The movement of nation building in Islamic societies away from the secular models of the early 20th century was accompanied by growing antagonism between the Muslim majority and religious minorities. This title offers a comparative analysis of how these minorities developed their own distinctive identities within the modern Islamic nation-state.
The movement of nation building in Islamic societies away from the secular models of the early 20th century was accompanied by growing antagonism betw...
Post-conflict societies experience great difficulty in making their new democratic power-sharing institutions work. In Northern Ireland, the system prescribed in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement has repeatedly broken down, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the system prescribed under the Dayton Accord of 1995 depends for its survival on the presence of international peacekeeping forces.
Post-conflict societies experience great difficulty in making their new democratic power-sharing institutions work. In Northern Ireland, the system pr...
The UN has adopted a "responsibility to protect" mandate for humanitarian intervention in civil wars - but there is no institutional basis for carrying out that mandate. Patricia Marchak argues that unless would-be interveners have an understanding of local issues, agents who speak local languages, and a military force fully prepared to undertake both peaceful and military missions on short notice, UN and other attempts to intervene are unlikely to succeed. While UN-sponsored international criminal courts have been successful in obliging leaders to accept responsibility for their actions...
The UN has adopted a "responsibility to protect" mandate for humanitarian intervention in civil wars - but there is no institutional basis for carryin...