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Critical Practices in International Theory
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Critical Practices in International Theory brings together for the first time the essays of the leading IR theorist, James Der Derian. The essays cover a variety of issues central to Der Derian's work including diplomacy, alienation, terrorism, intelligence, national security, new forms of warfare,...
International Relations and States of Exception
Margins, Peripheries, and Excluded Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Critically but sympathetically interrogating Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s analysis of the logic of sovereign power, this volume draws attention to the multiple zones of exclusion in and through which contemporary international politics constitutes itself.
Beginning from the margins...
Cluster Munitions and International Law
Disarmament With a Human Face?
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book offers a comprehensive argument for why pre-existing international law on cluster munitions was inadequate to deal with the full scope of humanitarian consequences associated with their use. The book undertakes an interdisciplinary legal analysis of restraints and prohibitions on the use...
by Christopher Brewster, Dr Elizabeth Houldsworth, Paul Sparrow
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
International Human Resource Management is a critically engaging and student friendly textbook for International HRM modules at all levels, including the CIPD Level 7 Advanced International HRM module. Providing wide international coverage and incorporating a global strategy perspective, it offers...
International Law, Security and Ethics
Policy Challenges in the post-9/11 World
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
This book examines the different ways in which the laws governing the use of force and the conduct of warfare have become subject to intense scrutiny and contestation since the initiation of the war on terror.
Since the end of the Cold War, the nature of security challenges has changed radically...
by Elise Verdonck
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Near East, Near Orient, University of Auckland, course: International Peace & Security, language: English, abstract: International law historically originates from the need to stabilise relations between people...
by Tom Haeck, Alice Priddy
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Over the past ten years the content and application of international law in armed conflict has changed dramatically. This Oxford Handbook provides an authoritative and comprehensive study of the role of international law in armed conflict and engages in a broad analysis of international humanitarian...
Privatising the military use of force
Responsibilities of states and international organisations under international law
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Master's Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Law - Comparative Legal Systems, Comparative Law, grade: 80, University of Cape Town (Universität Kapstadt), 170 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper will explore responsibilities that might arise under international...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2008
This fully updated second edition the work previously known as The Handbook of Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflicts sets out an international 'manual' of humanitarian law in armed conflicts accompanied by case analysis and extensive explanatory commentary by a team of distinguished and internationally...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
The second edition of this well received handbook provides a comprehensive overview and annotated commentary of those areas of international law most relevant to the planning and conduct of military operations. It covers a wide scope of military operations, ranging from operations conducted under...
International Society, Global Polity
An Introduction to International Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
This book provides an overview of the current state of the art in International Political Theory (IPT). It offers a coherent account of the field of IPT, placing both traditional and modern work in a clear and logical framework.
The text moves from conventional accounts of the society of states...
Critique, Security and Power
The Political Limits to Emancipatory Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This book aims to engage with contemporary security discourses from a critical perspective. It argues that rather than being a radical, analytical outlook, much critical security theory fails to fulfil its promise to pose a challenge to contemporary power relations.
In general, 'critical security'...
Deferring Peace in International Statebuilding
Difference, Resilience and Critique
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This book explores the last 25 years of international peacebuilding and recasts them as a growing crisis of confidence in universal ideas of peacebuilding and self-government.
Since current peacebuilding interventions are abandoning domineering, top-down and linear methodologies, and experimenting...
Fiduciaries of Humanity
How International Law Constitutes Authority
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Public international law has embarked on a new chapter. Over the past century, the classical model of international law, which emphasized state autonomy and interstate relations, has gradually ceded ground to a new model. Under the new model, a state's sovereign authority arises from the state's responsibility...