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Philosophies and Instruments of Peace-Keeping and Peace-Making: readings

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Peter C. Mayer-Tasch, Ludwig Maximilians Universität
** Required ( at least for those students who will present a paper about this topic)
* Recommended for all participants of the seminar

 Introduction into the subject

The dialectics of war and peace as constant pattern of social and political life:
* Creighton, Colin/Shaw, Martin: The Sociology of War and Peace, New York 1987.
- Dunn, David J.: The First Fifty Years of Peace Research. A Survey and
Interpretation, London 2005.
* Frost, J. William: A History of Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim
Perspectives on War and Peace, Studies in Religion and Society 65.
- Gray, Colin: War, Peace, and International Relations. An Introduction to Strategic History, Routledge 2007.
* Hartmann, Anja Victorine: War, Peace and World Orders in European History,
London 2001.
- Hewitt, J. Joseph/Wilkenfeld, Jonathan/Gurr, Ted Robert: Peace and
Conflict 2008, Boulder 2008.
- Huntington, Samuel: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, New York 2002.
- Richmond, Oliver P.: The Transformation of Peace, New York 2005.
- Shaw Martin: Dialectics of War. An Essay in the Social Theory of Total War
and Peace, , London 1988.
- Teichman, Jenny: The Philosophy of War and Peace, Exeter 2006.
- Tuck, Richard: The Rights of War and Peace. Political Thought and the
International Order from Grotius to Kant, Oxford 2001.

The motives for conflict and war:
- Appleby, Scott R.: The Ambivalence of the Sacred. Religion, Violence and
Reconciliation, London 2000.
- Brainard, Lael: Too poor for peace? Global Poverty, Conflict and Security in the
21st Century, Washington, DC 2007.
* Cashman, Greg/Robinson, Leonard C.: An Introduction to the Causes of War.
Patterns of Interstate Conflict from World War I to Iraq, Lanham 2007.
* Ferguson, Neill: The War of the World. Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the World, London 2006.
- Glossop, Ronald J.: Confronting War. An Examination of Humanity's most pressing Problem, 4. ed., Jefferson 2001.
- Nye, Joseph S.: Understanding International Conflicts. An Introduction to Theory and History, 6. ed., New York 2007.
- Overy, Richard J.: The road to War, 2. ed., London 1999.
- Sohail, Khalid: Prophets of Violence – Prophets of Peace. Understanding the Roots of Contemporary Political Violence, Toronto 2005.

The motives for peace-keeping and peace-making:
- Bryant, Coralie/Kappaz, Christina: Reducing Poverty, building Peace,
Bloomfield 2005.
- Cousens, Elizabeth M.: Peacebuilding as Politics. Cultivating Peace in fragile
Societies, Boulder 2001.
* Diehl, Paul F.: International Peacekeeping, Baltimore 1994.
- Jeong, Ho-Won: Approaches to Peacebuilding, Basingstoke 2002.
- Mays, Terry M.: Historical Dictionary of Multinational Peacekeeping, 2. ed.,
Lanham 2004.
- Mellbourn, Anders: Health and Conflict Prevention, Hedemora 2006.
* Mellbourn, Anders: Developing a Culture of Conflict Prevention, Hedemora 2004.
- Moore, John Norton: Strengthening the United Nations and enhancing
War Prevention, Durham 2000.
- Serafino, Nina M.: Peacekeeping and Related Stability Operations, New York 2005.
- Utley, Rachel E.: Major Powers and Peacekeeping, Perspectives, Priorities and the Challenges of Military Intervention, Aldershot 2005.
** Zartman, Ira William: Peacemaking in International Conflict. Methods and
Techniques, Washington, DC 2007.

 Philosophers and Philosophies of Peace

Confucius:
** Lun yu (In English: The Analects of Confucius), translated by Burton Watson,
Columbia 2007.
- Ames, R./Hall, D.: Thinking Through Confucius, Albany 1987.
- Brooks, E.: The Original Analects, New York 1998.
* Chin, Annping: The Authentic Confucius: A Life of Thought and Politics.
New York 2007.
- Creel, Herrlee G. : Confucius and the Chinese Way, New York 1960.
- Fingarette, Herbert: Confucius. The Secular as Sacred, New York 1972.
- Nivison, David S.: The Ways of Confucianism. Chicago 1997.
- Wilson, T. A.: On Sacred Ground. Culture, Society, and the Formation of the Cult of Confucius, Cambridge 2002.
- Yao, Xinzhong: An Introduction to Confucianism. Cambridge 2000.

Aristotle:
** Nicomachean Ethics, translated by W.D. Ross, Lawrence 2005.
** Politics, translated by Benjamin Jowett, Whitefish 2008.
* Hughes, Gerard J.: Aristotle on Ethics, Routledge 2001.
- Hursthouse, Rosalind: On Virtue Ethics, Oxford 1999.
- Jori, Alberto: Aristotele, Milano 2003.
- Pangle, Lorraine Smith: Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship,
Cambridge 2003.
- Ringbom, Mårten: Man as a Moral Agent in Aristotle, Helsinki 2002.
- Shields, Christopher: Aristotle, London 2007.

Augustine:
** The City of God, edited by Marcus Dods, Whitefish 2007.
- Brown, Peter: Augustine of Hippo, Berkeley 1967.
- Dodaro, Robert: Christ and the Just Society in the Thought of Augustine,
Cambridge 2004.
* Dyson, R. W.: The Pilgrim City. Social and Political Ideas in the Writings of
St. Augustine of Hippo, Woodbridge 2001.
- Matthews, Gareth B.: Augustine, Blackwell 2005.
* Mattox, John Mark: Saint Augustine and the Theory of Just War, London 2006.

Marsilius of Padua:
** The Defender of the Peace, edited by Annabell Brett, Raymond Geuss and Quentin Skinner, Cambridge 2006.
* Brett, Annabel S.: Marsilius of Padua. The Defender of the Peace, Cambridge 2005.
- Gewirth, Alan: Marsilius of Padua and Medieval Political Philosophy,
New York 1951.
- Maiolo, Francesco: Medieval sovereignty. Marsilius of Padua and Bartolus of
Saxoferrato, Delft 2007.
- Moreno-Riaño, Gerson: The World of Marsilius of Padua, Turnhout 2006.

Jean Bodin:
** Six Books of the Commonwealth, translated by M.J. Tooley, Oxford 1955.
* Franklin, Julian H.: Jean Bodin, Aldershot 2006.
- Franklin, J.H.: Jean Bodin and the Rise of Absolutist Theory, Cambridge 1973.
- Heinsohn, Gunnar/Steiger, Otto: Inflation and Witchcraft or the Birth of Political Economy: The Case of Jean Bodin reconsidered, edited by the Institut für Konjunktur- und Wirtschaftsforschung, Bremen 1997.
* King, Preston: The Ideology of Order: A Comparative Analysis of Jean Bodin and Thomas Hobbes, London 1999.
- Kuntz, Marion Leathers: Venice, Myth, and Utopian thought in the
Sixteenth-Century: Bodin, Postel and the Virgin of Venice, Brookfield 2000.
- Kuntz, M.: Colloquium of the Seven about Secrets of the Sublime, Princeton: 1975.
- Rose, Paul Laurence: Selected Writings on Philosophy, Religion and Politics,
Genève 1980.

Hugo Grotius:
** On the Law of War and Peace, translated by Archibald Colin Campbell,
New York 1979.
* Bull, Hedley: Hugo Grotius and International Relations, Oxford 1990.
- Jeffery, Renée: Hugo Grotius in International Thought, New York 2006.
* Stumpf, Christoph A.: The Grotian Theology of International Law. Hugo Grotius and the Moral Foundations of International Relations, Berlin 2006.
- Yasuaki, Onuma: A Normative Approach to War. Peace, War, and Justice in Hugo Grotius, Oxford 1993.

Thomas Hobbes:
** Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall and Civil, edited by Marshall Missner, London 2006.
- Collins, Jeffrey R.: The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes, Oxford 2005.
- Dietz, Mary G.: Thomas Hobbes and Political Theory, Lawrence 1990.
- Finn, Stephen J.: Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Natural Philosophy,
London 2006.
- Martinch, A.P.: Thomas Hobbes, New York 1997.
- Martinch, A.P.: The Two Gods of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes on Religion
and Politics, Cambridge 1992.
* Strauss, Leo: The Political Philosophy of Hobbes. Its Basis and its Genesis,
Oxford 1936.

Immanuel Kant:
** Perpetual Peace, translated by Mary Campbell Smith, New York 2005.
* Bohman, James: Perpetual Peace. Essays on Kant's Cosmopolitan Ideal,
Cambridge 1997.
- Broad C. D.: Kant: An Introduction, Cambridge 1978.
* Covell, Charles: Kant and the Law of Peace. A Study in the Philosophy of
International Law and International Relations, Basingstoke 1998.
- Ellis, Elisabeth: Kant's Politics. Provisional Theory for an Uncertain World,
New Haven 2005.
- Puri, Bindu: Terror, Peace and Universalism, Essays on the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant, New Delhi 2007.
- Wood, Allen: Kant's Ethical Thought, New York 1999.

Mahatma Gandhi:
** Gandhi, Mahatma: The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, New Delhi 1994.
- Allen, Douglas: The Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi for the twenty-first Century,
Lanham 2008.
- Backianadan, Joseph F.: Love in the Life and Works of Mahatma Gandhi,
New Delhi 1991.
* Bondurant, Joan V.: Conquest of Violence. The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict,
Princeton 1988.
** Chakrabarty, Bidyut: Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi,
London 2006.
- Dalton, Dennis: Mahatma Gandhi. Nonviolent Power in Action, New York 1993.
- Fischer, Louis: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas, New York, 2002.
** Patil, Vishwanath T.: Mahatma Gandhi and the Civil Disobedience Movement.
A Study in the Dynamics of the Mass Movement, Delhi 1988.
- Wolpert, Stanley A.: Gandhi's Passion. The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi,
Oxford 2001.

Masahisa Goi:
* Goi, Masahisa: God and Man,Guideposts for Spiritual Peace and Awakening,
Shizuoka 2000.
* Goi, Masahisa: One Who Unites Heaven and Earth. The Autobiography of
Masahisa Goi, Shizuoka 2005.
* Goi, Masahisa Titel: The Future of Mankind, Fujinomiya 1985.
- Petit, Patrick U.: Masahisa Goi, published in: Mayer-Tasch, Peter Cornelius (ed.): Philosophers of Peace, Munich 2007.

Nelson Mandela:
** Long Walk to Freedom. The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela,
London 1995.
- Mandela, Nelson/Asmal, Kader: Nelson Mandela: From Freedom to the Future. Tributes and Speeches, Johannesburg 2003.
* Benson, Mary: Nelson Mandela. The Man and the Movement, New York 1986.
Limb, Peter: Nelson Mandela. A Biography, Westport 2008.

Prince Hussein Talal:
* Search for Peace, London 1984.
* To Be a Muslim. Islam, Peace and Democracy, Sussex Academic Press 2003.
- Petit, Patrick U.: Prince El Hassan Bin Talal, published in:
Mayer-Tasch, Peter-Cornelius (ed.): Philosophers of Peace, Munich 2007.
- Stewart, Dona J.: Good Neighbourly Relations. Jordan, Israel and the 1994 - 2004 Peace Process, London 2007.
- Susser, Āšēr: In through the Out Door. Jordan's Disengagement and the Middle
East Peace Process, Washington, DC 1990.

 Instruments of peace-keeping and peace-making

The first hope: insight and tolerance:
- Baur, Michael: Insight and Inference, Bronx 2000.
- Corneo, Giacomo G./Jeanne, Olivier: A Theory of Tolerance, Munich 2007.
- Fiala, Andrew G.: Tolerance and the Ethical Life, London 2005.
- Liptay, John J.: The Importance of Insight. Essays in Honour of Michael Vertin, Toronto 2007.
- Moreno-Riaño, Gerson: Tolerance in the twenty-first Century, Prospects and
Challenges, Lanham 2006.
- Moreno-Riaño, Gerson: Political Tolerance, Culture, and the Individual,
Lewiston 2002.
- Sternberg, Robert J.: The Nature of Insight, Cambridge 1995.
- Weissberg, Robert: Pernicious Tolerance. How teaching to "Accept Differences"
undermines Civil Society, New Brunswick 2008.

The second hope: mediation ( on different social and political levels,
national and international)
:
* Charlton, R./Dewdney, M.: The Mediator’s Handbook. Skills and Strategies for
Practitioners, 2. ed., Riverwood 2004.
- Cremin, H.: Peer Mediation: Citizenship and Social Inclusion in Action,
Maidenhead 2007.
- Folberg, J./Taylor, A.: Mediation: A Comprehensive Guide to resolving Conflicts without Litigation, San Francisco 1984.
* Greenberg, Melanie C.: Words over War. Mediation and Arbitration to prevent deadly Conflict, Lanham 2000.
- Golann, Dwight/Folberg, Jay: Mediation. The Roles of Advocate and Neutral,
New York 2006.
- Macfarlane, Julie: Rethinking Disputes. The Mediation Alternative, London 1997.

The rule: jurisdiction ( on different levels, national and international):
* Broomhall Bruce: International Justice and the International Criminal Court.
Between Sovereignty and the Rule of Law, Oxford 2003.
* Köchler Hans: Global Justice or Global Revenge? International Criminal Justice at the Crossroads, Vienna/New York 2003.
* Krieken, Peter J. van: The Hague. Legal Capital of the World, The Hague 2005.
- Meyer, Howard N.: The World Court in Action. Judging among the Nations,
Lanham 2002.
- Schultz, David A.: Law and Politics. Unanswered Questions, New York 1994.

The paradox: superior force to end force (from Lysistrate to
U.N. Peace Corps)
:
- Aristophanes: Lysistrata. Transl., with notes and topical commentaries by
Sarah Ruden, Indianapolis 2003.
- Arnold, Roberta: Practice and Policies of Modern Peace Support Operations under International Law, Ardsley 2006.
** Doyle, Michael W./Sambanis, Nicholas: Making War and building Peace. United
Nations Peace Operations, Princeton 2006.
- Fetherston, A. B.: Towards a Theory of United Nations Peacekeeping,
Basingstoke 1994.
* Findlay, Trevor: The Use of Force in UN Peace Operations, Oxford 2002.
- Ku, Charlotte: Democratic Accountability and the Use of Force in International Law,
Cambridge 2003.
* Kühne, Winrich: Winning the Peace. Concept and Lessons learned of post-conflict
Peacebuilding, Ebenhausen 1996.
- Merrills, John G.: International Dispute Settlement, 4. ed., Cambridge 2005.



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