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Why do formal peace settlements contain large-scale state?insurgent conflict yet leave violence embedded in everyday politics? This book revisits liberal peacebuilding through a historically grounded study of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Moving beyond a simple success-or-failure view of peacebuilding, it examines how the Bangsamoro peace process transformed a protracted state?insurgent conflict into negotiated autonomy while reconfiguring the political order in which localized violence persists. Tracing the long history of colonial incorporation, national integration, Moro insurgency, clan politics, and autonomy, the book shows how vertical conflict between the Philippine state and Moro revolutionary movements has intersected with horizontal forms of coercion, including clan feuding, electoral violence, and struggles over land, office, resources, and protection. It develops the concept of the state?clan?insurgent nexus to explain how state institutions, rebel organizations, political clans, and local brokers have cooperated, competed, and bargained over authority and legitimacy. The book argues that institutionalized peace in Mindanao has produced a form of bounded stabilization: renewed large-scale state?insurgent war has become less likely and governance more routinized, yet authority remains plural, legitimacy uneven, and violence increasingly localized. By analyzing peacebuilding as political order-making rather than simply post-conflict reconstruction, this book offers a context-sensitive framework for understanding protracted conflict, territorial autonomy, hybrid governance, and the unfinished politics of peace in conflict-affected societies.

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Miyoko Taniguchi is Professor of International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies at Miyazaki Municipal University, Japan.

This book examines Russia’s strong-state dilemma: why Russia repeatedly seeks to overcome crisis, disorder, and failed transition by rebuilding a strong state, yet keeps falling back into a cycle in which restored control does not become stable governing capacity. It argues that post-Soviet political change should be understood not simply as failed democratization, but as a sequence of state-power loss, state rebuilding, and a new center-region balance.

Focusing on Russia’s 85 federal subjects from 1991 to 2022, the book draws on an original database of 400+ governors, president-governor meeting transcripts, local media, elite biographies and interviews, institutional histories, formal rules, and electoral data. It shows that Russian state rebuilding followed an uneven strategy: the state did not restore itself everywhere, at every level, or in every sphere at once, but re-entered critical regions, sectors, and institutional junctures selectively and in stages.

The book identifies two linked mechanisms: the separation of governors from governance tools, and the disconnect between elite selection and governance capacity. Through Samara, Sverdlovsk Oblast, St. Petersburg, and Moscow, it shows how different regional paths gradually converged into similar center-region structures. Its central conclusion is that the future of Russian state rebuilding depends on whether the state can build formal institutions capable of effectively constraining, organizing, and guiding political elites.

This edited volume explores indigenous peacebuilding, conflict resolution, and community reconciliation, with a strong focus on the roles of women, youth, and marginalised groups in building sustainable peace. Drawing on case studies from Nigeria and across Africa, it examines how traditional institutions, cultural practices, gender inclusion, youth participation, and local knowledge contribute to peace and security in conflict-affected societies.

The volume begins by examining the place of women and youth in peacebuilding and reconciliation before moving into discussions on traditional justice systems, indigenous mediation, and grassroots security initiatives. Subsequent chapters explore themes such as girl-child education, climate-induced conflict, youth-led vigilante networks, cultural diplomacy, humour, music, and inter-ethnic relations as tools for social harmony. The volume combines historical analysis, political studies, and cultural perspectives. It offers valuable insights for researchers, students, policymakers, and practitioners interested in African peacebuilding, indigenous conflict resolution, gender studies, and sustainable development.

Nuanced narratives of the complex Israel-Palestine conflict

Now in its Third Edition, The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories examines why this conflict has resisted resolution for over 145 years. Rather than validating one side's narrative over the other, the book lays out Palestinian and Israeli perspectives through chronological milestones, drawing on the protagonists' own words to let readers evaluate competing claims and form independent judgments.

Through measured and balanced analysis, The Israel-Palestine Conflict 3rd edition considers the overarching reasons that this conflict has been resistant to resolution. The book identifies recurring conceptual patterns? core arguments and repeated cycles of violence and calm?that have shaped the conflict's trajectory. It foregrounds the role of narrative and historiography in framing contested episodes, sensitizing readers to bias in scholarship and public debate. Detailed notes and citations support deeper inquiry throughout.

Readers will also find:

• A thematic rather than name-and-date approach that prepares readers to interpret current and future developments in the conflict
• Sober juxtaposition of each side's arguments enabling readers who hold strong opinions to critically reassess their own assumptions
• Discussion of the difficulties inherent in defining, categorizing, and talking about this deeply polarizing and evolving conflict
• Analysis of obstacles to resolution, including structural patterns that have repeatedly undermined negotiation efforts over more than a century
• A concise, logically structured format designed for accessibility without sacrificing scholarly rigor or depth of historical coverage

Written for undergraduate students, community groups, book clubs, and concerned observers of global affairs, this book provides a measured framework for nuanced reflection on one of the world's most enduring conflicts?particularly valuable amid periods of overheated rhetoric and clashing binary certainties.

Modernizing the Crown outlines the reform of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) from the mid-1980s to the present day. Showing how it went from a stodgy distributor set on “controlling” beverage alcohol consumption to the efficient, dynamic retailer we see today, and illuminating both the process and the rationale for this shift.

As the central actor in Ontario’s alcoholic beverage market, the LCBO’s transformation challenges several common assumptions: that privatization is the only option to improve state-owned firms or that partisanship is a predictor of a government’s behaviour ? it was the Mike Harris Tories, after all, who kicked its modernization drive into high gear in the 1990s. Like other firms owned by states, the LCBO must manage a host of demands from a variety of stakeholders, including its state owner, various powerful interests, and the citizen public, among others, and thus must juggle complex and competing commercial and policy imperatives.

Drawing from primary and secondary empirical sources, Malcolm G. Bird articulates the corporate, institutional, and political dynamics that both explain the board’s evolution and that underpin the province’s unique alcohol retail marketplace, including the recent drastic expansion of the retail landscape.

Populism has upended politics around the world over the past decade. Claiming to speak for the people, populist leaders denigrate mainstream politicians, threaten democratic norms, and take aim at immigrants and other vulnerable minorities.

Canadians have observed this gathering storm with one eye on events elsewhere and another on populist stirrings in the domestic political arena. Populist sentiment helped fuel the Freedom Convoy and was harnessed by Pierre Poilievre as he rose to the leadership of the Conservative Party. With the outcome of the 2025 election, the momentum behind this made-in-Canada populism seems to have faltered. But with populism flourishing globally, is this really the end of the story?

In The Perils of Populism, political scientist Paul Howe answers this critical question by digging beneath the surface of recent events to examine the public attitudes, values, biases, and emotions that shape our contemporary political life. He asks probing questions about the commitment of Canadians to democratic norms, to the ideals and practices of engaged citizenship, and to principles of social tolerance and acceptance ? finding evidence of vulnerabilities that stand ready to be exploited by a firebrand populist leader who strikes a chord with a critical mass of disaffected Canadians.

In these tumultuous times, Howe advises, Canadians must recognize our vulnerability and reach across social divisions to find ways of strengthening our political community together.

This book studies the "disciplinary divides" between law and political science, including conceptual, methodological, and normative differences in how each field approaches policy, institutions, and legal phenomena.
Disciplinary Divides in the Study of Law and Politics critically analyses these fault lines and proposes strategies to bridge them. The chapters identify key gaps, disagreements, and challenges in the study of law and politics through fresh empirical analyses, including studies of rights (such as Charter and Indigenous rights) and of institutional actors and processes ? courts, legislatures, executives, expert witnesses, judicial selection, constitutional amendment, and government lawyers. The volume addresses a wide range of legal domains, including constitutional, administrative, immigration and refugee, federalism, and electoral law, while also highlighting areas where deeper interdisciplinary engagement is needed. Several chapters contribute to theoretical development, and many adopt a forward-looking perspective, identifying urgent research questions and setting future research agendas. Collectively, the contributions demonstrate how greater interdisciplinary collaboration can enhance our understanding of law’s relationship to power, public policy, and society.

Public Representations explores how popular screen stories represent, and interact with, politics, governance, and the public sphere. It analyses a selection of recent films and broadcast, cable, and streaming series from the US and the UK, as well as a multi-decade survey of comparable Canadian films and series. Drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship and popular media commentary, Public Representations considers questions of narrative representation, political agency, and conditions of screen story production as they intersect with race and gender.

Using a rich array of paratexts, including online and legacy media reviews, interviews, news reports and feature coverage, as well as metrics such as production budgets, box office figures, and awards, Public Representations traces the ways in which these screen stories function as frames of reference, and sites of contestation, for the most urgent issues within the contemporary public sphere.

This book advances our understanding of small powers’ collective and individual agency in the international system. Drawing on realist, constructivist and relational perspectives, it explores such agency in conceptual terms and analyses instances of it in Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific Islands region. A further focus is on New Zealand, a small power at the global level but a regional power in the Pacific.

The book?brings together contributions by IR scholars, area specialists, and (former) practitioners. They zoom in on the experience of small powers in several world regions pertaining to the Indo-Pacific in strategic terms but exhibiting quite different dynamics. Offering fresh analytical perspectives and rich empirical insights, the book is a must-read for anyone interested in small powers and agency in the international system.

Systematize political risk analysis with rigorous analytical tools

The contemporary world faces a unique combination of interconnectedness with increasing levels of geopolitical uncertainty and political risk. The need for models and methods with which to evaluate uncertainty and risk has never been greater Evaluating Political Risk: Modes of Thinking and Models of Analysis provides a systematic analytical toolkit, presenting methods and models grounded in insights from psychology, public policy, political science, economics, and history.

Evaluating Political Risk teaches readers to systematize their reasoning and apply analytical tools responsibly. The progressive chapter structure moves from foundational concepts of risk and uncertainty through increasingly sophisticated analytical models, developing cumulative competence. Each chapter pairs a specific method or model with applied illustrations, drawn from around the world.

Readers will also find:

• A curriculum-ready chapter sequence designed to map onto a standard 15-week semester for graduate or advanced undergraduate courses
• Practical guidance on analytical methods for assessing instability, navigating negotiations, and strategizing resource allocation
• Interdisciplinary frameworks integrating insights from psychology, economics, history, and public policy into coherent political risk methods
• Contemporary case studies illustrating each model's real-world application across multiple regions, political systems, and types of risk
• Tools applicable beyond corporate settings, that can serve intelligence analysts, diplomats, NGO leaders, and journalists

Written for advanced undergraduates, graduate students in international relations, political science, and business, as well as working professionals, Evaluating Political Risk delivers the analytical toolkit needed to reason through political risk and uncertainty with discipline and analytical rigor.

From fistfights to scandals, Unparliamentary provides a sourced account of unexpected events that have marked the history of Canada’s Parliament. It offers an intriguing look into surprising moments that occurred on Parliament Hill, highlighting the unpredictable nature of human behaviour ? especially among legislators.

Moving from Confederation to the present day, Charlie Feldman explores moments from the less formal side of national politics, including conflicts between parliamentarians and acts of disorder, as well as instances of controversy and error in both the Senate and House of Commons. Many of the episodes discussed once attracted public attention but have since faded from memory, even among parliamentarians themselves. Unparliamentary draws on a wide range of historical and archival materials to document these incidents and bring them to life.

Demonstrating how parliamentary truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, this book is written in a direct and accessible style and functions as both a reference work and as a readable account of the Parliament’s unconventional history.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

This book reveals how communities protect themselves when external support is absent.

Drawing on participatory research from Cameroon's conflict zones, the authors document the remarkable agency and creativity of conflict-affected civilians employing non-violent methods to protect one another from violence. With international and national NGOs under strict government controls in the Anglophone regions, local communities have developed their own innovative self-protection strategies that offer sustainable pathways through conflict.

This important study shifts unarmed civilian protection discourse away from externally-led interventions towards genuinely civilian-centred approaches, offering crucial insights for practitioners, policy makers and scholars working in conflict-affected contexts worldwide.

This book examines how the relationship between borders and the movement of people within and towards the European Union (re)defines and challenges key political concepts such as sovereignty, territory, rights, and identity in the EU, particularly in a period marked by geopolitical shifts and heightened perceptions of vulnerability. Organised into thematic sections, this edited volume is structured around three main themes: Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, the reintroduction and persistence of internal border controls within the Union, and the Pact on Migration and Asylum. Drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives, some chapters explore the EU’s unresolved tension between internal and external borders in an era increasingly shaped by inward-looking tendencies among member states. Other chapters analyse the constitution and contestation of liminal borders amid the ongoing reconfiguration of relationships between the EU’s core and its peripheries. Additional contributions investigate emerging geographies and legal spaces associated with borders, challenging the fixed cartographies that the current geopolitical moment appears to reassert, and addressing both tangible and intangible borders. The final chapters offer broader reflections on the EU’s cognitive borders and the Union’s constitutive grammar of rights, democracy, and equality as affected by reactions to the movement of people. Thanks to the wide range of perspectives it brings together, this book will be of interest to scholars in International Relations, European studies, migration studies, and border studies.

Canada stands at a precarious crossroads. For decades, Canadians enjoyed the comforts of a protected North American market and the assurance of US security. That era is ending, as the return of Donald Trump to the White House, the weaponization of trade, mounting great-power rivalry, and emerging threats to Canada’s North have exposed the fragility of Canada’s strategic and economic position.

Canada Rising offers a sophisticated, urgent analysis of this watershed moment and argues that reliance on the United States for prosperity and protection is no longer viable. Moving beyond diagnosis, the authors propose a comprehensive blueprint for Canada to reclaim its national destiny and achieve genuine strategic sovereignty. Canadian politics and economics experts Perrin Beatty and Fen Osler Hampson call for a fundamental transformation of the Canadian state and economy: dismantling archaic internal trade barriers, overcoming bureaucratic inertia, renewing innovation, and forging a more dynamic partnership between business and government. Externally, they advocate rebuilding Canada’s depleted military capabilities and diversifying trade relations beyond the United States.

Canada Rising contends that unless Canadians act with resolve to shape a post-American world order that reflects their own interests and values, they risk being consigned to the margins.

Gender, Peace, and Power-Sharing examines the rise of two powerful norms in international conflict resolution and post-conflict governance: power-sharing as a model of ethnic inclusion, and the women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda, which calls for greater representation of women and gender perspectives.

This book raises questions about the theoretical, discursive, and institutional space for gendering power-sharing: Given that power-sharing approaches overlook or otherwise exclude gender considerations, does it mean power-sharing is necessarily ‘bad for women’? After 25 years of implementation, has the WPS agenda made a difference for women’s inclusion in peace processes and post-conflict political institutions? To what extent can power-sharing practices and the WPS agenda work constructively together to produce more inclusive, equitable, and robust modes of conflict resolution and democratic governance in divided and/or war-torn societies?

Through a feminist "alternative telling," this book captures both the tensions and transformative potential of these frameworks in shaping contemporary conflict resolution and post-conflict peacebuilding practices.

This open access book examines deliberative and anti-deliberative practices in post-conflict contexts marked by democratic backsliding. It compares how deliberative ideals are upheld and violated across different deliberative domains, including parliaments, citizens’ assemblies, social media and interactions between local and international actors. The authors identify anti-deliberation as the active violation of deliberative norms through exclusion, manipulation and domination, along with weaponisation of difference. The expansion of anti-deliberation restricts the space for good-quality deliberation and accelerates democratic backsliding.

This edited collection is useful to scholars of democracy, deliberation and communication with its novel comparative perspective on the quality of deliberation, to policy-makers and civil society with its?lessons for?supporting deliberation, and to international peace-builders working on democratisation and reversing democratic backsliding.

A survey of the contemporary intersection between religion and violence

In this second edition, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence assembles an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars to map the complex relationships between religion and violence. This book explains how religious traditions intersect with political conflict, collective violence, and social upheaval in a wide range of contexts that reflect academic, social, and political developments since the publication of the first edition.

New and updated chapters address political theology, White Christian Nationalism in the United States, Hindu nationalism in India, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, religion and mass atrocities, sexual orientation and gender identity, nationalism and political Islam in Turkey, Shia Islam and Hezbollah, and religion, violence, and Latin American drug trafficking. A new introduction frames these developments within broader analytical contexts.

Readers will also find:

• Updated case studies covering Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2023 and the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine
• Interdisciplinary perspectives from historians, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, theologians, and scholars of gender studies and communication
• Focused analysis of Christian nationalism, Hindu nationalism, and political Islam as distinct contemporary phenomena
• Coverage of religion's role in mass atrocities, drug trafficking violence, and politically-motivated conflicts across multiple global regions

Designed for scholars, advanced students, and research libraries in religious studies, political science, and related disciplines, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence delivers a rigorous, up-to-date reference that connects theoretical analysis with pressing contemporary developments at the intersection of religion and violence.

Frauen in extremistischen und terroristischen Bewegungen bewegen sich im Spannungsfeld zwischen Unsichtbarkeit und Ueberhoehung. Oft gelten sie in der oeffentlichen Wahrnehmung entweder als verfuehrte Opfer oder als schockierende Ausnahmefiguren. Dieser Sammelband zeigt, wie irrefuehrend dieses Bild ist. Er versammelt aktuelle wissenschaftliche und praxisnahe Perspektiven, die deutlich machen, dass Frauen keineswegs am Rand stehen, sondern als Akteurinnen, Ideologietraegerinnen und organisatorische Knotenpunkte zentrale Rollen sowohl in Extremismus und Terrorismus einnehmen.
Die Beitraege eroeffnen einen Zugang zu den vielfaeltigen Beteiligungsformen: von salafistischen Influencerinnen auf TikTok ueber jihadistische Unterstuetzerinnen und Netzwerkerinnen bis hin zu Akteurinnen der extremen Rechten und historischen wie gegenwaertigen Formen linker Militanz. Sie zeigen, wie Geschlecht als Ressource und soziale Strukturkategorie Radikalisierungsprozesse praegt und dass ohne Frauen weder die Idee einer ?Volksgemeinschaft“ noch der Anspruch eines ?Islamischen Staates“ tragfaehig waere.
Gleichzeitig fuehrt der Band vor Augen, wie sehr Praevention, Deradikalisierung und Forschung von einer gendersensiblen Perspektive profitieren. Er macht sichtbar, dass Radikalisierungsprozesse erst dann nachvollziehbar werden, wenn die Beteiligung von Frauen und die Bedeutung von Geschlecht mitgedacht werden, weil gerade Geschlechterbilder zur Mobilisierung und Stabilisierung extremistischer Gruppen beitragen. Zugleich zeigt er, welche Chancen sich eroeffnen, wenn Beratungsarbeit biografische Brueche, emotionale Ambivalenzen und Geschlechterrollen ernst nimmt.

The 21st century has been marked not simply by the proliferation of technologies that alter how we live and work, but by their increasing entanglement with core questions pertaining to security, conflict, and international governance. Indeed, the advent and maturation of novel technologies?from artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous weapons to cyber capabilities and next-generation advancements in the context of quantum?are not merely transforming the tools of statecraft and international relations, they are reshaping the very ontologies of power, control, and strategic competition. As this book illustrates, the global security implications of these innovations?when co-opted or weaponized?are generating profound uncertainties in which they blur long-standing distinctions: between combatant and civilian, between precision and mass destruction, and between pre-emption and prevention. What has resulted is a complex, fast-evolving strategic landscape in which traditional international norms and institutions are struggling to comprehend?let alone regulate?threat-multiplying technologies. By critically engaging with both the enabling capacities and the disruptive potentials of technologies covered in chapters on AI, drones, lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS), cybersecurity and cyberwarfare, and quantum computing and the quantum internet, this volume aims to unpack the new dilemmas these tools pose to policymakers, strategists, legal and governance scholars, and civil society. It invites a reorientation of how global security communities can understand and engage with emerging technologies, moving beyond reactive measures through to proactive, anticipatory governance.

Klagen ueber ≫Hypermoral≪, ≫Wokeness≪ oder ≫Tugendterror≪ praegen die politische Debatte. Was frueher Anspruch war, erscheint heute als Bedrohung: Die Moralisierung der Politik gilt vielen als Gefahr fuer die demokratische Ordnung. Doch was ist dran an der Diagnose einer uebermoralisierten Gesellschaft?

Cord Schmelzle analysiert praezise das Verhaeltnis von Politik und Moral und zeigt, unter welchen Bedingungen moralische Argumente fuer unsere politischen Auseinandersetzungen unverzichtbar sind und wann sie in problematischen Moralismus umschlagen. Waehrend sich die Kritik an der Moral als Versuch der Konservierung der bestehenden (Macht-)Verhaeltnisse erweist, sind moralische Interventionen ein wichtiger Faktor zur Selbstkorrektur von Gesellschaften ? der gelegentlich uebers Ziel hinausschiesst. Entscheidend ist nicht, Moral aus der Politik zu verbannen, sondern besser moralisch zu streiten.