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Informationen zum Autor Mark T. Berger is Visiting Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School! Monterey! CA and Adjunct Professor in History/Politics! Irving K Barber School of Arts and Sciences! University of British Columbia (Okanagan). He is the author of The Battle for Asia: From Decolonization to Globalization (2004); editor of From Nation-Building to State-Building (2007); co-editor (with Douglas A. Borer) of The Long War: Insurgency! Counterinsurgency and Collapsing States (2008) and editor of After the Third World? (2008). He isco-author (with Heloise Weber) of Rethinking the Third World: International Development and World Politics (Forthcoming 2011).Heloise Weber is Lecturer in International Relations and Development Studies at the School of Political Science and International Studies! The University of Queensland. She has published articles in Review of International Political Economy! Review of International Studies! Third World Quarterly and Globalizations. She is co-author (with Mark T. Berger) of Rethinking the Third World: International Development and World Politics (2010). She is also working on a monograph Organizing Poverty: The Global Politics of Microfinance. Zusammenfassung This book brings together contributions that revisit the dynamics and complexities of the history of war and peace in relation to the pursuit of progress. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. War, Peace and Progress: Conflict, Development, (in)Security and Violence in the 21st century Mark T. Berger and Heloise Weber Part 1: The ‘Crisis’ of the Nation-State 2. The Failure of State Building and the Promise of State Failure: Reinterpreting the Security–Development Nexus in Haiti Kamil Shah 3. State Building or Crisis Management? A Critical Analysis of the Social and Political Implications of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands Shahar Hameiri 4. What Sustains ‘Internal Wars’? The Dynamics of Violent Conflict and State Weakness in Sudan Benjamin R. Maitre 5. Realities of War: Global Development, Growing Destructiveness and the Coming of a New Dark Age? John Arquilla 6. The Logic of Warlord Politics Gordon H. McCormick and Lindsay Fritz 7. ‘Sons of the Soil’ and Contemporary State Making: Autochthony, Uncertainty and Political Violence in Africa Kevin C. Dunn 8. Violence and Victory: Guerrilla Warfare, ‘Authentic Self-Affirmation’ and the Overthrow of the Colonial State Sebastian Kaempf Part 2: The ‘Crisis’ of Global Development 9. Displacing Insecurity in a Divided World: Global Security, International Development and the Endless Accumulation of Capital Marcus Taylor 10. The Pedagogy of Global Development: The Promotion of Electoral Democracy and the Latin Americanisation of Europe Teivo Teivainen 11. Global Development and Human (In)Security: Understanding the Rise of the Rajah Solaiman Movement and Balik Islam in the Philippines Douglas A. Borer , Sean F. Everton and Moises M. Nayve, Jr. 12. The Rise of a Global God-Image? Spiritual Internationalists, the International Left and the Idea of Human Progress Sebastian Job 13. Securing the State and Developing Social Insecurities: The Securitisation of Citizenship in Contemporary Colombia Cristina Rojas 14. Contemporary Contradictions of the Global Development Project: Geopolitics, Global Ecology and the ‘Development Climate’ Philip McMichael 15. Human (In)Security and Development in the 21st Century Heloise Weber and Mark T. Berger ...
