Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Zimbabwe in Crisis: The International Response and the Space of Silence (2007)
Book
Chan, S., & Primorac, R. (Eds.). (2007). Zimbabwe in Crisis: The International Response and the Space of Silence. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315869476

This book covers not only the political situation in Zimbabwe, but its international context and those areas of privation, exclusion and silence within the country that are beneath the everyday face of politics. Written by either a Zimbabwean or an i... Read More about Zimbabwe in Crisis: The International Response and the Space of Silence.

Grasping Africa: A Tale of Achievement and Tragedy (2007)
Book
Chan, S. (2007). Grasping Africa: A Tale of Achievement and Tragedy. I.B. Tauris. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755624690

Africa is huge, internationally vital, potentially rich and powerful yet mired in failure - political, economic, social and even cultural. Yet the story of contemporary Africa is not just one of global tragedy but also of enormous hope for the future... Read More about Grasping Africa: A Tale of Achievement and Tragedy.

Bosnian Security After Dayton: New Perspectives (1st Edition) (2006)
Book
Innes, M. A. (Ed.). (2006). Bosnian Security After Dayton: New Perspectives (1st Edition). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203969014

Featuring fresh contributions from leading scholars, this new volume considers a varied range of post-war, post-Dayton and post-9/11 problems and issues, reminding readers that Dayton is not the only challenge to the safety, stability, and long-term... Read More about Bosnian Security After Dayton: New Perspectives (1st Edition).

Terrorist Sanctuaries and Bosnia-Herzegovina: Challenging Conventional Assumptions (2006)
Journal Article
Innes, M. A. (2006). Terrorist Sanctuaries and Bosnia-Herzegovina: Challenging Conventional Assumptions. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 28(4), 295-305. https://doi.org/10.1080/10576100590950147

This article argues that a model of terrorism and terrorist sanctuaries rooted in post-9/11 strategic thought and the Global War on Terror is inadequate to the study of terrorism in Bosnia and the Balkans. It addresses a series of conventional assump... Read More about Terrorist Sanctuaries and Bosnia-Herzegovina: Challenging Conventional Assumptions.

Aiding Peace? The Role of NGOs in Armed Conflict (2006)
Book
Goodhand, J. (2006). Aiding Peace? The Role of NGOs in Armed Conflict. Lynne Rienner. https://doi.org/10.3362/9781780441467

While NGOs’ role in advocacy and agendasetting is fairly widely accepted, their peacebuilding activities are more controversial and have come under increasing scrutiny—not least from the NGOs themselves. As the number of NGOs, and their role in confl... Read More about Aiding Peace? The Role of NGOs in Armed Conflict.

Rethinking Islamist Politics: Culture, the State and Islamism (2006)
Book
Ismail, S. (2006). Rethinking Islamist Politics: Culture, the State and Islamism. I.B. Tauris. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755609611

This text revisits the main arguments and explanatory frameworks that have been used since the 1970s to understand Islamic activism, moderate as well as militant and violent, and proposes a rethinking ofIslamist politics. Linking macro-level explanat... Read More about Rethinking Islamist Politics: Culture, the State and Islamism.

Denial-of-Resource Operations and NPFL Radio Dominance in the Liberian Civil War (2005)
Journal Article
Innes, M. A. (2005). Denial-of-Resource Operations and NPFL Radio Dominance in the Liberian Civil War. Civil Wars, 8(1), 288-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698280500423973

There has been limited scholarly analysis of former Liberian President Charles Taylor's manipulation of radio broadcasting, or of the extensive use of propaganda by his National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) during the country's enormously destru... Read More about Denial-of-Resource Operations and NPFL Radio Dominance in the Liberian Civil War.

Reading Guerrilla Radio in Wartime Liberia (2005)
Journal Article
Innes, M. A. (2005). Reading Guerrilla Radio in Wartime Liberia. Small Wars and Insurgencies, 16(2), 241-251. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592310500130818

Numerous writers have acknowledged the importance of radio communications and hate propaganda in the Liberian civil war (1990–1997), but none have explored the subject in depth. A wide variety of related issues have been neglected, including military... Read More about Reading Guerrilla Radio in Wartime Liberia.

Out of Evil: New International Politics and Old Doctrines of War (2005)
Book
Chan, S. (2005). Out of Evil: New International Politics and Old Doctrines of War. University of Michigan Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.131944

George Bush's "Axis of Evil" was the expression of a new rhetoric of morality in world affairs, mirroring the ideology of the president and his neoconservative policy advisors. In its fight against evil, the U.S. has economically and politically brok... Read More about Out of Evil: New International Politics and Old Doctrines of War.

Reliving the Boxer Uprising; or, the Restricted Meaning of Civilisation (2003)
Book Chapter
Chan, S. (2003). Reliving the Boxer Uprising; or, the Restricted Meaning of Civilisation. In P. Mandaville, & A. J. Williams (Eds.), Meaning and International Relations. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203167557-11

This chapter is an enlarged version of a review essay commenting on Huntington's book. Although distinguished critics such as Edward Said have lambasted the book in much more influential outlets, Huntington chose to reply, not to Said, but to my own... Read More about Reliving the Boxer Uprising; or, the Restricted Meaning of Civilisation.

Arms Industry (2003)
Book Chapter
Sköns, E., & Baumann, H. (2003). Arms Industry. In S. I. P. R. I. SIPRI (Ed.), SIPRI Yearbook 2003 (373-403). Oxford University Press

In the Countries of the Dead (2002)
Digital Artefact
Innes, M. A. (2002). In the Countries of the Dead. [Online article]. Prague

A new book on ethnic cleansing in Europe is likely to become required reading for those wishing to understand ethnic conflicts--especially in the Balkans.