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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!

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.