Changes, Chances and Challenges

The security predicament of Europe is very different from ten years ago and the solution is still far from clear. Changing concepts of security have acquired new roles in the thinking in European and global institutions and have, in turn, been transformed by these roles. Economic, ecological and societal security have grown in importance. The agenda of peace research has always included the issues of peace and war, changes in armaments and the possibilities of conversion. Other questions, such as patterns of dominance and dependence were added later. There are also recent themes calling for new priorities. One of these is the implications for the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts of the fact that most major conflicts in Europe today have strong ethnic components. Another is the rapid and unprecedented transformation of societies in Central and Eastern Europe, and the actual and potential relations among them.

This book, a product of the European Peace Research Association, written by authors from all parts of Europe, deals with the changes, chances and challenges in Europe today.

ISBN 9630569329   Pages 274 ISBN13 9789630569323 (What's this?)   Volumes 001 Publisher Akademiai Kiado   Weight (grammes) 490 Imprint Akademiai Kiado   Published in Budapest Format Paperback   Height (mm) 250 Publication date 01 Nov 1995   Width (mm) 164 Library of Congress D2001.E95   Spine width (mm) 16 DEWEY 327.4   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC20

		Preface by Judit Balazs
		Introduction. European peace research: old, new and "post-new" agendas by Hakan Wiberg		1
		Peace Research: Diagnosis, Prognosis and Now Therapy by Johan Galtung		27
		Conflict Dynamics and Prevention: A Preliminary Re-search of the Past Research Efforts by Luc Reychler		41
		The Construction of Security Fields in Post-Cold War Europe: The Case of CSCE by Jef Huysmans		53
		The Role of Military Force in the New World Order: New and Old Sources of Power in the Balkans by Dragan Simic		79
		Conflict Potential of Postcommunist Countries: A System Approach by Georgij Pocheptsov		83
		Economic Destabilization in South Africa: A Threat to European Security? by Peter Cunningham		99
		Conflict and Cooperation in the Light of Global Human-Ecological Transformation by Gunther Bachler		109
		The Dynamics of Violent Ethnic Conflict: Implications for Conflict Resolution by Stephen Ryan		139
		UN Peace Enforcement After the Cold War: The Rule or the Exception? by Peter V. Jakobsen		159
		Regional Development and Peace in Europe by Judit Balazs		185
		Alternative Paths for Peaceful Evolution in Central-East Europe by Erzsebet Gidai		199
		Crisis Management as Learning: Coping with Ethnic Conflicts in Eastern Europe by Feiwel Kupferberg		209
		Poland: The Role of International Institutions in the Transition Period by Katarzyna Zukrowska		233
		The Teaching of Conflict Resolution and Nonviolence in Australian Schools: A Context for Peace Education by Max Lawson		247
		About the Authors		261

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