Diminishing Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific (eBook, ePUB)

Why Some Subside and Others Don't
Redaktion: Aspinall, Edward; Regan, Anthony; Jeffrey, Robin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Since the publication of the 2005 Human Security Report, scholars and policy-makers have debated the causes, interpretation and implications of what the report described as a global decline in armed conflict since the end of the Cold War. Focusing on the Asia-Pacific region, this book analyses the causes and patterns of this decline.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136251139
• Artikelnr.: 38243204

Autorenporträt

Robin Jeffrey is a Visiting Research Professor in the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. His research interests include India and South Asia, as well as the Punjab insurgency. Edward Aspinall is a Senior Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Change, Australian National University. His research focuses on comparative politics of democratization, ethnic politics and nationalism, and he has published widely in these areas. Anthony Regan is a Fellow in the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program, Australian National University. He is a constitutional lawyer who has advised in peace processes and post-conflict constitution-making processes in a number of countries, and written extensively on a number of those cases.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Diminishing Conflicts: learning from the Asia-Pacific
Part 1: Conflict diminished? 2. Timor Leste: international intervention,
gender and the dangers of negative peace 3. Maluku: anomie to
reconciliation 4. Aceh: democratization and the politics of co-option 5.
Solomon Islands: from uprising to intervention 6. Punjab: federalism,
elections, suppression 7. Sri Lanka: the end of war and the continuation of
struggle Part 2: Conflict deferred? 8. Bougainville: conflict deferred? 9.
The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT): diminishing violence or violent peace?
10. Eastern Burma: long wars without exhaustion 11. Fiji: the politics of
conflict reduction Part 3: Conflict undiminished? 12. Southern Thailand:
marginalization, injustice and the failure to govern 13. Pakistan's
Federally Administered Tribal Areas: cause or symptom of national
insecurity? Paul 14. Southern Philippines: the ongoing saga of Moro
separatism 15. Kashmir: placating frustrated people 16. The Southern
Highlands of Papua New Guinea: conflict ignored 17. Conclusion: Lessons