{"title":"Paul D. Williams","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaul D. Williams offers insightful explorations into contemporary issues of peacekeeping and conflict, with a focus on their impact in political and social contexts. His works provide a thorough examination of international relations and the complexities of maintaining peace in conflict zones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect well-researched analysis that is both accessible and authoritative, making these titles essential for those interested in \u003cem\u003ePolitics \u0026amp; Current Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e. His thoughtful approach illuminates the challenges and dynamics shaping global peace efforts today.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"understanding-peacekeeping-by-paul-d-williams-9780745686721","title":"Understanding Peacekeeping","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeace operations remain a principal tool for managing armed conflict and protecting civilians. The fully revised, expanded and updated third edition of \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Peacekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the theory, history, and politics of peace operations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a dataset of nearly two hundred historical and contemporary missions, this book evaluates the changing characteristics of the contemporary international environment in which peace operations are deployed, the strategic purposes peace operations are intended to achieve, and the major challenges facing today’s peacekeepers. All the chapters have been revised and updated, and five new chapters have been added – on stabilization, organized crime, exit strategies, force generation, and the use of force.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePart 1 summarizes the central concepts and issues related to peace operations. Part 2 charts the historical development of peacekeeping, from 1945 through to 2020. Part 3 analyses the strategic purposes that United Nations and other peace operations are intended to achieve – namely, prevention, observation, assistance, enforcement, stabilization, and administration. Part 4 looks forward and examines the central challenges facing today’s peacekeepers: force generation, the regionalization and privatization of peace operations, the use of force, civilian protection, gender issues, policing and organized crime, and exit strategies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47433235955948,"sku":"9780745686721","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780745686721.jpg?v=1774765377"},{"product_id":"war-and-conflict-in-africa-by-paul-d-williams-9781509509058","title":"War and Conflict in Africa","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them and what were their main characteristics? And what did the world's governments do to stop them?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this fully revised and updated second edition of his popular text, Paul Williams offers an in-depth and wide-ranging assessment of more than six hundred armed conflicts which took place in Africa from 1990 to the present day – from the continental catastrophe in the Great Lakes region to the sprawling conflicts across the Sahel and the web of wars in the Horn of Africa. Taking a broad comparative approach to examine the political contexts in which these wars occurred, he explores the major patterns of organised violence, the key ingredients that provoked them and the major international responses undertaken to deliver lasting peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePart I, \u003cem\u003eContexts\u003c\/em\u003e, provides an overview of the most important attempts to measure the number, scale and location of Africa's armed conflicts and provides a conceptual and political sketch of the terrain of struggle upon which these wars were waged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePart II, \u003cem\u003eIngredients\u003c\/em\u003e, analyses the role of five widely debated features of Africa's wars: the dynamics of neopatrimonial systems of governance; the construction and manipulation of ethnic identities; questions of sovereignty and self-determination; as well as the impact of natural resources and religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePart III, \u003cem\u003eResponses\u003c\/em\u003e, discusses four major international reactions to Africa's wars: attempts to build a new institutional architecture to help promote peace and security on the continent; this architecture's two main policy instruments, peacemaking initiatives and peace operations; and efforts to develop the continent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWar and Conflict in Africa\u003c\/em\u003e will be essential reading for all students of international peace and security studies as well as Africa's international relations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47601285988588,"sku":"9781509509058","price":157.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/5011384c8083b3f70f7bd0076b1f835c.jpg?v=1778018368"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/paul-d-williams.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}