In the wake of Sweden’s anniversary of 200 years of peace in 2014, this volume brings for the first time a targeted approach to the concept of claimed Swedish exceptionality. Taking on the nation’s policies of neutrality, 200 Years of Peace centers discussion around what it means for a nation to endure a uniquely long period of time without any pronounced conflict.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General) History (General)

Subjects: Media Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies

Bringing together leading scholars, practitioners, and human rights activists, this groundbreaking volume provides the first systematic analysis of the 2012–2014 Brazilian National Truth Commission. It explores the emergence, functioning, and outcome of the Commission, and offers a more general and critical reassessment of truth commissions from a variety of perspectives.

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An enlightening and geographically wide-ranging reappraisal of the life and legacy of the Austrian politician, Bruno Kreisky, this volume seeks to reinstate Kreisky’s centrality to Cold War history and Austria’s postwar recovery, highlighting how profoundly he reshaped the modern, geopolitical landscape.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

Drawing on extensive archival records, Business as Usual shows how the legal system in Germany continued to operate with the same personnel, administrative routines, and institutional habits between 1943 and 1948, despite violence, mass murder, bombings, and regime change.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies History: World War II

This book tells the survival stories of seven Cambodians who endured the Khmer Rouge Genocide, their escape to Thailand, and their difficult resettlement in the United States. It is a collection of first-person oral histories, supplemented by images of documents and photographs, highlighting journeys of resilience, survival, and adaptation while profoundly traumatized.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies

Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in northeast Africa. Case studies from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya illustrate the way that identities are formed and change over time, and how local, national, and international politics are interwoven. Specific attention is paid to the impact of modern weaponry, new technologies, religious conversion, food and land shortages, international borders, civil war, and displacement on group identities.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

Drawing on the expertise of anthropologists, historians and geographers, these volumes provide a significant account of a society profoundly shaped by identity politics and contribute to a better understanding of the nature of conflict and war, and forms of alliance and peacemaking, thus providing a comprehensive portrait of this troubled region.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

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Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

This original study carefully considers how young people perceive their living environment and how growing up in exile structures their view of the past and their country of origin, and the future and its possibilities.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology

Military-civilian encounters are multiple and diverse in our times. This volume traces out the ripples, reverberations and resonations of civil-military entanglements which allow for an understanding of the roles war, violence and the military play in shaping contemporary societies and the everyday life of its citizens.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Applied Anthropology

Collective and State Violence in Turkey provides a wide range of case studies and historiographical reflections on the alarming recurrence of violence in Turkish history, as atrocities against varied ethnic-religious groups from the nineteenth century to today have propelled the nation’s very sense of itself.

Subjects: History (General) Genocide History Peace and Conflict Studies

This volume analyses conflicts in the Lake Chad Basin based on insights into local dynamics and the lived world of the people themselves.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology

This wide-ranging, briskly narrated volume from acclaimed Mexican historian Carlos Illades guides the reader through key episodes in Mexican social history, from rebellions under Porfirio Díaz to the recent emergence of neo-anarchist movements. Taken together, they comprise a mosaic history of power and resistance, with ordinary people confronting the forces of domination and transforming Mexican society.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Peace and Conflict Studies

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

Since its inception over forty years ago, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe has been met with political and historical controversies. While it’s known today as a significant contributor to the end of the Cold War, The CSCE and the End of the Cold War revisits some of the most fascinating questions in Cold War historiography.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies

Cyprus is an island of enduring political, military and, more recently, economic conflict. In this edited volume, Cyprus serves as a geographical, cultural and political point of reference to study how conflict is mediated, represented, reconstructed, experienced, and transformed, offering broader insight into the ways in which the culture of conflict impacts identity.

Subjects: Media Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General) History (General)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

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Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies

A refreshing re-examination of the history of Austria and Hungary in the wake of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy, The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border refocuses attention on the contested region of Western Hungary/Burgenland, considering how the process of building state borders shaped the region’s political, cultural, and social dynamics.

Subjects: History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology

Focusing on Georgia, this book presents a theoretical and empirical study on the implementation of durable solutions for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Building on extensive field research, it describes and explains the considerable problems which Georgia faces in establishing global norms, as well as the ongoing hardship that IDPs experience.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies

As migration from poverty-stricken and conflict-affected countries continues to hit the headlines, this book focuses on an important counter-flow: the money that people send home. This book explores the dynamics, infrastructure, and far-reaching effects of remittances from the perspectives of people in the Somali regions and the diaspora. By ‘following the money’ the author opens a window on the everyday lives of people caught up in processes of conflict, migration, and development. The book demonstrates how, in the interstices of state disruption and globalisation, and in the shadow of violence and political uncertainty, life in the Somali regions goes on, subject to complex transnational forms of social, economic, and political innovation and change.

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Political action and historical research have been deeply intertwined for nearly as long as the historical profession has existed. In this insightful collection, practicing historians analyze, reflect on, and share their experiences of this complex relationship.

Subjects: History (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology

Writing of Ranongga Island, the author tracks engagements with foreigners across many realms of life, describing startling reversals in which strangers become attached to local places, even as kinspeople are estranged. Against stereotypes of rural insularity, she argues that a distinctive cosmopolitan openness to others is evident in the rural Solomons in times of war and peace.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies

Bringing together his wealth of research on the Habsburg-Ottoman conflict over the kingdom of Hungary, historian James Tracy provides a comprehensive and exacting examination of the implications this battle had for notions of sovereignty, statehood, and civilization.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Peace and Conflict Studies

Offering a pioneering conceptual history of transition from a comparative perspective, this volume brings together eight case studies, ranging from the Third Wave of Southern Europe to the regime changes of Central and Eastern Europe, in order to rethink how we approach questions of temporality and transitional discourse.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology Urban Studies

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Development Studies

In this geographically wide-ranging assessment of the figure of the politician in modern and contemporary Europe, Pasi Ihalainen, Rosario López, Kari Palonen, and Henk te Velde re-examine the trajectory of terms like ‘politician’ and ‘statesman’, in order to spotlight how profoundly the concept of representative democracy is shifting. 

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

Controlling food and access to food can be used as a weapon. This is an especially significant issue in zones of conflict, because conflict impinges on the production and the distribution of food causing increased competition for food, land and resources. These themes unite the chapters of Food in Zones of Conflict, but since the topic is multidisciplinary, this volume appeals specialists in any field.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

Based on unprecedented access to the Ghanaian military barracks and inspired by the recent resurgence of coups in West Africa, the book assesses why and how the Ghana Armed Forces were transformed from an organisation that actively orchestrated coups into an institution that accepts the authority of the democratically elected civilian government.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Applied Anthropology

Providing nuanced accounts of how the social identities of men and women, the context of displacement and the experience or manifestation of violence interact, this collection offers conceptual analyses and in-depth case studies to illustrate how gender relations are affected by displacement, encampment and return.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Sustainable Development Goals

An enlightening reassessment of the German General, Otto Liman von Sanders’ life, this book uses original archival materials to present a more nuanced insight into Liman von Sanders’ role in the Armenian genocide, in order to explore wider ethical questions concerning the nature of morality and justice in military conflict.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History Peace and Conflict Studies

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Spanning from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, Hof traces the global evolution of right-wing terrorism across time and continents. Through vivid case studies set in diverse historical and social contexts, he reveals how terrorist movements have transformed, adapted, and connected through transnational networks.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

Subjects: Heritage Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Urban Studies Memory Studies

Guido Goldman was one of the most distinguished protagonists of the reintegration of Germany into the international community after the defeat of Nazism in 1945. This biography looks at his remarkable life from his establishment of the German Marshall Fund to establishing the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

Subjects: Development Studies Environmental Studies (General) Peace and Conflict Studies

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Peace and Conflict Studies

Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing violence and forge peaceful societies. This collection explores the various forms of violence these nations confronted during this period, which effectively transformed the region into a laboratory for state-building.

Subjects: History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

Drawing from original fieldwork in Khartoum and empirical data, In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum uses in-between spaces as a lens to analyze how political events, in particular the 2011 independence of South Sudan, works along with other processes such as globalization and eco-nomic neo-liberalization to impact communities across the region.

Subjects: Urban Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Cultural Studies (General)

The conflict between Israel and Palestine has raised a plethora of unanswered questions, generated seemingly unreconcilable narratives, and profoundly transformed the land’s physical and political geography. This volume seeks to provide a deeper understanding of the links between the region that is now known as Israel and Palestine and its peoples—both those that live there as well as those who relate to it as a mental, mythical, or religious landscape.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

Law, History, and Justice investigates the changing nature of international humanitarian law and explores the entanglements between historical experience, historiography, and law and (moral) politics by focusing on the effects of international law violations during the First World War, the National Socialist mass crimes, the Holocaust, as well as the systematic wrongdoings of the GDR.

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Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Focusing on how cataclysmic events within primarily Central and Eastern Europe have been transmitted across borders and generations, this volume interrogates how the theory of historical lessons has evolved, ultimately providing a useful framework for comprehending contemporary conflicts and issues.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

Lasting traces of the Cold War continue to shape the social landscape in Italy and Greece. Lurking Cold War critiques the connections between global categories and individual experiences, foregrounding Cold War resonances through materiality, imagination, speculation, and affect – in literature, bureaucracy, and the family.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Challenging widespread views of favors as means of survival in transitioning contexts, this volume demonstrates that these contemporary globalized forms of flexible governance are not contradictory to one another, but often mutually constitutive.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

Bringing together new research by leading scholars, this volume rethinks the role played by militaries in politics. The volume introduces new theories of military politics, arguing against the inherited theories and practices of civil-military relations, and presents rich new data on senior officership and on the intersection of military politics and military operations.

Subjects: Sociology Peace and Conflict Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Peace and Conflict Studies

With the growing numbers of displaced populations and the rise in the politics of fear and hate, we are facing challenges to our very ‘species-being’. Papers in the volume include ethnographic studies on the ‘refugee crisis’, the ‘financial crisis’ and the ‘rule of law’ crisis in the Mediterranean as well as the crisis of violence and hunger in South America.

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Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology Sociology

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

In exploring the insights that the Australian case has for theorising civil-military relations, the book serves as a model for other country case studies. This antipodean contribution to the field includes analysis of the changing demographics, new domestic and international responsibilities, Industry-Defence cooperation, women in the armed forces and contemporary veteran wellbeing.

Subjects: Sociology Peace and Conflict Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

In thisexacting re-examination of paramilitary violence upon border Protestants within Northern Ireland, The Northern Ireland Conflict on the Margins of History illuminates the understudied impact the Troubles had upon the Protestant community’s physical, economic, and cultural presence within the border counties.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies Heritage Studies

This volume brings together international experts on American history and foreign affairs to assess the cumulative impact of the United States’ efforts to end wars. It offers essential perspectives on both the Cold War and post-9/11 eras and demonstrates just how high the stakes are as the US confronts the possibility of war without end.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies History: 20th Century to Present History (General)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Development Studies

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Peace and Conflict Studies

An illuminating and geographically wide-ranging reassessment of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, this volume reconsiders how this watershed treaty gave rise to new dynamics of global power and politics, reshaping the ideas of imperiality and nationality that have continued to shape the geopolitical landscape.

Subjects: History: World War I Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies

Located in the far-western Tarai region of Nepal, Kailali has been the site of dynamic social and political change in recent history. The Partial Revolution examines Kailali in the aftermath of Nepal’s Maoist insurgency, focusing primarily on the end of Kailali’s feudal system of bonded labor.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

Focusing on Italy and the Netherlands since the 1970s, Party Responses to Social Movements demonstrates how political parties have incorporated the demands of social movements to a surprising extent, even as both have grappled with fundamental and inevitable tension between their respective roles and aims.

Subjects: Sociology Peace and Conflict Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Peace at All Costs reconsiders postwar Polish-German relations as an interdisciplinary case study of reconciliation and follows an influential network of non-state peace activists, major players in print and audiovisual media, as they attempted to establish dialogue in the 1950s and 1960s.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies Media Studies

Twenty years after the 1994 genocide, Rwandans are still troubled by what made the violence possible and how they can know it will not recur. This study uncovers how Rwandan visions of peace and modern nationhood concern not only political reform or economic development, but also transformations in the self.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies

This compelling and intimate description of places of pain and (be)longing that were lost during the 1992–95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as of survivors’ places of resettlement in Australia, Europe and North America, serves as a powerful illustration of the complex interplay between place, memory and identity.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Memory Studies

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Development Studies

Providing a forensic analysis of the populist phenomenon that is sweeping across Central and Eastern Europe, Populism in Central and Eastern Europe re-examines the origins of this current political situation by tracing its historical development within this region of Europe, ultimately illuminating fresh strategies for addressing these longstanding political issues.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology

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Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology

Based on extensive research in Brandt’s personal archives, additional studies in international archives, and interviews with contemporary witnesses, this book traces Brandt’s nearly lifelong efforts towards the full reintegration of a united Germany into the community of European countries.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General) History (General)

To tackle the vast numbers of internally displaced people, a UN regime has emerged that seeks to replicate the long-established regime of refugee protection by applying international law and humanitarian assistance to citizens within their own borders. This book looks at the origins, structure and impact of this new UN regime and whether it is fit for purpose.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

How does Shakespeare represent war? This volume reviews scholarship to date on the question and introduces new perspectives, looking at contemporary conflict through the lens of the past.

Subjects: Literary Studies Cultural Studies (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Media Studies

Silenced Communities offers an ethnographic account of the failed demilitarization of the rural militia in the town of Santo Tomás Chichicastenango following the Guatemalan Civil War. Author Marcia Esparza explores how legacies of grassroots militarization affect indigenous communities exploited by the internal colonialism prevalent in Latin American societies.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

In the early sixties, many South African anthropologists supported ‘Grand Apartheid’ in Namibia. South Africa’s colonial policies in the country served as a testing ground for many key features of its repressive infrastructure, and strategies for countering anti-apartheid resistance. The book also analyses how the knowledge used to justify and implement apartheid was created.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Peace and Conflict Studies

Sovereignty is a significant force regarding the ownership, use, protection and management of natural resources. By placing an emphasis on the complex intertwined relationship between natural resources and diverse claims to resource sovereignty, this book reveals the backstory of contemporary resource contestations in Latin America and their positioning within a more extensive history of extraction in the region.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies Sustainable Development Goals

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

Organized around Argentine “memory wars” since the 1970s, The Struggle for the Past undertakes an innovative exploration of memory’s dynamic social character. In addition to its analysis of how human rights movements have inflected public memory and democratization in Argentina, it also gives an illuminating account of the emergence and development of Memory Studies as a field.

Subjects: Memory Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

Terrorism in Question crafts a political anthropology of post-9/11 “new terrorism” by investigating who needs the category of terrorists and offering a global framework to understand anthropology, Islam and terrorism. Marshalling fieldwork, participant observation and encounters with terrorists, this book aims to exemplify knowledge decolonized.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology of Religion Peace and Conflict Studies

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Subject: Peace and Conflict Studies

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)