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Das Ergebnis der Wahlen in Palästina hat für Unruhe gesorgt, nicht nur in Israel, sondern auch bei den europäischen und amerikanischen Verbündeten. Den neuen israelischen Ministerpräsidenten Ehud Olmert erwartet eine schwierige Aufgabe. Denn auch die Drohungen aus dem Iran sind nicht zu überhören, eine weitere Annäherung von Iran und Hamas ist zu befürchten. Dazu kommt die instabile Lage im Irak. Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten bleibt ein Krisenherd. Sind nun weitere islamistische Terroranschläge wie in Madrid und London zu befürchten? Avi Primor, langjähriger Experte für Nahost-Fragen, analysiert die aktuelle Situation und die Rolle Europas sowie der USA. Er zeigt auf, wie eine friedliche Fortentwicklung in der Krisenregion Naher Osten aussehen könnte.

In the last fifteen years, the number, size, and scope of peacekeeping missions deployed in the aftermath of civil wars have increased exponentially. From Croatia and Cambodia, to Nicaragua and Namibia, international personnel have been sent to maintain peace around the world. But does peacekeeping work? And if so, how? In Does Peacekeeping Work? Virginia Page Fortna answers these questions through the systematic analysis of civil wars that have taken place since the end of the Cold War. She compares peacekeeping and nonpeacekeeping cases, and she investigates where peacekeepers go, showing that their missions are crucial to the most severe internal conflicts in countries and regions where peace is otherwise likely to falter. Fortna demonstrates that peacekeeping is an extremely effective policy tool, dramatically reducing the risk that war will resume. Moreover, she explains that relatively small and militarily weak consent-based peacekeeping operations are often just as effective as larger, more robust enforcement missions. Fortna examines the causal mechanisms of peacekeeping, paying particular attention to the perspective of the peacekept--the belligerents themselves--on whose decisions the stability of peace depends. Based on interviews with government and rebel leaders in Sierra Leone, Mozambique, and the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, Does Peacekeeping Work? demonstrates specific ways in which peacekeepers alter incentives, alleviate fear and mistrust, prevent accidental escalation to war, and shape political procedures to stabilize peace

"Caplan examines the nature of international administration operations since the mid-1990s, their effectiveness, and the key operational and political challenges which arise. He also examines recent attempts at international governance of war-torn territories"--Provided by publisher

Political time or the past as a political issue. Memory of politics, politics of memory: the politics of the past in post-totalitarian Poland ; Mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion ; Liberating the future from the past: liberating the past from the future ; The politics of political biography: self-realization, loyalty, and political change ; Civil society as an ethical challenge ; Life as simulacrum: Stanislaw Llem's science fiction -- Social time or the ontology of expectations. Ontology of expectations ; Genealogy of expectations ; The myth of the unity of the nation ; Marxism as a way of life: the failure of an impossible project ; The mythologies of solidarity -- Perspectives on time: from philosophy to anthropology. The problem of time in pragmatism and phenomenology ; Time, dialogue, and society ; Time and social practices ; Politics of memory, politics of time -- Epilogue: what has happened to us? The rise of post-post-communism. The emergence of post-post-communism or populist post-communism ; What is post-post-communism? ; Democracy against democracy or who has hijacked the common background? ; Possible scenarios and two conservatisms ; New tribalism, post-post-communism, and the politics of time ; Epilogue-supplement -- App. Post-communism and pop music: annihilation or restoration of memory in disco-polo. Two views on disco-polo: intellectuals' "horror vacui" and the nation's hope ; "All Poles" or what is disco-polo? ; The glorious past and the Slavic soul ; In opposition to the west ; Disco-polo and the dilemmas of Polish past and present.