Fragments of an Unfinished War - 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 Fragments of an Unfinished War write by Françoise Mengin. This book was released on 2015-01-09. Fragments of an Unfinished War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Republic of China that retreated to Taiwan in 1949 maintains its de facto, if not de jure, in- dependence yet Beijing has consistently refused formally to abandon the idea of reunifying Taiwan with China. As well as growing military pressure, the PRC's irredentist policy is premised on encouraging cross-Straits economic integration. Responding to preferential measures, Taiwanese industrialists have invested massively in the PRC, often relocating their businesses there. Fragments of a nation torn apart by contradictory claims, these entrepreneurs are vectors of a new form of unification imposed by the main- land, promoted but postponed on the island by the Nationalist Party, and rejected by Taiwanese pro-independence parties. Within what can be described as an unfinished civil war, socio-economic dynamics remain embedded in conflicts over sovereignty. Trans- national actors have freed themselves from security constraints, thereby benefiting economically from a reformist China, and ultimately restructuring politics in Taiwan itself, and, in so doing, relations between Beijing and Taipei. A fictitious depoliticization has governed the opening of the Sino-Taiwanese border in order to postpone any resolution of the sovereignty issue. Mengin's startlingly original book highlights the competing, and fragmented, elements within one of the world's most intractable territorial disputes.
Fragments of an Unfinished War
Fragments of an Unfinished War - 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 Fragments of an Unfinished War write by Françoise Mengin. This book was released on 2015. Fragments of an Unfinished War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This remarkable book reveals how little we know about what lies behind the superficial antagonism between the PRC and Taiwan, especially where business is concerned.
Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads
Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads - 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 Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads write by Sohail H. Hashmi. This book was released on 2012-08-16. Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads explores the development of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish thinking on just war, holy war, and jihad over the past fourteen centuries.
Aid, Insurgencies and Conflict Transformation
Aid, Insurgencies and Conflict Transformation - 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 Aid, Insurgencies and Conflict Transformation write by Robert Kevlihan. This book was released on 2013. Aid, Insurgencies and Conflict Transformation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the circumstances under which aid can contribute to the management and transformation of intra-state conflicts. How and when do insurgents govern? How does the presence of aid and social services influence how insurgents govern? Under what circumstances can aid contribute to the management and transformation of civil wars? The established literature in this area argues that aid exacerbates civil wars where resources are scarce as greedy rebels steal resources for themselves. This book, however, argues that under certain conditions such greed can be good. Drawing on primary research from three very different conflicts – Northern Ireland (1969–1998), southern Sudan (1983–2005) and Tajikistan (1992–1997) – and more than 10 years’ experience working in and researching humanitarian crises, this study breaks new ground through its wide-ranging comparison of conflicts. The book argues that insurgent efforts to reap rewards from aid and social services have in turn facilitated organizational changes and that these changes, while they may have had conflict-enhancing effects in the short term, have also contributed to conflict transformation over the long term. This book will be of much interest to students of insurgencies, civil wars, comparative politics, conflict management, humanitarian emergencies, public health and IR/Security Studies in general.
Handbook on Building Cultures of Peace
Handbook on Building Cultures of Peace - 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 Handbook on Building Cultures of Peace write by Joseph de Rivera. This book was released on 2008-11-28. Handbook on Building Cultures of Peace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mediation and negotiation, personal transformation, non-violent struggle in the community and the world: these behaviors – and their underlying values – underpin the United Nations’ definition of a culture of peace, and are crucial to the creation of such a culture. The Handbook on Building Cultures of Peace addresses this complex and daunting task by presenting an accessible blueprint for this development. Its perspectives are international and interdisciplinary, involving the developing as well as the developed world, with illustrations of states and citizens using peace-based values to create progress on the individual, community, national, and global levels. The result is both realistic and visionary, a prescription for a secure future.
