Současná nestabilita arabského světa se projevuje různě: revolucemi,politickým islámem, terorismem, migrací a hroucením celých států.Kniha vysvětluje kořeny nestability s pomocí teoreticky původní a empirickypodložené historicko-sociologické…
The American Century began in 1941 and ended on January 20, 2017. Whilethe United States remains a military giant and is still an economicpowerhouse, it no longer dominates the world economy or geopolitics as itonce did. The current turn toward…
This article aims to determine if the European Commission was successfulin the securitization of the Russian South Stream pipeline. The Commissiontried to convince the participating Member States to abandon the SouthStream project in favor of the…
The study focuses on the long-term struggle for an autocephalous statusfor Ukrainian Orthodoxy and also on the links between religion andnationalism. Theoretically it is based primarily on Rogers Brubaker’sconcept of religion as imbricated or…
The key input into the monitoring of the implementation of universalhuman rights treaties is provided by national implementation reports. Inspite of the importance of these reports, there is a large variation in thequantities of these reports…
This innovative volume gathers some of the world’s best scholars to analysethe world’s collective international efforts to address globalised threatsthrough global security governance. Addressing global and planetary formsof insecurity that include…
Around the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growinginequality have rebelled against established governments and turned topolitical extremes. Liberal democracy, history's greatest engine of growth,now struggles to overcome…
This handbook offers a critical assessment of the African agenda for conflictprevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding; the challengesand opportunities facing Africa’s regional organisations in their effortstowards building sustainable…
This edited volume explores the different ways in which members of theEuropean Union have interacted with Kosovo since it declaredindependence in 2008. While there is a tendency to think of EU states interms of two distinct groups – those that have…
As demonstrated in any conflict, war is violent and causes grave harms toinnocent persons, even when fought in compliance with just war criteria. Inthis book, Rosemary Kellison presents a feminist critique of just warreasoning, with particular focus…
