Am Beispiel der israelischen Raumordnung in den besetzten Gebieten wird eine Architektur der Abgrenzung und Kontrolle aufgezeigt, die weltweit zum Einsatz kommt: sei es zur Aussperrung verarmter Bevlkerungsteile aus den Metropolen oder an den hochgersteten Grenzen zwischen Nord und Sd, Arm und Reich. Die Architektur der Separation ist eine globale Entwicklung.

British photographer Edmund Clark (born 1963) and counterterrorism investigator Crofton Black have assembled photographs and documents that confront the nature of contemporary warfare and the invisible mechanisms of state control. From George W. Bush's 2001 declaration of the "war on terror" until 2008, an unknown number of people disappeared into a network of secret prisons organized by the CIA--transfers without legal process known as extraordinary renditions. No public records were kept as detainees were shuttled all over the globe. Some were eventually sent to Guantanamo Bay or released...

Groundbreaking exploration of the philosophy underpinning Western humanitarian intervention

The principle of the "lesser evil"--the acceptability of pursuing one exceptional course of action in order to prevent a greater injustice--has long been a cornerstone of Western ethical philosophy. From its roots in classical ethics and Christian theology, to Hannah Arendt's exploration of the work of the Jewish Councils during the Nazi regime, Weizman explores its development in three key transformations of the problem: the defining intervention of Medecins Sans Frontieres in mid-1980s...