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Written against a backdrop of recent bloody conflicts, this book brings together case studies and legal analysis of the steps that the United Nations, NATO and other organisations have taken to build pluralist and independent media in the wake of massive human rights violations.
This work explores three groups of questions. How and by whom were democratic institutions (re)introduced? How are they functioning in practice? And how have they measured up to the pressures placed on them by violence, poverty, globalization and democratization?
This work explores three groups of questions. How and by whom were democratic institutions (re)introduced? How are they functioning in practice? And how have they measured up to the pressures placed on them by violence, poverty, globalization and democratization?
Several regions of the world are characterized by persistent internal conflict and deeply rooted structures of violence. This work explores why domestic and international efforts to re-establish order, human security, democratic processes, and a developing economy are proving difficult to achieve.
Countries in Africa continue to fall prey to civil war and social disintegration. This book suggests that a development agenda to improve people's lives and strengthen national economies cannot be effective until Africa masters its problems of governance.
A study of terrorist violence in the Middle East. It constructs a typology of terrorist groups which takes into consideration three main factors: ideology, goals, and recruitment patterns. With the assistance of this functional typology, it argues that future acts of terrorism can be predicted.