Books in the Zones of Violence series

Laura Robson examines the interactions between international and regional political economies of oil and water, and the increasingly explicit colonial and postcolonial politics of ethno-national identity centered around the question of Palestine, arguing that the Middle East's emergence as a 'zone of violence' only developed over the past century.

Investigates the causes and dynamics of conflict in the 'borderlands' of Eastern Europe (the Baltic republics, western Byelorussia and Ukraine, and Moldova), looking at these 'borderlands' as a whole and highlighting the common factors feeding conflict across the region, from the late 19th century to the break-up of the Soviet Union.

Examines the origins of political violence in the Balkans since the 19th century, while treating the region as an integral part of modern European history, reminding us that political violence and ethnic cleansing are hardly unique to this region.

Richard Reid offers an historical analysis of violent conflict in northeast Africa through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and argues that this warfare was not solely the product of modern political 'failure', but rather has its roots in a network of frontier zones which are both violent and creative.