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Kriege bringen unsägliches Leid und können ganze Staaten und Gesellschaften vernichten. Und doch führen Menschen seit Jahrtausenden Krieg und nutzen oft die Friedenszeit, um sich für den Krieg zu rüsten. Zwischenstaatliche Kriege waren zuletzt zwar in den Hintergrund getreten, dafür nahmen innergesellschaftliche Kriege zu. Und mit der Rückkehr eines rabiaten Nationalismus werden auch Kriege zwischen Staaten wieder eine größere Rolle spielen, wie der russische Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine allzu deutlich zeigt. Jochen Hippler spürt der Frage nach, weshalb Kriege geführt werden....

Western perceptions of the Middle East have all too often been simplified. Islamic culture can easily be stereotyped in the Western media and even in this century the orient has been romanticized. Here, five writers from widely different backgrounds argue that these perceptions are maintained in the current policies of Western governments and institutions.

The term 'nation-building' has experienced a remarkable renaissance since the early 1990s. It has been used to describe and to justify the military interventions in Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq. Linked to the idea of 'failed' or 'failing' states, the concept is used to hide and legitimise a whole range of diverse policies, allowing foreign powers to control and reshape countries in areas of conflict.Currently the international debate on nation building is heavily dominated by US actors and authors, especially by writers connected to the Bush administration or its policies. This book presents...

Democracy has many aspects. It can act as a tool to empower people, as well as a mechanism for assessing the legitimacy of a government. But democracy can also be used by powerful elites as a device of control. In the post-Cold War era, democratization of the Third World has been developed by Western powers as a policy that fuses both democratic rhetoric and support for more pluralist policies in the Third World, with the pursuit of Western interests.