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This book interrogates the extent to which regional civil society organisations have evolved as actors in West Africa. Examining civil society democratic participation in regional integration and involvement in regionalism of peacebuilding, it rethinks how we study civil society in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) region. Beyond the functional typology of civil society actors as 'partner', 'legitimiser', 'resistance/counter-hegemonic' and 'manipulator', the book develops a new analytical framework to understand how organisations such as the West African Civil Society Forum (WACSOF) and West African Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) have evolved. Offering analytical perspectives of the actorship of specific regional civil society actors, the book draws attention to the tendencies in the previous studies of mistaking an action or misdeed that is empirically specific to particular civil society organisations within a region to the generality of the civic space of the region. Providing an alternative perspective aimed at invoking a new intellectual conversation about civil society regionalism this book advances a new analytical framework of action-based regional identity of civil society, regional presence of activities, regional capacities and societal impact. It will be of interest to academics and scholars of international relations, global governance, African politics and comparative regionalism.

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.

How do international organizations change? Many organizations expand into new areas or abandon programmes of work. Advocacy and Change in International Organizations argues that they do so not only at the collective direction of member states. Advocacy is a crucial but overlooked source of change in international organizations. Different actors can advocate for change: national diplomats, international bureaucrats, external experts, or civil society activists. They can use one of three advocacy strategies: social pressure, persuasion, and 'authority talk'. The success of each strategy depends on the presence of favourable conditions related to characteristics of advocates, targets, issues, and context. Institutionalization of new issues in international organizations as a multi-stage process, often accompanied by contestation. This book demonstrates how the advocacy-focused framework explains the origins of three workstreams of contemporary UN peacekeeping operations: communication, protection, and reconstruction. The issue of strategic communications was promoted by UN officials through the strategy of persuasion. Protection of civilians emerged due to a partially successful social influence campaign by a coalition of elected Security Council members and a subsequent (and successful) persuasion efforts by Canada. Quick impact projects entered peacekeepers' practice as the result of 'authority talk' by an expert panel. The three issues illustrate the diversity of pathways to change in international organizations, representing the top-down, bottom-up, and outside-in pathways. Moreover, they have achieved different degrees of institutionalization in UN's policies, structures, and frameworks: protection of civilians is the most institutionalized, as evidenced by measures to hold peacekeepers accountable for non-implementation, while quick impact projects are the least institutionalized.

During the second half of the 20th century, Colombia suffered extreme levels of political violence. This book explores the involvement of the international community in peacebuilding efforts in Colombia since 2016. In particular, it examines how interventions were framed in order to promote and sustain their involvement and questions whether these frames reflected reality within Colombia. The book focuses on key donors, including the US, the EU, Canada, Sweden and the UK, as well as multinational actors, such as the UN and the World Bank, to demonstrate how their framing of local issues for national and international consumption can have real world implications for peacebuilding efforts on the ground.

Teil I. Einleitung - 1. Einführung und Theoretisierung: Regionalismus und externe Akteure -- Teil II. Umfassende Mapping-Studien -- 2. Regionale Handelsregime in Afrika: Erforschung organisatorischer Überschneidungen und externer Effekte -- 3. Externe Akteure und Sicherheitsregionalismus in Afrika: Ein neuer Datensatz zur externen Finanzierung -- Teil III. Fallstudien -- 4. Akteure und Ambitionen in der Sicherheitspolitik der Europäischen Union gegenüber Afrika -- 5. Frankreich, die EU und die Sicherheits(un)integration der Afrikanischen Union -- 6. Wüstenrose oder Fata Morgana? Die G5-Sahelzone und ihre Partnerschaft mit der Europäischen Union -- 7. Evaluierung der Wirksamkeit der interregionalen Partnerschaft zwischen ECOWAS und EU im Bereich Frieden und Sicherheit im Kontext der Mali-Krise - 8. Ursachen und Auswirkungen externer Unterstützung für regionale Organisationen: Der Fall der EU-Unterstützung für die ECOWAS-Kommission -- Teil IV. Schlussfolgerungen -- 9. Schlussfolgerung.

The frequent failure of military or armed interventions to protect civilians is well known. This edited collection provides a comprehensive account of a different, effective paradigm: unarmed civilian protection (UCP). The principles and methods of UCP have been used for many decades to protect both specific, threatened individuals as well as whole communities. Featuring contributions from around the world, this book brings together a wide range of UCP practices in order to examine their underlying theory and interrelated strategies.

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 this book, 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.

Das Wechselspiel von Frieden, Konflikten, Gewalt und Krieg prägt unsere Gegenwart ebenso wie die Vergangenheit. Dieser Band bietet einen aktuellen Überblick über die programmatischen und methodischen Einsichten der Historischen Friedens- und Konfliktforschung und gibt Impulse zu ihrer konzeptionellen und thematischen Weiterentwicklung. Dabei werben die Beiträge für einen Ansatz, der Gewalt und Krieg nicht als Ausgangspunkt setzt, sondern problematisiert und erklärt. Dies macht Alternativen zu Gewalt und Krieg, Bemühungen zu deren Einhegung und Überwindung und das Streben nach Frieden zu einem wichtigen Fluchtpunkt der Erzählung.

The UN Security Council and International Law explores the legal powers, limits and potential of the United Nations Security Council, offering a broadly positive (and positivist) account of the Council's work in practice. This book aims to answer questions such as 'when are Council decisions binding and on whom?', 'what legal constraints exist on Council decision making?' and 'how far is the Council bound by international law?'. Defining the controlling legal rules and differentiating between what the Council can do, as opposed to what it should do as a matter of policy, this book offers both a tool for assessment of the Council as well as realistic solutions to address its deficiencies, and, most importantly, evaluates its potential for maintaining international peace and security, to the benefit of us all.

This book explores the growing attention that sociology has started to give to environmental issues in terms of peace and social justice. With a focus on sociological theory and its development, it reconstructs the long journey made by the social sciences towards the reconstruction, in a single theoretical paradigm, of the problems associated with the implementation of conditions of peace and sustainability. Beginning from the premise that environmental issues are never purely environmental, but entail political, economic and social implications, Sustainable Development and Peace offers an understanding of where we are heading and how, reflecting on present challenges and possible directions for the future.

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)

Chapter One - Setting the Scene -- Chapter Two - Moscow's response to post-war recovery in the aftermath of WWII -- Chapter Three - Russia's unique approach as a (re)emerging donor -- Chapter Four - Intervention and reconstruction in the Caucasus: The cases of Chechnya, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia -- Chapter Five - Intervention and reconstruction in Syria -- Chapter Six - Ukraine: The context, the case of Crimea, and Moscow's commitments to annexed territories -- Chapter Seven - Conclusion.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Foundations -- Chapter 3: At the Intersection of PCS and ERS -- Chapter 4: Great Powers Conflict -- Chapter 5: Peace, Pandemics, and Conflict -- Chapter 6: Climate Change Peace and Conflict -- Chapter 7: Emerging Technologies, Risk, Peace, and Conflict -- Chapter 8: Totalitarianism Risk and Peace -- Chapter 9: Conclusion.