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  Learning lessons from the Middle East: towards an ethical foreign policy

  One World Trust, 2006

  This paper is an attempt to connect the armed conflict of the past month in Lebanon and Israel to the question of accountability of governments for their international engagements.The authors argue that while successive Foreign Secretaries and Parliaments have given different weight to the concept of an ethical foreign policy, the recent events reinforce the need to bring the issue back into th
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  Global responses to global threats: sustainable security for the 21st century

  Oxford Research Group, UK, 2006

  This report is the result of an 18-month long research project examining the various threats to global security, and sustainable responses to those threats.Current security policies assume international terrorism to be the greatest threat to global security, and attempt to maintain the status quo and control insecurity through the projection of military force.
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  Closing the gaps between desirable and possible peace: a conference report

  North-South Institute, 2006

  This report details debates within a conference organised by a consortium of institutions which launched the What Kind of Peace is Possible? (WKOP) project.
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  A shift in the paradigm of violence: non–governmental terrorism in Latin America since the end of the cold war

  Instituto de Ciencia Política, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2006

  This article examines how non–state terrorism has grown substantially in many parts of the world since the mid 1990s.
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  European defense integration: bridging the gap between strategy and capabilities

  Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, 2005

  This study proposes pragmatic ways in which European countries, working together and in conjunction with NATO, the European Union and the United States, can create the military capabilities needed to protect their interests and support their security strategies in the 21st century.This paper argues that Europe needs a new methodology for highlighting concrete opportunities where a more integra
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  Human security report 2005: war and peace in the 21st Century

  Human Security Centre, 2005

  The first Human Security Report presents a comprehensive and evidence-based portrait of global security.
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  Exploring religious conflict

  RAND Corporation, 2005

  This report summarises the proceedings from workshop that brought intelligence and religious analysts together to assess religious motivations in international politics and discover what may cause religiously rooted violence, and how states have sought to take advantage of or contain religious violence.
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  Global Security Project / State of the World 2005

  Worldwatch Institute, 2005

  The Online Global Security Project aims to analyse the following questions:how do social, economic, demographic, and environmental pressures and the complex interactions among them connect to insecurity, instability, and violence?The project accompanies the printed publication: State of the World 2005: redefining global security, and chapter subjects from the book are being covered
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  Political Islam in sub-Saharan Africa: the need for a new research and diplomatic agenda

  United States Institute of Peace, 2005

  This report provides a brief background on Islam in sub-Saharan Africa and its policy lessons for East Africa, the Horn, Nigeria, and Senegal. It suggests a future research agenda for policy analysts and overall recommendations for United States policy.Islam is the fastest growing religion on the African sub continent and has a significant presence in an array of states.
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  Security, terrorism and the UK

  Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2005

  Briefing papers collection looking at issues surrounding security and terrorism in the UK.Paper titles include:"Riding pillion for tackling terrorism is a high-risk policy - reflecting on the UK’s performance in the war on terrorism".

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