Reputation and civil war

why separatist conflicts are so violent

Of all the different types of civil war, disputes over self- determination are the most likely to escalate into war and resist compromise settlement. Reputation and Civil War argues that this low rate of negotiation is the result of reputation building, in which governments refuse ...

Cradle of Islam

the hijaz and the quest for identity in Saudi Arabia

Yamani (Royal Institute of International Affairs, London) tells a story of the people closest to the holiest sites of Islam in her native Saudi Arabia, of their alienation and subjugation at the hands of the Saudi state, and of the attempts to extinguish their pride ...

The Afghanistan wars

Maley offers a valuable insight into Afghanistan's wars and the domestic, regional, and international politics that have exposed the population of what was once one of the most stable states in Asia to enormous damage. Biography: William Maley is Associate Professor of Politics at ...

The Arab-Israeli conflict

an introduction and documentary reader

This textbook focuses on the foreign policy of the Arab-Israeli peace process and the progress made. Examining seventy key documents related to the conflict and placing them in their historical context, the book gives an overview of the situation, looking at both Israeli and Palestinian ...

Asimetría, guerras e información

La historia reciente de la guerra confirma una curiosa tendencia que, desde atrás pero ahora con más fuerza, descubre posibilidades de éxito crecientes a los más débiles. Incluso los extremadamente débiles tienen opciones y por eso deciden desafiar a los más poderosos. En este contexto ...

La guerra eterna

partes desde la guerra contra el terrorismo

Este extraordinario libro nos habla de Irak y de Afganistán, pero también, y sobre todo, de las interminables guerras de nuestro tiempo y "de lo que los seres humanos son capaces de hacerse los unos a los otros". Dexter Filkins, considerado como "el más grande ...

Decoding the new Taliban

insights from the Afghan field

Ed., Antonio Giustozzi. While the 'New Taliban' looms large in the global media, little is known about how it functions as an organisation. How united is it? Are its structures relatively strong, or surprisingly brittle? Are personal relations and networking based on traditional ties of ...

Seeds of terror

how heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda

Seeds of Terror will reshape the way you think about the West#s enemies, revealing them less as ideologues and more as criminals who earn half a billion pounds every year off the opium trade. With the breakneck pace of a thriller, author Gretchen Peters ...

Guerrillas

guerra y paz en Centroamérica

A lo largo de la segunda mitad del siglo XX se libraron tres guerras simultáneas en El Salvador, Guatemala y Nicaragua. Fueron guerras largas y brutales, que dividieron a la opinión pública internacional entre el apoyo de EEUU a regímenes dictatoriales y el apadrinamiento de ...

What's really wrong with the Middle East

Western governments see the Middle East only in terms of its impact on the West. But how do people in the Middle East view their own countries, governments and institutions? Few would argue that the Middle East is thriving, but what do those living in ...

How wars end

Why do some countries choose to end wars short of total victory while others fight on, sometimes in the face of appalling odds? How Wars End argues that two central factors shape war-termination decision making: information about the balance of power and the resolve of ...

In the graveyard of empires

America´s war in Afghanistan

Afghanistan expert Seth G. Jones watched as American optimism evaporated after the Taliban defeat in 2001; by 2005, a new war of a thousand 'cuts' had brought Afghanistan to its knees. With new research on insurgencies and declassified US government documents, Jones shows how the ...

The rhetoric of terror

reflections on 9/11 and the war on terror

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did symbolic as well as literal damage. A trace of this cultural shock echoes in the American idiom "9/11": a bare name-date conveying both a trauma (the unspeakable happened then) and a claim on our knowledge. In ...

Gandhi and Bin Laden

religion at the extremes

Gandhi and Bin Laden Religion at the Extremes is one of the best non- fiction books I have read in many years. Immediately upon reading the title I was intrigued, and honestly the title, Gandhi one of the greatest icons of peace and Bin Laden ...

How terrorism ends

understanding the decline and demise of terrorist campaigns

Amid the fear following 9/11 and other recent terror attacks, it is easy to forget the most important fact about terrorist campaigns: they always come to an end--and often far more quickly than expected. Contrary to what many assume, when it comes to dealing ...

Genocidal crimes

Genocidal Crimes draws upon the extensive criminological literature on criminality and violence to provide a comprehensive and contemporary analysis of genocide. Written in an accessible style, this book differs from much of the writing on genocide in that it explicitly relies on criminological theory and ...

Opium

uncovering the politics of the poppy

Bitter, brownish and sticky, opium - the sap of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum - has been cultivated from the earliest of times. Known to the Greeks as opos or opion, as afiun in Persian and Arabic, and Fu-yung in Chinese, it is a substance that is ...

Ordine nero, guerriglia rossa

la violenza politica nell´Italia degli anni Sessanta e Settanta (1966- 1975)

Ordine nero, guerriglia rossa. Due parole d'ordine, due obiettivi. Le radici del terrorismo italiano attraverso la prospettiva dello scontro tra neofascismo e sinistra extraparlamentare.

The historiographic perversion

Introduction The Names and the Archive 1 1 The Law and the Fact: The 1994 Campaign 19 2 Between Amputation and Imputation 33 3 Refutation 59 4 Testimony: From Document to Monument 91 Conclusion: Shame and Testimony 117 Against History Gil Anidjar Anidjar, Gil 125 ...

Winning the unwinnable war

America´s self-crippled response to islamic totalitarianism

Edited by Elan Journo. Eight years after 9/11 and in the shadow of two protracted U.S. military campaigns in the Middle East, the enemy is not only undefeated but emboldened and resurgent. What went wrong#and what should we do going forward? Winning ...