This work examines how legal, political, and rights discourses, security policies and practices migrate and translate across the North Atlantic. The book focuses on questions of risk and exception, state sovereignty and governance, liberty and rights, law and transparency, and policing and security.
This work examines how legal, political, and rights discourses, security policies and practices migrate and translate across the North Atlantic. The b...
Between 1983 and 2009 Sri Lanka was host to a bitter civil war fought between the Government and the Tamil Tigers, which sought the creation of an independent Tamil state. In May 2009 came the war's violent end with the crushing defeat of the Tamil Tigers at the hands of the Sri Lanka Army. But prior to this grim finale, for some time there had been hope for a peaceful end to the conflict. Beginning with a ceasefire agreement in early 2002, for almost five years a series of peace talks between the two sides took place in locations ranging from Thailand and Japan to Norway, Germany and...
Between 1983 and 2009 Sri Lanka was host to a bitter civil war fought between the Government and the Tamil Tigers, which sought the creation of an ind...
A “moving and lucidly written memoir” (The Wall Street Journal) of the late Senator John McCain from one of his closest and most trusted confidants, friends, and political advisors. More so than almost anyone outside of McCain’s immediate family, Mark Salter had unparalleled access to and served to influence the Senator’s thoughts and actions, cowriting seven books with him and acting as a valued confidant. Now, in The Luckiest Man, Salter draws on the storied facets of McCain’s early biography as well as the later-in-life political philosophy for which the nation knew and loved...
A “moving and lucidly written memoir” (The Wall Street Journal) of the late Senator John McCain from one of his closest and most trusted confidant...
His crusades for democracy and human rights have become a legend in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. The prominent political leader, who survived the war, was held captive in Vietnam for five years and returned gray-haired. He openly opposed Trumps presidency, took an active part in ending the war in Donbas, and called Putin worse and more dangerous than ISIS. But what did John McCain think of when he left the Senate? These memories are the result not only of his political career, but also of deep reflections on life, family, friends, the price of victory and the burden of defeat. This...
His crusades for democracy and human rights have become a legend in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. The prominent political leader, who survived t...
