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&Quote;Fragile Stability&Quote; As A Political Background Of October 7 - Current And Foreseeable Issues In The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

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 <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This edited book aims to offer a comprehensive analysis of the preceding and ongoing development of the Israel-Gaza war, using a multidisciplinary approach. The chapters, written by scholars of the Middle Eastern studies, political science, anthropology, and international law, investigate the root causes of the eruption of the war, taking a viewpoint from within. Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 caused deep shockwaves throughout the world. While the developments seemed unprecedented, the question remains whether it was an unpredictable total surprise. Given the context surrounding Palestine and Israel, it is likely that there were inherent elements in the preceding political environment that led to the current humanitarian disaster and quagmire of the battle. The assumption is that the existence of "fragile stability" might have caused the October 7 attack. What kind of fragility and robustness of the framework existed in the political, social, legal, and international conditions? How did these conditions affect the conduct of the actors in this region ultimately leading to the current situation? What challenges are likely to emerge in this region in the near future? This book addresses these questions from various perspectives. For the best clarification of the questions, authors include experts in American studies who discuss the diplomatic intervention of the United States, a former judge of the International Criminal Court who explores the role of international law in the conflict, and a legal advisor to the Oslo Peace Process who provides understanding the deep roots of the conflict. The analysis of this volume will provide an in-depth understanding of the background of the October 7 attack and contributes to the theoretical development of the concept of "fragile stability," which can be applied to examine other cases of conflict.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><em>"<span lang="EN-US">Fragile Stability provides a compelling and in-depth historical account of the background that proceeded Hamas</span>’<span lang="EN-US"> assault on October 7, 2023, and how it led to an unprecedented upsurge of violence in Gaza, one of the darkest moments in human history. A must-read for those who wish not only to understand the Palestinian-Israeli conflict but also to envision ways of resolving it.</span>"</em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">--- Sari Hanafi, Professor, American University of Beirut, Lebanon</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span lang="EN-US">This topical edited volume includes a very important collection of essays addressing the political background and general context that led to the catastrophic Israel-Hamas War of 2023-2025, providing clues to make sense of the Hamas assault of October 7, 2023, followed by the Israeli military reaction in the Gaza Strip and the spread of the war in the region. Its unique contribution stems from different levels of analysis: several chapters refer to the domestic political landscapes in both Israel and Palestine, examining the numerous cleavages among and within both societies. In addition, the scope of the analysis broadens by referring also to international law and other relevant international actors, including the United States and Iran.</span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">--- Arie M. Kacowicz, Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span lang="EN-US">This volume showcases the critical insights and scholarship...
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Gaza Nakba 2023-2024 - Background, Context, Consequences

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 <p>This book is one of the first edited volumes on the current Israel/Palestine conflict—the Gaza Nakba 2023-24. It contains contributions from both young post-doctoral researchers and more seasoned scholars from Japan. These authors, with their rich experience of field work in the region and their interdisciplinary approaches, are able to provide critical analyses on the current breakdown of humanitarian norms, the dysfunctional state of international organizations, and the breakdown of conflict management and peace-building. The unique viewpoints of Japanese scholars are shared regarding their understanding of the critical developments in Gaza since October 7, 2023. Further, these chapters analyze the background of the conflict, focusing on popular sentiments, national identity, and historical memory in Israel/Palestine, and the importance of space and land as national and cultural symbols, using rich and updated written and visualdata from the region.</p><p>This work significantly challenges prevailing arguments, as it avoids stereotyped understandings of the persistence of religious and ethnic hatred, the proxy relationships of global powers (e.g., USA) and regional ones (Iran), and regional rivalries over geopolitical and economic interests in the Middle East. Such arguments as these provide no more than a quick divide-and-rule type of solution, encouraging merely superficial diplomatic coordination among the major global powers rather than a real solution. Alternatively, this book provides a new framework for understanding the structure of the conflict, making way for solving the problem from the popular level, and delving deeply into reconsideration of the durability or non-durability of the state system in the Middle East and a Western originated liberal international order and norm in general. The book also discloses the severe reality that human rights in the Global South are often neglected. In this sense, the purpose of this work is to disclose the significance of the Gaza War as an iconic event which reveals all the contradictions, inequalities and injustices in a global historical context.</p><p> </p><p><em>This book is essential for anyone who wants a fresh and expert consideration of the Israel-Palestine-Gaza issue, which avoids the often parochial stereotypes that attend it in the West, and which views it through a global lens.</em></p><p>Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan</p>
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War And Data On Armed Conflicts - Global Networks Examining Casualties

by Motomichi Igarashi

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 This book is the first to provide a comprehensive examination of the entities responsible for the production of data on armed conflicts (DAC), the processes by which it is generated, and the international norms that govern it.
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World Order From The People'S Perspective In The Middle East - Quantitative Analysis Of International Relations Perception And Cross-Border Mobility Experience And Awareness Based On Public Opinion Surveys

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 This book employs original survey data to examine the political attitudes, perceptions of international relations, and experiences and preferences related to cross-border migration among ordinary people in the Middle East.
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Shocks And Political Change - A Comparative Perspective On Foreign Policy Analysis

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 <p>Political shocks have come to be considered highly salient for explaining major changes to international politics and to the foreign policies of states. Such shocks can occur at all levels of analysis: domestically, dyadically, regionally, or globally. They range from political phenomena such as coups and wars to ecological catastrophes. These shocks are sufficiently disruptive to cause foreign policy makers to reconsider their foreign policy orientations and to contemplate major changes to their policies. In fact, some have argued that it is mostly through political shocks that fundamental policy change occurs in most states. No wonder then that political shocks are now increasingly part of the toolbox of considerations used by foreign policy and international relations scholars as they focus on understanding patterns of conflict and cooperation between states. </p><p>Given the salience of political shocks to understand foreign policy change, this book brings together a group of both senior and more junior scholars whose previous work has shown substantial promise for moving forward theory and empirical analysis. Their combined efforts in this book highlight the value of multiple theoretical and empirical approaches to a clearer understanding of the nature of political shocks and their consequences for foreign policy and international politics.</p><br><p></p><p></p>
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Lives In Peace Research - The Oslo Stories

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 <div><p>This open access book explains how PRIO, the world’s oldest peace research institute, was founded and how it survived through crises. In this book, twenty-four of its researchers and associates, including Johan Galtung, Ingrid Eide, and Mari Holmboe Ruge, who founded the institute back in 1959, tell the stories of their roles in inventing and developing peace research. They reflect on their personal experiences with peace and conflict, tell what drove their peace engagement, and discuss the balance sought in the field between the cold dictates from academic rigor and the hot pursuit of peace, a desire for research to make a positive difference. Most of the chapters are interviews where one colleague interviews another. Some are self-reflective essays, while others are memorial essays written about a peace researcher who has passed away. Taken together, the book presents a lively picture of a thriving world-leading research environment and a wealth of conflicting or mutually reinforcing perspectives on war, violence, conflict, conflict management and resolution, negotiations and mediation, peacemaking, peace building, and the contested concept of peace.</p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>"The Oslo Stories is an indispensable source to the history of peace research."</div><div><br></div><div>Dr. Olav Njølstad, Director, Nobel Institute, Oslo</div><div><br></div>
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Turmoil And Order In Regional International Politics

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 Comparative regional behavior tends to be squeezed out by regional scholars who suspect generalization about behavior and universal scholars who suspect particular contexts such as regions.
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Digitized Statecraft Of Four Asian Regionalisms - States'' Multilateral Treaty Participation And Citizens'' Satisfaction With Quality Of Life

by Lien Thi Quynh Le e Takashi Inoguchi

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 <div><p>This book attempts to develop a novel way of conceptualizing regionalism under hyper-globalization. Until recently, regionalism has been often framed in terms of economic interdependence and security connectivity in which sovereign states are the key navigators within the liberal world order. Under hyper-globalization in the third millennium, hyper-globalization forces us to capture global politics at two more levels of measurement at the state level and both there below and there above. First, how 29 Asian sovereign states join multilateral treaty participation to develop their global quasi-legislative types and how citizens'' satisfaction with quality of life in 29 civil societies shapes their societal types. Second, relating these two features above and below sovereign states, the book attempts to measure the features and speculate on the futures of four Asian regionalisms (Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia) and their prospect of the demographically largest continent called Asia in the twenty-first century. Regionalism is measured by the proclivity of 600 multilateral treaty participation in terms of speed (cautious versus agile), angle (global commons versus individual interests) and strategy (aspirational bonding versus mutual binding), whereas quality of life is measured by citizens'' satisfaction with 16 domains, aspects and styles of individual daily life in terms of survival (or materialism), social relations (post-materialism) and public policy preponderance. The book opens an innovative vista to better understand tumultuous global politics.</p><p> </p></div><div><p>This ambitious volume leverages original survey data on citizen satisfaction and country-level data on treaty accessions to characterize the trajectories of countries in four regions of Asia as they adapt -- or fail to adapt -- to the challenges of globalization in the 21st century and beyond. Readers will learn much about politics from the basic level of the individual citizen to the most comprehensive level of the global system - and about the interactions of politics at all levels.</p><p>-- <i>Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Columbia University</i> </p><p></p><p>A wonderful attempt to link a country’s domestic development and its adaptation to the global politics. It is truly eye-opening and the findings are likely to significantly shape our understanding of life and global politics.</p><p>--<i> </i><i>Zhengxu Wang, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor, Department of Political Science, Fudan University</i></p></div>
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Micro-Evidence For Peacebuilding Theories And Policies

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 Reconsidering existing knowledge on the civil conflict and peacebuilding processes in particular, it empirically presents the relationships between conflict dynamics and citizensâ€™ norms, values, and preferences in the post-conflict context. Once it occurs, civil conflict brings enormous suffering on the local society.
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Social Justice For Children In The South

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 This book considers that contextual factors are important for the achievement of social justice and it recognizes that vulnerability to which children are exposed is a phenomenon throughout the planet, particularly in the South.
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U.S. Indo-Pacific Command - Implications For East Asia

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 The purpose of this book is to introduce readers to INDOPACOM, which is responsible for U.S. military operations in a region covering approximately 50 percent of the Earth from the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean.
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Regions, Power, And Conflict - Constrained Capabilities, Hierarchy, And Rivalry

by J. Patrick Rhamey Jr., Jacob Cramer, Karen Rasler, Kelly Marie Gordell, Kentaro Sakuwa, Leila Zakhirova, Manjeet Pardesi, Paul Bezerra, Rachel Van Nostrand, Thomas J. Volgy e William R. Thompson

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 <p>The three main levels of analysis in international relations have been the systemic, the national, and the individual. A fourth level that falls between the systemic and the national is the region. It is woefully underdeveloped in comparison to the attention afforded the other three. Yet regions tend to be distinctive theaters for international politics. Otherwise, we would not recognize that Middle Eastern interstate politics somehow does not resemble Latin American interstate politics or interstate politics in Southern Africa (although once the Middle East and Southern Africa may have seemed more similar in their mutual fixation with opposition to domestic policies in Israel and South Africa, respectively). </p><p>This book, divided into three parts, first makes a case for studying regional politics even though it must also be appreciated that regional boundaries are also hazy and not always easy to pin down empirically. The second part examines power distributions within regions as an important entry point to studying regional similarities and differences. Two emphases are stressed. One is that regional power assessments need to be conditioned by controlling for weak states which are more common in some regions than they are in others. The other emphasis is on regional power hierarchies. Some regions have strong regional hierarchies while others do not. Regions with strong hierarchies operate much differently from those without them in the sense that the former are more pacific than the latter. The third part of the book focuses on regional differences in terms of conflict behavior, order preferences, rivalries, and rivalry termination.</p><br><p></p>
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Globalisation And Local Conflicts In Africa And Asia

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 Cases include Nigeria's oil-related conflicts, the Democratic Republic of Congo's timber conflicts, continuing instability in Mozanbique, Thailand's conflict with regard to AIDS medicine, Myanmar's local conflicts after its reforms, and the Afghanistanâ€™s conflicts over minerals.
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Analyzing Strategic Rivalries In World Politics - Types Of Rivalry, Regional Variation, And Escalation/De-Escalation

by Kentaro Sakuwa, Prashant Hosur Suhas e William R. Thompson

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 Strategic rivalries are contests between states that view one another as threatening competitors and treat each other as enemies. Overall, the emphases of the book are split between demonstrating the utility of distinguishing among rivalry types and examining selected rivalry dynamics.
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Nationality Of Foundlings - Avoiding Statelessness Among Children Of Unknown Parents Under International Nationality Law

by Mai Kaneko-Iwase

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 This is the first book dedicated to clarifying the concept of â€œfoundlingsâ€ and how to best prevent their statelessness in light of the object and purpose of Article 2 of the 1961 UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and equivalent nationality law provisions.
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Digitized Statecraft In Multilateral Treaty Participation - Global Quasi-Legislative Behavior Of 193 Sovereign States

by Lien Thi Quynh Le e Takashi Inoguchi

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 This book is a rarity in that it opens a genuinely creative new vista for understanding global politics as distinguished from international politics, enhancing the vision for understanding global subjects such as multilateral treaties and the Covid-19 virus.
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Reproduction Of Inequality And Social Exclusion - A Study Of Dalits In A Caste Society, Nepal

by Uddhab Pyakurel

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 This book is a detailed account of how hierarchy has been maintained historically by the Nepali state, affirming the uniqueness of a caste-based social order by bringing outsiders, especially ethnic groups and religious minorities, into the caste fold.
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Gaza Nakba 2023â€“2024 - Background, Context, Consequences

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