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Examines how the failure of the victors at the end of World War I to create a peace settlement based on reconciliation rather than a consolidation of their own powers led to the instability of the Balkans and the Middle East, which continues to the present day

Part I. - Measuring Post-Conflict Development Success: Theory and Practice: Introduction, Brendan M. Howe. - Security, post-conflict development, and good governance in East Asia, Brendan M. Howe. - The responsibility to protect and Northeast Asia: the case of North Korea, Boris Kondoch. - Part II . - East Asian 'Success' Stories and Caveats: Aid to build governance in a fragile state: foreign assistance to a post-conflict South Korea, Jae-Jung Suh and Jinkyung Kim. - Human security and post-conflict development in Taiwan, Christian Schaeffer. - Post-conflict developments in the Vietnamese context - reform, conflict resolution and regional integration, Ramses Amer. - Part III . - East Asian Obstacle Case Studies and Opportunities: Human security in post-Cold War Cambodia, Sorpong Peou. - Oligarchic rule, ethnocratic tendencies and armed conflict in the Philippines, Nathan Gilbert Quimpo. - From authoritarian to democratic models of post-conflict development: the Indonesian experience, Edward Aspinall. - Part IV . - Past Asian Initiatives in the Field of Human Security: Working for human security: JICA's experience, Keiichi Tsunekawa and Ryutaro Murotani. - Korea's development assistance in fragile states: what is at stake?, Woojin Jung. - Human security in building the ASEAN community, Carolina G. Hernandez

"This book analyses the nature of the current strategic changes in the Afghanistan-Pakistan (Af/Pak) region. The region encompassing Afghanistan and Pakistan is undergoing a fundamental strategic change. As the international Afghanistan conferences have demonstrated, the international community - which is a US-led coalition of the willing - will withdraw its combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014. This withdrawal of troops, as well as the offer of economic aid and negotiations to the Taliban, aims to transfer the responsibility of the future of Afghanistan to the Afghans themselves and to their regional neighbours. This edited volume analyses the nature of this strategic change in order to seek possible future scenarios and to examine policy options. Bringing together contributions from leading academics in the field, the book is centred around three key questions: what has gone wrong in the past with regard to Afghanistan and what strategic adjustments are needed? Is Pakistan a strategic ally of the West, or has Pakistan become a strategic problem? What are the possible future scenarios and policy options and what does strategic readjustment really mean? This book will be of much interest to students of Central and South Asian politics, strategic studies, foreign policy and security studies generally"--

Introduction -- 1. Nineteenth century precursors of an international criminal legal system -- 2. The birth of the new justice at the Paris Peace Conference -- 3. Crimes against humanity and crimes of denationalization : the victory of political expediency over justice -- 4. Blueprints for international criminal courts and their political rejection in the 1920s -- 5. International terrorism in the 1920s and '30s : the response of European states through the League of Nations and the attempt to create an international criminal court -- 6. The search for a victim-centered new justice, 1942-1946 : the World Jewish Congress and the Institute of Jewish Affairs -- 7. The Genocide Convention : the gutting of preventative measures, 1946-48 -- 8. Revisiting the Geneva Conventions, 1946-49 : synthesizing the old and new justice -- Epilogue -- Conclusion

"Formerly one of the largest and most militant Islamic organizations in the Middle East, Egypt's al-Gama'ah al-Islamiyah is believed to have played an instrumental role in numerous acts of global terrorism, including the assassination of President Anwar Sadat and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. In later years, however, the organization issued a surprising renunciation of violence, repudiating its former ideology and replacing it with a shari'a-based understanding and assessment of the purpose and proper application of jihad. This key manifesto of modern Islamist thought is now available to an English-speaking audience in an eminently readable translation by noted Islamic scholar Sherman A. Jackson. Unlike other Western and Muslim critiques of violent extremism, this important work emerges from within the movement of Middle Eastern Islamic activism, both challenging and enriching prevailing notions about the role of Islamists in fighting the scourge of extremist politics, blind anti-Westernism and, alas, wayward jihad"--

Prologue: The Zionist Foundations 1. - 1. The Emergence of Israel 1947-1949 29. - 2. Consolidation 1949-1953 56. - 3. Attempts at Accommodation 1953-1955 100. - 4. The Road to Suez 1955-1957 152. - 5. The Alliance of the Periphery 1957-1963 198. - 6. Poor Little Samson 1963-1969 232. - 7. Immobilism 1969-1974 285. - 8. Disengagement 1974-1977 330. - 9. Peace with Egypt 1977-1981 359. - 10. The Lebanese Quagmire 1981-1984 394. - 11. Political Paralysis 1984-1988 437. - 12. Stonewalling 1988-1992 476. - 13. The Breakthrough 1992-1995 519. - 14. The Setback 1995-1996 566. - 15. Back to the Iron Wall 1996-1999 585. - 16. Stalemate with Syria 1999-2000 640. - 17. Peace in Tatters 2000-2001 674. - 18. Sharon's War on Terror 2001-2003 710. - 19. The Road Map to Nowhere 2003-2006 751. - Epilogue 794

CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1. - CHAPTER TWO Which Local Factors Pose Challenges to Nation-Building? 11. - CHAPTER THREE Cambodia 29. - CHAPTER FOUR El Salvador 67. - CHAPTER FIVE Bosnia and Herzegovina 93. - CHAPTER SIX East Timor 125. - CHAPTER SEVEN Sierra Leone 151. - CHAPTER EIGHT Democratic Republic of the Congo 179. - CHAPTER NINE Estimating the Challenges and Comparing with Outcomes 205. - CHAPTER TEN Conclusions 233. - APPENDIXES. - A. Performance Indicators and Nation-Building Inputs for 20 Major Post-Cold War Nation-Building Interventions 247. - B. Economic Growth Statistics for Nation-Building Interventions in Comparative Perspective 269