Peace Research : Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9780415580885 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 296 str.

Dr Peter Wallensteen

Opis

This volume comprises essays on peace research by one of the leading scholars in the field. It focuses on finding ways to understand and identify conflicts and undertake conflict resolution, practicing conflict resolution through academic diplomacy and looking for peaceful alternatives to war.

Spis treści

Part 1: Making Peace Researchable  1. Making Peace Researchable  2. The Uppsala Code of Ethics for Scientists  Part 2: Knowing War – Understanding History  3. War in Peace Research  4. Four Models of Major Power Politics: Geopolitik, Realpolitik, Idealpolitik and Kapitalpolitik  5. Major Power, Confrontation and War, 1816-1976  6. Universalism vs. Particularism. On the Limits of Major Power Order  7. Global Governance in A New Age: The UN between P 1, G2 and A New Global Society  Part 3: Towards Conflict Resolution Analysis  8. Widening the Researchable: Conflict, Resolution and Prevention  9. The Uppsala Conflict Data Program, 1978-2010: The Story, the Rationale and the Program  10. Conflict Prevention: Methodology for Knowing the Unknown  11. Armed Conflict and Peace Agreements  12. Dag Hammarskjöld and the Psychology of Diplomacy  Part 4: Sanctions and Peace Research  13. Sanctions and Peace Research  14. A Century of Economic Sanctions: A Field Revisited  15. Sanctions and Peace Building. Lessons from Africa  Part 5: Academics in Peacemaking  16. Academics in Peacemaking  17. The Strengths and Limits of Academic Diplomacy: the Case of Bougainville  18. An Experiment in Academic Diplomacy: The Middle East Seminar in 1990.  Bibliography