States and Peoples in Conflict ─ Transformations of Conflict Studies

This volume evaluates the state of the art in conflict studies. Original chapters by leading scholars survey theoretical and empirical research on the origins, processes, patterns, and consequences of most forms and contexts of political conflict, protest, repression, and rebellion. Key pillars of conflict studies are examined including civil war, religious conflict, ethnic conflict, transnational conflict, terrorism, revolution, genocide, climate change, and several investigations into the role of the state. The research questions guiding the text include inquiries into the interactions between the rulers and the ruled, authorities and challengers, cooperation and conflict, accommodation and resistance, and the changing context of conflict from the local to the global.

Peter Grabosky is Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security at The Australian National University.

Mark Lichbach is Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland.

Michael Stohl is Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies and Professor of Communication, Political Science and Global and International Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara.