The series publishes scholarly, up to date, and succinct accounts of the origins, trajectory, and likely evolution of particular national, ethnic, and communal conflicts. Each author’s regional field experience will frame a vivid, accessible, clear, and accurate analysis for the policy-maker, scholar, student, and general reader. The series is closed to new submissions.
This collection of new case studies assesses the ability of asymmetrical autonomy agreements to resolve violent struggles between central governments and separatist groups within their borders.
This collection of essays explores the contemporary crises in Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo-Kinshasa, offering important new insights into the cycle of genocidal violence, ethnic strife, and civil war that has made the Great Lakes region of Central Africa the most violent on the continent.
Nationalism and Accommodation in Multinational Democracies
Jaime Lluch
Price: $95.00
ISBN: 9780812246001
Pub Date: October 2014
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
Visions of Sovereignty provides a deep analysis of political activity within the Québécois and Catalonian national movements from a comparative perspective. This interdisciplinary study examines why some nationalists take a secessionist stance while others within the same movement chose nonsecessionist approaches toward greater self-rule.
Edited by Tristan James Mabry, John McGarry, Margaret Moore and Brendan O'Leary
Price: $89.95
ISBN: 9780812244977
Pub Date: June 2013
Format: Hardcover
416 Pages
Divided Nations and European Integration is a timely and authoritative collection that demonstrates how the expansion of pan-European institutions is affecting nations divided by sovereign borders, affording political opportunities to some but denying the aspirations of others.
Through case studies of Afghanistan, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine and Turkey, this volume examines the manifold roles of external nonstate actors in influencing the outcome of hostilities within a state's borders.
This volume considers an array of power-sharing systems in divided cities and states, with critical evaluations of their merits and defects as well as explanations of their emergence, maintenance, and failings.
The conflict in Chechnya involves many of the most contentious issues in contemporary international politics. By providing us with a persuasive and challenging study, Hughes sets out the indispensable lessons for other conflicts involving the volatile combination of insurgency and counterinsurgency, most notably the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Varieties of Governance in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Kosovo
Maria Koinova
Price: $90.00
ISBN: 9780812245226
Pub Date: July 2013
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
Tracing the development of informally institutionalized conflict dynamics in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Kosovo, Maria Koinova analyzes why some conflicts were resolved with minimal violence after the end of communism and others broke out into civil war.
Cyprus and Institutional Innovations in Divided Societies
Neophytos Loizides
Price: $84.95
ISBN: 9780812247756
Pub Date: January 2016
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Designing Peace examines how institutional innovation impacts peace building in divided societies. Drawing on examples from Bosnia, South Africa, and Northern Ireland, the book demonstrates how institutional lessons from elsewhere could be applied to future negotiations in Cyprus and its broader region.
Presenting the first database of constitutional design in all African countries, and seven original case studies, Constitutions and Conflict Management in Africa explores the types of domestic political institutions that can buffer societies from destabilizing changes that otherwise increase the risk of violence.
