Tag: Conflicts

Free Download Messay Kebede, "Ideology and Elite Conflicts: Autopsy of the Ethiopian Revolution"
English | ISBN: 0739137964 | 2011 | 396 pages | PDF | 19 MB
The book provides a theoretical explanation of the major outcomes of Ethiopia’s social revolution, namely, the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 and the implementation of a far-reaching Marxist-Leninist revolution by a military committee (the Derg) and its collapse in 1991. The book extensively discusses the question of knowing whether existing theories of revolution throw light on the eruption of a radical revolution in Ethiopia and, most of all, whether they can accommodate the major anomaly of a socialist revolution being executed by a military committee that radicalized after the removal of the imperial regime. Hence the central thesis of the book: both the overthrow of the monarchical order and the radicalization of the Derg must be tied to social conditions that exasperated elite conflicts for scarce resources, with the consequence that the espousal of radical ideologies (socialism and ethnonationalism) became the sole avenue for the exclusive control of state power.

Free Download Too Tired to Fight: 13 Essential Conflicts Parents Must Have to Keep Their Relationship Strong (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNFB36SW | 2024 | 7 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 219 MB
Author: Erin Mitchell, Stephen Mitchell
Narrator: Erin Mitchell MACP, Stephen Mitchell PhD, Henriette Zoutomou, Jay Myers, Leiana Bertrand, James Fouhey
How couples with kids can transform 13 common relationship fights into closer connection, from popular Instagram counselors Erin and Stephen Mitchell (@couples.counseling.for.parents). Parenting changes a couple’s relationship in fundamental ways, but most parents are too exhausted from the demands of life, work, and engaging their kids to prioritize their relationship. This can lead to repeated conflict and an overwhelming sense of anxiety, anger, hurt, and loneliness…just when you need your partner’s support the most. The good news: conflict is actually a sign that you are trying to connect with your partner-you’re just stuck in an old pattern of communication.

Free Download Christopher Phillips, Elliot Fitzpatrick (Narrator), "Battleground: 10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East"
English | ASIN: B0D6GSSV3F | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~11:18:00 | 311 MB
The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East
The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a decade ago, the Arab Spring had raised hopes of a new beginning but instead ushered in a series of civil wars, coups, and even harsher autocracies. Tensions were exacerbated by the meddling of outsiders, as regional and global powers sought to further their interests. The United States, for so long the dominant actor, had stepped back, leaving a vacuum behind it to be fought over.
Christopher Phillips explores geopolitical rivalries in the region, and the major external powers vying for influence: Russia, China, the European Union, and the United States. Moving through ten key flashpoints, from Syria to Palestine, Phillips argues that the United States’ overextension after the Cold War, and retreat in the 2010s, has imbalanced the region. Today, the Middle East remains blighted by conflicts of unprecedented violence and a post-American scramble for power-leaving its fate in the balance.

Free Download Jacob Bercovitch, "Social Conflicts And Third Parties: Strategies Of Conflict Resolution"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0865319618, 0367287501 | EPUB | pages: 163 | 1.1 mb
The pressing need to find new ways to settle social disputes and render them less destructive has led to a concern with the role that outsiders-or third parties-can play in the conflict resolution process. This book contributes to an increased understanding of the nature and activities of third parties in a wide range of conflict situations. Dr. Bercovitch first describes and interprets the major elements of the third-party intervention process, then provides an empirical examination of its structure and characteristics in settings as diverse as family struggles, labor-management problems, and international disputes. Throughout, he illustrates the dynamics of the process from the vantage point of the third parties themselves. Finally he points out the conditions most likely to strengthen this type of conflict management and discusses the means for determining the appropriate forms of intervention at different junctures of a dispute.

Free Download U.S. Department of Defense, Strategic Studies Institute, United States Army War College, "International Conflicts in Cyberspace – Battlefield of the 21st Century: Cyber Attacks at State Level, Legislation of Cyber Conflicts, Opposite Views by Different Countries on Cyber Security Control & Report on the Latest Case of Russian Hacking of Government Sectors"
English | 2017 | ASIN: B06XRJ1RMF | EPUB | pages: 96 | 1.1 mb
Conflict in cyberspace is not a new phenomenon, but the legality of hostile cyber activity at a state level remains imperfectly defined. While the United States and its allies are in general agreement on the legal status of conflict in cyberspace, China, Russia, and a number of like-minded nations have an entirely different concept of the applicability of international law to cyberspace. This e-book presents the opposed views of USA and Russia on cyber security. Ultimately, you can find out from the official report how cyber-attack can jeopardize national security in the latest attack performed by the Russian hackers in order to interfere with the 2016 U.S. elections.

Free Download Guy Burton, "China and Middle East Conflicts: Responding to War and Rivalry from the Cold War to the Present"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367438240, 0367502259 | EPUB | pages: 270 | 1.1 mb
How do aspiring and established rising global powers respond to conflict? Using China, the book studies its response to wars and rivalries in the Middle East from the Cold War to the present.

Free Download D. Suba Chandran, P. R. Chari, "Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2008"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1138380296, 0415476224 | EPUB | pages: 292 | 0.7 mb
This book examines the major armed conflicts in South Asia ― in India (with special reference to the Northeast, Jammu & Kashmir and the Naxalites), Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. Designed as an annual series, the articles cover a set of issues across volumes. Each article provides a brief historical sketch of the emergence of armed conflict and outlines its various phases. The roles, objectives and strategies of the major state, non-state and international actors are critically evaluated.

Free Download The Torture of Children During Armed Conflicts: The ICC’s Failure to Prosecute and the Negation of Children’s Human Dignity By Sonja C. Grover (auth.)
2014 | 228 Pages | ISBN: 3642406882 | PDF | 2 MB
This book examines selected legal complexities of the notion of torture and the issue of the proper foundation for legally characterizing certain acts as torture, especially when children are the targeted victims of torture. ICC case law is used to highlight the International Criminal Court’s reluctance in practice to prosecute as a separable offence the crime of torture as set out in one or more of the relevant provisions of the Rome Statute where children are the particularized targets as part of a common plan during armed conflict. Also addressed is the failure of the ICC to consider that the young age of the victims of torture (i.e. children) should be an aggravating factor taken into account in determining the ICC sentence for those convicted of the torture of civilians, including children, in the context of armed conflict as part of a common plan. The six UN-designated grave crimes against children (including child soldiering for State or non-State forces perpetrating mass atrocities, and sexual violence perpetrated on a systematic and widespread basis against children including child soldiers), it is argued, are also instances of the torture of children as part of a common plan such that separate charges of torture are legally supportable (along with the other charges relating to additional Rome Statute offences involved in such circumstances). Useful legal perspectives on the issue of the torture of children in its various manifestations gleaned from the case law of other international judicial forums such as the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the ICTY are also examined.

Free Download Steven Weisman, "The Great Tradeoff: Confronting Moral Conflicts in the Era of Globalization"
English | 2016 | pages: 277 | ISBN: 088132695X | PDF | 3,3 mb
The global financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 has blasted livelihoods, inspired protests, and toppled governments. It has also highlighted the profound moral concerns long surrounding globalization. Did materialist excess, doctrinaire embrace of free trade and capital flows, and indifference to economic injustice contribute to the disaster of the last decade? Was it ethical to bail out banks and governments while innocent people suffered?

Free Download Syria and Saudi Arabia: Collaboration and Conflicts in the Oil Era By Sonoko Sunayama
2007 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1845113020 | PDF | 5 MB
The nature of the relationship between Syria and Saudi Arabia during the oil era poses many questions for the commentators and analysts of inter-Arab politics during this period. Why have these two states pursued mutually conflicting aims in almost every major regional or international foreign policy issue? Why, over the course of the past thirty years, have they often propagated contrasting ideological banners while both acting as though some form of an alignment existed between them? Here Sonoko Sunayama explores the apparent paradox behind this longstanding relationship and argues that what ultimately makes Saudis and Syrians so indispensable to each other is the perception and the historical appeal of ‘shared identities’, be they Arabism or Islam.