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Book Synopsis Paradoxes of Peace in Nineteenth Century Europe by : Thomas Hippler
Download or read book Paradoxes of Peace in Nineteenth Century Europe written by Thomas Hippler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Peace' is often simplistically assumed to be war's opposite, and as such is not examined closely or critically idealized in the literature of peace studies, its crucial role in the justification of war is often overlooked. Starting from a critical view that the value of 'restoring peace' or 'keeping peace' is, and has been, regularly used as a pretext for military intervention, this book traces the conceptual history of peace in nineteenth century legal and political practice. It explores the role of the value of peace in shaping the public rhetoric and legitimizing action in general international relations, international law, international trade, colonialism, and armed conflict. Departing from the assumption that there is no peace as such, nor can there be, it examines the contradictory visions of peace that arise from conflict. These conflicting and antagonistic visions of peace are each linked to a set of motivations and interests as well as to a certain vision of legitimacy within the international realm. Each of them inevitably conveys the image of a specific enemy that has to be crushed in order to peace being installed. This book highlights the contradictions and paradoxes in nineteenth century discourses and practices of peace, particularly in Europe.
Download or read book Paradoxes of War written by Zeev Maoz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do reasonable people lead their nations into the tremendously destructive traps of international conflict? Why do nations then deepen their involvement and make it harder to escape from these traps? In Paradoxes of War, originally published in 1990, Zeev Maoz addresses these and other paradoxical questions about the war process. Using a unique approach to the study of war, he demonstrates that wars may often break out because states wish to prevent them, and continue despite the desperate efforts of the combatants to end them. Paradoxes of War is organized around the various stages of war. The first part discusses the causes of war, the second the management of war, and the third the short- and long-term implications of war. In each chapter Maoz explores a different paradox as a contradiction between reasonable expectations and the outcomes of motivated behaviour based on those expectations. He documents these paradoxes in twentieth century wars, including the Korean War, the Six Day War, and the Vietnam War. Maoz then invokes cognitive and rational choice theories to explain why these paradoxes arise. Paradoxes of War is essential reading for students and scholars of international politics, war and peace studies, international relations theory, and political science in general.
Book Synopsis Paradoxes of Peace by : Alice Holmes Cooper
Download or read book Paradoxes of Peace written by Alice Holmes Cooper and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoughtfully examines the paradox of peace activism in postwar Germany
Download or read book The Paradox of Peace written by John Orme and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-06-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging text examines the foundations of peace by using diverse case studies to look at the calculations of political leaders and their reliance on optimism. Drawing on global examples from various historical periods, John D. Orme calls into question the longstanding assumption that optimism about the benefits of peace leads to conflict termination. Instead, he suggests that when leaders perceive little opportunity for gains through sustained conflict, the likelihood of peace through compromise may be most likely. Bringing together key issues of foreign policy, statesmanship, and diplomacy, this book offers a provocative and straightforward case against the use of optimism in international relations.
Book Synopsis Paradoxes of Peace, Or, The Presence of Infinity by : Nicholas Mosley
Download or read book Paradoxes of Peace, Or, The Presence of Infinity written by Nicholas Mosley and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradoxes of Peace continues the meditation of Mosley's Time at War, at the end of which he wrote that humans find themselves at home in war because they feel they know what they have to do, whereas in peace they have to discover this. But what should inform them--custom? need? duty? ambition? desire? Forces pull in different directions--fidelity versus adventurousness, probity versus fun. During the war, Mosley found himself having to combine fondness for his father, Oswald Mosley, with the need to speak out against his post-war politics. In times of peace, his love for his wife and children, too, seemed riddled with paradoxes. He sought answers in Christianity, but came to see organized religion as primarily a social institution. How does caring not become a trap?
Book Synopsis The Paradoxes of Peacebuilding Post-9/11 by : Stephen Baranyi
Download or read book The Paradoxes of Peacebuilding Post-9/11 written by Stephen Baranyi and published by University of British Columbia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of a three-year project asking "What Kind of Peace is Possible?" The Paradoxes of Peacebuilding Post-9/11 investigates the potential for sustainable peacebuilding around the globe. The volume is divided into four parts: the first looks at relative successes, including a chapter from the former Commissioner for Peace in Guatemala; the second looks at gridlock situations, such as Haiti and the Palestinian territories; the third looks into the future with a case study on Afghanistan and another on Sri Lanka; and the final section provides critical reviews of policy and practice on demobilization, disarmament, and reintegration. This timely book bridges the gap between minimalist and maximalist approaches to peacebuilding, and provides policy recommendations for national agents of change. As well, it gives voice to Southern researchers in Northern-dominated debates. It will interest practitioners and students of peace, security and development studies, as well as policymakers at many levels of government.
Book Synopsis The Peacemaker's Paradox by : Priscilla B. Hayner
Download or read book The Peacemaker's Paradox written by Priscilla B. Hayner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding from her path-breaking work in Unspeakable Truths, Priscilla Hayner focuses on a new challenge in The Peacemaker¿s Paradox: the age-old problem of negotiating peace after a war of atrocities. Drawing on her first-hand involvement in peace processes and interviews from the frontlines of peace talks, the author recounts many heretofore-untold stories of how justice has been negotiated, with great difficulty, and what this tells us for the future. Those with the most power to stop a war are the least likely to submit to justice for their crimes, but the demand for justice only grows louder. She also asks how the intervention of an international tribunal, such as the International Criminal Court, changes how a war is fought and the possibility of brokering peace. The Peacemaker¿s Paradox looks far and wide, from Gaddafi¿s Libya to the FARC talks in Colombia, to provide an unparalleled exploration of these thorniest of issues. A combination of interview-based reporting and political analysis, The Peacemaker¿s Paradox brings clarity to a field fraught with both legal and practical difficulties.
Download or read book God's Hazard written by Nicholas Mosley and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "God is said to have given humans freedom. Yet in the story of Genesis, God is a punishing father figure. Why have humans portrayed him this way? Here, a contemporary writer named Adam imagines God behaving as a good father should, seeing it is time for his children to leave home. Adam writes an account of this, and the story of his own child, Sophie, and his relationship with her. The scene moves from London to New York to Israel to Iran and Iraq. And might not God as well as Adam have a wife to take up the cause if things go wrong?"--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis The Paradoxes of Peacebuilding Post-9/11 by : Stephen Baranyi
Download or read book The Paradoxes of Peacebuilding Post-9/11 written by Stephen Baranyi and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is sustainable peace an illusion in a world where foreign military interventions are replacing peace negotiations as starting points for postwar reconstruction? What would it take to achieve durable peace? This book presents six provocative case studies authored by respected peacebuilding practitioners in their own societies. The studies address two cases of relative success (Guatemala and Mozambique), three cases of renewed but deeply fraught efforts (Afghanistan, Haiti, and the Palestinian Territories), and the case of Sri Lanka, where peacebuilding was aborted but where the outlines of a new peace process can be discerned.
Book Synopsis Paradoxes of Catholicism by : Robert Hugh Benson
Download or read book Paradoxes of Catholicism written by Robert Hugh Benson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-24 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God.-MATT. V. 9.Do not think that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace but the sword.-MATT. X. 34.We have considered how the key to the Paradoxes of the Gospel and the key to the Paradoxes ofCatholicism is one and the same-that the Life that produces them is at once Divine and Human.Let us go on to consider how this resolves those of Catholicism, especially those charged against usby our adversaries.For we live in a day when Catholicism is no longer considered by intelligent men to be too evidentlyabsurd to be argued with. Definite reasons are given by those who stand outside our borders for theattitude they maintain; definite accusations are made which must either be allowed or refuted.Now those who stand without the walls of the City of Peace know nothing, it is true, of the life thatits citizens lead within, nothing of the harmony and consolation that Catholicism alone can give. Yetof certain points, it may be, in the large outlines of that city against the sky, of the place it occupiesin the world, of its wide effect upon human life in general, it may very well be that these detachedobservers may know more than the devout who dwell at peace within. Let us, then, consider theirreflections not necessarily as wholly false; it may be that they have caught glimpses which we havemissed and relations which either we take too much for granted or have failed altogether to see. Itmay be that these accusations will turn out to be our credentials in disguise.I. Every world-religion, we are told, worthy of the name has as its principal object and its chief claimto consideration its establishing or its fostering of peace among men. Supremely this was so in thefirst days of Christianity. It was this that its great prophet predicted of its work when its DivineFounder should come on earth. Nature shall recover its lost harmony and the dissensions of menshall cease when He, the Prince of Peace, shall approach. The very beasts shall lie down together inamity, the lion and the lamb and the leopard and the kid. Further, it was the Message of Peace that theangels proclaimed over His cradle in Bethlehem; it was the Gift of Peace which He Himselfpromised to His disciples; it was the Peace of God which passeth knowledge to which the great Apostlecommended his converts. This then, we are told, is of the very essence of Christianity; this is thesupreme benediction on the peacemakers that they shall be called the children of God.
Book Synopsis The Power of Paradox: Impossible Conversations by : Markus Locker
Download or read book The Power of Paradox: Impossible Conversations written by Markus Locker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Markus Locker demonstrates that the paradox behind each truth claim opens a channel of communication of truths.
Book Synopsis Condemned to Repeat? by : Fiona Terry
Download or read book Condemned to Repeat? written by Fiona Terry and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanitarian groups have failed, Fiona Terry believes, to face up to the core paradox of their activity: humanitarian action aims to alleviate suffering, but by inadvertently sustaining conflict it potentially prolongs suffering. In Condemned to Repeat?, Terry examines the side-effects of intervention by aid organizations and points out the need to acknowledge the political consequences of the choice to give aid. The author makes the controversial claim that aid agencies act as though the initial decision to supply aid satisfies any need for ethical discussion and are often blind to the moral quandaries of aid. Terry focuses on four historically relevant cases: Rwandan camps in Zaire, Afghan camps in Pakistan, Salvadoran and Nicaraguan camps in Honduras, and Cambodian camps in Thailand. Terry was the head of the French section of Medecins sans frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) when it withdrew from the Rwandan refugee camps in Zaire because aid intended for refugees actually strengthened those responsible for perpetrating genocide. This book contains documents from the former Rwandan army and government that were found in the refugee camps after they were attacked in late 1996. This material illustrates how combatants manipulate humanitarian action to their benefit. Condemned to Repeat? makes clear that the paradox of aid demands immediate attention by organizations and governments around the world. The author stresses that, if international agencies are to meet the needs of populations in crisis, their organizational behavior must adjust to the wider political and socioeconomic contexts in which aid occurs.
Download or read book On Paradox written by Elizabeth S. Anker and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In On Paradox literary and legal scholar Elizabeth S. Anker contends that faith in the logic of paradox has been the cornerstone of left intellectualism since the second half of the twentieth century. She attributes the ubiquity of paradox in the humanities to its appeal as an incisive tool for exposing and dismantling hierarchies. Tracing the ascent of paradox in theories of modernity, in rights discourse, in the history of literary criticism and the linguistic turn, and in the transformation of the liberal arts in higher education, Anker suggests that paradox not only generates the very exclusions it critiques but also creates a disempowering haze of indecision. She shows that reasoning through paradox has become deeply problematic: it engrains a startling homogeneity of thought while undercutting the commitment to social justice that remains a guiding imperative of theory. Rather than calling for a wholesale abandonment of such reasoning, Anker argues for an expanded, diversified theory toolkit that can help theorists escape the seductions and traps of paradox.
Book Synopsis The Paradoxes of Mourning by : Alan D. Wolfelt
Download or read book The Paradoxes of Mourning written by Alan D. Wolfelt and published by Companion Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to healing after the death of someone loved, our culture has it all wrong. We're told to be strong when what we really need is to be vulnerable. We're told to think positive when what we really need is to wallow in the pain. And we're told to seek closure when what we really need is to welcome our natural and necessary grief. Dr. Wolfelt's new book seeks to dispel these misconceptions that we hold on to so tightly and help people everywhere mourn well so they can live fuller lives. The Paradoxes of Mourning discusses three truths that grieving people used to know and respect but in the last century, seem to have forgotten: 1. You must make friends with the darkness before you can enter the light. 2. You must go backward before you can go forward. 3. You must say hello before you can say goodbye. In the tradition of the Four Agreements and the Seven Habits, this compassionate and inspiring guidebook by North America's most beloved grief counselor gives you the three keys that unlock the door to hope and healing.
Book Synopsis Oppositions and Paradoxes by : John L. Bell
Download or read book Oppositions and Paradoxes written by John L. Bell and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since antiquity, opposed concepts such as the One and the Many, the Finite and the Infinite, and the Absolute and the Relative, have been a driving force in philosophical, scientific, and mathematical thought. Yet they have also given rise to perplexing problems and conceptual paradoxes which continue to haunt scientists and philosophers. In Oppositions and Paradoxes, John L. Bell explains and investigates the paradoxes and puzzles that arise out of conceptual oppositions in physics and mathematics. In the process, Bell not only motivates abstract conceptual thinking about the paradoxes at issue, but he also offers a compelling introduction to central ideas in such otherwise-difficult topics as non-Euclidean geometry, relativity, and quantum physics. These paradoxes are often as fun as they are flabbergasting. Consider, for example, the famous Tristram Shandy paradox: an immortal man composing an autobiography so slowly as to require a year of writing to describe each day of his life — he would, if he had infinite time, presumably never complete the work, although no individual part of it would remain unwritten. Or think of an office mailbox labelled “mail for those with no mailbox”—if this is a person’s mailbox, how can they possibly have “no mailbox”? These and many other paradoxes straddle the boundary between physics and metaphysics, and demonstrate the hidden difficulty in many of our most basic concepts.
Book Synopsis Peacebuilding Through Community-based NGOs by : Max O. Stephenson
Download or read book Peacebuilding Through Community-based NGOs written by Max O. Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peacebuilding Through Community-Based NGOs explores the contested but increasingly relevant role nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) play in processes aimed at bringing about international peace and security and in the invention of alternatives for resolving conflict. Through case studies of Partners In Health (Haiti), Women in Black (Serbia), and the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland highlight the range of ways these organizations are involved in post-conflict social reconstruction efforts and with whom and for what purposes they interact as they do so. The authors argue for analyses that take into account the rich mosaic that is the civil society sector rather than treating all of these entities with one broad brush. At once a celebration and a critique, this book provides guidance for those seeking to understand the complexities and potential of the civil society sector for facilitating social justice and transformation.
Book Synopsis Governance for Peace by : David Cortright
Download or read book Governance for Peace written by David Cortright and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evidence-based analysis of governance focusing on the institutional capacities and qualities that reduce the risk of armed conflict.
