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Die großen Linien dieses Studienbuchs stellen die wirtschaftlichen Problemlagen Inflation und Deflation dar. Unter den Bedingungen des Protektionismus führten sie direkt in die Banken-, schließlich in die Produktions- und Systemkrise. Strukturen, Abläufe und Prozesse werden durch sachlogische Vernetzung und mit Quellen fundiert verständlich aufbereitet. Die Weimarer Republik kann nicht ohne ihre Wirtschaftsgeschichte verstanden werden. Ihre Bürger erlebten alle denkbaren, seinerzeit noch nicht einmal vollständig erklärbaren Wirtschaftslagen, wie die Hyperinflation zu Beginn, die katastrophale Deflation zu Ende der Republik oder verstärkte Rationalisierungsanstrengungen bei gestörten internationalen Handelsbeziehungen, welche wiederum den Transfer der Reparationen erschwerten. Weil sich die Wirtschaft so weitestgehend krisenhaft entwickelte, blieb die Legitimierung der demokratisch-republikanischen Staatsform von dieser Seite aus; zugleich war auch die Leistungsfähigkeit des verfassungsrechtlich verankerten Sozialstaates in Frage gestellt. Das Studienbuch ist um wirtschaftstheoretische Erklärungen und ausgewähltes digitalisiertes Quellenmaterial ergänzt, auf das aus dem Text heraus zugegriffen werden kann. Das Quellenmaterial ist online verfügbar und wird teilweise kommentiert.

Frustrated by the abrogation of promises by nuclear weapons states to disarm, countries that have foregone nuclear weapons joined forces with key members of civil society in efforts that culminated in the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). How did this initiative succeed - in defiance of the major powers - in changing the discourse around nuclear weapons? What roles did the various actors play, and how did the language of the treaty evolve? Answering these questions, Jean Krasno and Elisabeth Szeli provide a deeply researched account of the TPNW campaign, the negotiations, and the ongoing challenges of ratification and implementation.

With so much at stake, from climate change and reproductive rights to threats from weapons of mass destruction and police brutality, the last decade has seen ordinary people take to the streets to challenge and change the way our governments and institutions legislate our future. Movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo have had an incredible impact on public understandings and political commitments, showing the meaningful change that social movements and popular resistance can have on our world. The story in this book offers a look inside the antinuclear movement and its recent successful campaign to ban the bomb. Ray Acheson narrates the journey of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - from scrappy organizing to winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 and achieving a landmark UN treaty banning nuclear weapons - and developments in feminist disarmament activism.

"The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation offers an authoritative and comprehensive overview of peacebuilding, statebuilding, and peace formation. With contributions from over thirty distinguished and leading scholars, the Handbook provides a timely, engaging, and critical overview of conceptual foundations, political implications, and tensions at the global, regional, and local levels. It examines the key policies, practices, examples, and discourses underlining various segments of peacebuilding, statebuilding, and peace formation both as discursive formulations and as policy practices. Organized around four major thematic sections, the Handbook offers a state-of-the-art synthesis of the most pressing contemporary peace and conflict issues and charts new pathways for responding to transnational insecurities"--

As a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and scholar of Latin and Greek, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. Beyond Tragedy and Eternal Peace provides an overview of his legacy, highlighting the synergy between his critique of metaphysics and his reflections on the politics and international relations of the late nineteenth century. Jean-François Drolet exposes and analyzes Nietzsche's account of the political processes, institutions, and dominant ideologies shaping public life in Germany and Europe during the 1870s and 1880s. Nietzsche anticipated a new kind of politics, borne out of such events as the Franco-Prussian War, the unification of Germany under Bismarck, the advent of mass democracy, and the rise and transformation of European nationalism. Focusing on conflict and political violence, Drolet expertly reconstructs Nietzsche's fierce and continued critique of the nationalist, liberal, and socialist ideologies of his age, which the philosopher believed failed to grapple with the death of God and the crisis of European nihilism it engendered. As this reconstructive interpretation reveals, Nietzsche's philosophy offers a powerful and still greatly underappreciated reckoning with the changing political practices, norms, and agencies that led to the momentous collapse of the European society of states during the early twentieth century.

This thought-provoking book explores the emerging construction of a customary law of peace in Latin America and the developing jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. It traces the evolution of peace as both an end and a means: from a negative form, i.e. the absence of violence, to a positive form that encompasses equality, non-discrimination and social justice, including gendered perspectives on peace.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Theoretical Framework -- Chapter 3. Structure and Process -- Chapter 4. Systemic-External Pressures and Malaysia's UNPKO -- Chapter 5. Domestic-Internal Pressures and Malaysia's UNPKO -- Chapter 6. Malaysia's UNPKO in the Cold War and Post-Cold War Eras -- Chapter 7. The Interplay of Systemic-Domestic Pressures of Malaysia's UNPKO -- Chapter 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- About the authors -- Index.

This book reveals why the UN is more successful than unilateral great powers in protecting civilians from violence, and focuses on the discourse, development and consequences of UN peacekeeping. Analysing statistics of state fragility and fatalities of violence, it reveals that the UN has managed to save tens of thousands of lives with its peacekeeping: a surprising statistic given the media consensus about the UN's powerlessness and inefficiency. Using computer-assisted discourse analysis of resolutions from the UN Security Council, 1993-2019, the book offers data that describe the character and development of UN approach to the protection of civilians from violence. It then links the data to the statistics of conflict fatalities and state fragility to reveal, by means of qualitative and quantitative analysis, when, where, how and why the UN has been successful at protecting civilians. Two reasons for the UN's success are highlighted in the book as being statistically most significant. First, the organization offers local ownership to peaceful solutions by considering conflicting parties as the primary agents of protection. Second, the UN approach is much less power-oriented than unilateral approaches by the great powers: protection for the UN does not mean deterrence or destruction, but rather, support for local protectors of civilians. However, strong great power influence on such operations tends to weaken UN's ability to save lives.

This book focuses on the military and statebuilding components of the international project in Afghanistan since 2001. It posits and discusses the military-peace complex as a framework through which to understand the international project in Afghanistan, pointing to the sliding together and collapse between military and peace actors, mandates and ideational frameworks. Arguing that military and peace work in the liberal mode cannot be logically separated, but rather are co-constituted and operate in a dynamic relationship to each other with fluid and shifting boundaries, the book focuses on the role of gender within the logics of the international project in Afghanistan, as well as exploring material and spatial entanglements and cross-cutting logics. Based on original interviews and wider research the book offers a holistic way of viewing the international project in Afghanistan, drawing attention to its under-noticed elements and providing a new way of understanding its politics.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Peacebuilding's Predicament: A Dark Mood among the Experts.-PART I: Why Peacebuilding Appears Moribund -- Chapter 2: Peacebuilding's Origins and History -- Chapter 3: Revisiting the Local Turn in Peacebuilding -- Chapter 4: Domestic Religion: Why Interreligious Dialogue in Kenya Conserves Rather than Disrupts Power -- PART II: How Peacebuilding Takes Shape in the Margins -- Chapter 5: The Missing Link in Hybrid Peacebuilding: Localized Peace Trajectories and Endogenous Knowledge -- Chapter 6: Old and New Peace in El Salvador. How Peace Strategies Emerge, Disappear, and Transform -- Chapter 7: Land and Peacebuilding: The Case of the Peacebuilding Process in Colombia through the Peasant Reserve Zones -- Chapter 8: Peacebuilding and Resistance: Inequality, Empowerment, Refusal -- PART III: Can Peacebuilding Be Recreated at the Centre? -- Chapter 9: Achieving a Feminist Peace by Blurring Boundaries between Private and Public -- Chapter 10: The Fraught Development of an International Peace Architecture.

Our Brains at War: The Neuroscience of Conflict and Peacebuilding suggests that we need a radical change in how we think about war, leadership, and politics. Most of us, political scientists included, fail to appreciate the extent to which instincts and emotions, rather than logic, factor into our societal politics and international wars. Many of our physiological and genetic tendencies, of which we are mostly unaware, can all too easily fuel our antipathy towards other groups, make us choose 'strong' leaders over more mindful leaders, assist recruitment for illegal militias, and facilitate even the most gentle of us to inflict violence on others. Drawing upon the latest research from emerging areas such as behavioral genetics, biopsychology, and social and cognitive neuroscience, this book identifies the sources of compelling instincts and emotions, and how we can acknowledge and better manage them so as to develop international and societal peace more effectively.

In this edited volume, experts on conflict resolution examine the impact of the crises triggered by the coronavirus and official responses to it. The pandemic has clearly exacerbated existing social and political conflicts, but, as the book argues, its longer-term effects open the door to both further conflict escalation and dramatic new opportunities for building peace. In a series of short essays combining social analysis with informed speculation, the contributors examine the impact of the coronavirus crisis on a wide variety of issues, including nationality, social class, race, gender, ethnicity, and religion. They conclude that the period of the pandemic may well constitute a historic turning point, since the overall impact of the crisis is to destabilize existing social and political systems. Not only does this systemic shakeup produce the possibility of more intense and violent conflicts, but also presents new opportunities for advancing the related causes of social justice and civic peace.

Foreword Charles Sampford | Preface 1. Introduction 2. United Nations Peace Support Operations -- Institutional Frameworks, Command and Control Structures, and Attribution of Conduct 3. The Resort to and Use of Force by the UN: The Legal and the Moral 4. A Normative Framework for UN Uses of Force: The Applicability of the Candidate Regimes 5. Targeting Under International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law 6. Resolving Conflicts, Identifying Regulatory Standards and Closing Gaps Between Promises and Outcomes 7. Conclusion Appendices Bibliography