Microfoundations of the Arab Uprisings edited by Frederic Volpi and James M. Jasper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Volpi, Frédéric., Editor.

Contributor:

Jasper, James M., 1957- editors.

Volpi, Frédéric, editors.

Middle East Studies Association of North America, organizer.

Series:

Protest and social movements.

Protest and social movements ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protest movements--Arab countries--21st century--Congresses.

Protest movements.

Arab Spring, 2010---Congresses.

Arab Spring, 2010-.

Arab countries--Politics and government--21st century--Congresses.

Arab countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Only 25 years after the end of the Cold War, the Western-dominated global order is fading and our hopes that liberal democracy would spread and bring world peace are evaporating. While the West is increasingly preoccupied with its internal problems, threats to global peace have fundamentally changed: wars among nation-states and their alliances, once the dominant scourge of humankind, have almost disappeared and are replaced by a triple threat from intra-state armed conflicts, the failing of nation-states and the rise of belligerent non-state actors. The global peace we felt within our reach in 1991, is escaping us. On Building Peace seeks the answers that the UN Charter can no longer provide. Once meant as a guarantor for peace, the Charter was never designed to deal with intra-state conflicts and today its core principles are eroded. The book makes two rather simple, but possibly unpopular suggestions for preserving future peace: first, we must rescue the nation-state, not despite but because of globalization, and second, we must not further undermine the United Nations, but expand its Charter for dealing collectively with this triple threat. The struggle for survival in a world of limited resources and environmental degradation will deepen intra-state conflicts. We must prevent slipping back into a new round of Cold War-type confrontations and focus on finding collective solutions for building peace. For the sake of billions of people of future generations, we cannot get this wrong.

Contents:

The fading of the post-Cold War peace order

The failing of the nation-state

The marginalization of the United Nations

Rescuing the nation-state

Building peace on collective security

Striking a new grand bargain for global peace and security.

Notes:

"This book originated in a roundtable discussion at the annual convention of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), in Washington, DC in November 2014"--Page 9.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-69976-6

1-04-079686-9

90-485-3616-2

9781003699767

OCLC:

1176194171

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access