Renewable Energy Arbitration – Quo Vadis? : Implications of the Spanish Sag…

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European Union Support for Colombia's Peace Process

This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the EU's crucial support for the implementation of the Havana Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP. It explores the use of new approaches and instruments that, despite some limitations and criticisms, could go beyond conventional liberal peace and provide useful lessons. Particular attention is paid to three …

The Impact of Protracted Peace Processes on Identities in Conflict

This open access book discusses the impact of protracted peace processes on identities in conflict. It is concerned with how lingering peace processes affect, in the long-term, patterns of othering in protracted conflicts, and how this relates with enduring violence. Taking Israel and Palestine as a case study, the book traces different representations of success and failure of the protracted p…

Security, Disinformation and Harmful Narratives: RT and Sputnik News Coverage…

It is a well-known fact both among scholars of propaganda and disinformation, and among political leaders that Sputnik and RT are using their news coverage for disinformation purposes to harm Western and European societies. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which enhanced the security threat by disinformation, the EU decided to ban these two media. Against this backdrop, the study asks…

News, Media, and Communication in a Polarized World; A Spanish perspective

Buku Akses Terbuka ini menyediakan analisis mendalam tentang peran media dan jurnalis dalam ekosistem komunikasi yang terfragmentasi dan terpolarisasi yang menghadapi ketidakpastian tantangan besar, seperti dampak proses disintermediasi, tekanan dari kekuatan informasi berlebih dan disinformasi yang simultan, serta ketidakpastian kerja. Buku ini membahas tantangan-tantangan ini dalam konteks kr…

The Non-radicalisation of Muslims in Southern Europe

This open access book explains why southern European countries with significant Muslim communities have experienced few religiously inspired violent attacks – or have avoided the kind of securitised response to such attacks seen in many other Western states. The authors provide a unique contribution to the literature on violent extremism – which has traditionally focused on countries such a…

Who Benefits from the Sanitized Language of Violence?

Language is not neutral; it determines, and is determined, by perspective. This volume explores the role of an influential vocabulary of war, sanitised language, the language that seeks to clean up the appearance of events through euphemism, abstract words and opaque phrases. Critical discourse analysis of the language of recent military campaigns shows that the public authorities do not explai…

Islamic Law in Saudi Arabia

This book provides an in-depth exploration of the Saudi judiciary in the 21st century. Drawing on interviews with leading members of the Saudi judiciary, seldom-seen legal literature and court judgments, the author addresses two main questions: First, what is the Saudi jurists’ understanding of an Islamic judiciary? And second, how is this understanding reflected in the Saudi legal system, it…

International Organizations and the Promotion of Effective Dispute Resolution…

This second volume of the AIIB Yearbook of International Law examines the role of international organizations in promoting effective dispute resolution. It is divided into five parts to reflect a series of overarching themes and relationships. Firstly, international arbitration’s effectiveness and affinity with multilateral institutions. Second, international organizations as proponents of th…

International Submarine Cables and Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Juri…

If one uses Facebook, Facetime, Skype, Netflix, or any application of the internet internationally, a submarine cable is involved. Fibre optic cables bind the world together and computer server farms, maintained by major telecom and content companies, allow vast amounts of data to be stored and retrieved from the cloud. Not often appreciated is the fact that these server locations worldwide are…