Civil Disobedience in Focus (Philosophers in Focus)
By Hugo Bedau
Publisher:Routledge
Number Of Pages:224
Publication Date:1991-05-16
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0415050553
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780415050555
Binding:Paperback
Product Description:
Although the issue of civil disobedience has been discussed as early as 399 B.C., this topic continues to be at the center of much recent debate in the wake of events such as Tiananmen Square and the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. Civil Disobedience in Focus assembles all the basic materials, both classic and contemporary, needed for the philosophical assessment of this controversial subject.
The first part of this work explores the three most influential classic arguments: Plato in the Crito, Thoreau in the 1840s, and Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s. The second part of this book shifts to a contemporary philosophical discussion setting forth the most important reflections by a number of today's leading thinkers. Included is John Rawls's definition and justification of civil disobedience in liberal democracy which has provoked much dicussion. The other essays, written by contemporary British and American thinkers, bring into sharp relief the issues -- conceptual, normative, and political -- raised in the classic arguments.
A stimulating edition, Civil Disobedience in Focus will be invaluable to students of ethics, social/political philosophy, and philosophy of law, as well as to activists.
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Can Institutions Have Responsibilities?: Collective Moral Agency and International Relations (Global Issues)
By Toni Erskine
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Number Of Pages:288
Publication Date:2004-02-07
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0333971299
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780333971291
Binding:Hardcover
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Can institutions (in the sense of formal organizations) bear duties and be ascribed blame in the same way that we understand individual human beings to be morally responsible for actions? The idea of the "institutional moral agent" is critically examined in the guise of states, transnational corporations, the UN, NATO and international society in the context of some of the most critical and debated issues and events in international relations, including the Kosovo Campaign, development aid, and genocide in Rwanda.
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American Capitalism and the Changing Role of Government
By Harry G. Shaffer
Publisher:Praeger Publishers
Number Of Pages:152
Publication Date:1999-07-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0275965783
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780275965785
Binding:Hardcover
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The conventional wisdom has it that a balanced budget is the height of economic rationality, that social security should be privatized, and that most adult welfare recipients could and should get jobs. All our social and economic problems, we are told, are due to too much government; if we only left the American free enterprise system alone, the free market would heal all that ails our society and lead to lasting prosperity. Challenging these widespread stereotypes and myths, this book starts with the fundamental theory underlying capitalist ideology, showing that even in theory an unfettered free market cannot deal effectively with the many needs of a modern economy. Our society has many social goals to which the great majority subscribe--goals such as sustained full employment, universal health care, and quality education for all. The free market will not, the author argues, bring us quality education for every American child, affordable universal health care, Social Security for the elderly, assistance for the poor, or protection of the environment. Only an active, participant government can affect positive change in such areas of social concern.
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Terrorism and the UN: Before and After September 11 (United Nations Intellectual History Project)
By Jane Boulden, Thomas G. Weiss
Publisher:Indiana University Press
Number Of Pages:248
Publication Date:2004-03
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0253343844
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780253343840
Binding:Hardcover
An up-to-date assessment of the UN's changing role in the international war on terrorism.
How has the United Nations dealt with the question of terrorism before and after September 11? What does it mean that the UN itself has become a target of terrorism? Terrorism and the UN analyzes how the UN's role in dealing with terrorism has been shaped over the years by the international system, and how events such as September 11 and the American intervention in Iraq have reoriented its approach to terrorism. The first half of the book addresses the international context. Chapters in this part consider the impact of September 11 on the UN's concern for the rights and security of states relative to those of individuals, as well as the changing attitudes of various Western powers toward multilateral vs. unilateral approaches to international problems.
The second half of the book focuses more closely on the UN, its values, mechanisms, and history and its future role in preventing and reacting to terrorism. The Security Council's position on and reactions to terrorist activities are contrasted with the General Assembly's approach to these issues. What role the UN might play in suppressing the political economy of terrorism is considered. A concluding chapter looks at broader, more proactive strategies for addressing the root causes of terrorism, with an emphasis on social justice as a key to conflict prevention, a primary concern of the UN, particularly the General Assembly, before September 11.
Contributors are Jane Boulden, Chantal de Jonge Oudraat (Georgetown University), Edward C. Luck (Columbia University), S. Neil MacFarlane (University of Oxford), Rama Mani (Geneva Centre for Security Policy), M. J. Peterson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Nico Schrijver (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam), Mónica Serrano (Colegio de México and University of Oxford), Thierry Tardy (Geneva Centre for Security Policy), Karin von Hippel (King's College, London), and Thomas G. Weiss.
Jane Boulden is MacArthur Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford. She resides in Oxford, England.
Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, where he is also co-director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project. He resides in New York City.
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The United Nations: states vs international laws
By Donald A. Wells
Publisher:Algora Publishing
Number Of Pages:204
Publication Date:2005-03-31
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0875863620
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780875863627
Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
Few Americans understand why the United Nations can t do more when facing catastrophes like those in the former Yugoslavia, East Timor, and Palestine/Israel. The author traces the UN s weaknesses to the compromises that were made at its founding, and highlights all the organization has accomplished despite these handicaps.
The U.N. has no army, no power of the purse, no ultimate means to enforce its resolutions, and cannot even come to the aid of suffering humanity if the sovereign nation where they dwell denies entry. Yet, for all its warts and wrinkles, the UN has accomplished wonders and is still the best hope for saving succeeding generations from the scourge of war, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights (preamble to the UN Charter).
The book shows that the United Nations structure was tailored to suit the United States, in 1944, to ensure that decisions in the General Assembly (where we might be outvoted) would be considered recommendations which could be ignored.
The US use of the veto is explored, especially as it has made it impossible for the U.N. to serve as the appropriate reconciler to resolve the Palestine-Israel conflict.
Why did the US delegate vote against the Convention Against the Discrimination of Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Kyoto Protocol on Global Warming? These and similar questions are addressed.
The book explains the role of the U.N. Security Council in establishing when a threat to the peace exists, whether an embargo is legitimate, and whether, in the last instance, military action is justified.
The author considers both the importance of the newly ratified International Criminal Court (ICC), and the reasons for the US rejection of such a Court. In view of the current debates over the authenticity of the 1949 Geneva Conventions as they speak to the treatment of prisoners of war, the role of U.N. declarations is especially critical.
Can the leader of any state arbitrarily invent international laws, while rejecting conventions ratified by a majority of the world s nations?
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Asserting Jurisdiction: International and European Legal Approaches
By Patrick Capps, EC, INTERNATIONAL LAW FORUM
Publisher:Hart Publishing (UK)
Number Of Pages:313
Publication Date:2003-09
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1841133051
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781841133058
Binding:Hardcover
Book Description:
The essays in this collection explore the various ways in which a number of key European and International legal institutions attempt to define the boundaries of jurisdictional competence. The principle questions which are addressed are: (a) Does the relevant institution have a jurisdictional competence adequate to the challenges that it faces? (b) What are the parameters that bear upon the exercise of a particular jurisdictional competence? (c) What are the effects, positive or negative, of extending, restraining or creating a particular jurisdictional competence on those subject to its jurisdiction, other actors and the rule of law itself? Examples of the institutions covered in this book are the Security Council, the European Court of Justice, NATO, the International Court of Justice and the State.
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International Law Documents Relating to Terrorism
By Omer Elagab, Omer Elagab
Publisher:Routledge Cavendish
Number Of Pages:914
Publication Date:1997-05-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1859410278
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781859410271
Binding:Hardcover
Book Description:
This book provides a single text covering all the basic documents in international law relating to terrorism, extracts from judicial decisions and the relevant UK material.
The book includes documents on terrorism generally, on hijacking and related attacks on civil aviation, and issues relating to protected persons including diplomatic agents. Terrorism and hostage-taking, maritime terrorism, and the control of State terrorism, are also dealt with, progressing to the issue of extradition. Each document is selectively reproduced and introduced with a brief comment on its history and current normative value. UK legislation founded upon international law as well as the important domestically devised legislation codes are also included.
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Conceptualising Home: Theories, Law And Policies
By Lorna Fox
Publisher:Hart Publishing
Number Of Pages:551
Publication Date:2007-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1841135798
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781841135793
Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
It is difficult to overstate the everyday importance of home in law. Home provides the backdrop for our lives, and is often the scene or the subject of legal disputes. In addition, in recent decades there has been growing academic interest in the meaning of home, which has prompted empirical studies and theoretical exploration in a wide range of disciplines. Yet, while the authenticity of home as a social, psychological, cultural and emotional phenomenon has been recognised in other disciplines, it has not penetrated the legal domain, where the proposition that home can encapsulate meanings beyond the physical structure of the house, or the capital value it represents, continues to present conceptual difficulties. This book focuses on the competing interests of creditors who lend money against the security of the property and the occupiers who dwell in the property, in the context of possession actions. By mapping the concept of home as it has evolved in other disciplines against existing legal frameworks, Conceptualising Home examines the possibilities for developing a coherent concept of home in law.
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Enforcing International Law Norms Against Terrorism (International Law)
By Andrea Bianchi
Publisher:Hart Publishing
Number Of Pages:572
Publication Date:2004-03-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1841134309
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781841134307
Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
Essays by leading experts on modern attempts to control terrorism using international law.
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Responsibility in Law and Morality
By Peter Cane
Publisher:Hart Publishing
Number Of Pages:316
Publication Date:2002-04-17
ISBN-10 / ASIN:1841133213
ISBN-13 / EAN:9781841133218
Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
This book adopts a comparative institutional approach to the relationship between law and morality and in doing so challenges the common view that morality stands to law as a critical standard to conventional practice.
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Beyond the Anarchical Society: Grotius, Colonialism and Order in World Politics (LSE Monographs in International Studies)
By Edward Keene
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages: 180
Publication Date: 2002-09-02
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0521810310
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780521810319
Binding: Hardcover
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Product Description:
It is commonly argued that the international system is currently in a state of upheaval, as state sovereignty is challenged by a variety of forces. Keene's book questions this assumption, arguing that sovereignty has never existed globally in any case, and suggesting that it has applied only to Western states. International relations elsewhere have been characterized by the norms of colonialism, rather than international law. The book examines the conduct of the British and Dutch empires, and how the traditions of colonialism have been challenged in the modern world.
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Transnational Governance: Institutional Dynamics of Regulation
By Marie-Laure Djelic, Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages:484
Publication Date:2006-08-28
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0521845033
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521845038
Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
Globalization involves a profound re-ordering of our world with the proliferation everywhere of rules and transnational modes of governance. This book examines how this governance is formed, changes and stabilizes. Building on a rich and varied set of empirical cases, it explores transnational rules and regulations and the organizing, discursive and monitoring activities that frame, sustain and reproduce them. Beginning from an understanding of the powerful structuring forces that embed and form the context of transnational regulatory activities, the book scrutinizes the actors involved, how they are organized, how they interact and how they transform themselves to adapt to this new regulatory landscape. A powerful analysis of the modes and logics of transnational rule-making and rule-monitoring closes the book. This authoritative resource offers ideal reading for all academic researchers and graduate students of governance and regulation.
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By Victor V. Ramraj, Michael Hor, Kent Roach
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages:664
Publication Date:2005-12-19
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0521851254
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521851251
Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
The prevention of terrorism will be one of the major tasks of governments and regional and international organizations for some time. This collection is designed to contribute to the growing field of comparative and international studies of anti-terrorism law and policy. It includes chapters that focus on a particular country or region in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, as well as overarching thematic chapters that take a comparative approach to particular aspects of anti-terrorism law and policy, including international, constitutional, immigration, privacy, maritime, aviation, and financial law.
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Aggression and Crimes Against Peace (Philosophical and Legal Aspects of War and Conflict)
By Larry May
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages:366
Publication Date:2008-04-21
ISBN-10 / ASIN:052189431X
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521894319
Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
In this volume, the third in his trilogy on the philosophical and legal aspects of war and conflict, Larry May locates a normative grounding for the crime of aggression-the only one of the three crimes charged at Nuremberg that is not currently being prosecuted-that is similar to that for crimes against humanity and war crimes. He considers cases from the Nuremberg trials, philosophical debates in the Just War tradition, and more recent debates about the International Criminal Court, as well as the hard cases of humanitarian intervention and terrorist aggression. May argues that crimes of aggression, sometimes called crimes against peace, deserve international prosecution when one State undermines the ability of another State to protect human rights. His thesis refutes the traditional understanding of aggression, which often has been interpreted as a crossing of borders by one sovereign state into another sovereign state. At Nuremberg, crimes against humanity charges were only pursued if the defendant also engaged in the crime of aggression. May argues for a reversal of this position, contending that aggression charges should be pursued only if the defendant's acts involve serious human rights violations.
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Prosecuting International Crimes: Selectivity and the International Criminal Law Regime (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law)
By Robert Cryer
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages:392
Publication Date:2005-07-25
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0521824745
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521824743
Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
This book discusses the legitimacy of the international criminal law regime. It explains the development of the system of international criminal law enforcement in historical context, from antiquity through the Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials, to today's prosecutions of atrocities in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. The modern regime of prosecution of international crimes is evaluated with regard to international relations theory. The book then subjects that regime to critique on the basis of legitimacy and the rule of law, in particular selective enforcement, not only in relation to who is prosecuted, but also the definitions of crimes and principles of liability used when people are prosecuted. It concludes that although selective enforcement is not as powerful as a critique of international criminal law as it was previously, the creation of the International Criminal Court may also have narrowed the substantive rules of international criminal law.
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Democracy and Dictatorship: The Nature and Limits of State Power
By Norberto Bobbio
Publisher:University of Minnesota Press
Number Of Pages:216
Publication Date:1990-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0816618135
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780816618132
Binding:Paperback
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Guide to Highway Law for Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Contractors
By Mr R A O'Hara
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Number Of Pages:152
Publication Date:1990-12-31
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0419173307
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780419173304
Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
This book provides practical guidance from the maintenance and improvements of highways to activities related to construction work on or near highways.
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Audio-visual Coverage of Courts: A Comparative Analysis
By Daniel Stepniak
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages:526
Publication Date:2008-03-17
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0521875277
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521875271
Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
Researched over a period of 15 years by an author who has personally participated in the debate internationally, Audio-Visual Coverage of Courts is the first book to undertake a comprehensive comparative study of televised court proceedings in Great Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Exhaustive in his identification and analysis of relevant law and key developments, Daniel Stepniak draws on hitherto unpublished primary sources to undertake a largely unprecedented examination of the experiences of non-US courts. Through analysis of the regulation of audio-visual reporting, the author outlines a theoretical framework and proven action plan for the attainment of the potential benefits of audio-visual coverage, arguing that technological advances, acknowledgement of legally enforceable rights and, above all, judicial recognition of courts' vested interest in facilitating coverage in order to promote greater public access and understanding of judicial proceedings, have led audio-visual coverage to be increasingly perceived as desirable.
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By Lois M. Davis
Publisher:RAND Corporation
Number Of Pages:120
Publication Date:2005-01-25
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0833034995
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780833034991
Binding:Paperback
Product Description:
Emergency responders play a critical role in responding to terrorist attacks. This volume presents the results of a nationwide survey RAND undertook of state and local law enforcement agencies, state offices of emergency management, and state departments of agriculture to assess how prepare they are for this role.
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