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The subject of international security is never out of the headlines.The subjects of war and peace, military strategy, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and revisionist states remain central to the discussion, but burgeoning concerns such as climate change, migration,...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-10-24
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The unintended deaths of civilians in war are too often dismissed as unavoidable, inevitable, and accidental. And despite the best efforts of the U.S. to avoid them, civilian casualties in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan have been a regular feature of the United States'...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-09-30
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How has world order changed since the Cold War ended? Do we live in an age of American empire, or is global power shifting to the East with the rise of China? Arguing that existing ideas about balance of power and power transition are inadequate, this book gives an...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-08-15
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How has world order changed since the Cold War ended? Do we live in an age of American empire, or is global power shifting to the East with the rise of China? Arguing that existing ideas about balance of power and power transition are inadequate, this book gives an...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-08-15
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This book highlights some of the key issues pertinent to the intersection between the protection of migrants in irregular situations and the international human rights law. It analyzes to what extent the current normative framework provides an effective response to the...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-06-03
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize From the New York Times bestselling author and former US Ambassador to the UN, an impassioned critique of America’s repeated failure to stop genocides around the world “An angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential...
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Basic Books
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2013-05-14
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Following 9/11 the United States faced a situation of exceptional insecurity. In that period the Bush administration argued that certain international norms did not apply to US conduct. Its argument was underpinned by the claim that the United States was in a state of...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-04-25
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Presenting the first analytical overview of the legal foundations of the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), this book provides a detailed examination of the law and practice of the EU's security policy.
The European Union's security and defence policy has...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-03-21
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Presenting the first analytical overview of the legal foundations of the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), this book provides a detailed examination of the law and practice of the EU's security policy.
The European Union's security and defence policy has...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-03-21
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Most cultural and legal codes agree that the intentional killing of civilians, whether in peacetime or war, is prohibited. This is the norm of civilian immunity, widely considered to be a fundamental moral and legal principle. Yet despite this fact, the deliberate...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-09-27
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Ce volume rassemble les contributions présentées par des membres de l’Association internationale d’histoire contemporaine de l’Europe au Congrès mondial des Sciences historiques à Amsterdam en 2010, d’une part sous le thème majeur du Congrès : « La chute des empires »...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2012-09-24
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In the past two decades, states and multilateral organizations have devoted considerable resources toward efforts to stabilize peace and rebuild war-torn societies in places such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, and Sierra Leone. Despite these prodigious efforts, there has...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-08-10
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The Oxford Handbook of War is the definitive analysis of war in the twenty-first century. With over forty senior authors from academia, government and the armed forces world-wide the Handbook explores the history, theory, ethics and practice of war.The Handbook first...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-01-19
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The Oxford Handbook of War is the definitive analysis of war in the twenty-first century. With over forty senior authors from academia, government and the armed forces world-wide the Handbook explores the history, theory, ethics and practice of war.The Handbook first...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-01-19
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Non-state actors are of fundamental importance in the prevention and combating of corruption within asset recovery processes. Their roles and responsibilities were considered during an experts’ meeting hosted by the Basel Institute on Governance and the International...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-10-24
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In Humanity's Law, renowned legal scholar Ruti Teitel offers a powerful account of one of the central transformations of the post-Cold War era: the profound normative shift in the international legal order from prioritizing state security to protecting human security....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-10-07
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In this eye-opening work, the president of the ACLU takes a hard look at the human and social costs of the War on Terror. A decade after 9/11, it is far from clear that the government's hastily adopted antiterrorist tactics--such as the Patriot Act--are keeping us safe,...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-10-03
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In this eye-opening work, the president of the ACLU takes a hard look at the human and social costs of the War on Terror. A decade after 9/11, it is far from clear that the government's hastily adopted antiterrorist tactics--such as the Patriot Act--are keeping us safe,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-06-15
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Over the last decade (and indeed ever since the Cold War), the rise of insurgents and non-state actors in war, and their readiness to use terror and other irregular methods of fighting, have led commentators to speak of 'new wars'. They have assumed that the 'old wars'...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-05-13
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