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The Waning of Major War
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ISBN: 0714685887 0714657239 1315040301 1135320187 9781135320188 9781315040301 9781135320256 9781135320324 9780714657233 9780714685885 113532025X Year: 2013 Publisher: Hoboken Taylor and Francis

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This book is a systematic effort by leading international scholars to map the trends in major-power warfare and explore whether it is waxing or waning. The main point of departure is that major-power war as a historical institution is in decline. This does not mean, though, that wars between states are in general disappearing. While there is some convergence in the conclusions by individual authors, they are by no means unanimous about the trend. The articles explore different causes and correlates of the declining trend in major-power warfare, including the impact of the international structu

Cultural power : the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu
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ISBN: 0226785955 0226785947 Year: 1997 Publisher: Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press,

Is violence inevitable in Africa? : theories of conflict and approaches to conflict prevention.
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ISBN: 9004144501 9789004144507 9781429453431 1429453435 1280868317 9781280868313 9786610868315 661086831X 9047407784 9789047407782 1433704722 9781433704727 Year: 2005 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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This volume is an attempt to analyse the causes of violent conflict in Africa, to review the various approaches to conflict prevention and conflict resolution and to discuss some of the practical difficulties in ending violence. It brings together a wide range of scholars and practitioners, with specialist knowledge of a large number of African countries. The intention here is to provide a survey of the various approaches to conflict in Africa, a systematic discussion of some of the root causes of violence, as well as case studies on the consequences of violence and the effects of conflict resolution.


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Discipline, toezicht en straf : de geboorte van de gevangenis.
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ISBN: 9789065540218 Year: 2007 Publisher: Groningen Historische uitgeverij

War and punishment
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ISBN: 0691049440 9780691049441 0691049432 1400814294 9786613380128 1283380129 1400823951 9781400814299 9781400823956 9780691049434 1400816114 Year: 2000 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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What makes wars drag on and why do they end when they do? Here H. E. Goemans brings theoretical rigor and empirical depth to a long-standing question of securities studies. He explores how various government leaders assess the cost of war in terms of domestic politics and their own postwar fates. Goemans first develops the argument that two sides will wage war until both gain sufficient knowledge of the other's strengths and weaknesses so as to agree on the probable outcome of continued war. Yet the incentives that motivate leaders to then terminate war, Goemans maintains, can vary greatly depending on the type of government they represent. The author looks at democracies, dictatorships, and mixed regimes and compares the willingness among leaders to back out of wars or risk the costs of continued warfare. Democracies, according to Goemans, will prefer to withdraw quickly from a war they are not winning in order to appease the populace. Autocracies will do likewise so as not to be overthrown by their internal enemies. Mixed regimes, which are made up of several competing groups and which exclude a substantial proportion of the people from access to power, will likely see little risk in continuing a losing war in the hope of turning the tide. Goemans explores the conditions and the reasoning behind this "gamble for resurrection" as well as other strategies, using rational choice theory, statistical analysis, and detailed case studies of Germany, Britain, France, and Russia during World War I. In so doing, he offers a new perspective of the Great War that integrates domestic politics, international politics, and battlefield developments.

The politics of postmodernity : an introduction to contemporary politics and culture
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ISBN: 0761952233 0761952225 9780761952237 1446217140 1283881608 1848609396 0585333912 9781848609396 9781446217146 9780585333915 9781283881609 9780761952220 Year: 1999 Publisher: London : SAGE,

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Offering a profound and accessible account of how politics is undergoing a shift from the modern to the postmodern, the authors explore the changing ways in which politics function by exploring the values underpinning new politics.

Dynamics of contention
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ISBN: 0521011876 9780521011877 0521805880 9780521805889 9780511805431 1107123836 0511174802 0511041713 0511154860 0511302401 0511805438 1280433450 0511044046 9780511041716 9780511044045 9786610433452 6610433453 9781280433450 9780511302404 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In recent decades the study of social movements, revolution, democratization and other non-routine politics has flourished. And yet research on the topic remains highly fragmented, reflecting the influence of at least three traditional divisions. The first of these reflects the view that various forms of contention are distinct and should be studied independent of others. Separate literatures have developed around the study of social movements, revolutions and industrial conflict. A second approach to the study of political contention denies the possibility of general theory in deference to a grounding in the temporal and spatial particulars of any given episode of contention. The study of contentious politics are left to 'area specialists' and/or historians with a thorough knowledge of the time and place in question. Finally, overlaid on these two divisions are stylized theoretical traditions - structuralist, culturalist, and rationalist - that have developed largely in isolation from one another. This book was first published in 2001.

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Social movements. --- Quarreling. --- Government, Resistance to. --- Revolutions. --- #SBIB:324H74 --- #SBIB:324H73 --- Insurrections --- Rebellions --- Revolts --- Revolutionary wars --- History --- Political science --- Political violence --- War --- Government, Resistance to --- Civil resistance --- Non-resistance to government --- Resistance to government --- Insurgency --- Nonviolence --- Revolutions --- Contentiousness --- Disputing --- Verbal self-defense --- Movements, Social --- Social history --- Social psychology --- Politieke verandering: sociale bewegingen --- Politieke verandering: oppositie en minderheid, protest, politiek geweld --- WARS -- 327.5 --- REVOLUTIONS -- 327.5 --- HISTORY -- 327.6 --- STRIKES -- 327.6 --- WARS -- 327.6 --- REVOLUTIONS -- 327.6 --- STRIKES -- 327.5 --- #A0505PSA --- Querelles --- Collective behavior --- Democratization --- 850 Vrede- en conflictstudies --- 841.1 Democratisering --- 810 Theorie - methode --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- New democracies --- Behavior, Collective --- Crowd behavior --- Crowds --- Mass behavior --- Human behavior --- Social action --- Psychology --- Social movements --- Political systems --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Community organization --- 810 Theorie en Methode --- Comportement collectif --- Mouvements sociaux --- Révolutions --- Démocratisation --- Collective behavior. --- Democratization. --- Résistance au gouvernement --- Révolutions --- Social Sciences --- Sociology

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