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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2017Building a peace economy?
by Jenny H. Peterson, Peter Lawler, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet
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December 1995Peter Huchel
Leben und Werk in Texten und Bildern
by Peter Walther
In den Erinnerungen von Freunden und Bekannten an Begegnungen mit dem Dichter entsteht ein Bild von der Persönlichkeit Huchels. Zugleich wird ein Stück jüngster deutscher Literaturgeschichte rekonstruiert.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2018Redefining security in the Middle East
by Peter Lawler, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet
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March 2015Bécon-les-Bruyères
Eine Vorstadt
by Emmanuel Bove, Peter Handke, Peter Handke, M. Utrillo
1927, drei Jahre nach Meine Freunde (Bibliothek Suhrkamp 744) und zwei Jahre nach Armand (Bibliothek Suhrkamp 792), erschien Emmanuel Boves Schilderung des Pariser Vorortes Bécon-les-Bruyères – in der Beschreibung und Erfindung sich mischen. Dadurch erreicht Bove nicht nur die Vergegenwärtigung einer Vorstadt von Paris, sondern schafft ein Porträt der Vorstadt schlechthin. Dies gelingt ihm, wie Peter Handke bemerkt, dadurch, daß er den »Duktus der Geschichtsschreibung« nicht auf einen Helden, sondern auf einen Ort anwendet.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2006Socio-ideological fantasy and the Northern Ireland conflict
The Other side
by Adrian Millar, Peter Lawler, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet
Conducting a Lacanian-inspired psychoanalysis of some of the most candid interview materials ever gathered from former IRA members and loyalists, the author demonstrates through a careful examination of their slips of the tongue, jokes, rationalisations and contradictions, that it is the unconscious dynamics of socio-ideological fantasy, i.e. the unconscious pleasure people find in suffering, domination, submission, ignorance, failure and rivalry over jouissance, that lead to the reproduction of antagonism between the Catholic and Protestant communities in Northern Ireland. In the light of this, he concludes that traditional approaches to conflict resolution which overlook the unconscious are doomed to failure and that a Lacanian psychoanalytic understanding of socio-ideological fantasy has great potential for informing the way we understand and study all inter-religious and ethnic conflicts. Whether you find yourself agreeing with the arguments in this book or not, you are sure to find it a welcome change from both the existing, mainly conservative, analyses of the Northern Ireland conflict and traditional approaches to conflict resolution.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2012Justifying violence
Communicative ethics and the use of force in Kosovo
by Naomi Head, Peter Lawler, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet
When is the use of force for humanitarian purposes legitimate? The book examines this question through one of the most controversial examples of humanitarian intervention in the post Cold War period: the 1999 NATO intervention in Kosovo. Justifying Violence applies a critical theoretical approach to an interrogation of the communicative practices which underpin claims to legitimacy for the use of force by actors in international politics. Drawing on the theory of communicative ethics, the book develops an innovative conceptual framework which contributes a critical communicative dimension to the question of legitimacy that extends beyond the moral and legal approaches so often applied to the intervention in Kosovo. The empirical application of communicative ethics offers a provocative and nuanced account which contests conventional interpretations of the legitimacy of NATO's intervention. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2018
Potentials of disorder
by Peter Lawler, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet
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August 2012Jenny ist meistens schön friedlich
by Kirsten Boie, Silke Brix
In "Jenny ist meistens schön friedlich" von Kirsten Boie erleben wir den Alltag eines kleinen Mädchens namens Jenny, die mit ihrer unbeschwerten und manchmal frechen Art für allerlei Trubel sorgt. Obwohl sie meistens ein friedliches Kind ist, führt ihre Neugier und Unwissenheit dazu, dass sie gelegentlich Regeln bricht. Von Puppenoperationen bis hin zum Friseurspielen an ihrer Schwester – Jennys Streiche sind stets gut gemeint, aber nicht immer gut durchdacht. Trotz ihrer Missgeschicke zeigt sich Jenny von einer fürsorglichen Seite, als sie ihre kranke Mutter liebevoll umsorgt. Das Buch, reich illustriert von Silke Brix, fängt auf charmante Weise die kleinen großen Abenteuer des Kinderalltags ein und wird durch kurze Geschichten, die zum Mitlachen einladen, zu einem wertvollen Vorleseerlebnis. Authentische Kindergeschichten: Kirsten Boie erzählt mit viel Humor und Wärme aus dem Leben eines Kindes, wodurch Kinder sich leicht mit Jenny identifizieren können. Wertvolle Moral: Jede Geschichte vermittelt auf subtile Weise wichtige Werte wie Fürsorge, Verantwortung und die Bedeutung von Familie. Farbenfrohe Illustrationen: Die zahlreichen farbigen Bilder von Silke Brix bereichern das Leseerlebnis und regen die Fantasie der Kinder an. Vielseitige Lesemomente: Ideal zum Vorlesen und für erste Leseversuche, begleitet dieses Buch Kinder und ihre Eltern durch viele gemütliche Stunden. Ausgezeichnete Qualität: Gewinner der Kalbacher Klapperschlange 1988, was die herausragende Qualität und Beliebtheit des Buches unterstreicht. Positives Feedback: Durchweg positive Rezensionen von Eltern und Kindern, die Jenny in ihr Herz geschlossen haben und von den lustigen, lehrreichen Geschichten begeistert sind. Generationenübergreifend: Ein Buch, das nicht nur Kinder ab 5 Jahren, sondern auch Erwachsene anspricht und somit die ideale Wahl für gemeinsame Lesezeit in der Familie ist.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2010In/security in Colombia
Writing political identities in the Democratic Security Policy
by Josefina A. Echavarría, Peter Lawler, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet
Based on geo- and biopolitical analyses, this book reconsiders how security policies and practices legitimate state and non-state violence in the Colombian conflict. Using the case study of the official Democratic Security Policy (DSP), Echavarría examines how security discourses write the political identities of state, self and others. She claims that the DSP delimits politics, the political, and the imaginaries of peace and war through conditioning the possibilities for identity formation. In/security in Colombia offers an innovative application of a large theoretical framework on the performative character of security discourses and furthers a nuanced understanding of the security problematique in a postcolonial setting. This wide-reaching study will benefit students, scholars and policy-makers in the fields of security, peace and conflict, and Latin American issues. ;
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Business, Economics & LawNovember 2019The securitisation of Islam
by Clara Eroukhmanoff, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet, Peter Lawler
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2016Syria and the chemical weapons taboo
by Michelle Bentley, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet, Peter Lawler
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2012The social construction of Swedish neutrality
Challenges to Swedish identity and sovereignty
by Christine Agius, Peter Lawler, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet, Martin Hargreaves
Since the end of the Cold War, and particularly in the post-9/11 international environment, neutrality has been conceptualised as a problematic subject. With the end of bipolarity, neutrality as a foreign and security policy lost much of its justification, and in the ongoing 'War on Terror', no state, according to the Bush Administration, can be neutral. However, much of this debate has gone unnoticed in IR literature. This book, newly available in paperback, examines the conceptualisation of neutrality from the Peloponnesian War to the present day, uncovering how neutrality has been a neglected and misunderstood subject in IR theory and politics. By rethinking neutrality through constructivism, this book argues that neutrality is intrinsically linked to identity. Using Sweden as a case study, it links identity, sovereignty, internationalism and solidarity to the debates about Swedish neutrality today and how neutrality has been central to Swedish identity and its world-view. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2018Writing the war on terrorism
by Richard Jackson, Peter Lawler, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2007The ethics of researching war
by Elizabeth Dauphinee, Peter Lawler, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2017Justifying violence
by Peter Lawler, Naomi Head, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2018Political cartoons and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
by Ilan Danjoux, Peter Lawler, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2018The United Nations, intra-state peacekeeping and normative change
by Esref Aksu, Peter Lawler, Emmanuel Pierre Guittet
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