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This new textbook introduces key mechanisms and issues in international conflict management and engages students with a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to mitigating, managing, and transforming international conflicts. The volume identifies key historical events and international agreements that have shaped and defined the field of international conflict management, as well as key dilemmas facing the field at this juncture. The first section provides an overview of key mechanisms for international conflict management, such as negotiation, mediation, nonviolent resistance, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, transitional justice, and reconciliation. The second section tackles important cross-cutting themes, such as technology, religion, the economy, refugees and migration, and the role of civil society, examining how these issues contribute to international conflicts and how they can be leveraged to help address such conflicts. Each chapter includes a brief historical overview of the evolution of the issue or mechanism, identifies key theoretical and practical debates, and includes case studies, discussion questions, website links, and suggested further reading for further study and engagement. By providing a mixture of theory and practical examples, this textbook provides students with the necessary background to navigate this interdisciplinary field.

Main description: Die fundamentalen Probleme der Wirtschaftskrise in den späten 20er und frühen 30er Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts bleiben nach wie vor eine intellektuelle Herausforderung. Wie kaum ein anderes Datum der jüngsten Weltgeschichte hat der "Schwarze Donnerstag" des 24. Oktober 1929 den Glauben an die Rationalität der Märkte erschüttert und deren Verwundbarkeit aufgezeigt. Die "Große Depression" des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts als - fatales - Ergebnis eines Versuchs zu werten, das Rad der Geschichte zurückzudrehen und mit Kontrolle, Protektionismus, Nationalismus und Autarkie dem freien Verkehr von Waren, Kapitalströmen und nicht zuletzt Menschen zu begegnen, ist eine der Botschaften dieses Bandes. Aus dem Inhalt: Harold James, Introduction: Interpreting the Great Depression Albrecht Ritschl, International Capital Movements and the Onset of the Great Depression: Some International Evidence Dietmar Rothermund, Currencies, Taxes and Credit. Asian Peasants in the Great Depression, 1930-1939 Monika Rosengarten Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich, Economic Policy Positions and Influence of the International Chamber of Commerce during the Great Depression Gerald D. Feldman, Insurance Company Collapses in the World Economic Crisis. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Versicherungs-AG (Fevag) and the Austrian Phönix Patricia Clavin, Explaining the Failure of the London World Economic Conference Robert Skidelsky, The Great Depression: Keynes´s Perspective Christoph Buchheim, The "Crisis befor the Crisis" - The Export Engine Out of Gear Forrest Capie, The International Depression and Trade Protection in the 1930s Solomos Solomou, Trade Protection in the 1930s

Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird als Beispiel für eine internationale Hochschulkooperation das von der Europäischen Union (EU) finanzierte Master of Arts Programme (MAP) in "Educational Research and Development", einen internationalen erziehungswissenschaftlichen Masterstudiengang in Afghanistan, vorgestellt. Ferner werden einige der Erfahrungen im Hinblick auf Umsetzung und Ertrag dieses Programms reflektiert. Das Projekt erstreckte sich insgesamt über einen Zeitraum von mehr als vier Jahren, gerechnet von der Antragstellung (Herbst 2006) bis zum Endbericht an die EU (April 2011); die Finanzierung durch die EU erfolgte von 2008 bis 2011. (DIPF/Orig.) ; This article introduces the Master of Arts Programme (MAP) "Educational Research and Development" in Afghanista, an educational Master degree programme fi nanced by the European Union (EU) as an example of international cooperation in Higher Education and reflects some of the experiences in terms of its realisation and results. The project covers a period of more than four years altogether – from the application to the EU (autumn 2006) till the final report to EU (April 2011); the financing of the project ran from 2008 till 2011. (DIPF/Orig.)

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Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction: Understanding Riots -- The Endurance of the Irrationality Thesis of Crowd Behaviour -- Disorderly Criminals -- Depoliticising Collective Disorder -- Multivariate Explanations and the Political Significance of Riots -- 2: The Revised Flashpoints Model of Public Disorder -- The Rationality and Emotionality of Riots -- The Flashpoints Model of Public Disorder -- Related Theoretical Developments -- Introducing the Revised Flashpoints Model -- 3: 'France in Flames': The French Riots of 2005