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"In an age where the global rules-based world order faces significant challenges to maintaining peace and stability—with world superpowers jockeying to preserve their influence across multiple theatres of conflict—this book explores the major international laws and treaties governing the process of peace and reconciliation. Focusing on the conflicts in Afghanistan, Palestine-Israel and Kashmir, it examines and analyses these conflicts through the prism of international law, humanitarian norms, treaties, and conventions, interspersed with insights from the Islamic legal tradition. An innovative approach to the problem of conflict resolution is applied by a) reviewing the jurisprudential sources and tools that are used in international and Islamic law, and b) using a comparative analysis to provide an assessment of whether these sources help or hinder—individually or collectively—the chances for peace and reconciliation in specific global conflict theatres. It also explores how by supplementing these legal tools using principles of Islamic peacebuilding along with a theo-diplomatic conflict reconciliation model could assist in the brokering of peaceful outcomes"--

Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia examines the causes of lasting and complex tensions in the region from underlying political, historical, military and economic perspectives; discusses their historical development and political-economic implications for the world; and explores possible solutions to build lasting peace. The book is unique in that it approaches the topic from the historical perspective of each constituent country in the region. Major global powers such as the United States and Russia have also closely engaged in the political and economic affairs of this region through a network of alliances, diplomacy, trade and investment. The book also discusses the influence of these external powers over the crisis, their political and economic objectives in the region, their strategies and the dynamics that their engagement has created. Both South Korea and North Korea have sought reunification of the Korean peninsula, which will have a substantial impact on the region. The book examines its justification, feasibility and effects for the region. The book discusses the role of Mongolia in the context of the power dynamics in Northeast Asia. A relatively small country, in terms of its population, Mongolia has rarely been examined in this context; Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia makes a fresh assessment of its potential role.

Die Bundeswehr ist ein Kind des Kalten Krieges und ein Stiefkind der Bundesrepublik: Auf Druck der Amerikaner ins Leben gerufen, haben Bevölkerung und Armee bis heute nicht wirklich zueinander gefunden. Die Gründe liegen ebenso sehr in der NS-Vergangenheit wie in politischer Unsicherheit und Kurzsichtigkeit. Jahrzehntelang wurde die Truppe kaputtgespart, gleichzeitig stiegen die politischen Ansprüche ins Maßlose: Der gescheiterte Afghanistan-Einsatz steht dafür. Hauke Friederichs beleuchtet die wechselnden Aufträge an die Bundeswehr, zeigt die lange Reihe von Skandalen und Affären, und macht deutlich, was es braucht, damit dieses Land wieder verteidigungsfähig ist und einen substanziellen Beitrag zum NATO-Bündnis leisten kann.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1: Power in Peace Relations -- Chapter 2. The Fix: Why We Can't Solve the World's Problems -- Chapter 3. The American Supremacy and Leadership Pre-eminence in NATO: A Test of the Transatlantic Alliance -- Chapter 4. Cosmopolitan Peacekeeping Through International Humanitarian Order in the Frame of Sustainability and the Global Economy -- Chapter 5. Making Waves: Accessing a Model of Sustainable Peace and Cooperation Through Qualitative Methodologies -- Chapter 6. European Union: Politics and Policies -- Chapter 7. Making War and Building Peace: What Future for the United Nations and Regional Peace Operations -- Part 2: International Politics and War on Peace -- Chapter 8. Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine, (the West) and the New Cold War -- Chapter 9. The Questions of War: Taiwan and Ukraine -- Chapter 10. Populist Sharp Power: How the World Entered a New Cold War -- Chapter 11. Human Rights in the World Community: Issues, Challenges and Action Proposed -- Chapter 12. Barack Obama and the Politics of Race: The Myth of Post racism and Public Perception in a New World Order -- Part 3: War, Diplomacy, Arms Races or Stability -- Chapter 13. The End of "the Endless War": Biden's Botched Afghanistan Exit and the Myth of American Decline -- Chapter 14. Nuclear Danger in Asia: Arms Races or Stability? -- Chapter 15. Addressing Disinformation & Misplaced Criticism: The Need for a More Effective EU Public Diplomacy -- Chapter 16. Children, Conflicts, and International Relations: The International Law and Children's Human Rights -- Chapter 17. Putin's Russia and the Nuclear War Threat to the West: Everyone Loses, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back -- Chapter 18. "Human Security and Human Rights: Connecting the Global and the Local" -- Part 4: Global Security, Terrorism, and the Role of Force -- Chapter 19. "The Battle Against Global Terrorism the Role of Private Security in the USA and in the EU" -- Chapter 20. Bringing Law as Interpretation (Through Performance Art) to the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: A Conceptual Framework for Borderlands -- Chapter 21. ""The Hidden Figure of a Global Crime": From Human Trafficking to Human Rights: Complexities and Pitfalls" -- Chapter 22. George Orwell's Animal Farm Revisited: Situating International Instability - Why? What? Whither? -- Chapter 23. A Spin of the Wheel – Co-operation or Competition: Defense Procurement and Defense Industries in International Relations -- Chapter 24. Islam V. Islamic State: Charges, Arguments, and Evidence in the Islamic Case Against Isis -- Chapter 25. "Modernizing the U.S. Strategic Land Based Missile Force: Prudent Necessity or Deterrence Distraction?" -- Part 5: Foreign Policy Analysis -- Chapter 26. The New EU-Africa Relations' Strategy: Soft Power or Neoliberalist Power? -- Chapter 27. Britain's Economic Relations with Africa in a Post-Brexit, Post-Elizabethan Future -- Chapter 28. Romania: Between Europeanization and De-Europeanization -- Chapter 29. Trojan Horses or Still Out in the Cold? United States Foreign Relations with Poland: Road Ahead in the Wake of Russian Rockets Landing in NATO State Poland -- Chapter 30. Why Foreign Policies Fail, and Why Political Scientists Misunderstand Policy Failure.

As the Bush administration prepared to wage war against Iraq, millions of people in the United States and around the world took to the streets to warn against the impending disaster. It was the largest wave of antiwar protest in history. This book traces efforts by opponents of the war to end the worsening conflict and win Congressional approval for the withdrawal of troops, told by distinguished peace scholar and activist David Cortright.

Weltmacht, Wirtschaftsmacht, wachsende Spannungen in den internationalen Beziehungen: China erzeugt in Europa zunehmend Angst. Doch das muss nicht sein, zeigt Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik: Europa, so der überraschende Befund, ist im geopolitischen Kräfte- und Mächtespiel zwischen China, USA und Russland der versteckte Akteur, der durchaus entscheidend sein kann.Ihre profunde Kenntnis Chinas verbindet die Autorin mit einer scharfsichtigen Analyse der Haltung Pekings im russischen Krieg gegen die Ukraine und des strategischen Dreiecks im - eben nicht nur bipolaren - Kalten Krieg. Heute, da sich die Welt neu ordnet, kann und muss Europa auch gegenüber China eine aktive Rolle einnehmen.Dieses Buch füllt eine wichtige Lücke, um die Interessen der Volksrepublik und die Perspektiven Europas zu erkennen. Denn: Man kann die Welt nicht ohne China denken!