rather than systematically examining each of these issues, it focuses on extracting theoretical meanings from these cases to demonstrate the logic of globality and structural power, partly from global-horizontal perspectives, partly through a structural-vertical lens.
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031113932
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 293 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Governance, Security and Development
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    Keywords: International relations. ; Globalization. ; Security, International.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Rebooting Global International Society (Zachary Paikin and Trine Flockhart) -- Part 1: Theory and Concepts -- Chapter 2: Theorizing Change in the English School (Trine Flockhart) -- Chapter 3: Contestation in Global International Society (Zachary Paikin) -- Chapter 4: Resilience in Global International Society (Elena Korosteleva and Irina Petrova) -- Chapter 5: The Relationship between Primary and Secondary Institutions: Theorizing Institutional Change (Tonny Brems Knudsen) -- Part 2: Institutions -- Chapter 6: Sovereignty Is Dead, Long Live Sovereignty (Christian Reus-Smit) -- Chapter 7: The Balance of Power and the Independence of Nations (Morten Skumsrud Andersen), etc.
    Abstract: “This is an ambitious volume of essays that addresses how change is enabled and produced by the institutions of global international society. In their quest, contributors intelligently blend classical and new English School writings with constructivist insights. The result is a thoroughly engaging and innovative book that is likely to stimulate a new wave of theorizing change in the global order.” —Tim Dunne, Provost at the University of Surrey, UK, and Emeritus Professor at The University of Queensland, Australia “One of Hedley Bull’s many achievements was to harness the intellectual resources of the concept of fundamental institutions to give, in his day, a superior account of international order. Today, Flockhart, Paikin and their collaborators revisit order in contemporary global international society and the burning questions of the ‘what’, ‘why’ and ‘how’ of change in this society. It is a rich contribution to the International Relations discipline’s attempt to understand order.” —Laust Schouenborg, Associate Professor of International Politics, Roskilde University, Denmark “Flockhart and Paikin manage to shine light from several angles on the idea of an evolving and adapting global international society. Using the key themes of change, contestation and resilience, they combine traditional thinking about international society’s institutions with a broader view of the mechanisms of adaptation in international order. The result is an inspiring and fascinating read.” —Charlotta Friedner Parrat, Assistant Professor, Swedish Defence University, Sweden This book asks if it is time to “reboot” the fundamental institutions of global international society. The volume revisits Hedley Bull’s seminal contribution The Anarchical Society by exploring the interconnected nature of change, contestation and resilience for maintaining order in today’s uncertain and complex environment. The volume adds to Bull’s theorizing by recognizing that order demands change, that contestation should be welcomed, and that resilience is anchored in local and agent-led forms of ordering. Trine Flockhart is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern Denmark. Zachary Paikin is a Researcher at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, Belgium.
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