This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to
reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones …

John Hobson claims that throughout its history most international theory has been
embedded within various forms of Eurocentrism. Rather than producing value-free and …

NGOs set out to save lives, relieve suffering, and service basic human needs. They are
committed to serving people across national borders and without regard to race, ethnicity …

" Climate change is increasingly recognized as a security issue. Yet this recognition belies
contestation over what security means and whose security is viewed as threatened. Different …

From Recipients to Donors examines the emergence, or re-emergence, of a large number of
nations as partners and donors in international development, from global powers such as …

This article is interested in the interface between internationally supported peace operations
and local approaches to peace that may draw on traditional, indigenous and customary …

Since the end of the Cold War, conflict prevention and resolution, peacekeeping and
peacebuilding have risen to the top of the international agenda. The third edition of this …

Since the end of the Cold War, more than 20 major peace operations have been deployed to
countries emerging from internal conflicts. This book argues that international efforts to …

Empire in denial: the politics of state-building : WestminsterResearch Skip to content
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To remember Hiroshima is to commit oneself to peace. Pope John Paul II, 1981 Pax Invictis
Virtue runs amok. Attributed to GK Chesterton This essay examines the development of the …