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Just security: an alternative foreign policy framework
Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, 2007This document discusses the role that public engagement can play in changing U.S foreign policy. With a focus on the Bush administration, this report discusses five different challenges to be faced in the future: climate change, global poverty, nuclear weapons, terrorism and nuclear conflict.DocumentSquandered victory: the American occupation and the bungled effort to bring democracy to Iraq
Gulf Research Center, UAE, 2007This book describes the experiences of the author, Stanford Professor Larry Diamond, who spent several months in Baghdad as an adviser to the American occupation authorities. Diamond documents the attempts of the U.S. government to build democracy in Iraq and pitfalls which followed. He argues that U.S.DocumentNepal's troubled Tarai region
International Crisis Group, 2007Unrest in the Tarai plains has exposed the weaknesses of Nepal’s peace process, could derail forthcoming elections for a constituent assembly and, if not properly addressed, could start a new form of conflict, this report warns. It describes how demands for political representation cut to the heart of the peace deal and constitutional process, as well as posing a direct challengDocumentRethinking insurgency
Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College, 2007This report argues that the United States military must rethink its counter-insurgency methods. It claims that current strategies in Afghanistan and Iraq are based on Cold War era nationalistic insurgencies, rather than the complex conflicts which characterise the post-Cold War security environment.DocumentGreater than the sum of its parts? Assessing "whole of government" approaches to fragile states
International Peace Academy, 2007This study examines efforts to promote policy coherence toward fragile states by seven donor governments: the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, and Sweden.DocumentHaiti: hope for the future
United States Institute of Peace, 2007This document presents a report which reviews the events of the past year in Haiti, and its prospects for the future. It particularly focuses on the role played by Haiti’s new President, René Préval in the areas of democracy, security and the economy. Key points discussed in the report include:DocumentClosed to progress: an assessment of the socio-economic impacts of conflict on pastoral and semi pastoral economies in Kenya and Uganda
Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group], 2005This paper assesses the impact of conflict on social service delivery, agricultural production, trade and investment, as well as the nexus between conflict and HIV AIDS. It particularly focuses on the pastoral and semi pastoral economies in Kenya and the Karamoja region of Uganda.DocumentCities, terrorism and urban wars
Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2007This paper explores the link between terrorism and development. It addresses the complexities of defining terrorism and discusses acts of political violence in both a northern and southern context.DocumentThe European Union in Africa: the linkage between security, governance and development from an institutional perspective
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007This paper discusses the European Union’s (EU) agenda for development in Africa. It particularly focuses on the triangular linkage aspect of this agenda between good governance, security, and economic development.Documentid21 insights, issue No. 66: Retaining legitimacy in fragile states
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007The term ‘fragile states’ refers to states where globalisation and liberalisation have led to high levels of poverty and inequality, low levels of state capacity, vulnerability to internal and external shocks and the potential for domestic and international conflict.Pages