ilość książek w kategorii: 11460
Arms Export Regulations
ISBN: 9780198291589 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Governments have a legal obligation to guarantee effective control over arms exports and to monitor and supervise the movement of arms to ensure they do not fall into unauthorized hands. This book provides a detailed description of how governments discharge this responsibility. Individual chapters describe national efforts to control arms transfer, concentrating on the existing legal framework to regulate arms exports. Multilateral arms transfer control regimes are discussed, including the United Nations, the Co-ordinating Committee for East-West Trade Policy (CoCom), the missile Technology...
Governments have a legal obligation to guarantee effective control over arms exports and to monitor and supervise the movement of arms to ensure they ...
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303,93 zł |
Asia-Pacific Security Dynamics in the Obama Era: A New World Emerging
ISBN: 9780415670548 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the critical changes to the Asia-Pacific security architecture emerging in the context of shifts in the global order as the Obama Administration's major strategic innovation and likely legacy unfold. The author reviews the state of the international security system during the Obama presidency, recording the Administration's Asia-Pacific inheritance, and tracing its efforts to chart a collaborative course aimed at retaining US primacy amidst strategic turbulence. While security discourses are coloured by relative US 'decline' and China's 'rise, ' the book points out the... This book examines the critical changes to the Asia-Pacific security architecture emerging in the context of shifts in the global order as the Obam... |
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734,76 zł |
Indian Foreign and Security Policy in South Asia: Regional Power Strategies
ISBN: 9780415680783 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines Indian foreign policy and security relations in its eastern regional neighbourhood. Indian Foreign and Security Policy in South Asia conducts an in-depth analysis into India's foreign policy towards the three main countries in India's Eastern neighbourhood - Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh. In particular, it deals with India's role in the final years of the civil war in Sri Lanka, its approach to the peace and democratisation process in Nepal, and Indian foreign policy towards Bangladesh on a range of issues including Islamist militancy, migration,... This book examines Indian foreign policy and security relations in its eastern regional neighbourhood. Indian Foreign and Security Polic... |
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481,34 zł |
The Eu and Effective Multilateralism: Internal and External Reform Practices
ISBN: 9780415713115 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates the extent to which the EU has defined and operationalised the notion of effective multilateralism. Reform has dominated the agenda of the EU in recent years with the adoption and implementation of the Lisbon Treaty. However, various international organisations have also been in reform mode in an attempt to adjust their structure to the changing polarity and counter criticisms about a lack of legitimacy, accountability and effectiveness. " The EU and Effective Multilateralism" examines the EU s intention to make multilateral settings more effective, as... This book investigates the extent to which the EU has defined and operationalised the notion of effective multilateralism. Reform has dominated ... |
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506,73 zł |
International Law and Drone Strikes in Pakistan: The Legal and Socio-Political Aspects
ISBN: 9780415828017 / Angielski / Twarda / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While conventional warfare has an established body of legal precedence, the legality of drone strikes by the United States in Pakistan and elsewhere remains ambiguous. This book explores the legal and political issues surrounding the use of drones in Pakistan. Drawing from international treaty law, customary international law, and statistical data on the impact of the strikes, Sikander Ahmed Shah asks whether drone strikes by the United States in Pakistan are in compliance with international humanitarian law. The book questions how international law views the giving of consent between... While conventional warfare has an established body of legal precedence, the legality of drone strikes by the United States in Pakistan and elsewher... |
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709,42 zł |
J. G. Ballard: Visions and Revisions
ISBN: 9780230278127 / Angielski / Twarda / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first academic account of the 21st century antiwar and peace movement. Empirically rich and conceptually innovative, AntiWar Activism pays especially close attention to the changed information environment of protest, the complex alliances of activists, the diversity of participants, as well as campaigners' use of new (and old) media.
The first academic account of the 21st century antiwar and peace movement. Empirically rich and conceptually innovative, AntiWar Activism pays especia...
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194,97 zł |
Rebel Rulers
ISBN: 9780801449130 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rebel groups are often portrayed as predators, their leaders little more than warlords. In conflicts large and small, however, insurgents frequently take and hold territory, establishing sophisticated systems of governance that deliver extensive public services to civilians under their control. From police and courts, schools, hospitals, and taxation systems to more symbolic expressions such as official flags and anthems, some rebels are able to appropriate functions of the modern state, often to great effect in generating civilian compliance. Other insurgent organizations struggle to... Rebel groups are often portrayed as predators, their leaders little more than warlords. In conflicts large and small, however, insurgents frequentl... |
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253,37 zł |
Russia's Foreign Security Policy in the 21st Century: Putin, Medvedev and Beyond
ISBN: 9780415681933 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines Russia's external security policy under the presidencies of Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev and beyond. The Russian Federation has developed from a neglected regional power into a self-declared resurgent superpower. Russia's background in the former Soviet Union as well as close ties with the upcoming new powers of China and India served as spring-boards towards regaining an influential status in the world. Simultaneously, Moscow developed an assertive policy towards the West and unwilling neighbours, culminating in August 2008 in an armed conflict with Georgia....This book examines Russia's external security policy under the presidencies of Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev and beyond. The Russian Federati... |
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217,84 zł |
The Future of Pakistan
ISBN: 9780815721802 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With each passing day, Pakistan becomes an even more crucial player in world affairs. Home of the world's second-largest Muslim population, epicenter of the global jihad, location of perhaps the planet's most dangerous borderlands, and armed with nuclear weapons, this South Asian nation will go a long way toward determining what the world looks like ten years from now. "The Future of Pakistan" presents and evaluates several scenarios for how the country will develop, evolve, and act in the near future, as well as the geopolitical implications of each. Led by renowned South Asia expert... With each passing day, Pakistan becomes an even more crucial player in world affairs. Home of the world's second-largest Muslim population, epicent... |
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133,35 zł |
Security Integration in Europe: How Knowledge-Based Networks Are Transforming the European Union
ISBN: 9780472117895 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The European Union has made remarkable, unprecedented advances in both external and internal security integration. "Epistemic communities" of ambassadors, military generals, scientists, and other experts who supersede national governments in the diplomacy of security decision making are taking advantage of their shared expertise, common culture, professional norms, and frequent meetings to forge new levels of collaboration. Mai'a K. Davis Cross brings together numerous personal interviews and recent government documents across five separate case studies to construct a microsociological... The European Union has made remarkable, unprecedented advances in both external and internal security integration. "Epistemic communities" of ambas... |
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368,05 zł |
Security, the Environment and Emancipation: Contestation Over Environmental Change
ISBN: 9780415671064 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers an examination of the role of emancipation in the study and practice of security, focusing on the issue of environmental change. The end of the Cold War created a context in which traditional approaches to security could be systematically questioned. This period also saw a concerted attempt in IR to argue that environmental change constituted a threat to security. This book argues that such a notion is problematic as it suggests that a universal definition of security is possible, which prevents a recognition of security as a site of contestation, in which a... This book offers an examination of the role of emancipation in the study and practice of security, focusing on the issue of environmental change. |
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734,76 zł |
Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993
ISBN: 9780198296430 / Angielski / Miękka / 1000 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Built upon an unprecedented amount of access to PLO archives, official publications, and the internal documents of various guerrilla groups, as well as over four hundred interviews conducted by the author with the rank-and-file of the PLO, this groundbreaking book affords a definitive account of the Palestinian National Movement. Covering thoroughly the forty-five years between the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 to the PLO-Israel accord of 1993, this study sheds much new light on the history of the Middle East in the latter half of the twentieth century.
Built upon an unprecedented amount of access to PLO archives, official publications, and the internal documents of various guerrilla groups, as well a...
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558,37 zł |
The Myth about Global Civil Society: Domestic Politics to Ban Landmines
ISBN: 9780230279148 / Angielski / Twarda / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In order to help the understanding of international campaigning activities of Non-Governmental Organisations, Tepe analyses the domestic politics of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and provides a theoretical framework through which to access these.
In order to help the understanding of international campaigning activities of Non-Governmental Organisations, Tepe analyses the domestic politics of t...
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194,97 zł |
Ethics and Security in Canadian Foreign Policy
ISBN: 9780774808620 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection brings together a wide range of authoritative, informed perspectives on issues of ethics and security facing Canadians in the turbulent global environment of the 21st century. These reflections, by some of the leading scholars in the field, link the abstract analytical and philosophical questions of ethics to the critical and challenging questions of decision making practice in Canadian foreign policy. Contributors to this volume deal with both the abstract notions of value, culture, norms, and ethics, and the concrete questions of policy, law, and enforcement. They assess the...
This collection brings together a wide range of authoritative, informed perspectives on issues of ethics and security facing Canadians in the turbulen...
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476,32 zł |
The Shadow of the Past
ISBN: 9780801450310 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Shadow of the Past, Gregory D. Miller examines the role that reputation plays in international politics, emphasizing the importance of reliability confidence that, based on past political actions, a country will make good on its promises in the formation of military alliances. Challenging recent scholarship that focuses on the importance of credibility a state's reputation for following through on its threats Miller finds that reliable states have much greater freedom in forming alliances than those that invest resources in building military force but then use it... In The Shadow of the Past, Gregory D. Miller examines the role that reputation plays in international politics, emphasizing the importance... |
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258,44 zł |
The Rhetoric of Soft Power: Public Diplomacy in Global Contexts
ISBN: 9780739142585 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Rhetoric of Soft Power: Public Diplomacy in Global Contexts provides a comparative assessment of public diplomacy and strategic communication initiatives in order to portray how Joseph Nye's notion of "soft power" has translated into context-specific strategies of international influence. The book examines four cases--Japan, Venezuela, China, and the United States--to illuminate the particular significance of culture, foreign publics, and communication technologies for the foreign policy ambitions of each country. This study explores the notion of soft power as a set of theoretical...
The Rhetoric of Soft Power: Public Diplomacy in Global Contexts provides a comparative assessment of public diplomacy and strategic communication init...
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554,74 zł |
Edward Said on the Prospects of Peace in Palestine and Israel
ISBN: 9781137008466 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Randolph LeBlanc examines the political oeuvre of critic and activist Edward Said and finds that Said preferred "reconciliation" to segregation in Palestine/Israel. LeBlanc argues that Said's criticism speaks to the importance of negotiating the troubling, proximate, and unsettling presence of our most perplexing others.
John Randolph LeBlanc examines the political oeuvre of critic and activist Edward Said and finds that Said preferred "reconciliation" to segregation i...
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194,97 zł |
State Terrorism and Neoliberalism: The North in the South
ISBN: 9780415686174 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the complicity of democratic states from the global North in state terrorism in the global South. It evaluates the relationship between the use of state terrorism by Northern liberal democracies and efforts by those states to further incorporate the South into the global political economy and to entrench neoliberalism. Most scholarship on terrorism tends to ignore state terrorism by Northern democracies, focusing instead on terrorist threats to Northern interests from illiberal actors. The book accounts for the absence of Northern state terrorism from terrorism studies,...
This book explores the complicity of democratic states from the global North in state terrorism in the global South. It evaluates the relationship bet...
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243,18 zł |
Canadian Foreign Policy in Africa: Regional Approaches to Peace, Security, and Development
ISBN: 9781409434528 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After over fifty-years of Canadian engagement with Africa, no comprehensive literature exists on Canada's security policy in Africa and relations towards Africa's regional organizations. The literature on Canada's foreign policy in Africa to date has largely focused on development assistance. For the first time, Edward Akuffo combines historical and contemporary material on Canada's development and security policy while analyzing the linkage between these sets of foreign policy practices on the African continent. The book makes an important contribution to the debate on Canada's foreign...
After over fifty-years of Canadian engagement with Africa, no comprehensive literature exists on Canada's security policy in Africa and relations towa...
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734,76 zł |
Victims as Security Threats: Refugee Impact on Host State Security in Africa
ISBN: 9780754678205 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The refugee phenomenon is a major force in international politics. This is more so in sub-Saharan Africa where refugees are major actors in the affairs of their home and host countries. But, are refugees just victims of insecurity or also major causes of insecurity? Mogire analyses how and why refugees, victims of insecurity caused by persecution and the many incessant conflicts which continue unabated, have come to be viewed by scholars and practitioners as security threats. Using Kenya and Tanzania as empirical case studies, this volume examines the nature of this threat, its projection and...
The refugee phenomenon is a major force in international politics. This is more so in sub-Saharan Africa where refugees are major actors in the affair...
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658,75 zł |