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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $16.19
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Manufacturer: Algora Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Donald A. Wells
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Publisher: Algora Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 341.23
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Publication Date: 2005-02-28
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: Wells explores the great accomplishments and great failures of the UN, and shows how its structure creates operational strengths and weaknesses. He explores the US use of the veto, the legitimacy of US special military courts, and the bases of internationally accepted law.
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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Price: $34.99
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Sale: $28.04
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Geneva Small Arms Survey
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 327
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Publication Date: 2008-08-04
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: The Small Arms Survey 2008 presents two thematic sections. The first examines the problem of diversion in all its aspects: stockpiles, surplus disposal, international transfers, and end-user documentation. It includes a case study on South Africa and a comic strip illustrating the potential ease by which someone with access to forged documentation can make arrangements to ship munitions virtually anywhere. The second thematic section analyses the public health approach to armed violence, scrutinizing risk and resilience factors and considering related interventions. It includes an overview of the burden of armed violence, and two case studies of armed violence in El Salvador and the United States. A chapter on light weapons production rounds out the volume.
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Price: $110.00
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Sale: $105.23
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Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Alexander Stubb
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Dewey Decimal Number: 341.2422
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Publication Date: 2003-01-18
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Alexander Stubb, a participant in the 1996-97 and 2000 Inter-governmental Conferences analyzes the evolution of flexible integration from the early 1970s to the present day and beyond. He focuses in the process of negotiations which led to the institutionalization of flexibility in the Amsterdam and Nice Treaties. This book provides a valuable insider's view on historical decision-making in the EU.
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Price: $31.00
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Sale: $20.65
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Manufacturer: Melbourne University Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 323.11
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Publication Date: 2005-08-01
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: Emerging from the growing interest in studying the relationship between indigenous peoples, and governments, and other indigenous groups, this collection of essays explores academic and public policy covering indigenous treaties. A comprehensive analysis, the included topics are as diverse as treaty making in New Zealand and British Columbia; land, the law, amd political rights for indigenous peoples; maritime agreements; Torres Strait Islander self-government; race discrimination in Australia; the Timor Sea Treaty; and copyright and intellectual property issues for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors. This valuable reference includes contributions from Marcia Langton, Gillian Triggs, Joe Williams, and Noel Pearson.
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Price: $39.00
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Sale: $34.85
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Manufacturer: University Press of America
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: George W. Grayson
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Publisher: University Press of America
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Dewey Decimal Number: 355.031091821
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Publication Date: 1999-03-25
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: In the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse, the overwhelming majority of policymakers in the United States opposed the eastward expansion of NATO, on the grounds that such expansion would only poison the emerging relationship between Russia and the West. "Strange Bedfellows" tells the fascinating story of the fierce battle that pitted a handful of passionately committed policy activists and intellectuals against the proponents of this conventional wisdom. Elegantly written, meticulously researched, and benefiting from interviews with more than 60 international affairs experts in the U.S. and Europe, "Strange Bedfellows" traces the battle for NATO expansion, from its earliest stages, all the way through to the favorable action taken by the Senate on April 30, 1998.
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Price: $201.97
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Sale: $182.44
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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: Eileen Denza
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 342.410412
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Publication Date: 1998-09-24
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Reading Level: 472
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Description: This book is a commentary on the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, the universally-accepted framework for diplomacy between sovereign states. In this enlarged, rewritten and fully-updated second edition, Denza places each provision of the Convention in its historical context.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $17.95
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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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Publisher: United States Institute of Peace Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 327.17
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Publication Date: 1999-12-01
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Reading Level: 768
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Description: An illustrious cast of practitioners here describe their personal experiences in working to bring peace in significant conflicts across four continents. As James Baker, Richard Holbrooke, Max van der Stoel, Alvaro de Soto, Aldo Ajello, and others make clear, the mediator must operate in an environment of daunting complexity, insecurity, and uncertainty. Whether sequestered in Norway or zigzagging across Africa, the mediator can take nothing for granted-not participants, agendas, or timetables-in the struggle to sustain and advance the peace process.And just to make things more complicated, each conflict now typically attracts several independent mediators. Indeed, coordinating third party mediators is like herding cats-difficult if not impossible.In each of the two dozen cases examined in this volume, mediation was a multiparty effort, involving a range of actors-individuals, states, international organizations, and NGOs-working simultaneously or sequentially. These vivid accounts attest to the crucial importance of coordinating and building upon the efforts of other players. They also illuminate the opportunities and problems presented by different entry points of mediation-from conflict prevention, through negotiation during active conflict, to post-settlement implementation and peacebuilding-and by different kinds of leverage, levels of engagement, and objectives.This volume was developed by the same editors who were responsible for USIP Press's highly successful 1996 publication "Managing Global Chaos" and is intended as a follow-on to that book. In their feedback on the 1996 volume, readers requested additional resources, especially case studies that reflect real, hands-onexperience in complex settings. Not only will these cases illustrate how multiparty mediation works or does not work, but they should also stimulate further work on the special requirements and best practices of the field, promote a dialogue among practitioners themselves as well as between academics and practitioners, and lead to unique insights, new understandings, and alternative approaches that can be applied to future mediations.The editors have framed the volume with discussions that link the practitioner cases to the scholarly literature on mediation, thereby situating the case studies in terms of theory while also drawing lessons for both scholars and practitioners that can help guide future endeavors.
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Price: $59.00
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Sale: $2.00
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Anthony Aust
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 341.37
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Publication Date: 2000-06-12
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Reading Level: 484
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Description: A comprehensive treatment of the law of treaties written from the point of view of a practitioner of 35 years experience: the first book of its kind. Aust provides a wealth of examples of the real problems experienced in making and using treaties day by day, not just when a treaty is the subject of a court case. As such it is invaluable to the practitioner. Aust aims to supply the reader with a full and rounded understanding of all aspects of treaties. He avoids technical language as far as possible, making his work, there is plenty to interest and inform law students and teachers (it has established itself as a course book), as well as those specialising in political science, international relations or diplomacy.
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Price: $96.00
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Sale: $25.05
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Edition: Bilingual
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Dewey Decimal Number: 944.025
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Publication Date: 2007-03-12
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Reading Level: 318
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Description: This book presents an edition of two treatises that examine the legal issues that arose during the Hundred Years War, namely the laws governing the succession to the French crown, English claims to territories within France, and the responsibility for the breeches of various treaties and truces. The first treatise, Pour ce que plusieurs, was written in 1464 by a French diplomat and administrator, Guillaume Cousinot, and is most famous for its part in establishing the myth that the royal succession in France was determined by a otiose law code of the Franks, the Salic Law. The second is an English response to these arguments, A declaracion of the trew and dewe title of Henrie VIII, written during the reign of Henry VIII (1509-1547). The declaracion provides valuable evidence of English reactions to the rhetoric and propaganda generated by the French crown at the end of the middle ages.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $29.53
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Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Radoslav S. Dimitrov
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.7
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Publication Date: 2005-12-28
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Reading Level: 222
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Description: The proliferation of environmental agreements is a defining feature of modern international relations that has attracted considerable academic attention. Typically focusing on happy-end stories of policy creation, the cooperation literature often ignores issue areas where policy agreements are absent. Science and International Environmental Policy introduces nonregimes into the study of global governance, and compares successes with failures in the formation of environmental treaties. By exploring collective decisions not to cooperate, it explains why international institutions form but also why, when, and how they do not emerge. Visit our website for sample chapters!
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