Peace-Building by, between, and beyond Muslims and by Mohammed Abu-Nimer,David Augsburger,Ghulam Haider Aasi,Asma

Ethnic Identity and the State in Iran

Whereas the Islamic Republic has hired a variety of thoughts to mitigate the worst excesses of inter-ethnic pressure whereas nonetheless securing a Shi'a ruled "Persian hegemony," the systematic forget of ethnic teams through either the Islamic Republic and its predecessor regime has ended in the politicization of ethnic id in Iran.

Russian Energy in a Changing World: What is the Outlook for the Hydrocarbons Superpower?

For a very long time Russia’s place as a key worldwide strength participant has more suitable Moscow’s overseas monetary and political impression when inflicting challenge among different states terrified of changing into too depending on Russia as an power provider. the worldwide monetary difficulty shook this demonstrated snapshot of Russia as an critical strength superpower, resistant to destructive exterior impacts and printed the whole quantity of Russia’s dependence on oil and fuel for monetary and political effect.

Humanitarian NGOs, (In)Security and Identity: Epistemic Communities and Security Governance (Global Security in a Changing World)

More and more humanitarian NGOs function within the context of armed conflicts the place the protection dangers are larger than in contexts of typical catastrophe. operating in Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka is especially risky for humanitarians. This existential probability impacts the actual life of reduction staff and the implementation of humanitarian courses, and the middle ideals of humanitarians and the underlying ideas of humanitarian motion.

Track Two Diplomacy and Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Old City Initiative (UCLA Center for Middle East Development (CMED) series)

‘Track international relations and Jerusalem’ is the 1st in a sequence of 3 books which jointly current the paintings of the Jerusalem previous urban Initiative, or JOCI, a huge Canadian-led music diplomatic attempt, undertaken among 2003 and 2014. JOCI’s raison d’être used to be to discover sustainable governance options for the outdated urban of Jerusalem, arguably the main delicate and intractable of the ultimate prestige matters dividing Palestinians and Israelis.