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by Lucas Kello
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
An urgently needed examination of the current cyber revolution that draws on case studies to develop conceptual frameworks for understanding its effects on international order The cyber revolution is the revolution of our time. The rapid expansion of cyberspace brings both promise and peril. It promotes...
Recentering Africa in International Relations
Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
This innovative book responds to an existing demand for taking Africa out of a place of exception and marginality, and placing it at the center of international relations and world politics. Bringing together a number of scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds to stage a critical intervention...
Monitoring Democracy
When International Election Observation Works, and Why It Often Fails
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
In recent decades, governments and NGOs--in an effort to promote democracy, freedom, fairness, and stability throughout the world--have organized teams of observers to monitor elections in a variety of countries. But when more organizations join the practice without uniform standards, are assessments...
Risk and Hierarchy in International Society
Liberal Interventionism in the Post-Cold War Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
The English School of International Relations has traditionally maintained that international society cannot accommodate hierarchical relationships between states. This book employs a unique theoretical and conceptual approach challenging this view and arguing that hierarchies are formed on Western states' need to manage globalised risks.
by J. G. Merrills
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
A guide to the techniques and institutions used to solve international disputes, how they work and when they are used. This textbook looks at diplomatic (negotiation, mediation, inquiry and conciliation) and legal methods (arbitration, judicial settlement). It uses many, often topical, examples of...
by Shelton, D.L.
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. In this landmark text, Dinah L. Shelton offers an insightful overview of the current state of international human rights law: its...
Maritime Security
International Law and Policy Perspectives from Australia and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Maritime security is of vital importance to Australia and New Zealand as both countries depend on maritime transport for their economic survival. Since the events of September 11th 2001, significant questions have been raised as to whether Australia and New Zealand are adequately prepared for the...
by Dr Stephen Allen
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
In 1965, the UK excised the Chagos Islands from the colony of Mauritius to create the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) in connection with the founding of a US military facility on the island of Diego Garcia. Consequently, the inhabitants of the Chagos Islands were secretly exiled to Mauritius,...
International Aid and China's Environment
Taming the Yellow Dragon
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2006
Rapid economic growth in the world's most populous nation is leading to widespread soil erosion, desertification, deforestation and the depletion of vital natural resources. The scale and severity of environmental problems in China now threaten the economic and social foundations of its modernization.
Using...
Producing Security
Multinational Corporations, Globalization, and the Changing Calculus of Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Scholars and statesmen have debated the influence of international commerce on war and peace for thousands of years. Over the centuries, analysts have generally treated the questions "Does international commerce influence security?" and "Do trade flows influence security?" as synonymous.
In...
by Eric A. Posner, A. O Sykes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Exchange of goods and ideas among nations, cross-border pollution, global warming, and international crime pose formidable questions for international law. Two respected scholars provide an intellectual framework for assessing these problems from a rational choice perspective and describe conditions under which international law succeeds or fails.
Accountability for Killing
Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America's Post-9/11 Wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
The unintended deaths of civilians in war are too often dismissed as unavoidable, inevitable, and accidental. And despite the best efforts of the U.S. to avoid them, civilian casualties in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan have been a regular feature of the United States' wars after 9/11. In Accountability...
International Terrorism Post-9/11
Comparative Dynamics and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
This edited volume brings together both western and non-western approaches to counter-terrorism in the post-9/11 era.
This multi-cultural study of counter-terrorism strategies identifies common lessons from failed and successful attempts to counter the terrorist threat and provides guidelines...
Preventive Force
Drones, Targeted Killing, and the Transformation of Contemporary Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
More so than in the past, the US is now embracing the logic of preventive force: using military force to counter potential threats around the globe before they have fully materialized. While popular with individuals who seek to avoid too many “boots on the ground,” preventive force is controversial...