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Product Description: This new, updated and extensively revised edition of Searching for Peace is one of the first books to bridge the gap between peace and conflict studies, world order and globalisation. Revealing deep structures and deep cultures of violence and finding in them the reasons for increasing violence and peacekeeping failures, it presents the lessons that can be learned from the TRANSCEND approach, adopted as a UN training guide...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the first comprehensive analysis of the strategic, military, and technological forces that are changing the nature and likelihood of war during the post-nuclear age. The contributors examine a range of exotic new weapons and assess the unique challenges facing international security in a world that has 21st-century weapons and 19th-century ways of thought, concluding that while the risk of deliberate war may be decreasing, inadvertent war has become more likely...read more