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Failed states and fragile societies : a new world disorder?
Since the end of the Cold War, a new dynamic has arisen within the international system, one that does not conform to established notions of the state’s monopoly on war. In this changing environment, the global community must decide how to respond to the challenges posed to the state by military threats, political and economic decline, and social fragmentation. This insightful work considers …
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- 9780821444887
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- 171p. : ill
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- 327.1 FAI f
Insurance distribution directive : a legal analysis
This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation offers the first comprehensive legal and regulatory analysis of the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD). The IDD came into force on 1 October 2018 and regulates the distribution of insurance products in the EU. The book examines the main changes accompanying the IDD and analyses its impact on insurance…
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- 9783030527389
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- xi, 439p. : ill.
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- 346.4086 INS i
The peacebuilding puzzle : political order in post-conflict states
Transformative peace operations fall short of achieving the modern political order sought in post-conflict countries because the interventions themselves empower post-conflict elites intent on forging a neopatrimonial political order. The Peacebuilding Puzzle explains the disconnect between the formal institutional engineering undertaken by international interventions, and the governance outcom…
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- 9781316718513
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- xiv, 265p. : ill.
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- 355.357 BAR p
Anomie and violence : non-truth and reconciliation in Indonesian peacebuilding
Indonesia suffered an explosion of religious violence, ethnic violence, separatist violence, terrorism, and violence by criminal gangs, the security forces and militias in the late 1990s and early 2000s. By 2002 Indonesia had the worst terrorism problem of any nation. All these forms of violence have now fallen dramatically. How was this accomplished? What drove the rise and the fall of violenc…
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- 9781921666230
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- XV, 501 p.
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- 320.9598 ANO a
Nordic mediation research
This open access book presents twelve unique studies on mediation from researchers in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, respectively. Each study highlights important aspects of mediation, including the role of children in family mediation, the evolution and ambivalent application of restorative justice in the Nordic countries, the confusion of roles in court-connected mediation, and the chal…
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- 9783319730196
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- x, 269p. : ill.
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- 347.09 NOR n
United Nations peace operations in a changing global order
This open access volume explores how UN peace operations are adapting to four trends in the changing global order: (1) the rebalancing of relations between states of the global North and the global South; (2) the rise of regional organisations as providers of peace; (3) the rise of violent extremism and fundamentalist non-state actors; and (4) increasing demands from non-state actors for greate…
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- 9783319991061
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- xxv, 334p. : ill.
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- 341.584 UNI u
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