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Das Lehrbuch zum Völkerrecht verfolgt einen anderen Ansatz: Als Ordnungsidee gliedert Krajewski das Völkerrecht in einen Allgemeinen und einen Besonderen Teil. Dieses Strukturierungsangebot dient dem besseren Verständnis von Zusammenhängen und Prinzipien innerhalb des Völkerrechts. Die aktualisierte und überarbeitete 3. Auflage greift die völkerrechtlichen Herausforderungen des Krieges in der Ukraine auf und ordnet sie in das geltende Recht ein. Außerdem werden mit Abhandlungen zum internationalen Gesundheitsrecht, Arbeitsvölkerrecht sowie Flüchtlings- und Migrationsrecht Teilrechtsgebiete des Völkerrechts neu und erstmals in einem deutschsprachigen Lehrbuch dargestellt, die für aktuelle politische und gesellschaftliche Auseinandersetzungen (u.a. Covid-19-Pandemie und Lieferkettengesetz) von Relevanz sind.

"Civil wars remain the most frequent and deadly form of organized armed conflict in the world. What Do We Know about Civil Wars? enlists leading scholars to guide students through cutting-edge research on civil war onset, duration, and outcomes, as well as the recurrence and consequences of civil wars to better understand global security."--

Introduction: Machines of peace -- Invention, interdependence, and the lag : conceptualizing international relations in the age of the machine -- Controlling scientific war : international air police and the reinvention of disarmament -- The shape of things to come : aviation, the League of Nations, and the transformation of world order -- Air power for a United Nations : the international air force during the Second World War -- Wings for peace : planning for the postwar internationalization of civil aviation -- A battle for atomic internationalism : United States and the international control of atomic energy -- A blessing in disguise : Britain and the international control of atomic energy -- Conclusion : science, technology, and internationalism into the Cold War and beyond.

Why do human beings fight one another? In this exhilarating and bracing book, we learn the common logic driving vainglorious monarchs, dictators, mobs, pilots, football hooligans, ancient peoples and fanatics. Distilling decades of economics, political science, psychology and real-world interventions, and through his time studying Columbia, Chicago, Liberia and Northern Ireland, Christopher Blattman lifts the lid on the underlying forces governing war and peace. Why did Russia attack Ukraine? Will China invade Taiwan and launch WWIII? And what can any of us do about it? 'Captivating and intelligent' Tim Harford 'Wise, intriguing, imaginative' Rory Stewart 'Nothing could be more relevant today than war and peace . . . an outstanding and original book on this topic' Martin Wolf, Financial Times 'Important, readable, radical' David Miliband 'A great storyteller with important insights for us all' Richard Thaler, co-author of Nudge 'Essential for understanding the world we live in today' James A. Robinson, co-author of Why Nations Fail

"Frei und links" – Willy Brandt war der Kanzler des "anderen" Deutschland. Nach seinen Bestsellern über Richard von Weizsäcker und Helmut Schmidt legt der langjährige ZEIT-Journalist Gunter Hofmann nun ein einfühlsames Portrait des Mannes vor, der die konservative Adenauer-Republik durchlüftete und mit den Ostverträgen und seinem Kniefall in Warschau Weltgeschichtes schrieb. In seiner Biographie zeigt Hofmann uns den "ganzen" Brandt, jenen außergewöhnlichen Menschen, dessen Politik nur zu verstehen ist, wenn man auch sein Leben kennt. Ebenso kenntnisreich wie nuanciert geht Gunter Hofmann den Stationen im Leben von Willy Brandt nach, schildert den Weg des jungen Sozialisten aus schwierigen Verhältnissen in Exil und Widerstand, die allmähliche Entwicklung seiner politischen Überzeugungen und die Stationen seiner Karriere vom Regierenden Bürgermeister bis zum Bundeskanzler. Auch die Weggefährten wie Julius Leber, Helmut Schmidt, Herbert Wehner, Egon Bahr oder Günter Grass kommen ins Bild. Vor allem aber macht Hofmann auf eine geradezu intime Weise deutlich, wie sehr Brandt unsere Vorstellung von der Nation geprägt hat, in der wir leben möchten.

Michael Thumann lebt in Moskau und berichtet seit über 25 Jahren aus Osteuropa für die ZEIT. Er legt nun ein atemberaubend geschriebenes Buch vor, das Russlands Absturz in eine zunehmend totalitäre Diktatur und den Weg in Putins imperialistischen Krieg aus nächster Nähe nachzeichnet. Das Motiv des Diktators und seiner Getreuen: Revanche zu nehmen für die demokratische Öffnung nach 1991 und die vermeintliche Demütigung durch den Westen. Putins Herrschaft radikalisiert sich weiter. Es ist das bedrohlichste Regime der Welt. "Anschaulich analysiert Thumann die Säulen von Putins Macht – das Justizsystem mit seinen politischen Urteilen und den Straflagern, das Staatsfernsehen, das den Hass auf den Westen, die Ukraine und alles Abweichende verbreitet sowie die Geschichtserzählungen von imperialer Größe. Es gehe Putin um Revanche für den Zerfall der Sowjetunion. Er sei zu jener imperialen Obsession zurückgekehrt, die Michail Gorbatschow beendet habe, so Thumann. Eine Obsession, die Putin zum Überfall auf die Ukraine führte. Wer die Vorgeschichte dieses Krieges besser verstehen will, sollte das Buch von Michael Thumann lesen" (taz). "1999 begegnete Michael Thumann Wladimir Putin zum ersten Mal bei einem Interview. Seitdem beobachtet der Osteuropa-Experte der ZEIT das Handeln des russischen Staatschefs. In seinem neuen Buch zeichnet er die Stationen der zunehmenden Eskalation nach, die im Krieg in der Ukraine münden. Putins Antrieb, laut Thumann: Rache für den Verlust der Sowjetunion" (Platz 10 der Sachbuch-Bestenliste für Mai 2023)

During the 1980s, millions of ordinary individuals around the world mobilized in support of nuclear disarmament. Although U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev were not part of these grassroots movements, they too wanted to eliminate nuclear weapons. Nuclear abolitionism was a diverse and global phenomenon.In Dreams for a Decade, Stephanie L. Freeman draws on newly declassified material from multiple continents to examine nuclear abolitionists' influence on the trajectory of the Cold War's last decade. Freeman reveals that nuclear abolitionism played a significant yet unappreciated role in ending the Cold War. Grassroots and government nuclear abolitionists shifted U.S. and Soviet nuclear arms control paradigms from arms limitation to arms reduction. This paved the way for the reversal of the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms race, which began with the landmark 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. European peace activists also influenced Gorbachev's "common European home" initiative and support for freedom of choice in Europe, which prevented the Soviet leader from intervening to stop the 1989 East European revolutions. These revolutions ripped the fabric of the Iron Curtain, which had divided Europe for more than four decades.Despite their inability to eliminate nuclear weapons, grassroots and government nuclear abolitionists deserve credit for playing a pivotal role in the Cold War's endgame. They also provide a model for enacting dramatic, positive change in a peaceful manner

"On June 12, 1982, more than a million people gathered in Central Park for "the disarmament rally to end all disarmament rallies." Timed to coincide with and show support for the United Nations Second Special Session on disarmament, the demonstration demanded an end to the global nuclear arms race. This historic event represents the height of the antinuclear movement, and was (at that time) the largest mass protest in American history, easily larger than those in opposition to the Vietnam War. The author has written a compact history of the event - not only the day itself, but the months of planning and logistics work that made it so successful"--

Conflict, Cultural Heritage and Peace offers a series of conceptual and applied frameworks to help understand the role cultural heritage plays within conflict and the potential it has to contribute to positive peacebuilding and sustainable development in post-conflict societies. Designed as a resource guide, this general volume introduces the multiple roles cultural heritage plays through the conflict cycle from its onset, subsequent escalation and through to resolution and recovery. In its broadest sense, it questions what role cultural heritage plays within conflict, how cultural heritage is used in the construction and justification of conflict narratives, how are these narratives framed and often manipulated to support particular perspectives, and how we can develop better understandings of cultural heritage and work towards the better protection of cultural heritage resources during conflict. It moves beyond the protection paradigm and recognises that cultural heritage can contribute to building peace and reconciliation in post-conflict environments. The study offers a conceptual and operational framework to understand the roles cultural heritage plays within conflict cycles, how it can be targeted during war, and the potential cultural heritage has in positive peacebuilding across the conflict lifecycle.

Analysing the potential that these new digital forms of international relations offer for the reform of peace praxis, this resource addresses the parallel limitations of digital technologies in terms of political emancipation related to subaltern claims, the risk of co-optation by historical and analogue power structures, institutions, and actors.

Part I: Internal Dynamics in North Korea -- Chapter 1: Comprehensive Peacebuilding and Development on the Korean Peninsula: An Introduction -- Chapter 2: Kim Jong Un's Policy Direction or "Line": Heading for Radicalization? -- Chapter 3: Compliance with Global Norms: A Case of North Korea and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals -- Chapter 4: Legitimation Shuffle: Sources of North Korean Legitimacy -- Chapter 5: North Korea's Economic Statecraft: Reactive Inducements and Market Power for State Autonomy -- Chapter 6: Indo-Pacific Security: Calibrating Pyongyang's NATO Calculus amid AUKUS Fears -- Part II: South Korean Approaches -- Chapter 7: Let the Sun Shine? Inter-Korean People-to-People Diplomacy in the Absence of State-based Public Diplomacy -- Chapter 8: An Assessment of the Moon Jae-in Administration's Peace Initiative from a Framing Perspective -- Chapter 9: Beyond threatening capabilities: South Korea's Threat Perception of North Korea -- Chapter 10: Security, Governance, and Operationalizing the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus (HDPN) on the Korean Peninsula.

This book critically examines the approaches to Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants programming in Africa. Drawing on empirical evidence from across the continent, the book investigates the different theories, contextual realities and approaches that have informed the establishment and implementation of such programmes, the opportunities they have provided for stability, peace and security, and the challenges with which they have contended. The book combines broader theoretical analysis with country-specific case studies, including Nigeria, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Somalia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Overall, the book asks how DDR programming has evolved in Africa, what factors have contributed to the success or failure of DDR processes, and what we can expect for DDR in Africa in the future.

Chapter 1. EU support for peace in Colombia. Contributions from the territorial approach, the strengthening of civil society and the defence of human rights. (Karlos Pérez de Armiño. University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU) -- Chapter 2. The recent context in Colombia in historical and territorial perspective: Armed conflict, the Havana Agreements and their implementation (Jerónimo Ríos. Complutense University of Madrid) -- Chapter 3. EU development cooperation in Colombia and support for peacebuilding. A historical perspective. (Juana García Duque. University of the Andes, Bogotá) -- Chapter 4. Multilevel support for the process for the reincorporation of FARC-EP: The experience of the EU Trust Fund (Carlos Madridejos. University of the Basque Country) -- Chapter 5. A review of the European Union's gender approach in its support to the peace process in Colombia (Irantzu Mendia. University of the Basque Country) -- Chapter 6. The European Union's contribution to the implementation of the ethnic approach within the Colombian Peace Agreement (2016-2021) (Alba Linares, University of the Basque Country), etc.

This is a not a book about peacekeeping practices. This is a book about storytelling, fantasies and the ways that people connect emotionally to myths about peacekeeping. The celebration of peacekeeping as a legitimate and desirable use of military force is expressed through the unproblematised acceptance of militarism. Introducing a novel framework – martial peace – the book offers an in-depth examination of the Canadian Armed Forces missions to Afghanistan and the use of police violence against Indigenous protests in Canada as case examples where military violence has been justified in the name of peace. It critically investigates the peacekeeper myth and challenges the academic, government and popular beliefs that martial violence is required to sustain peace.