Ramsbotham, Woodhouse and Miall: Contemporary Conflict Resolution 3^rd Edition

"This new third edition confirms the stellar place of this book on the bookshelf of every scholar and practitioner in the field of conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Nowhere else will you find such a comprehensive overview of the history of the field and its current methodologies, as well as entirely new chapters dedicated to the most pertinent issues of today, including the environment, gender, religion and the media. A must read - a hugely important resource for us all."

Mari Fitduff, Brandeis University

Please also see the accompanying Contemporary Conflict Resolution website, which contains sample chapters, author information, and more.
http://www.polity.co.uk/ccr

Bellamy and Williams: Understanding Peacekeeping 2^nd Edition

"The first edition was a real gem, strong on the each of conceptual, theoretical, and case study dimensions. If anything, this new edition is even better. New chapters on gender and privatization, among others, ensure that the book remains cutting edge."

Paul F. Diehl, University of Illinois

Sandole: Peacebuilding

"Sandole rightly shows why and how the international community must implement long-term, holistic peacebuilding plans to successfully build robust and sustainable peace in areas threatened or torn apart by war and conflict. An outstanding and innovative book."

Henryk J. Sokalski, Former Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations

Weiss: Humanitarian Intervention 2^nd Edition

"Quite simply, the best short account of the notion of humanitarian intervention currently available."

British Journal of Sociology

Guelke: Politics in Deeply Divided Societies

"A distinguished expert in deeply divided societies, Guelke skilfully unpacks the challenges facing societies divided by ethnicity, religion, and race and tackles the critical dilemmas encountered by those seeking to design durable conflict-mitigating institutions. Politics in Deeply Divided Societies will stimulate current scholarship and nurture the next generation of students."

Neophytos G. Loizides, University of Kent

Diehl & Greig: International Mediation

"Greig and Diehl have produced a concise, coherent and systematic book on mediation in international and civil conflicts. They do a marvellous job of summarizing contemporary literature, bringing together various themes and inferences on mediation in a way that is not only comprehensive but accessible, and they quite adroitly mix results from systematic data analysis with case histories that resonate in the public domain. This is the type of book that those of us who teach courses on conflict management have been looking for."

Patrick Regan, University of Birmingham

McDonald: Food Security

"In this crisply written, insightful book, McDonald brings our notions of security up to date by demonstrating how current global food systems undermine the world's ability to provide sufficient, safe, and nutritious food for everyone. Timely, sophisticated, and necessary, Food Security explains how this leaves all of us more vulnerable and offers important ideas for what to do about it."

Paul Wapner, American University

Leatherman: Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict

"Leatherman not only reframes our concept of war, but of politics in general. She offers innovative insights in her explorations of legal accountability and social responsibility, of prevention and healing for sexual violence. A must-read book: courageous, groundbreaking, riveting, essential."

Carolyn Nordstrom, University of Notre Dame

Andrew Hoskins and Ben O’Loughlin: War and Media

"The most singular feature of Hoskins and O'Loughlin's' achievement in their comprehensive sweep of scholarship in this multi-disciplinary field of war and media is its critical assessment of existing paradigms and theories, and the development of new ones. The work represents an important and ground-breaking milestone in the development of this relatively new specialism about one of the oldest and most important spheres of human experience."

Joseph Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Bowling Green State University

Kaldor: New and Old Wars 3^rd Edition

"A timely and important book. Putting the so-called revolution in military affairs firmly to one side, Mary Kaldor has provided us with a window into the future of war."

Martin van Creveld, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Dannreuther: International Security

"Roland Dannreuther provides a sensitive and analytically strong account of the intellectual dilemmas faced by security studies in the new environment of threat in the post-Cold War era. This book delivers an impressive tour d'horizon of the array of new and challenging issues faced by both academics and practitioners in the area of security and a balanced account of the continuing debates within the subdiscipline."

S. Neil MacFarlane, University of Oxford

Gill and Phythian: Intelligence in an Insecure World 2^nd Edition

"Gill and Phythian have done it again: produced a comprehensive, readable, nicely illustrated, and thought-provoking examination of national security intelligence in today's uncertain and dangerous world. Want to know all about espionage, covert action, and counterintelligence? Here's an excellent place to begin."

Loch K. Johnson, University of Georgia

Detraz: International Security and Gender

"International Security and Gender is a complex and critical overview of the field of gender and security, which familiarizes readers with the field in a fair and even-handed manner and provides forward-looking challenges to the field's research agendas."

Laura Sjoberg, University of Florida

Shibuya: Demobilizing Irregular Forces

"This book examines in fascinating detail a neglected aspect of post-conflict peacebuilding: how to disarm, demobilize, and reintegrate armed groups back into civil society. Eric Shibuya makes a valuable contribution to the literature of unconventional conflict that should be the subject of discussion for years to come."

Tom Mockaitis, DePaul University