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Contains essays in which a variety of scholars address security challenges faced by the United States and other countries in the twenty-first century, discussing weapons proliferation, the development of military and nonmilitary technologies, demographic and environmental factors, transnational mass media, and other topics.
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"Just War Thinking reconsiders the intersection between morality and pragmatics in foreign policy and modern warfare. The book criticizes the quasi-pacifism of most formal just war scholarship, reconceptualizes a minimal, realistic "just war thinking" framework for exploring foreign and military policy options, and evaluates the usefulness of this approach by investigating contemporary cases such as the war on terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq, the...
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"This book is a comprehensive analysis of the relevance of international law to the conduct of international relations and foreign policy. Written by an international lawyer and academic, this book contains a systematic treatment of both fields of study. The work serves as an introduction to contemporary theories of international relations and as a primer on international law, especially for the nonlawyer.
Focusing on contemporary problems of terrorism,...
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"Focusing on intrastate conflicts in which third parties have played prominent roles, Hampson argues that durable settlements depend on sustained third-party engagement not only during the negotiation phase but throughout the implementation process. Although the book explores the roles that other factors - such as regional and systemic power relationships, the terms of the settlement itself, and the role of "ripeness"--Play in the success or failure...
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"The past several years have seen strong disagreements between the U.S. government and many of its European allies. News accounts of these challenges focus on isolated incidents and points of contention. The End of the West? addresses some basic questions: Are we witnessing a deepening transatlantic rift, with wide-ranging consequences for the future of world order? Or are today's foreign-policy disagreements the equivalent of dinner-table squabbles?...
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"Collects the rapporteur reports from six Stanley Foundation conferences in the first half of 2004 that dealt with the UN Secretary-General's High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change, including four meetings that were cosponsored with the United Nations Foundation."--Page 2 of cover.
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"This volume brings together leading international lawyers, policy-makers, activists and scholars in the field of human rights to evaluate the impact on human rights of the 'war on terror', as well as to develop a counter-terror strategy which takes human rights seriously. While some contributors argue that war is necessary in defence of liberal democracy, others assert that it is time to move away from the war model towards a new paradigm based upon...
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"In Peddling Peril David Albright offers a harrowing narrative of the frighteningly large cracks through which nuclear weapons traffickers - such as Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan - continue to slip." "Six years after the arrest of Khan, the networks he established continue to thrive, with black markets sprouting up across the globe. The dramatic takedown of the leader of the world's largest and most perilous smuggling network was originally...
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"The events 9/11 brought the subject of international terrorism to the top of the global security agenda. This book focuses on the way that the transatlantic allies have sought to combat international terrorism. This text will greatly interest students and scholars of international relations, international security, and transatlantic relations."--Jacket.
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