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After two decades of relative peace following the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, the Brexit referendum in 2016 reopened the Northern Ireland question. In this thoughtful and engaging book, Feargal Cochrane considers the region's troubled history from the struggle for Irish independence in the nineteenth century to the present. New chapters explain the reasons for the suspension of devolved government at Stormont in 2017 and its restoration in 2020 as well as the consequences for Northern Ireland of Britain's decision to leave the European Union. Providing a complete account of the province's hundred-year history, this book is essential reading to understand the present dimensions of the Northern Irish conflict.

What is the relationship between leadership and peace? What kind of leadership styles, processes and strategies are required to gain a deeper understanding of local context while at the same time maintaining the trust and cooperation of host authorities and other stakeholders on the ground? As concerns mount about the continued relevance and efficiency of UN peace operations, Youssef Mahmoud – who led several challenging peace missions in Africa – draws on many years of experience to offer insights into how political leadership might be exercised to help restore and nurture peace. Mahmoud makes the case for a paradigm shift in the type of leadership required to bring about strong, global diplomacy for peace. Making extensive use of the authors' unique personal experiences in Burundi, Central African Republic and Chad, the book offers an unparalleled insight into the leadership challenges of complex and often seemingly intractable conflict situations.

Preface / Tom Woodhouse -- Introduction / Jordi Calvo Rufanges -- Trends in global military expenditure : drivers of increases and causes of concerns / Aude E. Fleurant and Yannick Quéau -- Military expenditure, arms transfer and armed conflicts / Chloé Meulewaeter -- Military spending, foreign military operations and counter-terrorism / Alejandro Pozo Marín -- Empire, US military spending and campaigning for a moral budget / Joseph Gerson -- Militarisation of the European Union : fresh money for the military industry / Laëtitia Sédou, Mark Akkerman and Bram Vranken -- Cost of nuclear weapons / Tarja Cronberg and Dave Webb -- Military spending and climate change / Pere Brunet and Chloe Meulewaeter -- Peace movement work on military spending / Colin Archer -- Conclusion / Jordi Calvo Rufanges.

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.

This book offers a re-evaluation of the emergence, development and outcome of the peace process in Northern Ireland. Drawing on interviews with many of the key participants of the peace process, newly released archival material and the existing scholarship on the conflict, it explains the decisions that shaped the peace process in their proper context. O'Kane argues that although the outcome of the process can be seen as a success, it is not the outcome that was originally expected or intended by most of its participants. By tracing the process and highlighting the pragmatic decisions of the parties that shaped it the work explains how Northern Ireland moved from conflict to peace. The book concludes by examining what the implications of Brexit are for Northern Ireland's hard-won peace and political stability.

ОБСЕ никогда не была клубом государств-единомышленников. Но с момента расцвета организации в 1990-х годах найти консенсус становилось все труднее. Издание ОБСЕ Insights за 2021 год показывает различия в интересах государств-участников, но также демонстрирует, что правительства продолжают видеть ценность в Организации. Выявление точек соприкосновения путем сравнения отдельных государств-участников — тема специального выпуска ОБСЕ Insights. Другие авторы рассматривают, в частности, способы укрепления Секретариата, пути вовлечения ОБСЕ в диалог с Китаем, последствия авторитарной политики для всеобъемлющей безопасности и будущее миротворческой деятельности ОБСЕ.

Proscribing peace offers a systematic examination of the impact of proscription on peace negotiations. With rare access to actors during the Colombian negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia People's Army (FARC), Sophie Haspeslagh shows how proscription makes negotiations harder and more prolonged. By introducing the concept of 'linguistic ceasefire', Haspeslagh adds to our understanding of the timing and sequencing of peace processes in the context of proscription. Linguistic ceasefire has three main components: first, recognise the conflict; second, discard the 'terrorist' label, and third, uncouple the act and the actor. These measures remove the symbolic impact of proscription, even where de-listing is not possible ahead of negotiations. With relevance for more than half of the conflicts around the world in which an armed group is listed as a terrorist organisation, 'linguistic ceasefire' helps to explain why certain conflicts remain stuck in the 'terrorist' framing, while others emerge from it. International proscription regimes criminalise both the actor and the act of terrorism. Proscribing peace calls for an end to the amalgamation between acts and actors. By focussing on the acts instead, Haspeslagh argues, international policy would be better able to consider the violent actions both of armed groups and those of the state. By separating the act and the actor, change - and thus peace - become possible.

This book utilizes a systems thinking perspective to propose a holistic framework of analysis and practice for the regional security community BRSC Barrangement in Africa. In responding to the challenge of improving effectiveness of response to peace and security threats, African states tend to rely on ad hoc mechanisms. However, this approach has been mired with a myriad of structural limitations. The holistic framework reconfigures the traditional BRSC into a simplified tool kit of resources, making this text book ideal for students and advanced researchers in international relations, and all those concerned with regional security and strategic studies.

"This book unfolds an exploratory journey intended to scrutinise the suitability of entanglements and relations as a mode of thinking and seeing peacebuilding events. Through a reflection upon the UN's limited results in the endeavour towards securing lasting peace in war-torn scenarios, Torrent critically engages with three relevant debates in contemporary peacebuilding literature, including the inclusion of 'the locals', the achievement of organisational system-wide coherence and the increasingly questioned agential condition of peacebuilding actors. Inattentive to the relational vulnerability of involved stakeholders, it is suggested that the UN seeks to secure a totalising modern distory, defined in the book as a story that undoes other stories. Whilst affirming the entangled ontogenesis of actors and processes in the conflict-affected configuration, Entangled Peace also delves into a cautionary argument about what the author refers to as entanglement fetishism, namely the celebratory, normative, deterministic and exclusionary projection of a relational world. Inspired by Alfred North Whitehead, Entangled Peace is an invitation to speculate over the peacebuilding milieu, and by extension the broader theatre of the real, as radical openness, in which events emanate from the collision of an infinite multiplicity of possible worlds"

This book provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the nature, content and scope of the rules regulating the use of force in international law as they are contained in the United Nations Charter, customary international law and international jurisprudence. The book's scope is broad and covers the prohibition on the threat or use of force; the use of force in self-defence; the use of force as part of the United Nations collective security system; the use of force by regional organisations; the use of force in peacekeeping operations; the use of force for humanitarian purposes; the use of force by invitation; armed reprisals; the use of force by and against non-State actors; and the use of force in cyberspace. The book takes an insightful look at the rules regulating the use of force as they are called upon to apply to changing and challenging circumstances such as the emergence of non-State actors, security risks, new technologies and moral considerations. Its arguments balance the interests of stability and change in order to enhance international law's regulatory potential regarding the use of force.