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Sixteen Million One

Understanding Civil War

By: Patrick M. Regan

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Sixteen Million One

Understanding Civil War

By: Patrick M. Regan

Sixteen million people have died in civil wars in the past 50 years. In view of that, civil wars may be the single most destabilizing force in world politics today. The only greater killer is the suffering that pushes individuals into them. Civil wars create regional and global instability that threatens economic initiatives and political continuity. Preventing civil wars is a challenge that the policy community is ill-equipped to handle. Rwanda is an example-a tragedy that the world did nothing to stop. Iraq and Afghanistan are tragedies the world did much to inflame. This book uses argument, evidence, and intuition born of experience to provide an account of civil wars and the steps we can take to reduce them.

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Routledge

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1317252063

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The Peace Continuum

What it is and how to Study it

By: Christian Davenport,Erik Melander,Patrick M. Regan

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The Peace Continuum

What it is and how to Study it

By: Christian Davenport,Erik Melander,Patrick M. Regan

The idea of studying peace has gained considerable traction in the past few years after languishing in the shadows of conflict for decades but how should it be studied? The Peace Continuum offers a parallax view of how we think about peace and the complexities that surround the concept (i.e., the book explores the topic from different positions at the same time). Toward this end, we review existing literature and provide insights into how peace should be conceptualized - particularly as something more interesting than the absence of conflict. We provide an approach that can help scholars overcome what we see as the initial shock that comes with unpacking the 'zero' in the war-peace model of conflict studies. Additionally, we provide a framework for understanding how peace and conflict have/have not been related to one another in the literature. To reveal how the Peace Continuum could be applied, we put forward three alternative ways that peace could be studied. With this approach, the book is less trying to control the emerging peace research agenda than it is trying to assist in/encourage thinking about the topic that we all have some opinion on but that has yet to be measured and analyzed in a way comparable to political conflict and violence. Indeed, we attempt to help facilitate a veritable explosion of approaches and efforts to study peace.

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Oxford University Press

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0190680121

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9780190680121

Civilising rural Ireland

The co-operative movement, development and the nation-state, 1889–1939

By: Patrick Doyle

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Civilising rural Ireland

The co-operative movement, development and the nation-state, 1889–1939

By: Patrick Doyle

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The introduction of co-operative societies into the Irish countryside during the late-nineteenth century transformed rural society and created an enduring economic legacy. Civilising rural Ireland challenges predominant narratives of Irish history that explain the emergence of the nation-state through the lens of political conflict and violence. Instead the book takes as its focus the numerous leaders, organisers, and members of the Irish co-operative movement. Together these people captured the spirit of change as they created a modern Ireland through their reorganisation of the countryside, the spread of new economic ideas, and the promotion of mutually-owned businesses. Besides giving a comprehensive account of the co-operative movement’s introduction to Irish society the book offers an analysis of the importance of these radical economic ideas upon political Irish nationalism.

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245

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Manchester University Press

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1526124580

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9781526124586

Civil Wars and Foreign Powers

Outside Intervention in Intrastate Conflict

By: Patrick M. Regan

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Civil Wars and Foreign Powers

Outside Intervention in Intrastate Conflict

By: Patrick M. Regan

Explores how outside intervention affects the course of civil wars

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University of Michigan Press

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0472088769

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9780472088768

The Politics of Global Climate Change

By: Patrick M. Regan

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The Politics of Global Climate Change

By: Patrick M. Regan

In 2009 the US House of Representatives passed legislation requiring reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 18 percent over the coming decade. Later that year, President Obama went to Copenhagen to sign a treaty requiring reductions by 50 percent over a two-decade period. The President came back with nothing: no firm commitment to reduce emissions and only a vague target to hold global temperature rises to under 2 C. How does a President who has a 75-vote majority in the House and a 19-vote majority in the Senate who has pre-approval for a treaty reducing greenhouse gas production by 18 percent not achieve a treaty with at least the minimum goal of 18 percent reductions by 2020?Others have answered the puzzle by looking at institutional designs or negotiation dynamics. This book articulates a multilevel process that starts with local politics to explain how they can influence international negotiations and why President Obama s efforts in Copenhagen were doomed to fail. Understanding the role of local private interests can help form strategies for overcoming national resistance to climate change legislation and ultimately international agreements that could change the environmentally self-destructive course we are on.

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168

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Routledge

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1317253892

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9781317253891

Power, Space, and Time

An Empirical Introduction to International Relations

By: J. Patrick Rhamey,Tadeusz Kugler

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Power, Space, and Time

An Empirical Introduction to International Relations

By: J. Patrick Rhamey,Tadeusz Kugler

Undergraduate students in most preliminary courses in international politics are introduced to realist, liberal, and constructivist approaches, supplementing this theoretical introduction with conceptual discussions of the state, international system, and/or decision-making and policy formation. By the end of their college experience, undergraduate IR majors will engage coursework more narrowly focused on an empirical outcome, such as war, economic integration, development, or migration. These advanced courses are directly linked to modern research agendas and graduate level course material, usually with few references to the theoretical paradigms taught in introductory classes. This volume seeks to bridge the gap between what is taught in early undergraduate education and what is created by scholars, uniting abstract theoretical principles with practical contemporary policy and testable empirical questions.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538127245

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9781538127247

The Rules of Half

A Novel

By: Jenna Patrick

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The Rules of Half

A Novel

By: Jenna Patrick

If Will Fletcher’s severe bipolar disorder isn’t proof he shouldn’t be a parent, his infant daughter’s grave is. Once a happily married, successful veterinarian, he now lives with his sister and thrives as the small-town crazy of Half Moon Hollow. But when a fifteen-year-old orphan claims she’s his daughter, Will is forced back into the role he fears most: fatherhood. Her biological dad isn’t the hero Regan Whitmer hoped for, but he’s better than her abusive stepfather back in Chicago. Still haunted by her mother’s suicide and the rebellious past she fears led to it, Regan is desperate for a stable home and a normal family—things Will can’t offer. Can she ride the highs and lows of his illness to find a new definition of family? The Rules of Half explores what it is to be an atypical family in a small town and to be mentally ill in the wake of a tragedy—and who has the right to determine both.

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Simon and Schuster

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1943006199

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9781943006199

Civil Wars and Foreign Powers

Outside Intervention in Intrastate Conflict

By: Patrick M. Regan

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Civil Wars and Foreign Powers

Outside Intervention in Intrastate Conflict

By: Patrick M. Regan

Explores how outside intervention affects the course of civil wars

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Sixteen Million One

Understanding Civil War

By: Patrick M. Regan

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1317252055

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The Peace Continuum

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Civilising rural Ireland

Civilising rural Ireland

Civil Wars and Foreign Powers

Civil Wars and Foreign Powers

The Politics of Global Climate Change

The Politics of Global Climate Change

Power, Space, and Time

Power, Space, and Time

The Rules of Half

The Rules of Half

Civil Wars and Foreign Powers

Civil Wars and Foreign Powers

Sixteen Million One

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