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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Old and new terrorism

late modernity, globalization and the transformation of political violence

Old and New Terrorism provides the most comprehensive account of the evolution of terrorism in the modern world, and a concise and careful analysis of the forces that have driven its transformation. The book: charts the development of terrorist network structures; assesses the impact of ...

Introducción a las crisis balcánicas

s. XIX-s. XXI

Loa Balcanes fueron, y probablemente son, la zona más conflictiva de Europa durante la Era Contemporánea. Esta zona es un auténtico mosaico étnico- cultural que ha sido históricamente un apetecible bocado para las potencias durante el S. XIX y XX. Esta obra pretende analizar cómo ...

The great african war

Congo and regional geopolitics, 1996-2006

This book examines a decade-long period of instability, violence and state decay in Central Africa from 1996, when the war started, to 2006, when elections formally ended the political transition in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A unique combination of circumstances explain the unravelling of ...

Cien días

Traducción de Claudia Baricco. En abril de 1994 se desata la masacre en Kigali, Ruanda: un genocidio que en cien días dejó un saldo de 800000 personas asesinadas. David Hohl, joven suizo que trabaja en Kigali en una oficina humanitaria de su gobierno, deja partir ...

Terrorismo, narcotráfico, blanqueo de capitales, trata de personas, tráfico ilícito de migrantes, tráfico ilícito de armas

lucha global contra la delincuencia organizada transnacional

El presente libro sale a la luz con el fin de trasladar al lector un estudio introductorio sobre la lucha en el plano internacional contra la Delincuencia Organizada Transnacional. El libro centra su análisis en las principales manifestaciones de las actividades ilícitas como la trata ...

Etiopía

el conflicto italo-abisinio

Después de siete meses de resistencia abisinia, el 9 de mayo de 1936, las tropas italianas desfilaban, al fin, por Addis Adeba y en Roma la noticia se festejaba con la proclamación de un nuevo imperio: el rey de Italia, Víctor Manuel III, era el ...

Faith-Based War

from 9/11 to catastrophic sucess in Iraq

A faith-based policy governed key features of the American invasion of Iraq, including the choice of a self-defeating #Shock and Awe# strategy, and a grossly mismanaged occupation. A religious rationale likewise blinded devotees of the White House torture program to the predictable cost in American ...

The making of a human bomb

an ethnography of Palestinian resistance

In The Making of a Human Bomb, Nasser Abufarha, a Palestinian anthropologist, explains the cultural logic underlying Palestinian martyrdom operations (suicide attacks) launched against Israel during the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2000#06). In so doing, he sheds much-needed light on how Palestinians have experienced and perceived ...

Víctimas invisibles, conflicto armado y resistencia civil en Colombia

En ésta monografía, de forma rigurosa pero también muy próxima a la realidad de los colectivos afectados, se analiza el contexto social y cultural del conflicto armado en Colombia, con especial incidencia sobre el derecho a la verdad, a la justicia y a la reparación ...

Jewish terrorism in Israel

Ami Pedahzur and Arie Perliger, world experts on the study of terror and security, propose a theory of violence that contextualizes not only recent acts of terror but also instances of terrorism that stretch back centuries. Beginning with ancient Palestine and its encounters with Jewish ...