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OverviewSince 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. The Human Security Project argues that 'the world is becoming less war-prone. In few regions has the apparent decline in conflict been as dramatic as in the Asia-Pacific, with annual recorded battle deaths falling in the range of 50 to 75 percent between 1994 and 2004. Drawing on such a wide range of case studies, this volume analyses the causes and patterns of this decline in armed conflict by focusing on that sub-set of conflicts that in the Asia-Pacific have been most costly in human lives over the last decade: internal conflicts based on the mobilization of ethnic and nationalist grievances. Diminishing Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific identifies structures, norms, practices and techniques that have either fuelled or moderated conflicts. As such, it is an essential read for students and scholars of international relations, peace and conflict studies and Asian studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Edward Aspinall (Australian National University) , Robin Jeffrey (Australian National University) , Anthony Regan (Australian National University)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.750kg ISBN: 9780415670319ISBN 10: 0415670314 Pages: 298 Publication Date: 26 September 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. 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: LessonsReviewsAuthor InformationEdward Aspinall is a Senior Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Change, Australian National University, and is a specialist on the politics of Southeast Asia especially Indonesia. He is the author of Opposing Suharto: Compromise, Resistance and Regime Change in Indonesia (Stanford University Press, 2005) and Islam and Nation: Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia (Stanford University Press, 2009). His research focuses are the comparative politics of democratization, ethnic politics and nationalism. Robin Jeffrey is a Visiting Research Professor in the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. His research is on India and South Asia. He wrote What's Happening to India? at the height of the Punjab insurgency. Anthony Regan is a Fellow in the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. He is a Constitutional Lawyer who has lived and worked in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea and Bougainville and advised in peace processes and post-conflict constitution-making processes in a number of countries, and written extensively on a number of those cases. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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