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This volume investigates both violent conflicts and non-violent conflict behavior. It addresses a variety of topics, including responsibility and guilt in connection with war, violent conflicts, and terrorist attacks; conflict escalation in disputed areas such as the South China Sea, Syria, and Ukraine; war as an instrument of the United States' and Russia's global peace policy, and the experiences with non-violent conflict strategies in the Indian independence movement. Furthermore, it presents country studies on Switzerland and Catalonia. Peaceful interethnic relations in multilingual states in Switzerland are examined and juxtaposed against independence movements, such as in Catalonia. Current political challenges faced by the European Union, e.g. divergent refugee policies and the Brexit, are also discussed.
List of contents
Guilt in Wars of Aggression and Mass Murders. Who Is the Perpetrator, Who Is Responsible?.- On the Impossiblity of Remaining Innocent when an Aeroplane Is Hijacked by Terrorists.- Islands in the South China Sea as a Centre of Conflict for a Potential Third World War.- World Peace - Even Through War. The Role of the USA Preserving Security in the International System.- The Fatal Glorification of Mohandas K. Gandhi as a Saint.- His Role in the National Independence Movement in India.- Is the Policy of Non-Violence of Mohandas K. Ghandi a Unique Phenomenon, or Is It of Universal Significance?.- Putin "Understanders" and Putin Critics. The Intense Controversy Surrounding German and Western Policy Towards Russia.- The Impact of the October Revolution on International and Inter-Ethnonational Relations.- International Involvement in the Civil War in Syria.- We Will (Not) Succeed! The Helplessness of German and European Refugee Policy.- Brexit - a Preliminary Step Towards the Exit, or the Harbinger of Deeper Integration within the Eurpean Union?.- The Catalan Independence Movement - a Challenge that Spain and the EU Have Chosen to Suppress.- Switzerland - a Model for the Regulation of Relations Between Ethnic and National Groups in Multilingual States?.
About the author
Egbert Jahn is a former Professor of Political Science and Political Sociology at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany (1975-1993), Chair/Professor of Political Science and Contemporary History at the University of Mannheim, Germany (1993-2005), Visiting Professor at the Universities of Copenhagen, Irvine, California, and Vilnius, Lithuania (1993-2009), and Research Area and Project Director at the Mannheim Center for Social Research, Germany. Since 2009 he has been a Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Goethe University of Frankfurt.
