Bøger af Patrick M. Regan

The idea of studying peace - over studying war, genocide and political violence and then inferring about peace - has gained traction recently, but how should it be studied? The Peace Continuum reviews the literature and offers three alternative ways in which peace could be conceptualized and studied.

Civil wars create regional and global instability that threatens economic initiatives and political continuity. Preventing civil wars is a challenge that the policy community is ill-equipped to handle. This book uses argument, evidence, and intuition born of experience to provide an account of civil wars and the steps we can take to reduce them.

Regan argues that the militarisation of a society is a complex political and sociological phenomenon, that can generate a life of its own and which feeds on itself. He combines statistical and theoretical approaches with empirical analysis to develop a theory of the power of political symbolism.