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iNterNAtioNAl security
Territory, War, and Peace
John A. Vasquez and Marie T. Henehan,
both at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
USA
Series: Contemporary Security Studies
This book presents a collection
of new and updated essays on
what has come to be known as
the territorial explanation of
war.
The book argues that a key
both to peace and to war lies in
understanding the role territory
plays as a source of conflict and
inter-group violence. Of all the
issues that spark conflict,
territorial disputes have the
highest probability of escalating
to war. War, however, is hardly inevitable; much depends
on how territorial issues are handled. More importantly,
settling territorial disputes and establishing mutually
recognized boundaries can produce long periods of
peace between neighbors, even if other salient issues
arise. While territory is not the only cause of war and
wars arise from other issues, territory is one of the main
causes of war, and learning how to manage it, can, in
principle, eliminate an entire class of wars.
This book will be of great interest to all students of war
and conflict studies, causes of war and peace,
international security and strategic studies.
Selected Contents: Part 1: Theory 1. Why Do Neighbors
Fight? Proximity, Interactions, or Territoriality John A. Vasquez
2. Distinguishing Rivals That Go To War from Those That Do
Not: A Quantitative Comparative Case Study of the Two
Paths to War John A. Vasquez Part 2: Territory and War
3. Territorial Disputes and the Probability of War, 1816-1992
John A. Vasquez and Marie T. Henehan 4. Mapping the
Probability of War: The Role of Territorial Disputes Compared
to the Role of Contiguity John A. Vasquez 5. The Effect of
Territory on Dispute Escalation among Initiators Marie T.
Henehan 6. The Probability of War, 1816-1992 John A.
Vasquez Part 3: Identifying Paths to War 7. Territorial
Paths to War: Their Probability of Escalation, 1816-2001 John
A. Vasquez 8. Paths to War: The Territorial Origins of War
John A. Vasquez Part 4: Territory and Peace 9. The
Changing Probability of Interstate War, 1816-1992 Marie T.
Henehan and John A. Vasquez 10. Peace, Globalization, and
Territoriality John A. Vasquez and Marie T. Henehan
Part 5: Conclusion 11. The Significance of Territory John A.
Vasquez
July 2010: 234 x 156: 272pp
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The International Politics
of Mass Atrocities
The Case of Darfur
Edited by david R. Black, Dalhousie University,
Canada and Paul d. Williams, George Washington
University, USA
Series: Security and Governance
’This collection of essays
provide an elegant reminder
of why international society
is a contested concept and
darfur is a contested conflict.
A first-rate piece of work
about the central dilemmas
facing governments,
international organizations,
NGOs, and citizens.’ - Thomas
G. Weiss, CUNY Graduate
Center, USA
’For me, this important book
teaches us, through the evidence provided by
regional specialists on darfur from a variety of
countries, that there is less to the notions of
’international society’, ’international community’,
’good international citizenship’, ’solidarism’, and
’responsibility to protect’ than their official and
academic proponents claim. Tragically, such a
verdict is always likely to be starkest when ’mass
atrocities’ occur in Africa.’ - Ken Booth FBA,
Aberystwyth University, UK
Selected Contents: Introduction: International Society and
the Crisis in Darfur Paul D. Williams and David R. Black
Part 1: Regional Politics 1. The Government of Sudan and
the Darfurian Armed Groups I.D.F. and Munzoul Assal
2. Regional Politics and the Darfur Crisis Lee J.M. Seymour
Part 2: Multilateral Politics 3. The United Nations Security
Council Michael MacKinnon 4. The African Union Cristina
Badescu and Linnea Bergholm 5. The European Union Rory
Keene and Asbjorn Wee 6. The International Criminal Court
William A. Schabas Part 3: Bilateral Politics 7. The United
States Scott Stedjan and Colin Thomas-Jensen 8. The
People’s Republic of China Ian Taylor 9. The United Kingdom
Paul D. Williams 10. France Bruno Charbonneau
11. Canada David R. Black. Conclusion David R. Black and
Paul D. Williams
January 2010: 234 x 156: 288pp
Hb: 978-0-415-55902-7: £90.00
Pb: 978-0-415-55903-4: £26.99
eBook: 978-0-203-86217-9
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Why did the uS Invade
Iraq?
Edited by Jane K. Cramer, University of Oregon,
USA and A. Trevor Thrall, University of Michigan,
Dearborn, USA
Series: Routledge Global Security Studies
This volume presents the best scholarly thinking about
why the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, a pivotal event in
modern US foreign policy and international politics.
The years since the announcement of the invasion of
Iraq by George W. Bush in 2003 have revealed that the
WMD threat was not the urgent threat the
administration declared and that Saddam Hussein was
not involved with Al Qaeda or 9/11. At least in part
because of these revelations a majority of Americans
(not to mention a majority of people globally) now
believe that invading Iraq was a mistake and that the
Bush administration misled the public to build support
for war. Lending credibility to public doubts is a growing
number of critical scholarly analyses and in-depth
journalistic investigations about the invasion, which
mostly suggests that the administration was not fully
candid about its reasons for wanting to move against
Iraq when it did.
Thus the question remains: Why did the United States
invade Iraq? The central purpose of this volume is to
spur and inform the debate by organizing the best
recent thinking by foreign policy and international
relations experts about why the U.S. invaded Iraq. Taking
a broad range of arguments and organizing them
around a coherent structure, the book highlights current
areas of agreement and disagreement, and allows
scholars directly to talk to each other.
Selected Contents: Preface: The Causes of War Stephen
Van Evera 1. Introduction: Hypotheses on Iraq War:
Reflections from a Survey of Experts Jane K. Cramer and A.
Trevor Thrall 2. WMD, the Stated Motive: Pretext or Sincere
Belief? Robert Jervis Part 1: The Role of Ideas in the Iraq
decision 3. Ideas and Alternatives in American Grand
Strategy, 2000-04 Colin Dueck 4. The Road to Baghdad:
Ideas and Intellectuals in Explanations of the Iraq War
Andrew Flibbert Part 2: The Israel Lobby and the
Neoconservatives 5. The Iraq War and the Israel Lobby
Jerome Slater 6. Neoconservative Motives and Influence
Michael Lind Part 3: Oil and Profits 7. A Motive Hiding in
Plain Sight: War for Oil Michael Klare 8. Oil and the Iraq War
John S. Duffield 9. The Myth of Neoconservative Power and
Invading Iraq for Primacy and Profits Jane K. Cramer and
Edward Duggan Part 4: Other Views of the Iraq War
10. Why Iraq? The View from Britain Jane M.O. Sharp
August 2011: 234 x 156: 224pp
Hb: 978-0-415-78212-8: £90.00
Pb: 978-0-415-78213-5: £24.99
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