This book develops the idea that since decolonisation, regional patterns of security have
become more prominent in international politics. The authors combine an operational theory …

All fourteen major peacebuilding missions launched between 1989 and 1999 shared a
common strategy for consolidating peace after internal conflicts: immediate democratization …

Abstract From Angola to Iraq, wars have taken place in resource rich countries full of poor
people. Wars of Plunder explores the interplay of natural resources and armed conflicts, and …

Este artículo tiene como objetivo brindar una visión general del conocimiento existente
sobre las pandillas en América Latina. Ofrece una revisión de la literatura publicada basada …

This article examines how peacebuilding theory has influenced the shift from the
international to the 'local'in the practice of international peacebuilding and analyses the …

Latin America is both the world's most urbanized fastest developing regions, where the links
between social exclusion, inequality and violence are clearly visible. The banal, ubiquitous …

Reviews UN efforts to transform eight unstable countries into democratic, peaceful, and
prosperous partners, and compares those missions with US nation-building operations. The …

Natural resources figure prominently in studies of geographies of wars. This article reviews
the three main perspectives on so‐called 'resource wars': geopolitical, political economy and …

By 2030 more than sixty percent of the world's population will live in urban areas, with most
of the world's population growth over the next twenty-five years being absorbed by cities and …

This article explores the dynamics of the youth gang (pandilla) phenomenon in
contemporary urban Nicaragua, drawing on longitudinal ethnographic research conducted …