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  • Security Without Weapons

    Rethinking violence, nonviolent action, and civilian protection

    av M. S. Wallace ...
    Serie serien Interventions
    Few questions of global politics are more pressing than how to respond to widespread violence against civilians. Despite the efforts of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) proponents to draw attention away from exclusively military responses, debates on humanitarian intervention and R2P’s “Third Pillar” still tend to boil down to two unsatisfying options: stand by and “do nothing” or take military ... Les mer

    584,26 kr

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  • Winning the War on War

    The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide

    av Joshua S. Goldstein ...
    Everyone knows: wars are getting worse, more civilians are dying, and peacemaking achieves nothing, right? Wrong.Despite all the bad-news headlines, peacekeeping is working. Fewer wars are starting, more are ending, and those that remain are smaller and more localized. But peace doesn’t just happen; it needs to be put into effect. Moreover, understanding the global decline in armed conflict is ... Les mer

    49,00 kr

  • Conflict, Security and the Reshaping of Society

    The Civilization of War

    Redigert av Alessandro Dal Lago, Salvatore Palidda ...
    Serie serien Routledge Studies in Liberty and Security
    A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.This book is an examination of the effect of contemporary wars (such as the 'War on Terror') on civil life ... Les mer

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  • Aid Effectiveness in Africa

    Developing Trust between Donors and Governments

    av Phyllis R. Pomerantz ...
    A significant contribution to the ongoing debate on aid effectiveness, Aid Effectiveness in Africa starts from the premise that money alone will not bring sustained development to Africa. With grounding in years of experience and fieldwork, Phyllis R. Pomerantz examines the relationship between aid donors and recipients and the extent to which trust is present in today's aid environment. Pomerantz ... Les mer

    422,97 kr

  • Managing Critical Incidents and Large-Scale Event Security

    av Eloy Nuñez, Ernest G. Vendrell ...
    2017 Award Winner of the ASIS Security Book of the YearNuñez and Vendrell aim to provide the most current and effective resources for managing special events and critical incidents. Their book relies heavily on case studies and after action reports that examine the lessons learned from a multitude of previous events and incidents. In addition, the text identifies and examines best practices and ... Les mer

    472,36 kr

  • 50 Years Of Urban Planning In Singapore

    av Chye Kiang Heng ...
    Serie serien World Scientific Series On Singapore's 50 Years Of Nation-building
    50 Years of Urban Planning in Singapore is an accessible and comprehensive volume on Singapore's planning approach to urbanization. Organized into three parts, the first section of the volume, 'Paradigms, Policies, and Processes', provides an overview of the ideologies and strategies underpinning urban planning in Singapore; the second section, 'The Built Environment as a Sum of Parts', delves ... Les mer

    277,87 kr

  • Reinventing London

    av Bridget Rosewell ...
    Serie serien Perspectives
    London has enjoyed an extraordinary period of growth in the past generation, symbolized by the towers of Canary Wharf built on the skeleton of the old docks. Finance was at the heart of this, so how can London’s economy be reinvented after the financial crisis? Success will depend on several factors that must go together: growing service sectors in addition to finance; making it possible for the ... Les mer

    101,89 kr

  • Europeanization of the Western Balkans

    Environmental Governance in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia

    av Adam Fagan, Indraneel Sircar ...
    Serie serien Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The book analyses the changing roles of international agencies, governmental bodies, non-governmental organisations, and local communities around major road-building environmental impact assessment processes in order to examine whether the influence of the European Union has transformed environmental governance in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Serbia. ... Les mer

    539,46 kr

  • Coming Home after Disaster

    Multiple Dimensions of Housing Recovery

    Redigert av Alka Sapat, Ann-Margaret Esnard ...
    Post-disaster housing concerns and dilemmas are complex, global in nature, and are inextricably intertwined with social, economic, and political considerations. The multi-faceted nature of housing recovery requires a holistic approach that accounts for its numerous dimensions and contours that are best captured with multi-disciplinary, multi-scalar, and multi-hazard approaches. This book serves as ... Les mer

    472,36 kr

  • Quebra-Quilos and Peasant Resistance

    Peasants, Religion, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

    av Kim Richardson ...
    In 1874 and 1875, Brazilian peasants in the Northeastern region of Brazil rose up in rebellion, destroying the weights and measures of the new metric system implemented by the government from Rio de Janeiro. The authorities quickly dubbed this the Quebra-Quilos or the "Break the Scales" uprising. Richardson's analysis of the uprising explores its underlying causes: increased taxes, rising costs of ... Les mer

    396,52 kr

  • The Sociology of Space

    Materiality, Social Structures, and Action

    av Martina Löw ...
    Serie serien Social Sciences (R0)
    In this book, the author develops a relational concept of space that encompasses social structure, the material world of objects and bodies, and the symbolic dimension of the social world. Löw’s guiding principle is the assumption that space emerges in the interplay between objects, structures and actions. Based on a critical discussion of classic theories of space, Löw develops a new dynamic ... Les mer

    1 402,77 kr

  • Utopian England

    Community Experiments 1900-1945

    av Dennis Hardy ...
    Serie serien Planning, History and Environment Series
    England in the early part of the twentieth century was rich in utopian ventures - diverse and intriguing in their scope and aims. Two world wars, an economic depression, and the emergence of fascist states in Europe were all a spur to idealists to seek new limits - to escape from the here and now, and to create sanctuaries for new and better lives.Dennis Hardy explores this fascinating history of ... Les mer

    571,83 kr