Suchergebnisse

Journeys in search of refuge -- Refuge as a concept and place -- Using human and refugee rights to resist encampment -- Using human rights law to travel in search of refuge in Europe -- Direct challenges to regional containment instruments -- Seeking refuge as a Palestinian refugee -- Resisting the prospect of refuge in an IDP camp -- Elusive refuge.

This book interrogates the common perception that liberal peace is in crisis and explores the question: can the local turn save liberal peacebuilding? Presenting a case for a liberal renaissance in peacebuilding, the work interrogates the assumptions behind the popular perception that liberal peace is in crisis. It re-examines three of the cases igniting the debate - Cambodia, Kosovo, and Timor-Leste - and evaluates how these transitional administrations implemented their liberal mandates and how local involvement affected the conduct of their activities. In so doing, it reveals that these cases were neither liberal nor peacebuilding. It also demonstrates that while local involvement is imperative to peacebuilding, illiberal local involvement restores an elite-centred status quo and reinforces or creates new forms of conflict and violence. Using both liberal and critical lenses, the author ultimately argues that the conceptual and operational departure from the holistic and comprehensive origins of liberal peacebuilding in fact paved the way for the liberal peace crisis itself.

This book analyses the relation between state and religion in Indonesia, considering both the philosophical underpinning of government intervention on religious life but also cases and regulations related to religious affairs in Indonesia. Examining state regulation of religious affairs, it focuses on understanding its origin, history and consequences on citizens' religious life in modern Indonesia, arguing that while Indonesian constitutions have preserved religious freedom, they have also tended to construct wide-ranging discretionary powers in the government to control religious life and oversee religious freedom. Over more than four decades, Indonesian governments have constructed a variety of policies on religion based on constitutional legacies interpreted in the light of the norms and values of the existing religious majority group. A cutting edge examination of the tension between religious order and harmony on one hand, and protecting religious freedom for all on the other, this book offers a cutting edge study of how the history of regulating religion has been about the constant negotiation for the boundaries of authority between the state and the religious majority group

BROADLY SPEAKING, SINCE COMMUNIST LIBERATION IN 1949, THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (PRC) HAVE FLUCTUATED BETWEEN INTROSPECTION AND INTERACTION. CHINA'S FOREIGN, AND DOMESTIC, POLICIES HAVE ALSO BEEN MARKED BY SIGNIFICANT VARIATIONS IN THE PRIORITY ASSIGNED TO THE MORE REVOLUTIONARY DIMENSIONS OF ITS 'GREAT EXPERIMENT.' CURRENTLY, CHINA IS PLAYING A VERY ACTIVE, AND AVOWEDLY LESS REVOLUTIONARY, ROLE IN ASIAN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS. WITHIN A DISCUSSION OF THE BROADER PERIMETERS OF CHINA'S FOREIGN POLICY OBJECTIVES, THIS ESSAY WILL ASSESS PRC INTERESTS IN THE ASIAN REGION AND THE NATURE OF CHINA'S ROLE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE INTERPLAY OF DOMESTIC AND EXTERNAL FACTORS IN THE SHAPING OF CHINESE PERCEPTIONS AND ACTIVITIES WILL BE SHOWN. HOW CAN RECENT SHIFTS IN BEIJING'S RELATIONS WITH THE TWO SUPERPOWERS BE EXPLAINED, AND WHAT ARE THE SECURITY IMPLICATIONS FOR CHINA AND THE REGION? WHERE DOES CHINA NOW PERCEIVE ITSELF TO LIE ON THE TOKYO-WASHINGTON AXIS? HOW DOES CHINA SEEK TO PURSUE ITS BROADER INTERESTS IN THE ASIAN REGION AND WHAT RESOURCES AND CONSTRAINTS EXIST IN THIS ENDEAVOUR? WHAT ARE THE LIKELY RESPONSES OF THE OTHER ASIAN STATES TO CHINESE INITIATIVES?