This book offers an extensive and original study of the dynamics of rivalry, evolution of costly and violent conflicts, and potential cooperation among powerful players. It unravels the special features of the global socio-economic system that can make it extremely fragile and vulnerable. It...

<span style="font-family: lato, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> New Frontiers in Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Peace Science </span>explores the uncharted land of conflicts, human security and peace. Bringing together a diverse, world-leading researchers, this 29th volume of Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development focuses...

Key Features:Explores and analyses global problems and their solutions in a comprehensive manner that far surpasses all other books on this subjectApplies the core economic models to resolve and to mitigate the impact of the problems brought on by globalisationCreates a new focus on some of the...

This volume will improve our collective understanding of how to fight humanity's persistent and tragic problems with conflicts, climate shocks and disasters. The authors of this volume will offer deep insights, from their research, into the nature of evolving challenges to both global and local...

The fundamental idea that we seek to establish in this chapter is that the establishment of regional or local, peace calls forth global peace. In other words, our argument is that local and regional conflicts are partly driven by global factors, especially what is commonly known as international...

Violent conflicts and peace are the flip sides of the same coin of our societies. In many societies, sometimes conflicts of violent nature paralyse our collective senses, which result in an appalling destruction of economic and social assets and abysmal loss of human lives. In similar societies,...