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Price: $12.50
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Sale: $9.74
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Manufacturer: United States Institute of Peace Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Richard H. Solomon
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Publisher: United States Institute of Peace Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 327.7305909049
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Publication Date: 2000-06
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Reading Level: 136
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Description: For most Americans, the "exit" from Indochina occurred in 1973, with the withdrawal of the U.S. military from South Vietnam. In fact, the final exit did not occur until two decades later, after the collapse of the Republic of Vietnam in 1975, the Cambodian revolution, and a decade of Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia. Only in the early 1990s were the major powers able to negotiate a settlement of the Cambodia conflict and withdraw from the region.This book recounts the diplomacy that brought an end to great power involvement in Indochina, including the negotiations for a UN peace process in Cambodia and construction of a "road map" for normalizing U.S.-Vietnam relations. In so doing, this volume also highlights the changing character of diplomacy at the beginning of the 1990s, when, at least temporarily, an era of military confrontation among the major world powers gave way to political management of international conflicts.
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Derek Jinks
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 341
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Publication Date: 2008-09-30
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: With the scandal over prison abuse at Abu Ghraib and the legal controversy over the enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay, the proper treatment of prisoners of war has once again been thrust into the news. At the heart of this debate stands the Geneva Conventions, a famous set of rules about
which most of us know nothing.
In The Rules of War, Derek Jinks--a leading authority on humanitarian law--provides an illuminating account of the Geneva Conventions, revealing when they apply, who they protect, what type of treatment they require, how they should be enforced, and much more. We learn that the
Conventions--which were drafted in 1949--apply to all armed conflict, from declared war, to civil war, to armed hostilities short of war. In fact, the Conventions are relevant to a remarkable range of issues, from the trial of Slobodan Milosevic to the ongoing criminal proceedings regarding Rwanda
and Sierra Leone. We discover that the Conventions protect a wide range of combatants, from "special ops" forces, to private military contractors, and even to terrorists. There are POW Conventions, but also Civilian Conventions that protects all nationals who have fallen into the hands of the
enemy, including "unlawful combatants" such as the Guantanamo detainees. And we see what the Conventions require, from humane treatment, to contact with agencies such as the Red Cross, to release and repatriation at the end of the conflict.
This is the only guide for general readers to the Geneva Conventions, rules which will play a key role in hot-button issues from the imminent trial of Saddam Hussein to the treatment of captured terrorists.
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $23.95
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Manufacturer: Zed Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mark LeVine
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Publisher: Zed Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 341
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Publication Date: 2009-03-03
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: In 1993, luminaries from around the world signed the 'Oslo Accords' - a pledge to achieve lasting peace in the Holy Land - on the lawn of the White House. Yet things didn't turn out quite as planned. With over 1, 000 Israelis and close to four times that number of Palestinians killed since 2000, the Oslo process is now considered 'history'. "An Impossible Peace" provides one of the first comprehensive analyses of that history. Mark LeVine argues that Oslo was never going to bring peace of justice to Palestinians or Israelis. He claims that the accords collapsed not because of a failure to live up to the agreements; but precisely because of the terms of and ideologies underlying the agreements. Today, more than ever before, it's crucial to understand why these failures happened and how they will impact on future negotiations towards the 'final status agreement'.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $16.12
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Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Bruce Ackerman::David Golove
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 382.71097
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Publication Date: 1995-08-11
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Reading Level: 129
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Description: By a vote of 61 to 38, the Senate joined the House in declaring that "Congress approves...the North American Free Trade Agreement." The vote was virtually unnoticed, since the real battle over NAFTA was in the House. But there is a puzzle here. The President, the Framers assure us, "shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur." Whatever happened to the Treaty Clause? Bruce Ackerman and David Golove tell the story of the Treaty Clause's being displaced in the twentieth century by a modern procedure in which the House of Representatives joins the Senate in the process of consideration, but simple majorities in both Houses suffice to commit the nation. This is called the Congressional-Executive Agreement, and is a response to a sea change in public opinion during and after World War II. This agreement substituted for a failed constitutional amendment that would have required all treaties to be approved by majorities in both Houses rather than by two-thirds of the Senate. The modern Congressional-Executive Agreement was self-consciously developed in order to make formal constitutional amendment unnecessary. So, is NAFTA constitutional? This book is reprinted from the Harvard Law Review.
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Price: $165.00
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Sale: $152.62
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Sally J Cummins
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Edition: Revised edition
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Dewey Decimal Number: 341
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Publication Date: 2008-12-29
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Reading Level: 1182
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Description: Co-published by Oxford University Press and the International Law Institute, and prepared in close cooperation with the Office of the Legal Adviser of the United States Department of State, The Digest of United States Practice in International Law presents an annual compilation of documents and commentary highlighting significant developments in public and private international law, and is an invaluable resource for practitioners and scholars in the field.
Each annual volume compiles excerpts from documents such as treaties, diplomatic notes and correspondence, legal opinion letters, judicial decisions, executive orders, Senate committee reports, press releases and federal legislation and regulations. All the documents which are excerpted in the Digest are selected by members of the Legal Adviser's Office of the U.S. Department of State, based on their judgments about the significance of the issues, their potential relevance to future situations, and their likely interest to practitioners and scholars. In almost every case, the commentary to each excerpt is accompanied by a citation to the full text.
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Price: $65.00
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Sale: $65.00
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Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Diane Pub Co
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Dewey Decimal Number: 341
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Publication Date: 2003-12-30
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Price: $155.00
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Sale: $143.43
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Walter Kalin::Jorg Kunzli
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 323
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Publication Date: 2009-08-01
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Reading Level: 475
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Description: Human rights are invoked on many occasions. But are they more than lofty values and abstract principles?
In providing a concise but comprehensive overview of international human rights protection at the global and regional levels, this book offers an introduction to the ideas, conceptual underpinnings, and doctrine of international human rights law including the sources, legal nature, and scope of application of human rights obligations. The issues of implementation and enforceability at the domestic, regional, and universal level are explored, and the impact of the recently established Human Rights Council is assessed. The substantive guarantees covering economic, social, and cultural as well as civil and political rights based on the case law of UN treaty bodies and relevant regional courts are evaluated.
This book shows that human rights are real rights creating legal entitlements for those who are protected by them and imposing legal obligations on those bound by them. It explores the various mechanisms set up by the international community to monitor the implementation of human rights guarantees and to decide individual cases brought to the attention of human rights courts and quasi-judicial bodies at the international level. Its last part contains a detailed exploration of the meanings of human rights guarantees, such as the right to life, the prohibition of torture, non-discrimination, economic rights, and many others.
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Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Diane Pub Co
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Dewey Decimal Number: 341
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Publication Date: 2003-11
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Reading Level: 512
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Manufacturer: Stationery Office
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Stationery Office
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Dewey Decimal Number: 340
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Publication Date: 2006-10-30
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Reading Level: 4
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Manufacturer: Arms & Armour Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Michael J. Gething
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Publisher: Arms & Armour Press
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Publication Date: 1982-12
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Reading Level: 68
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