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The role of international law in global politics is as poorly understood as it is important. But how can the international legal regime encourage states to respect human rights? Given that international law lacks a centralized enforcement mechanism, it is not obvious...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-08-20
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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
Parution :
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
Parution :
2013-08-15
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The threat of terrorism has become an ever present preoccupation, necessitating the constant review and updating of defensive strategies to counter it from national governments and policymakers. This book presents selected articles based on some of the lectures...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2013-07-15
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Conservatism has been the most important political doctrine in the United States for nearly four decades. It has dominated the intellectual debate and largely set the policy agenda, even during years of Democratic electoral control. But 21st century conservatism has...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-07-10
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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...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
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
Parution :
2013-05-14
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The steady immigration of black populations from Africa and the Caribbean over the past few decades has fundamentally changed the racial, ethnic, and political landscape in the United States. But how will these "new blacks" behave politically in America? Using an...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-05-08
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In recent years the mass murder of thousands of innocent civilians by al Qaeda terrorists has plumbed the depths of criminality and immorality. Yet it is the response to those attacks, particularly by the United States, that has provoked widespread accusations that the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-29
Collection :
War and Conflict in the Modern World
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The 21st century has brought new and challenging dimensions to our understanding of security and migration.The old Cold War framework of security as related to war and peace, international relations and foreign affairs has given way to a multiplicity of competing...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-25
Collection :
Dimensions of Security
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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
Parution :
2013-04-25
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The war on terror is a lost cause. As the war heads towards its second decade, American security policy is in disarray – the Iraq War is a disaster, Afghanistan is deeply insecure and the al-Qaida movement remains as potent as ever with new generations of leaders coming...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-23
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Terrorists perform terrible acts. They maim, mutilate and kill in pursuit of their goals. The horrifying events of 9/11 and the regular suicide bombings around the world have made terrorism one of the central preoccupations of the twenty-first century. But what is the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-22
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From Afghanistan and Sierra Leone to East Timor, the aftermath of any armed conflict presents a complex set of challenges. Whatever political agreements may have been reached, conflicts are often at risk of reigniting, and the fates of their former participants remain...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-18
Collection :
War and Conflict in the Modern World
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The language of human rights has become the public vocabulary of our contemporary world. Ironically, as the political influence of human rights has grown, their philosophical justification has become ever more controversial. Building on a theory of discourse ethics and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-16
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Terrorism has emerged as one of the most problematic issues facing national governments and the international community in the 21st century. But how is it possible to counter terrorism in a world in which governance is still dominated by the nation-state? Are we seeing...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-16
Collection :
Understanding Terrorism
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The wars against terror have begun, but it will take some time before the nature and composition of these wars is widely understood.The objective of these wars is not the conquest of territory, or the silencing of any particular ideology, but rather to secure the...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-04-04
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This is the first comprehensive study of the core philosophical questions posed by terrorism such as: How should we define it? Is it morally distinctive? Can it be morally justified? Igor Primoratz seeks to overcome relativism and double standards that often plague...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-03
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Security is meant to make the world safer. Yet despite living in the most secure of times, we see endangerment everywhere. Whether it is the threat of another devastating terrorist attacks, a natural disaster or unexpected catastrophe, anxieties and fears define...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-03
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The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Party factions, one that reached all the way to China's new president Xi Jinping.The scandalous story of the corruption of the...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2013-04-02
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