Recently added articles from International Journal on World Peace:
Living peacefully with one another in the Middle East.(FROM THE EDITOR)
Dec 01, 2008; ... The articles in this issue all relate to the Middle East region from Palestine to Pakistan. This region is perhaps the most resistant to religious pluralism in the world. War and violence are often the result of the attempt by a religious or ethnic group to lay claim on an entire state. A ...
"My brother is my king": evaluating the moral duty of global jihad.
Dec 01, 2008; ... This paper considers the problem of defining and describing terrorism associated with contemporary "political" or "radical" Islam and the statements of Osama bin Laden that ostensibly justify global jihad. The author's moral assessment considers the task of comparative jurisprudence that ...
Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Taliban.
Dec 01, 2008; ... Pakistan and Afghanistan are neighboring states in South Asia. The Taliban is primarily centered in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, affecting the politics of both countries. Pakistan is the country blamed for harboring enemies of Afghanistan during the Afghan-Soviet war ...
Reconciling the Arab Initiative with Israel's core requirements for peace.
Dec 01, 2008; ... The most momentous declaration of the Arab world since Israel's inception in 1948 was the Arab Peace Initiative, launched in March 2002 in Beirut, Lebanon, and re-adopted by the Arab League in March 2007. The Initiative calls on Israel to withdraw from the territories captured ...
Sovereignty over Jerusalem: a legal solution to a disputed capital.
Dec 01, 2008; ... Conflict between Palestinians and Israelis involves some of the most contentious issues in contemporary international relations. The most difficult problem is the status of Jerusalem, the intended capital both of Israel and Palestine. The authors discuss the significance of the "Holy City" ...
THE MUCH TOO PROMISED LAND: AMERICA'S ELUSIVE SEARCH FOR ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE; NEGOTIATING ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE: AMERICAN LEADERSHIP IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
Dec 01, 2008; ... THE MUCH TOO PROMISED LAND: AMERICA'S ELUSIVE SEARCH FOR ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE Aaron David Miller New York: Bantam Books, 2008 416 pages, hardcover, $26.00 NEGOTIATING ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE: AMERICAN LEADERSHIP IN THE MIDDLE EAST Daniel ...
THE GREAT TURNING: FROM EMPIRE TO EARTH COMMUNITY.
Dec 01, 2008; ... David C. Korten San Francisco: Berret-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2006. 402 pages, cloth, $27.95. In the current political climate, several scholars leave no doubt that US hegemony is not benevolent leadership but, rather, empire gone bad or gone on too ...
PEACE PSYCHOLOGY: A COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTION.
Dec 01, 2008; ... Herbert H. Blumberg, A. Paul Hare, and Anna Costin Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006 379 pages, paper, $39.00 As wars continually wage throughout the world, explorations of peace grow more relevant and needed as each day passes. In this context, the ...
KINGS OF PEACE, PAWNS OF WAR: THE UNTOLD STORY OF PEACEMAKING.
Dec 01, 2008; ... Harriet Martin London and New York: Continuum, 2006 224 pages, hardcover, $29.95 Kofi Annan once described the job of the United Nations Secretary-General as "the job from hell." After reading Harriet Martin's Kings of Peace, Pawns of War, one wonders ...
MUSLIM WOMEN ON THE MOVE: MOROCCAN WOMEN AND FRENCH WOMEN OF MOROCCAN ORIGIN SPEAK OUT.
Dec 01, 2008; ... Doris H. Gray Lanham: Lexington Books of Rowman & Littlefield, 2008 218 pages, paper, $29.95 Muslim Women on the Move compares the views of young, educated, professional, and urban women in Morocco and of Moroccan origin in France. The analysis focuses ...
The role of diasporas in world peace.(FROM THE EDITOR)(Editorial)
Sep 01, 2008; ... Globalization of the world's economy and the migrations of people for political and economic reasons has caused a collision of cultures within nearly every country. While vast empires have historically been more pluralistic as they contain migrations of cultural groups from one part of an ...
Diasporas as peacemakers: third party mediation in homeland conflicts.(Report)
Sep 01, 2008; ... Most recent violent conflicts are intrastate conflicts, and a majority are deterritorialized through the involvement of diaspora groups. Much existing research criticizes diaspora communities for financing war efforts, promoting extremism, and holding uncompromising political views ....
The influence of the Greek diaspora on Greece and the United States.(Report)
Sep 01, 2008; ... From the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century, Greeks in large numbers left Greece to come to the United States. The numerous obstacles placed before them did not deter many of them from achieving success. Their success in the United States and their desire to remain ...
Commentary on India's soft power and Diaspora.
Sep 01, 2008; ... India has a tradition of ancient wisdom and spirituality and now is surging in the field of economics and military capability, but it has failed to win back its lost glory, and is often thought to be backward. India has not adequately utilized its soft power resources at home and through ...
A memorial tribute to Dr. Andrzej Werner, founder-president of the Jean de Bloch Society (Warsaw).(In memoriam)
Sep 01, 2008; ... It is with great sadness and a deep sense of loss that we learnt of the death of Dr. Andrzej Werner on 29th October 2007 in Warsaw in a road accident. He was not only a contributor to this Journal but, for several years, from 1985 until effectively the end of the Cold War, also the only ...
Bibliography of Jan Bloch's writings on War and Peace (supplement).(Bibliography)
Sep 01, 2008; ... A. BOOKS 1. Modern Weapons and Modern War. Being an Abridgment of "The War of the Future in its Technical, Economic and Political Relations." London, Grant Richards [2nd ed.], February 1900, 380 pp. + CXI pp. (Includes 'Preface to Second Edition,' pp. VII-XXXVIII. This is a ...
The international law of war and America's war on terrorism.
Sep 01, 2008; ... The events of 9/11 perpetrated by A1 Qaeda, a non-state actor, and the subsequent capture of "terrorists" by U.S. forces and detention in Guantanamo, raises questions about how international law should function in such cases. This article examines the military rationale of the ...
Where is the Lone Ranger when we need him? America's search for a postconflict stability force.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2008; ... Robert M. Perito United States Institute of Peace Press, Washington, D.C. 2004 400 pages, Notes, Index In the wake of current developments in Kosovo, Robert Perito's work on an American post-conflict stability force merits another look. This book documents ...
The Revolution: a manifesto.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2008; ... Ron Paul New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2008 pp. xii + 173, bibliography, hardcover, $21.00 The Revolution was written by Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman from Texas, in the midst of his campaign for U.S. President in 2008. Paul outlines his philosophy of ...
Fortifying Pakistan: The role of U.S. Internal Security Assistance.(Book review)
Sep 01, 2008; ... C. Christine Fair and Peter Chalk Washington, D.C., United States Institute of Peace Press, 2006 ISBN: 978-1-929223-88-6, 165 pages, paper, $14.95 This text by C. Christine Fair and Peter Chalk is useful in understanding the internal challenges to ...