Sources of Conflict in the 21st Century; Regional Futures and U.S. Strategy
Sources of Conflict in the 21st Century; Regional Futures and U.S. Strategy

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Published: 1998

Total Pages: 345

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This book brings together three regional security assessments, along with an overview of global trends in the strategic environment. Each of the regional assessments - covering Asia, the greater Middle East, and Europe and the former Soviet Union - examines key trends and potential sources of conflict through the year 2025, and identifies the implications for the U.S. Air Force and for U.S. national security policy more broadly. The chapters in this volume reflect research undertaken in 1996 for a study on "Sources of Conflict and Their Implications for Air Force Operations," conducted within the Strategy and Doctrine Program of RAND's Project AIR FORCE. The study, sponsored by the Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans and Operations, was intended to serve Air Force long-range planning needs. The findings are also relevant to broader ongoing debates within the Department of Defense and elsewhere, especially in the context of the Quadrennial Defense Review. Our analyses and conclusions should be of interest to a wide foreign and security policy audience.

Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-first Century
Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-first Century

Author: Jacob Bercovitch

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2009-08-04

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0472050621

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In the past, arbitration, direct bargaining, the use of intermediaries, and deference to international institutions were relatively successful tools for managing interstate conflict. In the face of terrorism, intrastate wars, and the multitude of other threats in the post–Cold War era, however, the conflict resolution tool kit must include preventive diplomacy, humanitarian intervention, regional task-sharing, and truth commissions. Here, Jacob Bercovitch and Richard Jackson, two internationally recognized experts, systematically examine each one of these conflict resolution tools and describe how it works and in what conflict situations it is most likely to be effective. Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-first Century is not only an essential introduction for students and scholars, it is a must-have guide for the men and women entrusted with creating stability and security in our changing world. Cover illustration © iStockphoto.com

The Nature of Intractable Conflict
The Nature of Intractable Conflict

Author: C. Mitchell

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2014-11-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781403945198

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Building upon Mitchell's earlier work, The Structure of International Conflict, this volume surveys the field of conflict analysis and resolution in the twenty-first century, exploring the methods which people have sought to mitigate destructive processes including the creative and innovative new ways of resolving insoluble disputes.

War in 140 Characters
War in 140 Characters

Author: David Patrikarakos

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2017-11-14

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0465096158

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A leading foreign correspondent looks at how social media has transformed the modern battlefield, and how wars are fought Modern warfare is a war of narratives, where bullets are fired both physically and virtually. Whether you are a president or a terrorist, if you don't understand how to deploy the power of social media effectively you may win the odd battle but you will lose a twenty-first century war. Here, journalist David Patrikarakos draws on unprecedented access to key players to provide a new narrative for modern warfare. He travels thousands of miles across continents to meet a de-radicalized female member of ISIS recruited via Skype, a liberal Russian in Siberia who takes a job manufacturing "Ukrainian" news, and many others to explore the way social media has transformed the way we fight, win, and consume wars-and what this means for the world going forward.

Twenty-First Century Seapower
Twenty-First Century Seapower

Author: Peter Dutton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1136316965

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This book offers an assessment of the naval policies of emerging naval powers, and the implications for maritime security relations and the global maritime order. Since the end of the Cold War, China, Japan, India and Russia have begun to challenge the status quo with the acquisition of advanced naval capabilities. The emergence of rising naval powers is a cause for concern, as the potential for great power instability is exacerbated by the multiple maritime territorial disputes among new and established naval powers. This work explores the underlying sources of maritime ambition through an analysis of various historical cases of naval expansionism. It analyses both the sources and dynamics of international naval competition, and looks at the ways in which maritime stability and the widespread benefits of international commerce and maritime resource extraction can be sustained through the twenty-first century. This book will be of much interest to students of naval power, Asian security and politics, strategic studies, security studies and IR in general.

The Age of Unpeace
The Age of Unpeace

Author: Mark Leonard

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2021-09-02

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1473590434

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A FINANCIAL TIMES ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Compulsively readable... An essential course in geopolitical self-help' - Adam Tooze 'Full of fresh - and often surprising - ideas' - Niall Ferguson 'Extraordinary... One of those rare books that defines the terms of our conversation about our times' - Michael Ignatieff We thought connecting the world would bring lasting peace. Instead, it is driving us apart. In the three decades since the end of the Cold War, global leaders have been integrating the world's economy, transport and communications, breaking down borders in the hope of making war impossible. In doing so, they have unwittingly created a formidable arsenal of weapons for new kinds of conflict and the motivation to keep fighting. Rising tensions in global politics are not a bump in the road - they are part of the paving. Troublingly, we are now seeing rising conflict at every level, from individuals on social media all the way up to nation-states in entrenched stand-offs. The past decade has seen a new antagonism between the US and China; an inability to co-operate on global issues such as climate change or pandemic response; and a breakdown in the distinction between war and peace, as overseas troops are replaced by sanctions, cyberwar, and the threat of large migrant flows. As a leading authority on international relations, Mark Leonard has been inside many of the rooms where our futures, at every level of society, are being decided - from the Facebook HQ and facial recognition labs in China to meetings in presidential palaces and at remote military installations. In seeking to understand the ways that globalisation has broken its fundamental promise to make our world safer and more prosperous, Leonard explores how we might wrest a more hopeful future from an age of unpeace.

Policy Analysis in the Twenty-first Century
Policy Analysis in the Twenty-first Century

Author: Beryl A. Radin

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780367225421

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Policy Analysis in the Twenty-First Century is designed to familiarize students with the diversity of experiences that they can expect to face in their practitioner role. Case studies illustrate realities in the current policy analysis environment as well as the analyst's personal values and career goals.

War and Power in the Twenty-First Century
War and Power in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Paul Hirst

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2002-01-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780745625218

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Future developments in war, armed conflict and international relations are central to our collective fate in this century. This book looks forward by considering the forces that will drive changes in military organizations, sources of conflict, the power of states and the nature of the international system. New military technologies will alter how wars are fought and will influence the balance of power. Changes in the global environment will provide new causes of conflict and will change economic priorities. As a result, the state will survive as the key social institution and populations will look to it to acquire and to distribute scarce resources like water, energy and land. Many of the changes that seem transformatory today, like globalization, the internet and mass consumerism, will be shown to be less significant than we believe them to be. Hirst puts such changes into perspective by comparing them with the revolutionary changes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe: the firepower revolution, the rise of the sovereign territorial state and the parallel development of the international system, and the creation of world trade. These basic structures of the modern world are still with us and will remain, despite major changes in twenty-first-century society. This book will appeal to students of politics, political sociology & international relations as well as the interested general reader.

Peacemaking in the twenty-first century
Peacemaking in the twenty-first century

Author: Hume John

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-05-16

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1526111683

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This book provides a range of unique insights into the issues surrounding peacebuilding, delivered by major international figures with direct experience in this area at the highest level. Based on a series of lectures on the theme of peacekeeping and peacebuilding in the contemporary world, each lecture is presented here with an introduction placing it in its proper context within the discourse on peacemaking. The topics addressed include the European Union, reconciliation, security, multiculturalism, development and lessons learned. Edited and introduced by Nobel Laureate John Hume, T. G. Fraser and Leonie Murray, this volume makes an invaluable contribution to the study of peace and conflict studies, international history, international relations and international politics.