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The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
(ICTY) is one the pioneering experiments in international criminal
justice. It has left a rich legal, institutional, and non-judicial
legacy. This edited collection provides a broad perspective on the
contribution of the tribunal to law, memory, and justice. It
explores some of the accomplishments, challenges, and critiques of
the ICTY, including its less visible legacies. The book analyses
different sites of legacy: the expressive function of the tribunal,
its contribution to the framing of facts, events, and narratives of
the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, and investigative and
experiential legacies. It also explores lesser known aspects of
legal practice (such as defence investigative ethics, judgment
drafting, contempt cases against journalists, interpretation and
translation), outreach, approaches to punishment and sentencing,
the tribunals' impact on domestic legal systems, and ongoing
debates over impact and societal reception. The volume combines
voices from inside the tribunal with external perspectives to
elaborate the rich history of the ICTY, which continues to be
written to this day.
Moving beyond state-centric and elitist perspectives, this volume
examines everyday security in the Central Asian country of
Kyrgyzstan. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and written by scholars
from Central Asia and beyond, it shows how insecurity is
experienced, what people consider existential threats, and how they
go about securing themselves. It concentrates on individuals who
feel threatened because of their ethnic belonging, gender or sexual
orientation. It develops the concept of 'securityscapes', which
draws attention to the more subtle means that people take to secure
themselves - practices bent on invisibility and avoidance, on
disguise and trickery, and on continually adapting to shifting
circumstances. By broadening the concept of security practice, this
book is an important contribution to debates in Critical Security
Studies as well as to Central Asian and Area Studies.
By 1945, both the US State Department and US Intelligence saw
Czechoslovakia as the master key to the balance of power in Europe
and a chessboard for the power-game between East and West. In this
book, Igor Lukes illuminates the early stages of the Cold War in
postwar Prague. He paints a critical portrait of Ambassador
Laurence Steinhardt and shows that although Washington understood
that the outcome of the crisis in Prague might shape the political
trends elsewhere in Europe, it ignored signs that democracy in
Czechoslovakia was in trouble. A large section of the book deals
with US Intelligence in postwar Prague. The American intelligence
officials who served in Czechoslovakia from 1945 to 1948 were
committed to the mission of gathering information and protecting
democracy. Yet they were defeated by the Czech and Soviet
clandestine services that proved to be more shrewd and better
informed. Indeed, Lukes reveals that a key American officer may
have been turned by the Russians. Consequently, as the Communists
moved to impose their dictatorship, the American Embassy was
unprepared and helpless.
The book analyses modern tendencies in the development of regional
economic cooperation in East Asia which is considered by regional
countries as their response to growing challenges of globalization.
Trying to protect their national interests by collective efforts
they are promoting regional commercial, investment, and financial
cooperation as measures aimed at improving the efficiency of their
economies. These steps however are not regarded as a counterweight
to globalization but merely directed against most negative
manifestations of the latter and in fact are realized as one of the
forms of globalization at the regional level.
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography presents
students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of the
field, put together by a prestigious editorial team, with
contributions from an international cast of prominent scholars. *
Offers a fully revised, expanded, and up-to-date overview,
following the successful and highly regarded Companion to Economic
Geography published by Blackwell a decade earlier, providing a
comprehensive assessment of the field * Takes a prospective as well
as retrospective look at the field, reviewing recent developments,
recurrent challenges, and emerging agendas * Incorporates diverse
perspectives (in terms of specialty, demography and geography) of
up and coming scholars, going beyond a focus on Anglo-American
research * Encourages authors and researchers to engage with and
contextualize their situated perspectives * Explores areas of
overlap, dialogues, and (potential) engagement between economic
geography and cognate disciplines
In the brief experience the world has had during the post-9/11 era,
much has been made of the need for sharing intelligence in the war
on terror, and a lot of emphasis has been placed on the
desirability of interfaith dialogue between Christians and Muslims.
But comparatively little attention has been paid to a crucial
component of intercultural cooperation on the key global security
issues facing the world today: that between and among the United
States, Russia, and China. This book examines key security issues
of the day from the perspectives of those three powers. From an
American perspective, Russia represents an erstwhile enemy of the
Cold War era who has the potential to become an ally, while China
is poised to become either an enemy, an ally, or an economic rival,
depending on whom you listen to. From a Russian perspective, the
United States is a former ally during World War II turned Cold War
enemy turned lone superpower, with the potential for cooperation
and conflict, while China has always embodied both ally and rival,
even during the Communist era. To the Chinese, who have had
rivalries and cooperative relations with both powers, the United
States is currently a valued supplier of both raw materials and a
vast market for Chinese goods, while Russia and the United States
are rivals in the scramble for influence in the Middle East and
elsewhere. With such a complicated history and with a future
fraught with all sorts of possibilities, how can these three key
powers cooperate in managing and responding to global security
threats and terrorism? This book examines key issues of the day,
including the threat posed by al Qaeda, WMD, energy security,
environmental security, ethnic and religious conflicts, and a
nuclear North Korea, from the perspectives of the United States,
Russia, and China. Each chapter is written by scholars from at
least two of the three countries. In this manner, the book embodies
that which it seeks to demonstrate, becoming in itself an artifact
of intercultural cooperation in the new international security
environment.
In "Selling Air Power," Steve Call provides the first comprehensive
study of the efforts of post-war air power advocates to harness
popular culture in support of their agenda. In the 1940s and much
of the 1950s, hardly a month went by without at least one blatantly
pro-air power article appearing in general interest magazines.
Public fascination with flight helped create and sustain
exaggerated expectations for air power in the minds of both its
official proponents and the American public. Articles in the
"Saturday Evening Post," "Reader's Digest," and "Life" trumpeted
the secure future assured by American air superiority. Military
figures like Henry H. "Hap" Arnold and Curtis E. LeMay,
radio-television personalities such as Arthur Godfrey, cartoon
figures like "Steve Canyon," and actors like Jimmy Stewart played
key roles in the unfolding campaign. Movies like "Twelve O'Clock
High ," "The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell," and "A Gathering of
Eagles" projected onto the public imagination vivid images
confirming what was coming to be the accepted wisdom: that
America's safety against the Soviet threat could best be guaranteed
by air power, coupled with nuclear capability. But as the Cold War
continued and the specter of the mushroom cloud grew more prominent
in American minds, another, more sinister interpretation began to
take hold. Call chronicles the shift away from the heroic,
patriotic posture of the years just after World War II, toward the
threatening, even bizarre imagery of books and movies like
"Catch-22," "On the Beach," and "Dr. Strangelove." Call's careful
analysis goes beyond the public relations campaigns to probe the
intellectual climate that shaped them and gave them power. "Selling
Air Power" adds a critical layer of understanding to studies in
military and aviation history, as well as American popular culture.
Studying paradiplomacy comparatively, this book explains why and
how sub-state governments (SSG) conduct their international
relations (IR) with external actors, and how federal authorities
and local governments coordinate, or not, in the definition and
implementation of the national foreign policy. Sub-state diplomacy
plays an increasingly influential international role as regions,
federal states, provinces and cities seek to promote trade,
investments, cooperation and partnership on a range of issues. This
raises interesting new questions about the future of the state
system. Schiavon conducts a comparative study of paradiplomacy in
11 federal systems which are representative of all the regions of
the world, stages of economic development and degree of
consolidation of their democratic institutions (Argentina,
Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Mexico, Russia,
South Africa and the United States). The author constructs a
typology to measure and explain paradiplomacy based on domestic
political institutions, especially constitutional provisions
relating foreign affairs and the intergovernmental mechanisms for
foreign policy decision making and implementation. This
comparative, systematic and theoretically based analysis of
paradiplomacy between and within countries will be of interest to
scholars and students of comparative politics, diplomacy, foreign
policy, governance and federalism, as well as practitioners of
diplomacy and paradiplomacy around the world.
An unprecedented analysis of how the liberation from colonial rule
has threatened the Maghreb region of Africa and created political
and social challenges that puts global security at risk.
Northwestern Africa, known as the Maghreb, consists of Algeria,
Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, and Western Sahara. Recent
changes in the political climate-including the collapse of the
Libyan regime in October 2011 and structural factors, such as the
decolonization of the countries within the Maghreb-have escalated
violence in the area, exposing global powers, including the United
States, to terrorist attacks. This is the first book of its kind to
focus on the strategic planning of the United States, as well as
other world powers, in the stabilization of the region. Global
Security Watch-The Maghreb: Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia
examines domestic, regional, and international policies as they
relate to the area's culture, geography, and history. Each of the
book's seven chapters looks at the political and social stability
of the land, and features a discussion on such topics as interstate
relations, regional integration, conflict resolution, and the
legislation governing security. Includes biographies of key
security leaders Contains documents and excerpts from state
constitutions and regional alliances, including those relating to
the creation of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI) Features
political maps of the core countries Reveals anti-terrorist
legislations adopted by the national governments
Ethnic Diasporas and the Canada-United States Security Community
focuses on three diasporas and their impact on North American
security relations, the Irish and Germans, which were mainly in the
US, and the Muslim diaspora, which is based in both countries. The
book begins by examining the evolution of North America from a zone
of war to a zone of peace (i.e., a security community), starting
with the debate over the nature and meaning of the Canada-US
border. It then assesses the role of ethnic diasporas in North
American security, looking as to whether ethnic interest groups
have been gaining influence over the shaping of the US foreign
policy. This debate is also valid in Canada, especially given the
practice of federal political parties of catering to blocs of
ethnic voters. The second section of the book focuses on three case
studies. The first examines the impact of the Irish Americans on
the quality of security relations between the US and the UK, and
therefore between the former and Canada. The second looks at an
even larger diaspora, the German Americans, whose political agenda
by the start of twentieth century attempted to discourage
Anglo-American entente and eventual alliance. The final case
concentrates on the debates around the North American Muslim
diaspora in the past two decades, a time when policy attention
turned toward the greater Middle East, which in many ways
constitute the "kin community" of this politically active diaspora.
This comparative assessment of the three cases provides
contextualization for today's discussion of homegrown terrorism and
its implication for bilateral security cooperation in North
America.
This book examines the European governance of emerging security
technologies. The emergence of technologies such as drones,
autonomous robotics, artificial intelligence, cyber and
biotechnologies has stimulated worldwide debates on their use,
risks and benefits in both the civilian and the security-related
fields. This volume examines the concept of 'governance' as an
analytical framework and tool to investigate how new and emerging
security technologies are governed in practice within the European
Union (EU), emphasising the relational configurations among
different state and non-state actors. With reference to European
governance, it addresses the complex interplay of power relations,
interests and framings surrounding the development of policies and
strategies for the use of new security technologies. The work
examines varied conceptual tools to shed light on the way diverse
technologies are embedded in EU policy frameworks. Each
contribution identifies actors involved in the governance of a
specific technology sector, their multilevel institutional and
corporate configurations, and the conflicting forces, values,
ethical and legal concerns, as well as security imperatives and
economic interests. This book will be of much interest to students
of science and technology studies, security studies and EU policy.
Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open
Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license
https://www.routledge.com/Emerging-Security-Technologies-and-EU-Governance-Actors-Practices-and/Calcara-Csernatoni-Lavallee/p/book/9780367368814
Humans rank with the powerful forces of nature transforming Earth.
Since the mid-20th century, population growth, industrialization,
and globalization have had such deep and wide-ranging impacts that
our planet no longer functions as it did during the previous eleven
millennia. So distinctive is this collective human intervention
that a new geological interval has been proposed; it is called the
Anthropocene. The Anthropocene is intriguing scientifically,
fascinating intellectually, and deeply disturbing politically,
socially, economically, and ethically. We must learn how to
co-exist sustainably with the rest of nature in what is emerging as
a new planetary state. To do so, we must first understand what
"Anthropocene" means in all its dimensions. This book adopts a
multidisciplinary approach, starting with an exploration of the
Anthropocene as a geological concept: ranging across the physical
changes to the landscape, to the rapidly heating climate, to a
biosphere undergoing transformation. And what of the "anthropos" in
the Anthropocene? While geoscience does not normally address
political and ethical issues of justice and equity, or economics
and culture, Anthropocene studies in the humanities and social
sciences investigate the complexities of the human activity driving
global change. Here the book looks at human history, both in the
deep past and more recently, the politics and economics of growth
spurring the Anthropocene, and potential ways of mitigating its
cruel effects. Our fragile, still beautiful, planet is finite. The
new realities of the Anthropocene will need our best efforts,
across disciplinary divides, at effective hope and action.
Exiled Emissary is a biography of the colorful life of George H.
Earle, III - a Main Line Philadelphia millionaire, war hero awarded
the Navy Cross, Pennsylvania Governor, Ambassador to Austria and
Bulgaria, friend and supporter of Franklin Roosevelt, humanitarian,
playboy, and spy. Rich in Casablanca-style espionage and intrigue,
Farrell's deeply personal study presents FDR and his White House in
a new light, especially when they learned in 1943 that high-ranking
German officials approached Earle in Istanbul to convey their plot
to kidnap Hitler and seek an armistice. When FDR rejected their
offer, thereby prolonging World War II, his close relationship with
Earle became most inconvenient, resulting in Earle's exile to
American Samoa. Earle eventually returned to the United States,
renewing his warnings about communism to President Truman, who
underestimated the threat as a "bugaboo." Now, over four decades
following Earle's death, Farrell has uncovered newly declassified
records that give voice to his warnings about a threat we now know
should have never been dismissed.
Reports of NATO's death have been greatly exaggerated.
Characterizations of NATO as a "relic" of the past do not square
with the fact that the Alliance is busier today than at any time in
its history. As Europe has become more unified and more democratic,
NATO has assumed new layers of significance in the global security
environment. In a post-September 11 world, the old 1990s debate
about what is "in area" and what is "out of area" is a luxury that
the Alliance can no longer afford. Decisions made at the 2004
Istanbul summit aimed at enhancing NATO's partnerships with the
states of Central Asia and extending the partnership concept to the
Greater Middle East reflect the Alliance's new, more global
presence as do new military missions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and
Sudan. Moore argues that a careful analysis of NATO's new, more
global focus suggests that it's not the nature of NATO's mission
that has changed, but rather its scope. NATO is approaching its new
"out of area" missions with the political tools developed after the
Soviet threat faded in the early 1990s when the Allies agreed that,
rather than merely defend an old order, they would now create a new
one grounded in liberal democratic values, including individual
liberty and the rule of law. Indeed, the mission of projecting
stability eastward was understood to be inextricable from the
promotion of these values. This new mission required that NATO
devote greater attention to its political dimension. In fact, as
the United States turned to promoting democracy around the world in
the wake of September 11, it ultimately sought to enlist NATO in
its mission of extending democracy beyond Europe to Central Asia
and the Middle East. AsMoore demonstrates in her attempt to provide
a full and comprehensive understanding of the new NATO, while
divisions within the Alliance persist as to just how global NATO
should be, the post-September 11 security environment ensures that
NATO's survival depends upon its willingness to project security
beyond Europe. That mission will be as much political as it is
military.
In Ethnic Identity and Minority Protection: Designation,
Discrimination, and Brutalization, Thomas W. Simon examines a new
framework for considering ethnic conflicts. In contrast to the more
traditional theories of justice, Simon's theory of injustice shifts
focus away from group identity toward group harms, effectively
making many problems, such as how to define minorities in
international law, dramatically more manageable. Simon argues that
instead of promoting legislative devices like proportional
representation for minorities, it is more fruitful to seek
adjudicative solutions to racial and ethnic-related conflicts. For
example, resources could be shifted to quasi-judicial human-rights
treaty bodies that have adopted an injustice approach. This
injustice approach provides the foundation for Kosovo's case for
remedial secession, and helps to sort out the competing entitlement
claims of Malays in different countries. Indeed, the priority of
Thomas W. Simon's Ethnic Identity and Minority Protection is to
ensure the tales of designation and discrimination told at the
beginning of the work do not become the stories of brutalization
told at the end. In short, the challenge tackled in this text is to
assure that reason reigns over hate.
This fascinating account of how two young Americans turned traitor
during the Cold War is an "absolutely smashing real-life spy story"
(The New York Times Book Review). At the height of the Cold War,
some of the nation's most precious secrets passed through a CIA
contractor in Southern California. Only a handful of employees were
cleared to handle the intelligence that came through the Black
Vault. One of them was Christopher John Boyce, a hard-partying
genius with a sky-high IQ, a passion for falconry, and little love
for his country. Security at the Vault was so lax, Boyce couldn't
help but be tempted. And when he gave in, the fate of the free
world would hang in the balance. With the help of his best friend,
Andrew Daulton Lee, a drug dealer with connections south of the
border, Boyce began stealing classified documents and selling them
to the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. It was an audacious act of
treason, committed by two spoiled young men who were nearly always
drunk, stoned, or both--and were about to find themselves caught in
the middle of a fight between the CIA and the KGB. This Edgar
Award-winning book was the inspiration for the critically acclaimed
film starring Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn--a true story as
thrilling as any dreamed up by Ian Fleming or John le Carre. Before
Edward Snowden, there were Boyce and Lee, two of the most unlikely
spies in the history of the Cold War.
As an important research field in mathematics, chaos theory impacts
many different disciplines such as physics, engineering, economics,
and biology. Most recently, however, chaos theory has also been
applied to the social sciences, helping to explain the complex and
interdependent nature of international politics. Chaos and
Complexity Theory in World Politics aims to bring attention to new
developments in global politics within the last few years.
Demonstrating various issues in international relations and the
application of chaos theory within this field, this publication
serves as an essential reference for researchers and professionals,
as well as useful educational material for academicians and
students.
This book begins with the analysis of America's post-war
intelligence operations, propaganda campaigns, and strategic
psychological warfare in Japan. Banking on nuclear safety myths,
Japan promoted an aggressive policy of locating and building
nuclear power plants in depopulated areas suffering from a
significant decline of local industries and economies. The
Fukushima nuclear disaster substantiated that U.S. propaganda
programs left a long lasting legacy in Japan and beyond and created
the fertile ground for the future nuclear disaster. The book
reveals Japan's tripartite organization of the dominating state,
media-monopoly, and nuclear-plant oligarchy advancing nuclear
proliferation. It details America's unprecedented pro-nuclear
propaganda campaigns; Japan's secret ambitions to develop its own
nuclear bombs; U.S. dumping of reprocessed plutonium on Japan; and
the joint U.S.-Nippon propaganda campaigns for "safe" nuclear-power
and the current "safe-nuclear particles" myths. The study shows how
the bankruptcy of the central state has led to increased burdens on
the population in post-nuclear tsunami era, and the ensuing
dangerous ionization of the population now reaching into the
future.
The idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on
international politics. However, International Relations academic
writings on civilization have failed to acknowledge the major
20th-century analysis that examined the processes through which
Europeans came to regard themselves as uniquely civilized - Norbert
Elias's On the Process of Civilization. This book provides a
comprehensive exploration of the significance of Elias's
reflections on civilization for International Relations. It
explains the working principles of an Eliasian, or
process-sociological, approach to civilization and the global order
and demonstrates how the interdependencies between state-formation,
colonialism and an emergent international society shaped the
European 'civilizing process'.
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