Product Description: It has been the home to priests and prostitutes, poets and spies. It has been the stage for an improbable flirtation between an Israeli girl and a Palestinian boy living on opposite sides of the barbed wire that separated enemy nations...read more

The partition of the Indian subcontinent, the collapse of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, the reunification of Germany, the continuing feud between two Koreas, the Irish peace process, the case of Israel/Palestine and the lingering division of Cyprus, have together given rise to a huge body of literature. However, studies of partitions have usually focused on individual cases. This innovative volume uses comparative analysis to fill the gap in partition studies and examines cross-cutting issues such as:* violence* state formation* union and regional unification* geopolitics* transition.

This book attempts to explain the dynamics of community conflict, explores the relationship between cultural differences and political behaviour and examines the role of the state. It analyses the problems in many different societies. This book should be of interest to lecturers and introductory and intermediate students in human geography, political science, international studies and sociology.

Product Description: When nations divide, whether peacefully or through violence, there are many issues beyond politics to negotiate in the aftermath. Understanding the concerns that are likely to confront separated states is vital in establishing stability in new states...read more

Product Description: Divided Dynamism presents a cogent but comprehensive review of the unification policy goals of two divided East Asian states, Korea and China. Utilizing the classic case study of German unity and its ongoing implications and costs, the book explores the diplomatic relations of South and North Korea, and the People's Republic of China/Republic of China on Taiwan...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Divided Dynamism presents a cogent but comprehensive review of the unification policy goals of two divided East Asian states, Korea and China. Utilizing the classic case study of German unity and its ongoing implications and costs, the book explores the diplomatic relations of South and North Korea, and the People's Republic of China/Republic of China on Taiwan...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book provides the first comprehensive examination of modern political partition and military conflict. Once touted as the most efficient geopolitical means for resolving ideological and ethnic strife, partition has too often served to deepen enmity and provoke further violence...read more

Product Description: A thorough and groundbreaking analysis of the potential partition of Québec should the province leave Confederation. Drawing on comparisons with other ethnically sensitive regions such as Ireland, Switzerland and the former Yugoslavia, Reid proposes government reforms that will prevent violent confrontation in and with a post-Confederation Québec...read more

Argues that partition is a mistaken policy which only deepens enmity, looks at how the superpowers have acted together to create a series of divided states, and suggests a more constructive approach

Product Description: This book attempts to explain the dynamics of community conflict, explores the relationship between cultural differences and political behaviour and examines the role of the state. It analyses the problems in many different societies...read more