Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Development
About the Book Series
Designed to meet the needs of researchers, teachers and policy makers in this area, this series publishes books of new, innovative research in to the connections between conflict, security and development processes. The series encourages a multidisciplinary approach to the links between these thematic issues, including the nature of conflict itself and the underlying conflict drivers, the underlying characteristics and drivers of insecurity, and the effects and use of development strategies in post-conflict environments and how that relates to broader peacebuilding strategies.
Public Finance, Conflict, and International Interventions: How Good Governance Reforms Can Weaken State-building
1st Edition
By Tobias Akhtar Haque
June 20, 2025
This book provides a critical analysis of the political and conflict impacts of “good governance” public finance reforms, showing how unintended distributional outcomes can undermine broader state‑building goals. The international community expends enormous resources trying to build “good ...
Deradicalisation and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Northeast Nigeria: Countering Boko Haram's Extremism
1st Edition
By Usman Sambo, Babayo Sule
November 01, 2024
This book analyses the deradicalisation and peacebuilding programme undertaken in north-east Nigeria, following the Boko Haram insurgency in the region. The intensity of the insurgents’ violence necessitated measures to combat fundamentalism, including military operations, amnesty, deradicalisation...
Civil Resistance and Democracy Promotion: A Comparative Study Analysis
1st Edition
By Michael Schulz
October 09, 2024
This book examines transnational civil society-based democracy-promoting resistance activities in Asia in a global era, focusing on the cases of Myanmar and Palestine. The work contributes to our understanding of the nexus between globalization, power and democracy by examining: (i) the ways in ...
Nepal’s Peace Process: Issues and Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Raunak Mainali, Prakash Bhattarai
June 03, 2024
This volume provides a holistic overview of the long peace process in Nepal following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2006. The date of 21 November 2021 marked the 15th anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) which concluded the decade-long civil war that ...
Military Interventions in Civil Wars: The Role of Foreign Direct Investments and Arms Trade
1st Edition
By Kamil C. Klosek
September 25, 2023
This book examines the motivations of military interventions in civil wars, with a focus on the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) and the arms trade. The book assumes a state-centric view of international relations, whereby states remain the dominant actors on the world stage. It breaks away ...
Security Sector Reform in Conflict-Affected Countries: The Evolution of a Model
1st Edition
By Mark Sedra
May 09, 2018
This book examines the evolution, impact, and future prospects of the Security Sector Reform (SSR) model in conflict-affected countries in the context of the wider debate over the liberal peace project. Since its emergence as a concept in the late 1990s, SSR has represented a paradigm shift in ...
Rethinking the Security-Development Nexus: Organised Crime in Post-Conflict States
1st Edition
By Sasha Jesperson
December 06, 2016
This book critically examines the security-development nexus through an analysis of organised crime responses in post-conflict states. As the trend has evolved, the security-development nexus has received significant attention from policymakers as a new means to address security threats. ...