Stoic warriors

the ancient philosophy behind the military mind

While few soldiers may have read the works of Epictetus or Marcus Aurelius, it is undoubtedly true that the ancient philosophy known as Stoicism guides the actions of many in the military. Soldiers and seamen learn early in their training "to suck it up," to ...

Explaining war and peace

case studies and necessary condition counterfactuals

This edited volume focuses on the use of 'necessary condition counterfactuals' in explaining two key events in twentieth century history, the start of the First World War and the end of the Cold War. Containing essays by leading figures in the field, this book analyzes ...

On suicide bombing

Like many people in America and around the world, Talal Asad experienced the events of September 11, 2001, largely through the media and the emotional response of others. For many non-Muslims, "the suicide bomber" quickly became the icon of "an Islamic culture of death" - a ...

Los conflictos de los Balcanes

INDICE: Los Balcanes, ese gran avispero. El Largo camino hacia la unificación. Los Estados actores. La desmembración. Las distintas reacciones en Europa. Las Naciones Unidas y la crisis yugoslava: la crónica de un fracaso anunciado. La guerra de Kosovo. Conclusión. Bibliografía.

Dark hope

working for peace in Israel and Palestine

For decades, we've been shocked by images of violent clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. But for all their power, those images leave us at a loss: from our vantage at home, it's hard for us to imagine ...

Militarization and war

This book looks at the influence of military regimes in seven cases: Pakistan in 1965, India in 1971, Israel in 1956 and 1967, Egypt in 1973, Iran in 1969 and Iraq in 1980. The author contends that countries with military governments are warlike not because ...

Palestina/Israel

un país, un Estado. Una iniciativa audaz para la paz

La tesis de este libro es que únicamente la construcción de un Estado laico, democrático y multicultural para palestinos e israelíes puede resolver civilizadamente el enconado conflicto que enfrenta a estos pueblos y propiciar un camino de solución a ambas comunidades nacionales que permita eludir ...

Beyond war

the human potential for peace

The classic opening scene of 2001, A Space Odyssey shows an ape-man wreaking havoc with humanity's first invention--a bone used as a weapon to kill a rival. It's an image that fits well with popular notions of our species as inherently violent, with ...

Interventions

"Interventions" is Noam Chomsky at his best. At a time when the United States exacts a greater and greater power over the rest of the world, America's leading voice of dissent needs to be heard more than ever. In over thirty timely, accessible and ...

Ethnic conflict

a global perspective

Why is it that Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland have been in perpetual conflict for thirty years when they can live and prosper together elsewhere? Why was there a bloody civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina when Croats, Serbs, and Muslims had lived peacefully ...

Rusia dinamitada

tramas secretas y terrorismo de Estado en la Federación Rusa

El libro "Rusia dinamitada", escrito por Yuri Felshtinski con las informaciones que le dio el ex agente Alexander Litvinenko antes de ser envenenado, desvela los manejos de los servicios secretos rusos y su uso del terrorismo de Estado para hacerse con el poder.

Global security and the war on terror

elite power and te illusion of control

As the 'War on Terror' evolves into the 'Long War' against Islamo- fascism, it demands an enduring commitment to ensuring the security of the United States and its allies. This policy is based on the requirement to maintain control in a fractured and unpredictable global ...

Negotiating political conflicts

Negotiations which generate solutions to conflicts without the use of violence are the only adequate means of conflict resolution in an interdependent globalized world. "Negotiating Political Conflicts" analyzes comprehensively the foundations for understanding negotiations: What is negotiation? What are the most important concepts and terms ...

Nations, States, and violence

Nations, States, and Violence presents a revisionist view of the sources of nationalism, the relationship of the nation to culture, and the implications of nationalism and cultural heterogeneity for the future of the nation-state. It accepts the now-standard view that national identities are not inherited ...

Los Derecho Humanos

El estudio de los Derechos Humanos es una empresa relativamente joven e incompleta, y un punto de encuentro entre la antropología, la sociología y el derecho. Las luchas particulares y globales por la dignidad están en el centro del discurso de los Derechos Humanos. Abordarlos ...

The psychology of genocide, massacres, and extreme violence

why "normal" people come to commit atrocities

Chronicling horrific events that brought the 20th century to witness the largest number of systematic slaughters of human beings in any century across history, this work goes beyond historic details and examines contemporary psychological means leaders use to convince individuals to commit horrific actions in ...

The State and terrorism

national security and the mobilization of power

An innovative approach to the ongoing debate over homeland security and state response to terrorism, Campos investigates the contextualizing of national security discourse and its management of terrorism. New ideas developed in this book reflect ways in which national security is mobilized through specific discourse ...

Fuerzas armadas y seguridad pública

consideraciones en torno al terrorismo y la inmigración

La colaboración de distintos autores, estrechamente vinculados con el mundo del Derecho y proyectos sobre el terrorismo y las Fuerzas Armadas, nos ofrece una perspectiva interdisciplinaria sobre la seguridad pública que desarrollan hoy en día las Fuerzas Armadas para solventar los problemas relacionados con la ...

El terrorismo y la ideología de Occidente

INDICE: Los actores internacionales y la conexión entre la geopolítica y la geoestrategia. La infraestructura económica y la oligarquía internacional. La ideología de Occidente. Un maniqueísmo nuevo. El terrorismo.

The faces of terrorism

social and psychological dimensions

Neil Smelser begins by tackling the fundamental problem of defining what exactly terrorism is. He shows why a precise definition has eluded us until now, and he proposes one that takes into account the full complexities of this unconventional and politically charged brand of violence ...