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Book Announcement - Volumes 9, 10 and 11 of Contributions to Conflict Management Peace Economics and Development published
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Volume 11
Peace Science: Theory and Cases
Authored by Partha Gangopadhyay and Manas Chatterji
With a preface by Michael Intriligator
ISBN 9781848552005
Pub date: August 2009
Pricing: EUR 113.95/GBP 74.95/USD 144.95
Synopsis
The process of globalisation has its own dynamics and several serious flaws that have resulted in significant economic, political and social imbalances in the global political economy. This book does not examine the flaws and instead focuses on some of the outcomes of the flawed global system that we have inherited from the womb of history.
The book examines the implications of these imbalances for achieving lasting global peace: on the one hand, the forces supporting peaceful settlements of conflicts and violent disputes have been gaining significant momentum in our modern world. On the other hand, the major exception and continuing source of conflicts has been sub-Saharan
In a nutshell, the poorer regions of the current global system are beset with serious non-mutuality of interests, rivalry and potential conflicts over scarce resources, declining agricultural productivity and food shortages, contracting markets, bifurcations in social beliefs, mores and norms, the list of flaws goes on ad infinitum. The global system will need huge collective efforts and mediation from all branches of modern knowledge in overcoming the above problems for a sizeable section of the global population. The book offers original research to understand the problems and prospects of global peace in the context of the above dichotomy of the global system.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Manas Chatterji
Preface
Michael Intriligator
Introduction
Chapters
1. A Study of Endogenous Fragmentation of States as Deterrence to Peace
2. An Economic Study of Ethnic Heterogeneity and its Implications for Conflicts and Peace
3. Cycles of Violent Conflicts and Peace in a Dynamic Model of the Global System
4. Politics of Defence Spending and Endogenous Inequality
5. Regional Integration, Development and Peace Process
6. Snares and Quicksand on the Pathway to Peace: Role of International Tension in Local Conflicts
7. Food Entitlements, Public Policy and Conflicts in Backward Societies
8. Costly Peace: A Study of The Dynamics of Negotiations for Peace and Disarmament
Conclusion
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Volume 10
Putting Teeth in the Tiger: Improving the Effectiveness of Arms Embargoes
Edited by Michael Brzoska and George A. Lopez
ISBN 9781848552029
Pub date: August 2009
Pricing: EUR 97.95/GBP 64.95/USD 124.95
Synopsis
Foreign affairs practitioners and policy analysts claim that international arms embargoes usually fail due to the lack of political will among national governments to implement and enforce these restrictions. This volume confronts this critique directly, first by describing a more nuanced assessment of success, and then by presenting well-informed empirical and case-study chapters that reveal arms embargoes to be more effective than often understood. The chapters in this book examine some of the more complex cases of arms embargoes such as
Table of Contents
Foreword by Manas Chatterji
Introduction. The implementation of arms embargoes: analytical and policy foundations for improving their effectiveness
Michael Brzoska and George A Lopez
Chapters:
1. Analyzing the Effectiveness of Arms Embargoes: Toward a Useful Framework
Michael Brzoska
2. The Unprecedented Embargo: The UN Arms Sanctions against
Oldrich Bures and George A. Lopez
3. The Challenge of Measuring Success:
Wolf-Christian Paes
4. US Policy Measures Against
Sumita Kumar
5. Tightening the Screws in West African Arms Embargoes, 1992-2003
Mareike Wenzel and Sami Faltas
6. From Failure to Success: The Impact of Arms Embargoes on
Wolf-Christian Paes
7. UN arms embargoes in the
Marc von Boemcken
8. Arms Embargoes against
Marc von Boemcken
9. A quantitative analysis of arms embargos
Michael Brzoska
10. Putting teeth in the Tiger: Policy conclusions for effective arms embargoes
Michael Brzoska and George A. Lopez
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Volume 9
Crisis, Complexity and Conflicts
Authored by Iwan J Azis
With a preface by Walter Isard
ISBN 9781848552043
Pub date July 2009
Pricing: EUR 89.95/GBP 59.95/USD 114.95
Synopsis
Understanding the nature and intensity of policy trade-offs is a key to resolving conflicts in so many socio-economic issues. It can help improve the quality of policy debate, and remind us about what really matters. Applying to the recent pressing economic issues, e.g., from financial crisis to the damaging effect of climate change, the book shows how policy conflicts are often more complex than most people thought. Different—and sometimes opposing--conclusions are derived when time dimension and indirect effects are considered. The interplay of the accommodative financial policy and the strong demand for oil that led to the widening of global imbalances had a major role in the 2007/08 financial crisis. The problem is clear, but the solution is not. The resulting conflicts can go beyond economic matters, and the scale and dimension of the crisis raises a fundamental question about sustainability of the prevailing economic system. With the growing interdependence in global economy, contagion of financial crisis occurs much more rapidly than before, prompting many countries to cooperate closely. But like in any international cooperation, the process discloses a plethora of new problems ranging from political to exchange rate issues, all of which can lead to international disputes. For some countries, the impact of financial crisis can be exacerbated by the oil price surge. Taking the complexity of interrelations among so many variables, the policy response (e.g., fuel subsidy) matters more than the price shock itself. Which segments of the society to focus on will determine the resolution to the policy conflict. In some cases, assigning greater weights to the poorest members is in conflict with other macro goals; in others, it is not. A case in point is the issue of climate change. The policy response to climate change and the goal of poverty reduction do not have to be in conflict, if the complexity of interrelations is well understood. The discussions are enlightening, replete with uplifting exploration of policy debates.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgement
Chapters
1. Introduction
2. Global Imbalances
3. Financial Crisis
4. Regional Financial Arrangement
5. Oil Price Increase
6. Mitigating Climate Change
7. Lessons and Conclusions