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Building and Using Datasets on Armed Conflicts
The so-called 'hard' or 'exact' sciences, with their necessary emphasis on technology and on the technical, are hardly reputed for being very human, and, conversely, the so-called 'human' sciences are often pronounced as 'soft' because they cannot be based on the certainties associated with the former. The search for truth - which is the essential dimension of the construction of a peaceful world - therefore has to navigate between considerations of a philosophical nature and the concrete data of the hard sciences. If, ever since the humanism of the Renaissance period, we have been happy to lay claim to the wisdom of one of its great writers, Rabelais, who taught a moral lesson to the young Pantagruel with the neat formula 'science without conscience is the ruin of the soul', we nonetheless stand in awe before modern scientific advances and the extraordinary achievements that they have opened up. If everything is not permissible, at least everything seems possible!
Economics of Peace and Security
Economics of Peace and Security is a component of Encyclopedia of Development and Economic Sciences (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The theme explores the history of economic thought on war and peace, the defense budget process, patterns in military expenditure, procurement issues, the increasing globalization of the arms trade, arms race issues, global and regional security alliances, nuclear, biological, and chemical weaponry, the still much needed peace dividend, the economics of peace agreements, issues of conversion of resources from military to civilian ends, peacekeeping, the building of peacekeeping institutions, and other topics. All this is a "sampler plate" of what economics has to offer. This volume is aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers, NGOs and GOs.
Research Methods in Defence Studies
This textbook provides an overview of qualitive and quantitative methods used in different social sciences to investigate defence issues. Recently, defence issues have become of increasing interest to researchers in the social sciences, but they raise specific methodological questions. This volume intends to fill a gap in the literature on defence studies by addressing a number of topics not dealt with sufficiently before. The contributors offer a range of methodological reflections and tools from various social sciences (political science, sociology, geography, history, economics and public law) for researching defence issues. They also address the increasingly important question of data and digitalization. The book introduces the added value of quantitative and qualitative methods, and calls for a cross-fertilization of methods in order to facilitate better research on defence topics and to fully grasp the complexity of defence in the 21st century. This book will be of much interest to students, researchers and practitioners of defence studies, war studies, military studies, and social science research methods in general.
GLOBAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY – Volume VI
Global Security and International Political Economy is a component of Encyclopedia of Social Sciences and Humanities in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. This 6-volume set contains several chapters, each of size 5000-30000 words, with perspectives, issues of great relevance to our world such as: Global Security; Global Security and the International System; The Regional Dimension of Global Security; The National Dimension Of Global Security; The Societal Dimension Of Global Security; The Human Security Agenda In World Politics; History Of Empires And Conflicts; The Myth Of The Clash Of Civilizations In Dial...
Visioning Technologies
Visioning Technologies brings together a collection of texts from leading theorists to examine how architecture has been, and is, reframed and restructured by the visual and theoretical frameworks introduced by different ‘technologies of sight’ – understood to include orthographic projection, perspective drawing, telescopic devices, photography, film and computer visualization, amongst others. Each chapter deals with its own area and historical period of expertise, organized sequentially to mark out and analyse the historical evolution of how architecture has been transformed by technologically induced shifts in human perception from the 15th century until today. This book underlines the way in which architectural forms and design processes have developed historically in conjunction with the systems of sight we manufacture technologically and suggests this continues today. Paradoxically, it is premised on the argument that these technological systems tend, in their initial formulations, to obtain ever greater realism in our visualizations of the physical world.
The Ideology of Failed States
Contests to reorganize the international system after the Cold War agree on the security threat of failed states: this book asks why.
Gouvernance économique mondiale et conflits armés
Pour l'OMC, il existerait une véritable gouvernance économique mondiale assumant le développement et la cohésion des économies nationales. Elle serait un facteur de paix. Pour les détracteurs des Organisations Economiques Internationales (OEI) - Banque Mondiale, FMI, GATT, OMC - ces derniers favorisent le déclenchement de conflits armés et sont aveugles à la problématique de la prévention des conflits armés.
La guerre est-elle une bonne affaire ?
Pour répondre à cette question, les auteurs de ce livre étudient les imbrications du commerce des armes, des conflits armés et des intérêts économiques, politiques et financiers. Les analysées présentées convergent dans leur dénonciation du Pouvoir qui, lorsqu'il est mal encadré, conduit à la guerre.
Méthodes statistiques appliquées aux questions internationales
Cet ouvrage vise à apporter une connaissance de base d'outils et méthodes statistiques permettant de mieux appréhender et comprendre les questions internationales contemporaines. Il donnera les compétences pour analyser l'environnement international actuel, notamment les acteurs du système international et les conflits armés, en utilisant des données et méthodes quantitatives. Des exercices corrigés permettent en outre de se familiariser avec de nombreuses applications.
