Mirror of the arab world

Lebanon in conflict

Mirror of the Arab World is really two books in one. Mackey's narrative deftly weaves Lebanon's tragic history with that of the Arab Middle East as a whole#Mackey performs the tricky balancing act of demonstrating that Lebanon is unique yet somehow still ...

Last chance

the middle east in the balance

As Barack Obama seeks to chart a new course in American foreign policy, one of the English language mediaa??s most respected authorities on the Arab world, David Gardner, addresses the controversial but urgent question: why is the Middle East so dysfunctional? And what can ...

Afghanistan

aid, armies and empires

As the battle for Afghanistan intensifies, with humanitarian workers increasingly finding themselves on the frontline, aid expert Peter Marsden draws on decades of personal experience in the country to unravel the relationship between great power politics and development, from the Great Game era to the ...

Our nation unhinged

the human consequences of the War on Terror

Foreword by Erwin Chemerinsky. Jose Padilla short-shackled and wearing blackened goggles and earmuffs to block out all light and sound on his way to the dentist. Fifteen- year-old Omar Khadr crying out to an American soldier, 'Kill me!' Hunger strikers at Guantanamo being restrained and ...

Genocide

truth, memory, and representation

Edited by Alexander Laban Hilton and Kevin Lewis O´Neill. What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide? This title considers issues of truth, memory and representation in the aftermath of genocides in the Balkans, Guatemala, Indonesia, East Timor, Germany ...

Misión de paz en Bosnia

España y sus Fuerzas Armadas en el conflicto yugoslavo

Este libro es una aproximación al tema de las operaciones de paz desarrolladas por las Fuerzas Armadas españolas cuya originalidad radica en basarse en la visión de sus protagonistas. Además explora su desarrollo y lo enmarca en la amplísima bibliografía publicada sobre el conflcito yugoslavo.

Talking to terrorists

making peace in Nothern Ireland and the Basque country

The peace agreement in Northern Ireland has been held up as a beacon for conflict resolution around the world. The lessons of Ulster have been applied by prime ministers, presidents, diplomats and intelligence agents to many areas of violent conflict, from Spain to Sri Lanka ...

Arafat and the dream of Palestine

an insider´s account

Bassam Abu Sharif was one of the most notorious and dangerous terrorists in the sixties and seventies, acting as #minister of propaganda# for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and as a recruiter for terrorists (including Carlos the Jackal). In 1972, a ...

Handbook of peace and conflict studies

Edited by Charles Webel and Johan Galtung. Peace studies and peace research have grown exponentially since their initiation in Scandinavia about a half century ago by Johan Galtung. Today, across the planet, there are literally scores of undergraduate concentrations, master's programs, and a small ...

Crisis somalí, piratería e intervención internacional

Aut. Jesús Ramón Bacas Fernández...[et al]. A lo largo de 2008 saltó a los medios de comunicación el problema de seguridad que representaba la piratería en las aguas somalíes y del golfo de Adén. El que lo hiciera entonces, a pesar de ser un ...

Atrapados en la discordia

conversaciones sobre el conflicto Israel-Palestina

Con la colaboración de David Guzmán. El enfrentamiento entre israelíes y palestinos constituye uno de los focos de tensión más anquilosados de nuestro mundo. Un conflicto que arrastra división y tragedia desde hace más de siete décadas y cuyo final no se atisba cercano. Dos ...

El eco del terror

ideología y propaganda en el terrorismo yihadista

Hablar de terrorismo, es hablar de comunicación. Violencia y propaganda han estado indisolublemente unidas en la historia del terrorismo. La evolución tecnológica, y las #exigencias# de la #sociedad de la información#, han llevado a todas estas organizaciones a incrementar la importancia y sofisticación de su ...

El sentido de las misiones suicidas

La presente investigación responde a preguntas que a muchos ciudadanos del mundo les han pasado por la cabeza: ¿son estas acciones, los suicidios, producto del fanatismo religioso o hay una lógica detrás de ellas? ¿Las motivaciones son religiosas o el Islam ha brindado un lenguaje ...

War, conflict and human rights

theory and practice

Combines aspects of law, politics and conflict analysis to examine the relationship between human rights and armed conflict. This book examines the tensions and complementarities between protection of human rights and resolution of conflict - the competing political demands and the challenges posed by internal armed ...

The Middle East

a beginner´s guide

The Middle East is notoriously complex and difficult. This compact book on the topic by the University of Oxford's leading expert does not shirk the challenge. Organised thematically, and dealing with all the pivotal issues in the region, from oil and religion, to gender ...

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 ...

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 ...