Conflict Resolution and Ontological Security - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conflict Resolution and Ontological Security write by Bahar Rumelili. This book was released on 2014-12-17. Conflict Resolution and Ontological Security available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume highlights the ways in which the prospect of peace can generate anxieties and consequently set in motion social and political processes that reproduce and reactivate conflicts. In analysing this issue, the volume builds on the notion of ontological security and its recent applications to international relations theory. Although conflicts threaten the physical security of the parties involved, they also help settle existential questions about basic parameters of life, being, and identity, and thus over time become sources of ontological security. The prospect of peace, through the resolution or transformation of conflict, threatens to unsettle the stability and consistency of self-narratives, and their associated routines and habits at the individual, group, and state levels. The contributors argue two key points: 1) that ontological insecurity may set in motion political and social processes that reproduce and reactivate conflicts; 2) that coping with peace anxieties necessitates the formulation of alternative self-narratives at the individual, societal, and state levels that re-situate the Self in relation to Other and to the world at large. Consequently, the book analyses the ways in which, and the conditions under which, conflict resolution induces ontological insecurity, and the different ways in which ontological insecurity has prevented the successful culmination of peace processes in different conflict contexts, including Cyprus, Israel-Palestine and Northern Ireland. This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, conflict resolution, peace and conflict studies, social theory and IR in general.
Ontological Security in International Relations
Ontological Security in International Relations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ontological Security in International Relations write by Brent J. Steele. This book was released on 2008-03-10. Ontological Security in International Relations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The central assertion of this book is that states pursue social actions to serve self-identity needs, even when these actions compromise their physical existence. Three forms of social action, sometimes referred to as ‘motives’ of state behaviour (moral, humanitarian, and honour-driven) are analyzed here through an ontological security approach. Brent J. Steele develops an account of social action which interprets these behaviours as fulfilling a nation-state's drive to secure self-identity through time. The anxiety which consumes all social agents motivates them to secure their sense of being, and thus he posits that transformational possibilities exist in the ‘Self’ of a nation-state. The volume consequently both challenges and complements realist, liberal, constructivist and post-structural accounts to international politics. Using ontological security to interpret three cases - British neutrality during the American Civil War (1861-1865), Belgium’s decision to fight Germany in 1914, and NATO’s (1999) Kosovo intervention - the book concludes by discussing the importance for self-interrogation in both the study and practice of international relations. Ontological Security in International Relations will be of particular interest to students and researchers of international politics, international ethics, international relations and security studies.
Remote Warfare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Remote Warfare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remote Warfare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives write by Alasdair McKay. This book was released on 2021-02. Remote Warfare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Modern warfare is becoming increasingly defined by distance. Today, many Western and non-Western states have shied away from deploying large numbers of their own troops to battlefields. Instead, they have limited themselves to supporting the frontline fighting of local and regional actors against non-state armed forces through the provision of intelligence, training, equipment and airpower. This is remote warfare, the dominant method of military engagement now employed by many states. Despite the increasing prevalence of this distinct form of military engagement, it remains an understudied subject and considerable gaps exist in the academic understanding of it. Bringing together writers from various backgrounds, this edited volume offers a critical enquiry into the use of remote warfare.
The Power of Deterrence
The Power of Deterrence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Power of Deterrence write by Amir Lupovici. This book was released on 2016-09. The Power of Deterrence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Argues that states' attachment to the strategy of deterrence can increase the chances of violence rather than avoid it.
Theories of Violent Conflict
Theories of Violent Conflict - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theories of Violent Conflict write by Jolle Demmers. This book was released on 2016-08-10. Theories of Violent Conflict available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This revised and updated second edition introduces students of violent conflict to a variety of prominent theoretical approaches, and examines the ontological stances and epistemological traditions underlying these approaches. Theories of Violent Conflict takes the centrality of the ‘group’ as an actor in contemporary conflict as a point of departure, leaving us with three main questions: • What makes a group? • Why and how does a group resort to violence? • Why and how do or don’t they stop? The book examines and compares the ways by which these questions are addressed from a number of perspectives: primordialism/constructivism, social identity theory, critical political economy, human needs theory, relative deprivation theory, collective action theory and rational choice theory. The final chapter aims to synthesize structure and agency-based theories by proposing a critical discourse analysis of violent conflict. With new material on violence, religion, extremism and military urbanism, this book will be essential reading for students of war and conflict studies, peace studies, conflict analysis and conflict resolution, and ethnic conflict, as well as security studies and IR in general.
