Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL2076: Rising Powers, Peace and Conflict

This module descriptor refers to the 2024/5 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Basic reading:

Bellamy, A. J. and P. D. Williams, Providing Peacekeepers: The Politics, Challenges, and Future of United Nations Peacekeeping Contributions (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Call, Charles T., and Cedric De Coning, Rising Powers and Peacebuilding: Breaking the Mold?. Palgrave, 2017. Jütersonke, Oliver, et al. "Norm Contestation and Normative Transformation in Global Peacebuilding Order (s): The Cases of China, Japan, and Russia." International Studies Quarterly 65.4 (2021): 944-959.Parlar Dal, Emel. "Rising powers in international conflict management: an introduction." Third World Quarterly 39.12 (2018): 2207-2221.

Ramsbottom, Oliver, Tom Woodhouse, Hugh Miall, Contemporary Conflict Resolution (4thedition), Cambridge; Malden MA: Polity, 2016.