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Overcoming Armed Violence in a Complex World : Essays in Honor of Herbert Wulf.

The nature of armed conflict has changed in recent decades. This presents new challenges for the prevention of violence, the promotion of disarmament and the securing of durable peace. The essays in this book address important aspects related to these challenges, with references to the work of promi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brzoska, Michael
Otros Autores: Krohn, Axel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leverkusen-Opladen : Budrich UniPress, Limited, 2009.
Colección:Politikwissenschaft Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Overcoming Armed Violencein a Complex World. Essays in Honor of Herbert Wulf; Contents; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Introduction (Michael Brzoska and Axel Krohn); Part 1 From the Military to the Civilian; Swords to Ploughshares: Perspectives for the European Defence Industry
  • Do We Need a New Discussion on Defence Conversion? (Klaus Mehrens and Peter Wilke); Small Arms, Bigger Issues: Lessons from the Case of the Decommissioning of Paramilitary Weapons in Northern Ireland (Corinna Hauswedell)
  • From Conversion to Peacebuilding: A Reassessment of Demobilization and Reintegration in Africa (Kees Kingma)Part 2 The Winding Road: Building Institutions for the Containment of Violence; Managing the Tools of War and Violence: Global Governance or State-centric Realpolitik? (Edward J. Laurance); Beyond Disarmament: Small Arms, Armed Violence and Development (Peter Batchelor); Security Sector Reform in Post-Conflict Settings: Concepts, Policy and Practice (Heiner Hänggi); Multi-ethnic Federations: Integrative or Pretext for Secession (Andreas Heinemann-Grüder)
  • Part 3 Challenges of and for Security GovernanceGlobal Governance as Self-deception: How the Western State-building Project Neglects Local Politics (Tobias Debiel and Daniel Lambach); War, Violence and the State (Keith Krause); Challenging the Weberian Concept of the State: Lessons Learned from a Far-away South Sea Island (Volker Böge); Protecting People: Responsibility or Threat? (Lothar Brock); Arctic Security Governance: A Multilateral Perspective (Jayantha Dhanapala); Where is the World Heading? What Determines Change in the International System? (Adam Daniel Rotfeld); About the Authors