Product Description: As the world's first democracy with a written constitution and Bill of Rights, the United States has stood for global aspirations toward democratic liberty, equality, and solidarity since its formation in 1776. However, as it developed into an empire by the late nineteenth century, the United States also has threatened the liberties of other peoples, including Native Americans, Hawaiians, Latin Americans, Asians, and Africans...read more

Product Description: The potential dichotomy between individual security and governance on a wider scale is nowhere more sharply in evidence than in the diverse political countries of the Asia-Pacific region. This timely volume examines the economic divergences within the region, the old-style communist dictatorships and new-style market communism, democratic capitalism, authoritarian capitalism and cultural diversity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From 1980 to the present, two bloody wars and the possibility of a third have characterized the Persian Gulf region. Emerging from a series of meetings of the International Commission for Security and Cooperation in West Asia, this volume consists of contributions from noted scholars and diplomats searching for the peaceful settlement of regional disputes and the establishment of a durable security regime...read more

Product Description: This innovative book brings together Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, Christian, Islamic, indigenous, and secular humanist perspectives on their individual peace agendas, offering concrete policy proposals to meet the challenges of the 21st century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This work charts a conceptual framework for understanding emerging patterns of global politics and communication. After tracing the evolution of the world system, the author then draws out its implications for global systems of domination, development and discourse in the context of fragmentation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The accelerating technological transformation in learn- ing has necessitated an ability to search and differentiate among the one billion web pages, libraries, databases, books, newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and opinion columns available online...read more

Product Description: Amid the ongoing and volatile debate over the nature and potential of peace journalism, this volume presents visionary insights from some of the most prominent scholars in the field. The significant empirical studies included here will provide foundation data for communication studies...read more

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Product Description: Devoted to the problems of restructuring for a durable and just peace in the post-Cold War era, this book focuses on how to build the institutions of a positive peace - one based on mutual security, respect for human rights, social and economic justice, and communitarian autonomy and co-operation...read more

Product Description: Rethinking Civilization offers an alternative view of human civilization in a globalizing age. Majid Tehranian analyses the transition from nomadic, to agrarian, commercial, industrial, and digital civilizations and argues that the growing gaps among the five major civilizations have led to terror operating as a form of global communication...read more

Product Description: Within a comparative, theoretical and global network, this volume focuses on the impact of information technologies on the prospects for democratic development. It deals with the hopes as well as the fears for democracy and development that have emerged out of the current technological revolution in information and communication...read more

Product Description: This is volume one of a three-volume series arising from a collaborative international project on Human Security and Global Governance. It is based on the work of a number of peace and policy institutes and on the work of an international range of scholars, policymakers and community leaders...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)