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Cambridge University Press International Law Reports International Law Reports Series Number 133
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Penguin Random House India The Battle for Pakistan
Book SynopsisThe Battle for Pakistan examines US-Pakistan relations amid regional tensions, focusing on challenges, consequences of past mistakes, and Trump administration strategies.
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Harvard University Press The Hacker and the State
Book SynopsisThe threat of cyberwar can feel very Hollywood: nuclear codes hacked, power plants melting down, cities burning. In reality, state-sponsored hacking is covert, insidious, and constant. It is also much harder to prevent. Ben Buchanan reveals the cyberwar that’s already here, reshaping the global contest for geopolitical advantage.Trade ReviewThe Hacker and the State is one of the finest books on information security published so far in this century—easily accessible, tightly argued, superbly well-sourced, intimidatingly perceptive. -- Thomas Rid, author of Active MeasuresThis is a great book and the best examination I have read of how increasingly dramatic developments in cyberspace are defining the ‘new normal’ of geopolitics in the digital age. No book I've read does a better job of describing what has transpired in recent years as state and non-state actors have developed ever more diabolically powerful and clever cyber capabilities. Ben Buchanan makes it clear that the future lies not just in Asia, but also in cyberspace, and he captures the dynamics of all of this truly brilliantly. -- General David Petraeus, former Director of the CIA and Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq and AfghanistanA helpful reminder…of the sheer diligence and seriousness of purpose exhibited by the Russians in their mission…Information warfare is designed to bamboozle, but its digital variant can be especially baffling to the nonspecialist. -- Jonathan Freedland * New York Review of Books *A substantial and measured history of cyberattacks in recent decades…Despite the growing ubiquity of cyberattacks, Buchanan also highlights their limits as a means of coercion or as a way of sending a message. -- Lawrence D. Freedman * Foreign Affairs *Demonstrates how this field has evolved from espionage operations and a field dominated by the United States to cyber-attacks that have broader implications for economies and societies…An excellent primer for understanding how cyber operations have become an indelible part of global relations and ably demonstrates how hacking has ‘earned its place in the playbook of statecraft.’ -- Angus Parker * Geographical *With an academic’s eye, Buchanan compares and contrasts the emerging tactics [of digital competition] with the traditional ways of military conflict, nuclear competition, and espionage to make some sense of the new age. The book dissects how governments use cyberattacks to fundamentally ‘change the state of play.’ -- Patrick Howell O'Neill * MIT Technology Review *Probes deep into cyber security, the truths and myths about cyber security, and how society, corporations, and individuals pay particularly close attention to it in today’s everchanging world…Allows the reader to understand the real geopolitical competition of the digital age as it applies to business and government agencies. -- Kevin Cassidy * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *If you believe that cyber attacks are now critical to understand today’s International Relations, stop doing everything you are doing and start reading Ben Buchanan’s new book…Makes clear how we need to pay attention to the distinctiveness of cyber attacks and the strategic logics behind them…An incredibly informed examination of the cyber attacks that have taken place in recent decades. -- Antonio Calcara * E-International Relations *Buchanan is well-placed to detail the history and evolution of this new and oft-misunderstood form of warfare…This book argues that states must learn to read the signaling implied by a cyber-attack, in the same way that they would a military exercise along their border. -- Lewis Tallon * Encyclopedia Geopolitica *Provides a reliable summary and deep analysis of a novel force bound to shape world affairs. -- Walter Clemens * New York Journal of Books *This is a must-read book. Factual and perceptive, it reveals important truths about cyberthreats and the role they play in international relations. -- Vint Cerf, Internet pioneerThis is a gripping book about today’s cyber threat landscape. Through riveting stories of move and counter-move among global adversaries, Buchanan explains why we are in a constant state of cyber conflict—where the stakes couldn’t be higher. From China’s attacks on our companies to Russia’s attacks on our elections, The Hacker and the State is indispensable reading for anyone who cares about our security, our prosperity, and our democracy. -- Lisa Monaco, former White House Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor and Deputy National Security AdvisorMore than any other book, The Hacker and the State shows how and why governments hack one another. Having lived and worked in this shadowy world for many years, I came to appreciate its fascinating nuances, fierce competition, and strategic significance. If you read this book, you will, too. Buchanan shares digital spy stories and distills geopolitical insights that you just won’t find anywhere else. Remarkably, he has made his detailed insight accessible to a non-technical audience without any loss of fidelity in the underlying narrative. -- Former senior intelligence officer, UK governmentThe Hacker and the State fundamentally changes the way we think about cyber operations from ‘war’ to something of significant import that is not war—what Buchanan refers to as ‘real geopolitical competition.’ He writes in a highly accessible manner, with in-depth stories that will engage the non-specialist. -- Richard Harknett, former Scholar-in-Residence at United States Cyber CommandA great read, packed with insider information and great stories. But the book also makes an important argument about how cyberattacks are transforming the geopolitical playing field, changing our defense priorities and forcing us to rewrite our national security policies. -- Bruce Schneier, author of Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected WorldHighly intelligent, important, and timely. Buchanan’s chronology of cases, from early espionage to devastating operations like NotPetya, makes for a great read. -- Joseph Nye, author of Do Morals Matter?
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Ebury Publishing The Russia Conundrum
Book Synopsis''I''m a fairly calm fellow; I don''t usually get het up about things. But I was, let''s say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my head. The announcement didn''t quite say ''dead or alive''. But it came close...'' Mikhail Khodorkovsky, March 2021 Mikhail Khodorkovsky has seen behind the mask of Vladimir Putin. Once an oil tycoon and the richest man in Russia, Khodorkovsky spoke out against the corruption of Putin''s regime - and was punished by the Kremlin, stripped of his entire wealth and jailed for over ten years. Now freed, working as a pro-democracy campaigner in enforced exile, Khodorkovsky brings us the insider''s battle to save his country''s soul. Offering an urgent analysis of what has gone wrong with Putin, The Russia Conundrum maps the country''s rise and fall against Khodorkovsky''s own journey, from Soviet youth to international oil executive, powerful insi
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Stanford University Press Coercion and Governance
Book SynopsisThis far-ranging volume offers both a broad overview of the role of the military in contemporary Asia and a close look at the state of civil-military relations in sixteen Asian countries. It provides in-depth discussion of civil-military relations in countries where the military still continues to dominate the political helm as well as others where, in varying degrees, the military is disengaging from politics. Conceptually, the study connects the explanation for the changing relationship of the military to the state to the processes associated with the construction of nation, state, and political system, as well as the development of state capacity, economic growth, and change in the international system.The book argues that the key to understanding civil-military relations in Asia and elsewhere is the role of coercion, in state and nation building and in the exercise of political authority. As coercion in these processes increases or decreases, so does the political power aTrade Review“This outstanding book will have a lasting impact on the study of civil-military relations and of the comparative politics of Asia. It is by far the best collection of case studies of civil-military relations I have read, for any part of the world.”—Larry Diamond, Hoover Institution
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Random House USA Inc Asias Cauldron The South China Sea and the End of
Book SynopsisNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FINANCIAL TIMESFrom Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a penetrating look at the volatile region that will dominate the future of geopolitical conflict. Over the last decade, the center of world power has been quietly shifting from Europe to Asia. With oil reserves of several billion barrels, an estimated nine hundred trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and several centuries’ worth of competing territorial claims, the South China Sea in particular is a simmering pot of potential conflict. The underreported military buildup in the area where the Western Pacific meets the Indian Ocean means that it will likely be a hinge point for global war and peace for the foreseeable future. In Asia’s Cauldron, Robert D. Kaplan offers up a vivid snapshot of the nations surrounding the South China Se
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New York University Press Empire of Sacrifice The Religious Origins of
Book SynopsisIt is widely recognized that American culture is both exceptionally religious and exceptionally violent. Americans participate in religious communities in high numbers, yet American citizens also own guns at rates far beyond those of citizens in other industrialized nations. This title focuses on American history.Trade Review"An astute indictment of four centuries of American violence." -- Dan McKanan * The Journal of Religion *"[This book] is a wide-ranging, amply detailed, and ethically intelligent book with clear political stakes." -- Rain Taxi"A true achievement of Empire of Sacrifice is its untangling of the & blissful logic that preserves American virtue at all costs. Illuminating the cultural and religious assumptions that justify subtle and not-so-subtle forms of violence, this book invites a healthy self-critical stance on American civil religion and social practices. After reading Empire of Sacrifice, it is impossible to avert ones eyes to the disturbing, complicated confluence of religion and violence in American culture." -- Jennifer Beste,Xavier University"Pahl exquisitely illumines the pathway by which religion has made possible American empire and poignantly sketches those who have had to sacrifice to create the superpower we know today. Empire of Sacrifice is an admirable experiment in pulling back the curtain on the religious and cultural mechanisms that are often lost in what Pahl calls our national obsession with & innocent domination. His case studies are finely tuned windows into the ways in which religion has both abused and freed Americans along lines of gender, race, and class. This book acts as a clarion call for us to think twice when we are called upon to & sacrifice in the name of Goda strategy that all too often hides our violence in the cloak of religion." -- James K. Wellman, Jr.,author of Evangelical vs. Liberal: The Clash of Christian Cultures in the Pacific Northwest"Empire of Sacrifice is a provocative and engaging work of cultural criticism worth reading for the questions it poses about religion and violence as categories, and for the many intersections of the two it finds in places where either religion or violence or both are hidden in plain sight." -- Jonathan H. Ebel * The Journal of American History *"Empire of Sacrifice is a though-provoking work, sure to join other scholarly considerations of religious violence . . . the book will assist anyone interested in learning more about the religious roots of contemporary violence in American national policies." -- Rebecca Moore * Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion *"Empire of Sacrifice is the most broad-sweeping scholarly examination of religion and violence in the United States written to date." -- Jeffrey Williams * American Historical Review *"By uncovering the many ways Americans have misused religion to justify violence, Pahl holds up hope to end the histories of dead men walking. His work contributes to a more peaceful, forgiving, loving and just future for America." -- Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ,author of Dead Man Walking"“Pahl intends his work as a call to take up the opportunity missed after 9/11, to ‘shape a remarkable global consensus against religious violence.’ This work’s basic paradox is that religions ‘produce violent power’ but exist ultimately to ‘eliminate violence.’ That paradox captures the troubling message but hopeful conclustion to the work." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Rethinking Violence and Religion in America Rethinking "Violence" Rethinking "Religion" Rethinking "Religious Violence" in America 2 Sacrificing Youth: From Reefer Madness to Hostel Spectacles of Sacrifice in the Cinema of Adolescence A Theater of Terror, or Innocent Martyrs to the "Beast in the Boudoir"Beyond Hollywood's Happy Endings 3 Sacrificing RaceFrom Christian Ambivalence to a Total System of Bodily Discipline "A Severe Cross" 4 Sacrificing GenderAsa's Tale: Patriarchy Lost Abigail's Tale: Providential Power The Hidden Hand in Handmaids' Tales 5 Sacrificing Humans: An Empire of Sacrifice from Mary Dyer to Dead Man WalkingSacrifice and Empire Building from the Aztecs to Puritan Boston via John BunyanMimesis in Massachusetts, 1656-1657 Ecstatic Asceticism: The Domination of Discourse and Rhetorical Inversion, 1658-1661Sacrificial Rites and an Imagined Community, 1660-1776 Dead Man Walking and an American Empire of Sacrifice Epilogue: Innocent Domination in the "Global War on Terror" Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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University of Alberta Press Building Sustainable Peace
Book SynopsisTrade Review".the well-versed duo [Tom Keating and W. Andy Knight] assembled an impressive roster of international experts to outline a wide-array of practical and theoretical bon mots about comprehensive and long-term peace building ranging from the on-the-ground experiences of David Beer (an RCMP officer who created the Canadian five year bilateral policing development assistance plan for Haiti) to an essay by former Edmonton Journal writer Satya Das, to papers penned by leading academics in the field." Gilbert A. Bouchard, Folio"Keating and Night (both professors of political science, U. of Alberta, Canada) present fifteen papers from a March 2000 symposium that explore issues of international intervention, techniques of peacebuilding, and the role of nongovernmental actors and regional organizations in the peacebuilding process. Mostly written by academics, but including contributions from some policy advisors and practitioners, the papers discuss such topics as the commodification and militarization of peacebuilding, judicial sector reforms in Haiti following the early 1990s intervention, peacebuilding experiences in Liberia and Sierra Leone, an assessment of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, financing of peacebuilding missions, the creation of a small arms control region, and the role of Africa's regional organization in the Horn of Africa." BOOK NEWS Inc."Keating and Knight's impressive array of scholars, UN and NGO employees, and soldiers share their ideas on what it actually takes to make cliches like 'building civil society' and 'healing the wounds of war' realities..This is not an easy book--it's obviously aimed at an academic audience--but its essays provide a glimpse into the morally ambiguous decisions that must be made by those who seek to be peacebuilders." Alex Rettie, AlbertaViews"Building Sustainable Peace offers a variety of concise and informative discussion pieces for upper year classes on post-conflict policy issues. For courses involving a mixture of lectures and research presentations, the articles provide a very useful focus for students and teachers alike, with a good balance of case analysis and thematic critique. Canadian actors, programs and priorities are well covered so that the material will speak to the interests of Canadian students." Dr. Alistair Edgar, Wilfred Laurier University, (Political Science 311f course, Fall 2004)""Building Sustainable Peace presents a timely and original overview of the field of peace studies and offers fresh analytical tools that promote a critical reconceptualization of peace and conflict, while also making specific reference to peacebuilding strategies employed in recent international conflicts." Prairie Books NOW, fall/winter 2004"[Peace building] involves disarming the warring parties, restoring order, repatriating refugees, providing training for security personnel and technical assistance, de-mining and other forms of demilitarization, monitoring elections, and reforming and strengthening government institutions. Building presents a timely and original overview of peace building theories and strategies...." Bill Twatio, esprit de corps (Canadian Military magazine), Vol. 12, No. 7, July 2005"A serious-minded compilation that blends philosophy with a coldly practical eye for twentieth and twenty-first century conflicts and acts of terrorism and genocide. Numerous specific peacebuilding strategies are exhaustively discussed in this heavily researched compendium particularly recommended for college libraries, activist organizations, and political science shelves.""Many of the authors in the book support a new concept of peace building that combines both problem solving and critical approaches. This new view recognises the need to do something about the immediacy of breakdown of societal structures. It stipulates that it is futile to pour resources and personnel into every problem associated with complex humanitarian emergencies and violent outbreaks, if the peace results cannot be sustained. Building Sustainable Peace captures both the experiences and the spirit of the challenges involved." V.R. Raghavan, The Hindu, February 14, 2006.
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Banyan Tree India
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Brunel Academic Publishers Ltd USA and the Muslim World
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Cambridge University Press Global Warming of 1.5C
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Cambridge University Press The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
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Cambridge University Press Russian Politics Today
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Cambridge University Press International Law Reports Volume 199
Book SynopsisVolume 199 contains 2018 International Criminal Court Appeals Chamber judgment Prosecutor v. Bemba, 2018 reparations proceedings, 2020 Mr Bemba claims compensation and damages, 2015 Federal Court of Canada in United States of America v. Zakhary, and 2018 judgment of English Court of Appeal in Secretary of State for the Home Department v. RuhumulizaTable of Contents1. Prosecutor v. Bemba ('Bemba Case'); 2. United States of America v. Zakhary; 3. MS and MBT v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, Secretary of State for the Home Department v. MS; 4. Babar v. Secretary of State for the Home Department; 5. Secretary of State for the Home Department v. Ruhumuliza.
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Cambridge University Press International Law Reports Volume 200
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Cambridge University Press East Asian International Relations
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Cambridge University Press Global Markets and Government Regulation in Telecommunications
Book SynopsisIn recent years, liberalization, privatization and deregulation have become commonplace in sectors once dominated by government-owned monopolies. In telecommunications, for example, during the 1990s, more than 129 countries established independent regulatory agencies and more than 100 countries privatized the state-owned telecom operator. Why did so many countries liberalize in such a short period of time? For example, why did both Denmark and Burundi, nations different along so many relevant dimensions, liberalize their telecom sectors around the same time? Kirsten L. Rodine-Hardy argues that international organizations not national governments or market forces are the primary drivers of policy convergence in the important arena of telecommunications regulation: they create and shape preferences for reform and provide forums for expert discussions and the emergence of policy standards. Yet she also shows that international convergence leaves room for substantial variation among countries, using both econometric analysis and controlled case comparisons of eight European countries.Trade Review“Many ask the question: What is the impact of politics and policy on the global flow of information? Kirsten Rodine-Hardy provides one of the most complete answers to this question to date. This volume is more than just case studies that clarify specific situations. It is a probing examination of the interplay between policy, institutions, and theory that both helps the reader to see the connections between them as well as to ponder the challenges scholars, policy makers, and citizens face in understanding them.” – Ken Rogerson, Duke University“Kirsten Rodine-Hardy provides a compelling and sophisticated understanding of global policy diffusion, which resulted in the liberalization of telecommunications sectors. The empirical evidence is excellent and brings in mixed methods approaches to explain the timing, scope, and comparative differences in telecommunications regulation and policies. The theoretical, empirical, and methodological claims in the book will persuade scholars to apply similar insights to other important political economy issues.” – J. P. Singh, George Mason UniversityTable of Contents1. Understanding global regulatory reform in telecommunications – a paradigm shift; 2. Why change the rules? Explaining liberal telecom reform; 3. When and how do countries change the rules? Econometric analysis of the timing of establishing separate regulators and privatizing telecom incumbents; 4. Regulatory reform in central Europe – freer markets, European rules; 5. Northern European regulatory reform – liberal reform northern-style – 'regulation-lite'; 6. Conclusion: explaining change in a globalized world.
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Cambridge University Press An Institutional Approach to the Responsibility to Protect
Book SynopsisCovering the main political organs of the UN, important regional and security organizations, international judicial institutions and the regional human rights protection systems, An Institutional Approach to the Responsibility to Protect examines the roles and responsibilities of the international community regarding the responsibility to protect. It also proposes improvements to the current system of collective security and human rights protection.Table of ContentsPart I. Theoretical and Practical Perspectives on the Responsibility to Protect: 1. The coining and evolution of responsibility to protect: the protection responsibilities of the state Diana Amnéus; 2. Non-state actors Raphaël van Steenberghe; 3. Peacekeeping operations Susan C. Breau; Part II. The United Nations System: 4. The Security Council Terry D. Gill; 5. The General Assembly Cedric Ryngaert and Hanne Cuyckens; 6. The Secretary-General Nicholas Turner; 7. The UN Human Rights Council Lyal S. Sunga; 8. The International Law Commission Arnold Pronto; Part III. Regional and Security Organisations: 9. The European Union Daniel Fiott and Marie Vincent; 10. The African Union Solomon A. Dersso; 11. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations Noel M. Morada; 12. The Organisation of American States Paulo de Tarso Lugon Arantes; 13. The Arab League Mahasen Aljaghoub, Ibrahim M. Aljazy and Maysa S. Bydoon; 14. The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe Dennis J. D. Sandole; 15. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Jody M. Prescott; Part IV. International Courts and Tribunals: 16. The International Court of Justice Gentian Zyberi; 17. The United Nations Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and for Rwanda Niki Frencken and Göran Sluiter; 18. The International Criminal Court Michael Contarino and Melinda Negron-Gonzales; Part V. Regional Human Rights Protection Mechanisms: 19. The European System of Human Rights Rhona Smith and Conall Mallory; 20. The Inter-American System of Human Rights O. Hilaire Sobers; 21. The African System of Human Rights Frans Viljoen; Part VI. Concluding Remarks: 22. Sharing the responsibility to protect: getting from promise to practice Gentian Zyberi.
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Cambridge University Press International Law and the Arctic 103 Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law Series Number 103
Book SynopsisClimate change and rising oil prices have thrust the Arctic to the top of the foreign policy agenda and raised difficult issues of sovereignty, security and environmental protection. Improved access for shipping and resource development is leading to new international rules on safety, pollution prevention and emergency response. Around the Arctic, maritime boundary disputes are being negotiated and resolved, and new international institutions, such as the Arctic Council, are mediating deep-rooted tensions between Russia and NATO and between nation states and indigenous peoples. International Law and the Arctic explains these developments and reveals a strong trend towards international cooperation and law-making. It thus contradicts the widespread misconception that the Arctic is an unregulated zone of potential conflict.Trade Review'This book is an accessible and thorough analysis of the current state of play in the Central Arctic Ocean and its five bordering coastal states, an area where the combination of melting sea-ice and the growing demand for oil and gas has increased international interest in resource exploration, shipping rights and environmental protection. Written with passion and first-hand experience of the subject, International Law and the Arctic reminds us that we cannot ignore the importance of the Arctic to Canada and all its people.' Donner Prize Jury'By situating legal instruments and norms within the region's complex politics, diverse cultures, emergent economic sectors, and increasingly dynamic geophysical environment, Michael Byers has written an accessible but thorough guide to the region.' Philip E. Steinberg, Durham University'This is a very informative and comprehensive book about contemporary international law as interpreted and applied to the Arctic region. Its components, including chapters on territorial issues, the delimitation of continental shelves, and the regulation of growing economic activities in a changing environment, make it both timely and of great intellectual and practical demand.' Alexander N. Vylegzhanin, Moscow State Institute of International Relations'Michael Byers' impressive analysis of the legal issues pertaining to the Arctic is a must-read for everyone concerned with the future of this increasingly important region.' Geir Ulfstein, University of Oslo'Eminently accessible and engaging, [this book] serves as an excellent introduction to the central environmental, political, and legal issues in the past, present, and future of the Arctic.' Brian Israel, American Journal of International Law'Byers' progressive argumentation … raise[s] very interesting points and I recommend [the book] . . . to anyone interested . . . in the Arctic.' Nikolas Sellheim, Polar Record'Written in an approachable style, its chapters opened by folksy illustrative episodes from the author's and others' forays into the Arctic, this welcome book serves both as an introduction to the gradually thickening web of international instruments guiding the interactions of not only States but also the indigenous peoples of the Arctic and as a corrective to the misleading picture created by the conflict-obsessed media for whom peaceful cooperation is less nourishing fodder than an imaginary looming confrontation over resources and the boundaries that determine title to them.' Andrew Serdy, International and Comparative Law Quarterly'Byers' expertise in the field is apparent. One can only admire how he covers so many diverse and complicated areas of international law demonstrating how they play out in the reality of the Arctic … It is a landmark work on this issue-area. Byers covers practically all the issues of international law that are relevant to the Arctic, which in itself is a major achievement. … This is an immense undertaking, and unfortunately we have fewer and fewer generalists like Michael Byers in international law who are up to this task. … I think it is clear that Michael Byers has written a book that will become a cornerstone of legal studies on the Arctic. The book is comprehensive in scope, most readable, and deep in its understanding of the issues. By any yardstick, this is an excellent book that will likely become a standard text for all Arctic enthusiasts.' Timo Koivurova, Global Law Books (www.globallawbooks.org/home.asp)'The book is a fine synthesis of international relations, history, pragmatic commentary, and law. It will appeal to a wide audience, including policy-makers, media researchers, and those who need a single work to explain international relations in the Arctic.' Jeffrey J. Smith, Canadian Yearbook of International Law'It should definitively be on the reading list of policymakers across the Arctic region. For everybody interested in the governance of the Arctic Ocean, this book is highly recommended.' Stefan Kirchner, Ocean Yearbook 36Table of Contents1. Territory; 2. Maritime boundaries; 3. Beaufort Sea boundary; 4. Extended continental shelves; 5. Arctic straits; 6. Environmental protection; 7. Indigenous peoples; 8. Security.
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Cambridge University Press The Geneva Consensus
Book SynopsisThe Geneva Consensus includes Pascal Lamy's personal reflections on his time as Director General of the WTO and highlights how trade can only act as a motor for growth if the correct mix of policies is in place. Deeper cooperation is required between international organizations involved in setting economic, social and political policies to put this 'consensus' into effect.Table of Contents1. Harnessing globalization amid the crisis facing multilateralism; 2. The changing face of trade; 3. Helping the poorest up the prosperity ladder; 4. Trade: friend not foe of the environment; 5. Trading towards global food security; 6. Trade can contribute towards better health ; 7. Trade and labour: separated at birth but still connected; 8. Trade and energy: the case for a greater WTO role; 9. Trade and currencies: trading community seeks greater currency stability; 10. Trade and competition: fairer competition makes for fairer trade; 11. Trade and human rights: a case of misplaced suspicion; 12. Last but not least: the Doha Round.
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Cambridge University Press Continental Drift Britain and Europe from the End of Empire to the Rise of Euroscepticism
Book SynopsisA fascinating new account of Britain's uneasy relationship with the European continent since the end of the Second World War, set against the backdrop of decolonization, the Cold War and the Anglo-American relationship. Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon charts Britain's evolution from an island of imperial Europeans to one of post-imperial Eurosceptics.Trade Review'What a timely and illuminating book this is! In his richly detailed study of Britain's tempestuous relationship with the European Union, Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon shows that the shift from the post-war conviction that a unified Europe was beneficial to Britain to the current wave of Euroscepticism needs to be set in the context of the loss of empire and a longing for its return. A first-rate history that offers real insight into the roots of Euroscepticism.' Dane Kennedy, author of Decolonization: A Very Short Introduction'This is an intensely readable and engaging study of that most perennial issue in post-war British public life: 'Europe'. Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon deftly weaves personalities, parties, and policies in a compelling study which places Britain and Europe in the context of Britain and the world, to the further illumination of each. Continental Drift deserves to become a standard work.' Martin Farr, author of Reginald McKenna'In this absorbing study, Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon tackles head-on a theory routinely invoked by politicians and pundits but almost never subjected to serious scholarly scrutiny - that Britain's turbulent membership of the European Union has long been plagued by the unreconciled longings of empire. Continental Drift not only offers a compelling diagnosis of a major scholarly oversight, but also brings Britain's imperial past into a fascinating dialogue with its troubled European present.' Stuart James Ward, editor of British Culture and the End of Empire'No other book does as good a job of making clear the critical connection between the dissolution of the British Empire and Britain's evolving relationship with Europe. The reader remains fully engaged throughout while discovering sophisticated yet clear, reasoned arguments and conclusions based on original sources and a sure grasp of post-Second World War British history.' Wm. Roger Louis, University of Texas'Supercedes every other study of the political-diplomatic history of Britain's involvement with Europe from the 1940s … Explode[s] the myth of British exceptionalism.' Denis MacShane, The Tablet'The author relies on extensive archival research to trace how imperial decline sowed distrust and frustration among Britons who found it difficult to reconcile themselves with their neighbors across the channel. This impressive study concludes that Britain's troubled history with Europe owes much to the passing of an empire … Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' P. Kurzer, Choice'It is maybe the best book to read on Britain's earlier relations with the European Union.' Tyler Cowen, 'Best Non-fiction Books of 2016', Marginal Revolution'Eminently readable and meticulously researched. … This is a fascinating read for anyone looking for a single volume explaining Britain's Euroscepticism.' Andrew White, Gartner Blog Network (www.blogs.gartner.com)'… the book offers a vivid, well-written, and entertaining general narrative of British attitudes toward European integration since 1945. … many of Grob-Fitzgibbon's arguments are intriguing and suggestive; they may well provide a fresh impetus for future research on Britain's postwar relationship with Europe and the wider world.' Mathias Haeussler, H-Net'Continental drift provides a valuable single-volume study of changing British attitudes to Europe since 1945 … Grob-Fitzgibbon's work is refreshing in shifting attention away from European integration and focusing instead on the long history of Euroscepticism.' David Thackeray, Twentieth Century British History'This is a timely book with a compelling objective. Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon explores the connections between the end of Britain's Empire and the growth of 'Euroscepticism'.' Helen Parr, The English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Imperial Europeans: 1. A world undone; 2. Mr Churchill's Europe; 3. Mr Bevin's response; 4. The German problem; 5. A disunited Europe; 6. The continental surprise and the fall of the Labour government; 7. The realities of government; 8. Perfidious Gaul; 9. The decline and fall of the imperial Europeans; Part II. Post-Imperial Eurosceptics: 10. At sixes and sevens; 11. Towards the Common Market; 12. The rise of the anti-marketeers; 13. Empire eclipsed, Europe embraced, Britain rejected; 14. Entering the promised land? Britain joins 'Europe'; 15. Seasons of discontent; 16. Half-hearted Europeans; 17. Mrs Thatcher, John Major and the road to European Union; Conclusion: post-imperial Britain and the rise of Euroscepticism; Bibliographical note; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Discovery of the Third World
Book SynopsisThis book provides an innovative account of how the concept of the 'Third World' emerged in France among leftist intellectuals in the 1950s and was subsequently used in the 1960s and 1970s as a key term, both in struggles to position France within the globalizing world and in conflicts about social reform within France itself.Trade Review'Kalter's hugely impressive study … essays a variety of disciplinary approaches: conceptual history, political history, intellectual history, exemplary archival and oral history, memory studies, and media studies.' Martin Shipway, The American Historical ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction: from 'discovery' to historiography; 2. A new picture of the world: the Third World in the social sciences and politics; 3. Conflicts, new diversity, and convergence: the new radical Left in France; 4. 'From the Résistance to anti-colonialism': the politics of memory in the new radical Left; 5. 'Today we have to learn a lesson from them': the journal Partisans and the opening up to the Third World; 6. 'With socialist greetings': the PSU, the CEDETIM, and the praxis of 'international solidarity'; 7. Conclusion: eyes on the world; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Role of Experts in International and European DecisionMaking Processes
Book SynopsisExperts are increasingly relied on in decision-making processes at international and European levels. Their involvement in those processes, however, is contested. This timely book on the role of ''experts'' provides a broad-gauged analysis of the issues raised by their involvement in decision-making processes. The chapters explore three main recurring themes: the rationales for involving experts and ensuing legitimacy problems; the individual and collective dimensions of expert involvement in decision making; and experts and politics and the politics of expertise. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, they theorize the experts'' involvement in general and address their role in the policy areas of environment, trade, human rights, migration, financial regulation, and agencification in the European Union.Table of Contents1. The role of experts in international and European decision-making processes: setting the scene Monika Ambrus, Karin Arts, Ellen Hey and Helena Raulus; Part I. Theorizing Expert Involvement in International and European Decision-Making: 2. Ideas, experts and governance Peter M. Haas; 3. The politics of expertise: applying paradoxes of scientific expertise to international law Wouter G. Werner; 4. Reflections on the different roles of expertise in regulatory policy-making Lorna Schrefler; 5. The virtues of expertise Jan Klabbers; Part II. Expert Involvement in International Decision-Making in the Environmental Sphere: 6. The role of scientific expertise in multilateral environmental agreements: influence and effectiveness Steinar Andresen; 7. Changing demands at the science-policy interface: organisational learning in the IPCC Bernd Siebenhüner; 8. Global scientific assessments and environmental resource governance: towards a science-policy interface ladder Joyeeta Gupta; Part III. Experts in the WTO and Risk Regulation: 9. The structural logic of expert participation in WTO decision-making processes Jessica Lawrence; 10. Health risks, experts and decision making within the SPS Agreement and the Codex Alimentarius Alexia Herwig; 11. The role of experts in environmental and health-related trade disputes in the WTO: deconstructing decision-making processes Lukasz Gruszczynski; Part IV. Experts in Human Rights Related Decision-Making Processes: 12. Human rights experts in the United Nations: a review of the role of UN special procedures Surya P. Subedi; 13. 'Experts': the mantra of irregular migration and the reproduction of hierarchies Jeff Handmaker and Claudia Mora; 14. Private carriers as experts in immigration control Sophie Scholten and Ashley Terlouw; Part V. Experts in Decision-Making Processes of the European Union: 15. The European system of financial supervision: a technology of expertise Michelle Everson; 16. The role of experts and financial supervision in the European Union: the de Larosière Commission Karim Knio; 17. Expertise at the crossroads of national and international policy-making: a public management perspective Adriaan Schout and Jaap Sleifer; 18. Blurred areas of responsibility: European agencies' scientific 'opinions' under scrutiny E. Madalina Busuioc.
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Cambridge University Press The Handbook of Israels Political System
Book SynopsisThere is growing interest in Israel''s political system from all parts of the world. This Handbook provides a unique comprehensive presentation of political life in Israel from the formative pre-state period to the present. The themes covered include: political heritage and the unresolved issues that have been left to fester; the institutional framework (the Knesset, government, judiciary, presidency, the state comptroller and commissions of inquiry); citizens'' political participation (elections, political parties, civil society and the media); the four issues that have bedevilled Israeli democracy since its establishment (security, state and religion, the status of Israel''s Arab citizens and economic inequities with concomitant social gaps); and the contours of the political culture and its impact on Israel''s democracy. The authors skilfully integrate detailed basic data with an analysis of structures and processes, making the Handbook accessible to both experts and those with a general interest in Israel.Trade Review'A treasure of information, analysis and insight. A must for anyone who wishes to understand the complex challenges, achievements and difficulties, of the Jewish state.' Shlomo Avineri, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities'This is a monumental work. It is precise and fluent and enables the reader to see both the forest and the trees. The authors know how to distinguish between the important and the unimportant. The book is mandatory reading for anybody interested in Israeli public and political life. It offers a useful and enlightening reading for those interested in political systems.' Mordechai Kremnitzer, Vice President, Research, The Israel Democracy InstituteTable of ContentsPart I. Establishing the State: The Supremacy of Politics: 1. The formative early years of the state (1948–53); 2. Does Israel have a constitution?; Part II. Institutions Matter: 3. The presidency and the symbols of power; 4. The Knesset: first among equals?; 5. The executive branch and attempts to strengthen it; 6. The judiciary's growing involvement in public life; 7. Monitoring mechanisms: the state comptroller and state commissions of inquiry; Part III. Political Society: 8. Political participation: have Israeli citizens given up on the political system?; 9. Political parties: can we get along without them?; 10. Elections: the vague verdict of the Israeli voter; 11. Government coalitions: a steering mechanism in the political system; 12. Civil society: the third sector that grew unnoticed by the state; 13. The media in Israel: do they strengthen or weaken democracy? Part IV. Open Policy Problems: 14. Security reigns supreme; 15. Arab citizens of Israel; 16. Politics, society, and economics: how did the state provide for the society?; 17. Religion and state: between social conflict and political accommodation; Part V. Democracy in Israel: 18. Political culture in Israel.
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Cambridge University Press Soft War
Book SynopsisJust war theory focuses primarily on bodily harm, such as killing, maiming, and torture, while other harms are often largely overlooked. At the same time, contemporary international conflicts increasingly involve the use of unarmed tactics, employing ''softer'' alternatives or supplements to kinetic power that have not been sufficiently addressed by the ethics of war or international law. Soft war tactics include cyber-warfare and economic sanctions, media warfare, and propaganda, as well as non-violent resistance as it plays out in civil disobedience, boycotts, and ''lawfare.'' While the just war tradition has much to say about ''hard'' war - bullets, bombs, and bayonets - it is virtually silent on the subject of ''soft'' war. Soft War: The Ethics of Unarmed Conflict illuminates this neglected aspect of international conflict.Trade Review'For many years, philosophers and military ethicists have focused on the rights and wrongs of physical violence - understandably so. But war can take subtler forms. Economic sanctions, cyber warfare, propaganda, and 'psyops' can have dangerous and devastating effects; nonviolence can sometimes prevail over armed might. This superb collection is a pioneering effort to analyze the ethics of 'soft war.' The authors include some of the leading theorists of just war, and their essays shed welcome light at a time when we need it. It's a must-read for anyone interested in today's conflicts - philosophers, security specialists, military ethicists, and concerned citizens.' David Luban, Georgetown University, Washington, DC'Combining fresh ethical thinking about the morality of armed conflict with cutting edge cases drawing on the very latest challenges to the field, this innovative new book pushes beyond established boundaries and presents us with new ways of thinking about the ethics of conflict. Covering a range of issues not hitherto evaluated from a moral perspective - including economic warfare, cyber-warfare and nonviolence, this is an important new volume that not only charts new ground but sets out a new agenda for the future. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the ethical dimensions of world politics.' Alexander Bellamy, Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Queensland, Australia'This work goes an impressive distance towards addressing the complex web of ethical and legal questions raised by the techniques of soft war …' Claire Finkelstein, International Affairs'… I found the book profoundly helpful in understanding the nature of war, conflict, and international relations in the twenty-first century.' Anthony F. Lang, Jr, International Studies ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Michael L. Gross and Tamar Meisels; Part I. Definitions and Meta Views: 1. Defining war Jessica Wolfendale; 2. Coercion, manipulation, and harm: civilian immunity and soft war Valerie Morkevičius; Part II. Economic Warfare: 3. Reconsidering economic sanctions Joy Gordon; 4. Conditional sale Cécile Fabre; Part III. Cyber Warfare, Media Warfare, and Lawfare: 5. State-sponsored hacktivism and the rise of 'soft' war George R. Lucas, Jr; 6. Media warfare, propaganda, and the law of war Laurie R. Blank; 7. The ethics of soft war on today's mediatized battlespaces Sebastian Kaempf; 8. Abuse of law on the 21st-century battlefield: a typology of lawfare Janina Dill; Part IV. Nonviolence: 9. Unarmed bodyguards to the rescue? The ethics of non-violent intervention James Pattison; 10. How subversive are human rights? Civil subversion and the ethics of unarmed resistance Christopher J. Finlay; 11. Bearers of hope on the paradox of non-violent action Cheney Ryan; Part V. Hostage Taking and Prisoners: 12. A cooperative globalist approach to the hostage dilemma Ariel Colonomos; 13. Kidnapping and extortion as tactics of soft war Tamar Meisels; 14. Conclusions: proportionate self defense in unarmed conflict Michael L. Gross.
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Cambridge University Press Preventing Black Market Trade in Nuclear Technology
Book SynopsisEvery nuclear weapons program for decades has relied extensively on illicit imports of nuclear-related technologies. This book offers the most detailed public account of how states procure what they need to build nuclear weapons, what is currently being done to stop them, and how global efforts to prevent such trade could be strengthened. While illicit nuclear trade can never be stopped completely, effective steps to block illicit purchases of nuclear technology have sometimes succeeded in slowing nuclear weapons programs and increasing their costs, giving diplomacy more chance to work. Hence, this book argues, preventing illicit transfers wherever possible is a key element of an effective global non-proliferation strategy.Trade Review'A compelling analysis of the failures of policy, intelligence, law enforcement and private sector governance in the past, and the continuing challenges facing the control of illicit nuclear technology transfers. This book is a sharply focused and intensely practical contribution to solving one of the world's most dangerous problems, and policymakers will ignore it at their peril.' Gareth Evans, Former Australian Foreign Minister, Co-chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament and co-author of Nuclear Weapons: The State of Play'Avoiding nuclear apocalypse is humanity's top priority. [Here is] a book by leading experts in the field on what needs to be done to combat the ominous danger of illicit trafficking in nuclear technology. A must read for anyone interested in how to shore up our precarious global security system.' Mohamed ElBaradei, Former Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency'A secret nuclear technology smuggling network lurks in the shadows behind virtually every recent nuclear weapons acquisition program. The expert authors of this volume both shine a bright light on these illicit networks, exposing the states and companies involved, and present creative ideas on how to reduce the risks of future nuclear proliferation. This book should guide new international efforts to shut down these nuclear black markets.' Scott D. Sagan, Caroline S. G. Munro Professor of Political Science, Stanford University'The world needs bold steps to surmount the nuclear dangers that we confront. This book is essential reading for its role in outlining the steps needed for a crucial part of that effort - controlling the spread of the technologies needed to build nuclear weapons to countries seeking nuclear arsenals. Top experts look at the dangers that lie ahead and recommend new tools to counter them. This book is must reading for policymakers striving for a safer world.' Sam Nunn, Former Senator, co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative'The future of global nuclear nonproliferation efforts will depend heavily on the high-stakes competition between increasingly resourceful nuclear black marketers and governments determined to thwart them. This volume brings together highly knowledgeable experts to shed light on the shadowy world of illicit nuclear procurement and to propose a promising strategy for impeding it. It is the most comprehensive treatment of the subject publicly available and an indispensable resource to both government policymakers and outsiders interested in avoiding a world of many nuclear-armed states.' Robert Einhorn, The Brookings Institution'This book is a sophisticated and urgent call for global action to prevent the next AQ Khan and avoid nuclear Armageddon. By distilling the lessons of the recent past, these world-class experts provide the blueprint for a safer, saner future. Essential reading for policy makers and the public.' Douglas Frantz, Deputy Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentTable of Contents1. Introduction: the problem of black-market nuclear technology networks Matthew Bunn and William C. Potter; 2. The world of illicit nuclear trade: present and future David Albright and Andrea Stricker; 3. The role of intelligence in countering illicit nuclear-related procurement Thomas Fingar; 4. Strengthening the global law enforcement response Leonard Spector; 5. Strengthening sanctions and interdiction Mark Fitzpatrick; 6. Strengthening global nuclear export controls Ian Anthony; 7. The private sector's role in stopping black market nuclear technology networks Robert Shaw; 8. Strengthening global non-proliferation financial controls Justine Walker; 9. Strengthening the role of international organizations in dealing with illicit nuclear technology networks Olli Heinonen; 10. Countering nuclear black markets by strengthening nonproliferation culture Matthew Bunn; 11. Stopping black-market nuclear technology networks: a view from Russia Vladimir Orlov and Aleksandr Cheban; 12. Out-of-the box initiatives to combat illicit nuclear technology procurement networks John S. Park, Leonard Spector and Ian J. Stewart; 13. Conclusion: stopping illicit trade in nuclear technology: progress, gaps, and next steps Martin B. Malin, Matthew Bunn, Leonard Spector and William C. Potter.
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Cambridge University Press Statements of Resolve
Book SynopsisStatements of resolve - in which leaders indicate that their country is committed to a position and will not back down - are a fixture of international conflict. However, scholars have not agreed on how much these statements affect conflict outcomes or which conditions give them coercive credibility. Statements of Resolve argues that an important and underappreciated factor influencing the impact of resolved statements is the ability to follow through. Roseanne W. McManus explains how adversaries analyze a leader''s ability to follow through on statements and shows that perceptions of the ability to follow through are influenced not only by military capabilities but also by less obvious domestic political conditions. Through rigorous statistical tests based on quantitative coding of US presidential statements and case studies of three Cold War conflicts, this book shows that resolved statements can effectively coerce adversaries, but only when a sufficient physical and political abilitTrade Review'The factors that influence the credibility of leaders is a critical topic for international politics. In this fascinating new book, Roseanne W. McManus shows what makes leaders credible, and why. Her multi-method approach significantly advances our understanding of credibility and conflict by demonstrating that statements of resolve are most effective at influencing adversaries when leaders have both the military and domestic political capacity to follow through on their public statements. I highly recommend this book to all interested in international politics.' Michael Horowitz, University of Pennsylvania'When do statements of resolve constitute credible signals of state intentions, and when are they merely cheap talk? This multi-method study demonstrates that a state's military and political capacity to follow through on coercive threats plays a major role in influencing the perceptions and behavior of international adversaries. Statements of Resolve is an important theoretical and empirical contribution with significant policy implications.' Jack S. Levy, Board of Governors' Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University, New Jersey'Do international adversaries consider the president's ability to follow through with threats when responding to the US? Do American domestic circumstances enter into their calculations? McManus addresses these questions by measuring observable domestic political factors, such as the president's popularity and the hawkishness of veto players, to show - through able and careful quantitative analyses as well as enlightening case studies - that adversaries attend to domestic factors in evaluating the credibility of presidential statements. Her case studies of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Reagan's relations with the Soviet Union, the US during the Vietnam War show how other countries attend to varying constraints presidents face. Those interested in domestic politics and foreign policy and in international bargaining, in particular, will place Statements of Resolve very high on their lists of 'must-reads'.' Glenn H. Palmer, Executive Director of the Peace Science Society and Professor of Political Science, Penn State University'Statements of Resolve significantly expands the current scholarly understanding of how statements of resolve elicit changes in adversaries' behaviours. An ability to follow through is a previously overlooked, but important, determinant of the efficacy of such statements. McManus' pathbreaking theory and new data lay the ground for future studies on foreign policy analysis and strategic interactions between states, as well as useful policy implications regarding ideal conditions in which political leaders can make statements of resolve effectively.' Jin Mun Jeong, International Studies ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Background and Theory: 1. The ability to follow through and other conditions for statements' effectiveness; Part II. Data on Statements and Statistical Analysis: 2. Data on statements and when they are made; 3. The general effectiveness of resolved statements; 4. Evidence regarding the conditions for statements' effectiveness; 5. Relationship among the conditions for statements' effectiveness; Part III. Case Studies: 6. Cuban missile crisis; 7. Refreezing of the Cold War; 8. Vietnam war; Conclusion; Appendices; Appendix 1. Formal model of the effect of veto players; Appendix 2. Formal model of the effect of security in office; Appendix 3. Content analysis dictionary; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Authority and the Globalisation of Inclusion and Exclusion
Book SynopsisProtracted and bitter resistance by alter- and anti-globalisation movements shows that the globalisation of law transpires as the globalisation of inclusion and exclusion. Humanity is inside and outside global law in all its possible manifestations. But how is this possible? How must legal orders be structured, such that, even if we can now speak of law beyond state borders, no emergent global legal order is possible that does not include without excluding? Is an authoritative politics of boundaries possible that neither postulates the possibility of realising an all-inclusive global legal order nor accepts resignation or political paralysis in the face of the globalisation of inclusion and exclusion? These pressing questions guide this book, opening up a vast field of enquiry that demands integrating sociological, doctrinal and philosophical perspectives and insights.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Law and the globalisation of inclusion and exclusion; 2. Collective action and emergent global legal orders; 3. Three variations on the theme of legal unification and pluralisation; 4. Anti-globalisations and the nomos of the earth; 5. Authority and reciprocal recognition; 6. Asymmetrical recognition; 7. Struggles for representation in a global context; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain Volume 2
Book SynopsisThis book presents a new theoretical understanding, based on institutions and political practices, of the relative failure of development policy in Latin America compared to success in Spain. It will appeal to experts in economics and social sciences, and the general public interested in Latin America, state building, and economic development.Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. Those were the days. The Latin American economic and cultural boom vs. the Spanish miracle Miguel A. Centeno, Agustin E. Ferraro and Vivekananda Nemana; Part II. Visions and Politics of Development: 2. CEPAL as idea factory for Latin American development. Intellectual and political influence 1950–90 Joseph Love; 3. The arc of development. Economists and sociologists' quest for the state Margarita Fajardo; 4. From 'showcase' to 'failure'. Democracy and the Colombian developmental state in the 1960s Robert Karl; Part III. Institutional Design: Infrastructural and Territorial Power: 5. One blueprint, three translations: Corporaciones de Fomento in Colombia, Chile and Peru José Carlos Orihuela; 6. The rise and fall of the Instituto Nacional de Planificación in Peru (1962–92): exploring the limits of state capacity building in weak states Eduardo Dargent; 7. A double-edged sword: the institutional foundations of the Brazilian developmental state, 1930–85 Luciana de Souza Leão; 8. Life is a dream. Bureaucracy and industrial development in Spain, 1950–90 Agustin E. Ferraro and Juan José Rastrollo; Part IV. Industry, Trade and Growth: Economic Power: 9. Emergence and maturity of the developmental state in Argentina, Brazil and Spain, 1930–90. An economic history approach Jordi Catalan and Tomàs Fernández-de-Sevilla; 10. The Mexican developmental state, c.1920–c.1980 Alan Knight; 11. The developmental state and the agricultural machinery industry in Argentina Yovanna Pineda; 12. The Chilean developmental state. Political balance, economic accommodation, and technocratic insulation 1924–1973 Patricio Silva; Part V. National and Civic Identities: Symbolic Power: 13. The developmental state and the rise of popular nationalism: cause, coincidence, or elective affinity? Matthias vom Hau; 14. State, nation, and identity in Brazil, 1930–2000 Marshall Eakin; 15. Urban informality, citizenship, and the paradoxes of development Brodwyn Fisher; Part VI. Conclusion: 16. Authoritarianism, democracy, and development in Latin America and Spain 1930–1990 Agustin E. Ferraro and Miguel A. Centeno.
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Cambridge University Press Cities on the World Stage
Book SynopsisCities are playing an ever more important role in the mitigation and adaption to climate change. This book examines the politics shaping whether, how and to what extent cities engage in global climate governance. By studying the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, and drawing on scholarship from international relations, social movements, global governance and field theory, the book introduces a theory of global urban governance fields. This theory links observed increases in city engagement and coordination to the convergence of C40 cities around particular ways of understanding and enforcing climate governance. The collective capacity of cities to produce effective and socially equitable global climate governance is also analysed. Highlighting the constraints facing city networks and the potential pitfalls associated with a city-driven global response, this assessment of the transformative potential of cities will be of great interest to researchers, graduate students and policymakerTable of Contents1. All the world's a stage; 2. The contours of coordination in the C40; 3. A theory of global urban governance fields; 4. The contours of convergence in the C40; 5. Contestation and competition in the C40; 6. Towards convergence and coordination in the C40; 7. Consolidation and collective memory in the C40; 8. Crafting a role for cities on the world stage
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Cambridge University Press Germanys Empire in the East
Book SynopsisThis book puts German policy toward Romania and the German East into a global context. One of the signal events of the twentieth century was Germany''s effort to construct an empire in Europe modeled on the European experience outside Europe. The turn to European empire resulted less from the dynamics of capitalist expansion than from a deep crisis in global political and economic order. Confronted with the global economic and political power of the western allies, the Germans turned to Eastern Europe to construct a dependent space, tied to Germany as Central America was to the US. The First World War transformed how Germans thought about international order, empire and the nature of Romanians. The domestic consequences of Germany''s eviction from global markets authorized deep interventions in Romanian society to establish a pre-eminent position for the German state inside Romania. David Hamlin embeds occupation and war aims in economic concerns.Trade Review'David Hamlin’s Germany’s Empire in the East: Germans and Romania in an Era of Globalization and Total War is a must-read for scholars interested in nineteenth-and early twentieth-century German and Eastern European history.' Jens-Uwe Guettel, The American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Constructing interdependence; 2. Alliances; 3. In the shadows of war; 4. Occupations; 5. The economic consequences of the German peace.
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Cambridge University Press The French War on Al Qaida in Africa
Book SynopsisIn January 2013, France intervened in its former African colony, Mali, to stop an Al Qa''ida advance on the capital. French special forces, warplanes, and army units struck with rapid and unexpected force. Their intervention quickly repelled the jihadist advance and soon the terrorists had been chased from their safe haven in Mali''s desolate North - an impressive accomplishment. Although there have been many books on the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there are almost none on the recent military interventions of America''s allies. Because it was quick, effective, and relatively low cost, the story contains valuable lessons for future strategy. Based on exclusive interviews with high-level civilian and military officials in Paris, Washington and Bamako, this book offers a fast-paced, concise, strategic overview of this war. As terrorist groups proliferate across North Africa, what France accomplished in Mali should be a key reference point for national security experts.Trade Review'Well and comprehensively researched, using multiple interviews with key actors (including a former President of Mali and the French commanding general), The French War on Al Qa'ida in Africa provides a compelling analytical narrative of the important French mission in Mali since 2013. It will stand as a - if not the - major study in English of these important events.' Jolyon Howorth, Yale University'Following Toppling Qaddafi, his study of the Libyan air war, Chris Chivvis has produced another first-rate campaign history, this one of the lightning 2013 French campaign in Mali. Intervening as that country was about to fall to Al Qaeda-linked militants, French troops conducted a daring and unexpectedly successful operation the nature and significance of which Chivvis captures well in this excellent and highly readable account.' Ambassador James Dobbins, Distinguished Chair in Diplomacy and Security, RAND Corporation'The best American analysis of Serval, this book fills the gap on how the United States judged the operation.' General Bernard Barrera, commander of French Forces in Mali during Serval'An excellent one-stop analysis of a complex situation and successful intervention, focusing on the military but not limited to it. Chivvis's superbly informed book illustrates the rich potential of French-American exchanges on this subject.' Justin Vaïsse, Director for Policy Planning, French Foreign Ministry'Chivvis provides an overview of the French military intervention against Salafi jihadists in northern Mali in 2013. His book is one of the first in English to explain the calculations of French military and political elites leading up to the intervention, and how the French organized and executed operations on the ground … Particularly informative are his descriptions of France's coordination with its Western allies and its complex logistical operations involving its assets in the Sahel and West Africa … the writing is clear and jargon-free.' B. L. Dillman, Choice'Chivvis provides a strategic summary of this brief, yet apparently effective, campaign against the terrorist group, emphasising the lessons that he believes could help inform the broader fight against the spreading terrorist threat in North Africa.' Survival: Global Politics and StrategyTable of ContentsPreface; 1. France, Mali, and African jihad; 2. Al Qa'ida's North African franchise; 3. French security strategy in the age of kidnappings; 4. Merah and Malistan; 5. Leading Africa from behind; 6. Crisis and opportunity; 7. Serval; 8. The elusive 'political' dimension; 9. The road ahead.
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Cambridge University Press Amnesty in the Age of Human Rights Accountability
Book SynopsisThis edited volume brings together well-established and emerging scholars of transitional justice to discuss the persistence of amnesty in the age of human rights accountability. The volume attempts to reframe debates, moving beyond the limited approaches of ''truth versus justice'' or ''stability versus accountability'' in which many of these issues have been cast in the existing scholarship. The theoretical and empirical contributions in this book offer new ways of understanding and tackling the enduring persistence of amnesty in the age of accountability. In addition to cross-national studies, the volume encompasses eleven country cases of amnesty for past human rights violations: Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Indonesia, Rwanda, South Africa, Spain, Uganda and Uruguay. The volume goes beyond merely describing these case studies, but also considers what we learn from them in terms of overcoming impunity and promoting accountability to contribute to improvementsTrade Review"[This] book is a welcome contribution to the rapidly expanding field of transnational justice and to the menu of policy choice after gross violations of human rights." -- D.P. Forsythe, emeritus, University of Nebraska, Reviewing for Choice MagazineTable of ContentsPart I. Theoretical Framework: 1. The age of accountability: the rise of individual criminal accountability Kathryn Sikkink; 2. The amnesty controversy in international law Mark Freeman and Max Pensky; Part II. Comparative Case Studies: 3. Amnesties' challenge to the global accountability norm? Interpreting regional and international trends in amnesty enactment Louise Mallinder; 4. From amnesty to accountability: the ebbs and flows in the search for justice in Argentina Gabriel Pereira and Par Engstrom; 5. Barriers to justice: the Lley de Caducidad and impunity in Uruguay Francesca Lessa; 6. Resistance to change: Brazil's persistent amnesty and its alternatives for truth and justice Marcelo Torelly and Paulo Abrão; 7. De facto and de jure amnesty laws: the Central American case Naomi Roht-Arriaza and Emily Braid; 8. Creeks of justice: debating post-atrocity accountability in Rwanda and Uganda Phil Clark; 9. Accountability through conditional amnesty: the case of South Africa Antje du Bois-Pedain; 10. De facto amnesty? The example of post-Soeharto Indonesia Patrick Burgess; 11. A limited amnesty? Insights from Cambodia Ronald Slye; 12. The Spanish amnesty law of 1977 in comparative perspective: from a law for democracy to a law for impunity Paloma Aguilar; 13. Amnesty in the age of accountability Tricia D. Olsen, Leigh A. Payne and Andrew G. Reiter.
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Cambridge University Press Theorising the Responsibility to Protect
Book SynopsisOne of the most important developments in world politics in the last decade has been the spread of the idea that state sovereignty comes with responsibilities as well as privileges, and that there exists a global responsibility to protect people threatened by mass atrocities. The principle of the Responsibility to Protect is an acknowledgment by all who live in zones of safety of a duty of care towards those in zones of danger. Thakur and Maley argue that this principle has not been discussed sufficiently in the context of international and political theory, in particular the nature and foundations of political and international order and the strength and legitimacy of the state. The book brings together a range of authors to discuss the different ways in which the Responsibility to Protect can be theorised, using case studies to locate the idea within wider traditions of moral responsibilities in international relations.Trade Review'Practice sometimes outpaces norms, or vice-versa; but whatever the sequencing, theorizing is invariably farther behind still. Thakur and Malley have assembled a distinguished but distinctive and diverse group of soloists rather than harmonious choristers. Powerful and persuasive essays are the result, everything you wanted to know about R2P and were afraid to ask.' Thomas G. Weiss, Graduate Center, City University of New York'This thought provoking set of essays by leading thinkers on the prospects and challenges of R2P will interest anyone who cares about innovative and consequential ideas in global political affairs.' Taylor B. Seybolt, Associate Professor and Director of the Ford Institute for Human Security, University of Pittsburgh'What makes this book stand out … is the exhaustive coverage of the various ways in which R2P is linked to international and political theory, in order to explain how it shapes the political and international order … this is, in sum, a superbly integrated edited volume. It does an excellent job unfolding the philosophical and practical debates on R2P, which makes it a must-read for practitioners, academics and students interested in this salient topic.' Cristina G Stefan, International Affairs'… an outstanding collection of well-referenced contributions from a broad spectrum of cultures and experience.' John Sanderson, Australian Institute of International AffairsTable of ContentsPart I. Context: 1. Introduction. Theorising global responsibilities Ramesh Thakur and William Maley; 2. The evolution of the Responsibility to Protect: from concept and principle to actionable norm Gareth Evans; 3. From the right to persecute to the Responsibility to Protect: Feuerbachian inversions of rights and responsibilities in state-citizen relations Charles Sampford and Ramesh Thakur; 4. R2P and a theory of norm circulation Amitav Acharya; Part II. The Responsibility to Protect, Normative Theory, and Global Governance: 5. Responsibility to Protect and world order Tim Dunne; 6. International law and the Responsibility to Protect Michael Byers; 7. The Responsibility to Protect, multilateralism and international legitimacy Edward Newman; 8. Global governance and the Responsibility to Protect Abiodun Williams; 9. International law, the Responsibility to Protect, and international crises Jean-Marc Coicaud; 10. The Responsibility to Protect and the just war tradition Alex J. Bellamy; 11. War is not the answer: R2P and military intervention Jonathan Graubart; Part III. The Responsibility to Protect and International Social Purposes: 12. United Nations peacekeeping and the Responsibility to Protect Mats Berdal; 13. Humanitarian law, refugee protection, and the Responsibility to Protect William Maley; 14. Is the Responsibility to Protect doctrine gender-neutral? Susan Harris Rimmer; 15. The Responsibility to Protect: a western idea? Jacinta O'Hagan; 16. Colonialism and the Responsibility to Protect Siddharth Mallavarapu.
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Cambridge University Press Children and Global Conflict
Book SynopsisOver one billion people under the age of eighteen live in territories affected by armed conflict. Despite this, scholars and practitioners often lack a comprehensive knowledge of how children both struggle within and shape conflict zones. Children and Global Conflict provides this understanding with a view to enhancing the prospects of conflict resolution and peacebuilding. This book presents key ideas and issues relating to children''s experiences of war, international relations and international law. The authors explore the political, conceptual and moral debates around children in these contexts and offer examples and solutions based on case studies of child soldiers from Vietnam, child forced migrants in Australia, young peace-builders in post-conflict zones, youth in the international justice system, and child advocates across South Asia and the Middle East.Trade Review'This is an important piece of work and fills what, for a long time, has been a significant gap in the literature - the relationship between children and conflict and the international responses to it. Huynh, D'Costa and Lee-Koo have written a book that students, academics and policymakers should read - and with some urgency.' Ali Watson, University of St Andrews, ScotlandTable of ContentsIntroduction: why children matter to global conflict; 1. Children and armed conflict: mapping the terrain, 2. Children and agency: care-takers, free-rangers and everyday life; 3. Children and international relations: creating spaces for children; 4. The rights of the child: political history, practices and protection; 5. Child soldiers: causes, solutions and cultures; 6. Child forced migrants: biopolitics, autonomy and ambivalence; 7. Children and peacebuilding: propagating peace; 8. Children and justice: past crimes, healing and the future; 9. Who speaks for children: advocacy, activism and resistance; Conclusion; Appendix.
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Cambridge University Press The Geneva Consensus
Book SynopsisThe Geneva Consensus includes Pascal Lamy's personal reflections on his time as Director General of the WTO and highlights how trade can only act as a motor for growth if the correct mix of policies is in place. Deeper cooperation is required between international organizations involved in setting economic, social and political policies to put this 'consensus' into effect.Table of Contents1. Harnessing globalization amid the crisis facing multilateralism; 2. The changing face of trade; 3. Helping the poorest up the prosperity ladder; 4. Trade: friend not foe of the environment; 5. Trading towards global food security; 6. Trade can contribute towards better health ; 7. Trade and labour: separated at birth but still connected; 8. Trade and energy: the case for a greater WTO role; 9. Trade and currencies: trading community seeks greater currency stability; 10. Trade and competition: fairer competition makes for fairer trade; 11. Trade and human rights: a case of misplaced suspicion; 12. Last but not least: the Doha Round.
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Cambridge University Press The Saddam Tapes
Book SynopsisDuring the 2003 war that ended Saddam Hussein''s regime, coalition forces captured thousands of hours of secret recordings of meetings, phone calls and conferences. Originally prepared by the Institute for Defense Analyses for the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, this study presents annotated transcripts of Iraqi audio recordings of meetings between Saddam Hussein and his inner circle. The Saddam Tapes, along with the much larger digital collection of captured records at the National Defense University''s Conflict Records Research Center, will provide researchers with important insights into the inner workings of the regime and, it is hoped, the nature of authoritarian regimes more generally. The collection has implications for a range of historical questions. How did Saddam react to the pressures of his wars? How did he manage the Machiavellian world he created? How did he react to the signals and actions of the international community on matters of war and peace? WTrade Review'Provides researchers with important insights.' Middle EastTable of Contents1. The United States; 2. The 'Zionist entity'; 3. The Arab world; 4. Qadisiyyah Saddam (the Iran–Iraq War); 5. The mother of all battles; 6. Special munitions; 7. The embargo and the special commission; 8. Hussein Kamil.
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Cambridge University Press State Expansion and Conflict
Book SynopsisLebanon and Israel/Palestine are two political entities that expanded in 1920 and 1967 respectively, and became divided societies characterized by periods of stability and conflict. This book provides the first detailed comparison between the two states and also explores the effects of their expansion on their changing relations. It looks first at how both expanded states attempted to cope with their predicaments, focusing on the relationship between state, community and security, before moving on to analyze the de-stabilizing effects of expansion on Israeli-Lebanese relations. The book draws on previously unpublished official documents, memoirs, media resources and films produced in Lebanon and Israel/Palestine, in addition to existing works on the two states and the Middle East. Bridging the gap between comparative politics and international relations, it will interest students of Lebanon and Israel/Palestine, the Middle East, and conflict and peace.Trade Review'Oren Barak undertakes a remarkable comparison of two states established to reflect and represent tight-knit communities - Jews in Israel and Maronite Christians in Lebanon. In each case, something went terribly wrong on the way to becoming nation-states. State expansion by Israel in 1967 and by Lebanon in 1920 ended up crippling the state, undermining security, and leading to divided societies. State Expansion and Conflict is a tour de force, demonstrating the dark dangers of state ambition and enlargement.' Joel Migdal, University of Washington'Thoroughly researched and elegantly written, this book offers a thought-provoking and highly instructive comparison between the state's expansion and its consequences in Israel/Palestine and in Lebanon, whose shared border has, from 1967 onwards, become one of the major arenas of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The broader insights provided in this book will be of interest to students of conflict and peace in the Middle East and beyond, and its conclusions are bound to generate debate in both divided societies that, as Oren Barak persuasively shows, are much more similar than one might think.' Asher Kaufman, University of Notre Dame, IndianaTable of ContentsList of figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; Chronology; 1. Introduction; 2. State expansion and its effects; 3. From nation-states to divided societies: Lebanon and Israel/Palestine; 4. Lebanon: weak and legitimate; 5. Israel/Palestine: strong and illegitimate; 6. Lebanon and Israel/Palestine compared; 7. The deterioration of Israeli-Lebanese relations; 8. Two conflicts intertwined; 9. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press International Intervention and Local Politics
Book SynopsisInternational peace- and state-building interventions have become ubiquitous in international politics since the 1990s, aiming to tackle the security problems stemming from the instability afflicting many developing states. Their frequent failures have prompted a shift towards analysing how the interaction between interveners and recipients shapes outcomes. This book critically assesses the rapidly growing literature in international relations and development studies on international intervention and local politics. It advances an innovative approach, placing the politics of scale at the core of the conflicts and compromises shaping the outcomes of international intervention. Different scales - local, national, international - privilege different interests, unevenly allocating power, resources and political opportunity structures. Interveners and recipients thus pursue scalar strategies and socio-political alliances that reinforce their power and marginalise rivals. This approach is haTrade Review'International Intervention and Local Politics is an important and innovative contribution, examining the fraught relationship between peace, intervention, the state and scale. Deploying critical political geography and a Gramscian analysis it contributes to a radical rethinking of peace and development now underway.' Oliver Richmond, University of Manchester'International intervention aimed at promoting peace and building state capacity has been hotly contested in recent decades - both in practice and in theory. This volume explores some fascinating and original research questions, drawing upon rich empirical insights, in order to make some sense of the crisis of confidence of intervention intervention. Above all, it genuinely goes beyond the 'liberal peacebuilding debate'.' Edward Newman, University of Leeds'International Intervention and Local Politics provides an innovative and creative approach based on Gramscian theories and critical political geography, which is useful to policymakers, advisors, international consultants and academics seeking to understand the challenges in the implementation of policies in post-conflict states in the context of PSBIs [Peace-and State-Building Interventions]. Alvaro Mellado Dominguez, Journal of Intervention and StatebuildingTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Existing approaches to international intervention and local politics; 2. International intervention and the politics of scale; 3. Public administration reform and the politics of scale in Solomon Islands; 4. Public administration reform and the politics of scale in post-conflict Cambodia; 5. The politics of scale and the Aceh Government Transformation Programme; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press When Soldiers Rebel
Book SynopsisMilitary coups are a constant threat in Africa and many former military leaders are now in control of ''civilian states'', yet the military remains understudied, especially over the last decade. Drawing on extensive archival research, cross-national data, and four in-depth comparative case studies, When Soldiers Rebel examines the causes of military coups in post-independence Africa and looks at the relationship between ethnic armies and political instability in the region. Kristen A. Harkness argues that the processes of creating and dismantling ethnically exclusionary state institutions engenders organized and violent political resistance. Focusing on rebellions to protect rather than change the status quo, Harkness sheds light on a mechanism of ethnic violence that helps us understand both the motivations and timing of rebellion, and the rarity of group rebellion in the face of persistent political and economic inequalities along ethnic lines.Trade Review'Kristen A. Harkness has revived the important subject of military politics and ethnicity, and she has shown not merely whom the likely coup makers are but under what conditions they are likely to strike. This is a very valuable addition to the field.' Donald L. Horowitz, Duke University, North Carolina'When Soldiers Rebel is a path-breaking, highly original, and forceful book on the causes of coups in post-independence Africa. The case studies are thorough, engaging and persuasive. Compellingly written, When Soldiers Rebel is an elegant and extremely plausible answer to a very important and long-standing question of comparative and international politics.' Hein Goemans, University of Rochester'Harkness' impressive book sheds new light on the prevalence of military coups in ethnically divided African countries. Full of interesting data and carefully argued, her study convincingly demonstrates that the efforts of rulers to exclude formerly privileged groups often leads to rebellion. It will constitute essential reading for students of the military and ethnic conflict for the foreseeable future.' Nicholas Van de Walle, Cornell University, New York'A major addition to the literature on ethnic conflict, African politics, and the dynamics of the state. Original, tough-minded, and compelling.' Richard English, author of Does Terrorism Work?: A History'In sum, [Harkness'] theory on [soldiers'] ethnic rebel behaviour offers a rich and new perspective on prevailing challenges in Sub-Sahara Africa: civil military relations and preventing military-led coups. In addition, her volume makes an important contribution to the literature on ethnic conflicts as well as democratization research by explaining how armed forces influence democratic transition and consolidation.' Lars Pelke, DemocratizationTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Ethnicity, military patronage, and soldier rebellion; 2. Statistical tests: ethnic armies and the coup d'état; 3. Building ethnic armies: Cameroon and Sierra Leone; 4. Creating inclusive armies: Senegal and Ghana; 5. Dismantling ethnic armies: African militaries and democratization; Conclusion; Appendix A. Preindependence ethnic violence and ethnic politicization; Appendix B. Military coup data; Appendix C. Ethnicity and the military data; Appendix D. Supplementary material for regression analysis.
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Cambridge University Press Salafism in Lebanon
Book SynopsisThe past two decades have seen an increasing association between Lebanese Salafism and violence, with less attention being paid to Salafis who focus on peaceful proselytization. In reality, it is these Salafis whose influence has dramatically grown since the eruption of the Syrian conflict that profoundly affected Lebanon as well. Based on extensive fieldwork, Zoltan Pall offers insights into the dynamics of non-violent Lebanese Salafi groups and examines the importance of transnational links in shaping the trajectory of the movement. In particular, he shows how the internal transformation of Salafism in Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia led to the fragmentation of the Lebanese Salafi community. By analysing Salafism as a network, we see how the movement creates and mobilizes material and symbolic resources, and how it contributes to reshaping the structures of authority within the country''s Sunni Muslim community.Trade Review'The spread of Salafi Islam in recent years has significantly changed religious scene in the Arab world. Focusing on Lebanon, Zoltan Pall's careful study sheds new light on our understanding of Salafism, its transnational network, and its effects on public life in the Middle East and beyond.' Asef Bayat, Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies and Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign'Pall has written a highly informative book on the Salafi movement in Lebanon. Based largely on years of fieldwork in northern Lebanon and supported by deep knowledge of the country's sectarian and political relations, this book sheds important light on the 'purist' and 'haraki' (activist) Salafis and their transnational links to the Gulf.' Joas Wagemakers, Universiteit Utrecht, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The transformation of Salafism in the Gulf; 2. Salafi expansion in the 1990s; 3. The fragmentation of Salafism in northern Lebanon; 4. The authority of Salafi Shaykhs; 5. The structure of Lebanese Salafi networks at the local level; 6. Transnational networks of Lebanese Salafis; 7. Recruitment; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Governing New Frontiers in the Information Age
Book SynopsisMany pressing environmental and security threats now facing the international community may be traced to the frontiers. From climate change and cyber-attacks to the associated challenges of space weaponization and orbital debris mitigation, solutions to all of these issues have at their root some form of regulation over the ''global commons''. Yet governance over these spaces is now transitioning away from multilateral treaties to regional and bilateral accords. This book makes an original contribution by comparing and contrasting some of the principal issues facing the frontiers. It analyzes how and why existing governance structures are often failing to adequately meet global collective action problems, with special coverage on cybersecurity and Internet governance. It proposes a new way forward incorporating lessons from successful regimes as well as the interdisciplinary scholarship on polycentric governance, arguing that multi-stakeholder collaboration is imperative in order to avTrade Review'In this pioneering work, Scott Shackelford takes a long overdue multi-disciplinary look at various global commons to tease loose lessons that can inform governance and security in cyberspace. Finding that cyberspace is an 'imperfect commons' comprised of shared global infrastructure, Professor Shackelford draws on these lessons to craft surgically an insightful polycentric approach to fostering 'cyber peace' in this 'frontier of international relations.' It is an approach that is thoughtful, inclusive, practical, and value-driven - one that takes thinking on the subject to the next level and will move multi-stakeholder dialogue on cyberspace governance in exactly the right direction. A must-read.' Michael Schmitt, University of Exeter'A fresh, rigorous, and useful take on the many international governance challenges of the twenty-first century. Given the breadth, depth, and complexity of global commons examined - ranging from climate change to cyberspace to outer space - Shackelford somehow manages to write accessibly and with incredible insight and wit. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the common heritage and future of humanity.' Brett M. Frischmann, Charles Widger Endowed University Professor in Law, Business and Economics, Villanova University, Pennsylvania'In Governing New Frontiers in the Information Age, Scott Shackelford merges theories of the best ways to govern the internet we share (the commons we call cyberspace) with the grim reality of cyber-war, cyber-theft, and other malicious online practices. All is not lost - he reminds us that there are many other examples where the international community has addressed similar shared problems. Moreover, Shackelford uses stories to make these cases more compelling to readers and challenges the readers with insights from a wider range of disciplines. In doing so, he teaches us that there is no one nor way to govern the many problems that devil our lives in cyberspace. Shackelford has written a fun read with important insights for policymakers, executives, scholars, and students.' Susan Ariel Aaronson, George Washington University'In Governing New Frontiers in the Information Age, Scott Shackelford has skillfully drawn out and applied lessons from other transnational governance issues to the seemingly boundless challenges of cyberspace. This book is intellectually ambitious, with important lessons for scholars, policy makers, and practitioners looking to manage cyber risk and promote cyber peace.' Adam Segal, Ira A Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies and National Security and Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program'Shackelford provides fascinating insights on how to govern the new frontiers of cybersecurity, where physical borders offer us no protection. He offers fascinating insights from previous international governance challenges, ranging from underseas minerals to orbital debris. Shackelford's erudition is apparent, drawing on wide-ranging sources to show potential solutions to the deepest problems of international cybersecurity.' Peter Swire, Georgia Institute of Technology and Expert on Privacy and Cybersecurity'… the author extends the polycentric theory of governance to non-traditional areas: space, the oceans, cybersecurity, and climate change … innovative book …' J. A. Stever, ChoiceTable of ContentsPart I. Cyber-What? Understanding the Roots of Cybersecurity and Other Collective Action Problems in the Information Age: 1. Governance at the frontiers of international relations: definitions and assumptions; 2. Managing cyber attacks as a global collective action problem; Part II. Security and Environmental Threats Facing the Frontiers: Case Studies in Commons Management and Their Application to Cybersecurity and Internet Governance: 3. On climate change and cyber attacks: leveraging polycentric governance to help heal the planet and promote cyber peace; 4. Was Selden right? The expansion of closed seas and its consequences; 5. Governing the final frontier: a polycentric approach for managing space weaponization and debris; Part III. Governing New Frontiers in the Information Age: 6. The future of frontiers.
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Cambridge University Press The Value of Disorder
Book SynopsisDespite being central to the development of Saharan regional connectivity, northern Chad has been closed to researchers since the late 1960s and thus remains virtually unknown to scholarship. Based on long-term fieldwork, The Value of Disorder is an original and in-depth account of the area and its Tubu majority inhabitants. Julien Brachet and Judith Scheele examine trans-border connectivity and trade; civil war and rebellion; wealth creation and dispersal; labour and gender relations; and aspirations to moral autonomy in northern Chad from an internal point of view - a point of view that in turn participates in a dynamic process of regional interdependence. Vividly ethnographic, the book gives precedence to local categories of value, while asking broader questions about the nature of non-state regional political organisation. Questions that inform current political developments in the Sahara more widely, and have the potential to challenge key concepts in Saharan studies and the sociaTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. A never-ending conquest: settlement and the making of a Saharan town; 2. Fifty shades of Khaki: armed conflict and other entanglements; 3. Trouble in the Palm-Grove: labour, status, ownership; 4. Tricks of trade: production, protection and predation; 5. Great ploys and small expectations: accumulation and dispersal in a half-world; 6. The state encompassed: everyday disorder, the aesthetics of violence, and the political imagination; Conclusion.
£98.15
Cambridge University Press The Civilianization of War
Book SynopsisDistinguishing between civilians and combatants is a central aspect of modern conflicts. Yet such distinctions are rarely upheld in practice. The Civilianization of War offers new ways of understanding civilians'' exposure to violence in war. Each chapter explores a particular approach to the political, legal, or cultural distinctions between civilians and combatants during twentieth-century and contemporary conflicts. The volume as a whole suggests that the distinction between combatants and non-combatants is dynamic and oft-times unpredictable, rather than fixed and reciprocally understood. Contributors offer new insights into why civilian targeting has become a strategy for some, and how in practice its avoidance can be so difficult to achieve. Several discuss distinct population groups that have been particularly exposed to wartime violence, including urban populations facing aerial bombing, child soldiers, captives, and victims of sexual violence. The book thus offers multiple perspectives on the civilmilitary divide within modern conflicts, an issue whose powerful contemporary resonance is all too apparent.Trade Review'The twentieth century saw greater protections for civilians in war as well as the mass targeting of non-combatants by states and non-state actors alike. This highly readable volume offers a coherent and thought provoking analysis of these two entangled trends.' Joe Maiolo, King's College LondonThis collection addresses a subject of vital contemporary pertinence, that of the civilianization of war. Global in scope, multi-disciplinary in approach and theoretically sophisticated, the chapters provide stimulating case studies that together highlight the complex and changing nature of the civil-military divide as well as the tragic vulnerability of civilians.' Talbot Imlay, Université Laval, Quebec'Remarkable for both its multi-disciplinary perspective and historical and geographic coverage, this volume brings together an outstanding group of scholars to address an issue of critical significance: the causes and consequences of changes in the boundaries between combatants and civilians in war. A bold contribution to the literature on conflict.' Stathis Kalyvas, University of OxfordTable of ContentsIntroduction: the civilianization of war and the unpredictable civil-military divide, 1914–2014 Andrew Barros and Martin Thomas; Part I. Who Fights? Combatants, Mobilization, and the Changing Nature of War: Sections 1. The 'Total War' Era, 1914–45: 1. Doing the necessary: the declaration of London and British strategy, 1905–1915 John Ferris; 2. Fighting the fifth column: the terror in republican Madrid during the Spanish Civil War Julius Ruiz; 3. Moscow 1941: the rise and fall of the Soviet People's Militia (Narodnoe Opolchenie) Jean Lévesque; Section 2. The Cold War and Decolonization, 1945–2000: 4. The collapsing civil-military divide in wars of decolonization: two case studies from the Indochina War (1945–54) Christopher Goscha; 5. Parallel ambiguities: prisoners during the Algerian War of Independence Raphaëlle Branche; 6. East Pakistan/Bangladesh 1971–72: how many victims, who, and why? Christian Gerlach; 7. 'I wasn't a boy, I was a soldier': militarization and civilianization in narratives of child soldiers in Africa's contemporary conflicts, c. 1990–2010 Stacey Hynd; Part II. A Moving Target: Strategic Bombing and Civilians, 1916–2014: 8. The problems of opening Pandora's box: strategic bombing and the civil-military divide, 1916–39 Andrew Barros; 9. Bombing civilians scientifically: operational research in Bomber Command, 1941–45 Victor Bissonnette; 10. Creating a cordon sanitaire: US strategic bombing and civilians in the Korean War Alexander Downes; 11. 'One hell of a killing machine': how a civilian agency became the vanguard of America's War on Terror Chris Fuller; Part III. Civilian Protection and International Norms and Organizations: When and How Much?: 12. Turn everyone into a civilian: René Cassin and the UNESCO project, 1919–45 Andrew Barros; 13. Human rights is the continuation of war by other means: the United States and the creation of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, 1945–48 Olivier Barsalou; 14. The United Nations, decolonization, and violence against civilians in the French and British Empires Martin Thomas; 15. The 'protection of civilians': peacekeeping's new raison d'être? Frédéric Mégret.
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Cambridge University Press New Directions in Indias Foreign Policy
Book SynopsisIndia''s foreign policy has witnessed a dramatic transformation since the end of the Cold War. Though academic study of Indian foreign policy has also shown a degree of maturity, theoretical developments have been underwhelming. Scholars have introduced new concepts and examined Indian foreign policy through new prisms, but a cohesive research agenda has not yet been charted. This volume intends to fill that void. It brings together new cutting-edge research in the field of Indian foreign policy - both at the theoretical and empirical level - so as to shape the discourse on foreign policy of one of the most important players in global politics. This volume explores key concepts like ''constructivism'' and ''territoriality'' and analyses their contribution to the academic discourse on Indian foreign policy. Issues such as the ''Indo-Pacific'' and the ''responsibility to protect'' have also been examined to address the expanding horizons of Indian foreign policy.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. Introduction Harsh V. Pant; Part I. Theoretical Evolution: 2. Power and Indian foreign policy Rohan Mukherjee; 3. Constructivism and Indian foreign policy Priya Chacko; 4. Exploring historical memory and Indian foreign policy Manjari Chatterjee Miller; 5. A doubled geography: geobody, land, and sea in Indian security thought Itty Abraham; 6. Foreign policy analysis and Indian foreign policy Harsh V. Pant and Avinash Paliwal; Part II. Emerging Themes: 7. Non-alignment and beyond Harsh V. Pant and Julie M. Super; 8. India and multilateralism: concepts, new trajectories and theorizing Arndt Michael; 9. India and the responsibility to protect Ian Hall; 10. India and the Indo-Pacific discourse David Scott; 11. India and nuclear deterrence Rajesh Basrur; 12. India and its diaspora Latha Varadarajan; Notes on contributors; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Prevention of Torture
Book SynopsisCritics have decried human rights approaches' a failure to attend to structural factors, but this book seeks to go beyond a 'stance of criticism'. It takes up the positive project of reimagining how human rights could attend to the worlds that produce systematic violations like torture so as to prevent it.Trade Review'Torture has been used in most countries, for the powerful to extract information from victims, and to punish dissidents for alleged wrong doings. To begin to understand this form of institutional violence we must realize it is less about aberrant individuals than it is about pathological social situations. In her powerful book, The Prevention of Torture: An Ecological Approach, author Professor Danielle Celermajer has taken this situational hypothesis, and combined it with rich empirical research on the actual situations where systematic torture occurs. Most uniquely, she has devised a new analysis that can form the foundation of effective prevention strategies. This book is theoretically sophisticated, practically oriented and ethically penetrating. It is must reading as a major step forward in how we think about torture globally, and then actually go about preventing torture.' Philip G. Zimbardo, Stanford University, California'Celermajer's book brings together deftly practical policy work and social theory. Institutions aren't cruel; people are. And we do not get any closer to adequate explanations, much less prevention, if we cannot link institutional outcomes to the ordinary motivations people have for doing what they do. Otherwise, we commit the scholastic fallacy, filling the minds of violators with thoughts they could not possibly have had but which seem plausible to a society of scholars. Celermajer's situationalist approach takes in painful fieldwork in South Asia, while illuminating the philosophical complexity of causation when people torture others.' Darius Rejali, Reed College, Oregon'Torture is one of the most brutal violations of human rights and a direct attack on the core of human dignity. In her fascinating book The Prevention of Torture, Danielle Celermajer studies the factors that condition and sustain torture, in order to propose how to bring about systemic institutional and cultural change. As the founder and first director of the Asia-Pacific Master in Human Rights and Democratisation, she is able to draw on rich empirical material from Sri Lanka and Nepal. Her systemic approach to human rights also offers a refreshing response to Samuel Moyn and similar theoretical voices criticizing the very concept of human rights as overly individualistic or as even being complicit with neo-liberal economic policies.' Manfred Nowak, Vienna University and Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice, previously UN Special Rapporteur on Torture'Celermajer's examination of the complexity of causality is invaluable to the field. Her call to address the entire ecology of torture, while not discarding the individual culpability, is one that we should heed. A remarkable achievement, The Prevention of Torture, in its careful analysis of theory and praxis, will inform the work of those who seek to stop torture for many years to come.' Dinah Pokempner, General Counsel, Human Rights Watch'The Prevention of Torture: An Ecological Approach is a bold, original and powerful reflection on society's approaches to 'wicked problems', not just torture prevention. The author has demonstrated convincingly why doing more of the same (law reform, human rights training, punishment and deterrence) is not enough. She has the foresight and wisdom to design a rigorous research project, the tenacity and strength to endure the obstacles that were thrown her way, and the humility and generosity to create this important book that will change forever how we conceive of and tackle problems such as torture prevention.' Janet Chan, University of New South Wales'With this book, Danielle Celermajer has made both a significant contribution to the conceptualization and practice of human rights advocacy as well as to a public health approach to understanding and preventing traumatic violence and abuse in security settings. She brings an ecological or systems approach to understanding the multiple conditions that lead to the unlawful use of force, particularly torture. This important addition to the torture prevention toolkit brings a collaborative approach to complement the more adversarial legal and prosecutorial approaches that have dominated human rights practices. The lessons learned in this book can be applied not only to police and military settings worldwide, but to any setting where violence prevention is being addressed.' Jack Saul, Director of the International Trauma Studies Program'Torture prevention is especially difficult to study because torture almost always happens in the shadows … Danielle Celermajer, by contrast, is determined not only to build an academically rigorous theory of change about how to prevent torture … but also to test it in the field by taking a project team into the heart of torturing institutions in Nepal and Sri Lanka … an important contribution in and of itself …' Sonya Sceats, International Affairs'… Celermajer's work undoubtedly merits wide inclusion on the reading lists of postgraduate programmes in applied human rights. Celermajer ensures that the demands and difficulties of the world of human rights practice are always kept in view throughout the book.' Brian Phillips, Journal of Human Rights PracticeTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The principal approaches preventing torture; 2. How effective has torture prevention been? 3. The situational conditions of institutional violence; 4. The production of worlds of torture; 5. Agents, structures and the social imaginary of human rights; 6. Taking situational theory to the field; 7. The promises and hazards of practice; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Hidden Hands of Justice
Book SynopsisThe Hidden Hands of Justice: NGOs, Human Rights, and International Courts is the first comprehensive analysis of non-governmental organization (NGO) participation at international criminal and human rights courts. Drawing on original data, Heidi Nichols Haddad maps and explains the differences in NGO participatory roles, frequency, and impact at three judicial institutions: the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Human Rights System, and the International Criminal Court. The Hidden Hands of Justice demonstrates that courts can strategically choose to enhance their functionality by allowing NGOs to provide needed information, expertise, and services as well as shame states for non-cooperation. Through participation, NGOs can profoundly shape the character of international human rights justice, but in doing so, may consolidate civil society representation and relinquish their roles as external monitors.Trade Review'NGOs are an integral part of international criminal justice, and Heidi Nichols Haddad does an excellent job explaining why NGOs are involved in judicial mechanisms, what they do, and how their involvement matters. Clearly written and theoretically informed, the book focuses on three different international courts and provides rich empirical details to support her argument. Thanks to Heidi Nichols Haddad the partnership between international courts and NGOs will no longer be ignored.' Patrice C. McMahon, University of Nebraska, Lincoln'This book presents one of the first systematic analyses of the role and impact of NGOs before international courts. Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, the book manages to shed light on key participants of international law that are very often overlooked. This book is full of insights and presents a highly convincing analysis. It is highly recommended to both students and scholars of international law and adjudication.' Mikael Rask Madsen, Director of iCourts, Centre of Excellence for International Courts'In The Hidden Hands of Justice, Heidi Nichols Haddad delivers a path breaking scholarly account of the myriad ways that NGOs interact with, support, legitimize, and seek to influence three of the most important contemporary supra-national courts. This book should command great interest from scholars, policymakers, and activists interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the potential as well as the limitations of NGOs in advancing human rights, international courts, and global governance more generally.' Victor Peskin, Arizona State University, University of California, Berkeley and author of International Justice in Rwanda and the Balkans: Virtual Trials and the Struggle for State CooperationTable of ContentsIntroduction: the overlooked partnerships; 1. Mapping NGO participation; 2. Seeking voice at the European Court of Human Rights; 3. Revitalizing the inter-American Human Rights System; 4. Rearing the fledging International Criminal Court Part I; 5. Rearing the fledging International Criminal Court Part II; Conclusion: NGOs and international human rights justice.
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