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  • Globalizing Somalia

    Multilateral, International and Transnational Repercussions of Conflict

    Modifié par Dr. Emma Leonard, Dr. Gilbert Ramsay ...
    Collections series New Directions in Terrorism Studies
    This collection of essays demonstrates how chronic state failure and the inability of the international community to provide a solution to the conflict in Somalia has had transnational repercussions.Following the failed humanitarian mission in 1992-93, most countries refrained from any direct involvement in Somalia, but this changed in the 2000s with the growth of piracy and links to international ... En savoir plus

    $51.99 CAD

  • State Terrorism and Human Rights

    International Responses since the End of the Cold War

    Modifié par Gillian Duncan, Orla Lynch, Gilbert Ramsay, Alison M.S. Watson ...
    Collections series Political Violence
    This book aims to improve understanding of the broad trends in the utilisation of political violence by examining the use of state terror in world politics.The ending of the Cold War and the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe led many to assume that this presaged the demise of the one-party terror regime and acceptance of Western concepts of democracy, freedom and human rights throughout the ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

  • Joking About Jihad

    Comedy and Terror in the Arab World

    par Gilbert Ramsay, Moutaz Alkheder ...
    Can laughter really be used to undermine the appeal of terrorist groups? And should it be? Is there any truth in the stereotypical notions of fanaticism as humorless, and of humor as the antithesis of fanaticism? What is the deeper significance of the jihadi's status as an object of mockery in Arabic popular culture? Joking About Jihad explores this thicket of problems sprouting from one of the ... En savoir plus

    $26.39 CAD

  • Jihadi Culture on the World Wide Web

    par Dr. Gilbert Ramsay ...
    Collections series New Directions in Terrorism Studies
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014This volume examines "jihadi" content on the Internet by drawing on both Arabic and English primary source materials. After examining this content as digital media, the work looks at how it is productively consumed by online communities, including how "jihadi" individuals construct themselves online and how jihadism is practiced and represented as an online ... En savoir plus

    $55.99 CAD

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  • Life After Life

    A Guildford Four Memoir

    par Paddy Armstrong, Mary-Elaine Tynan ...
    Paddy Armstrong was one of four people falsely convicted of The Guildford Bombing in 1975. He spent fifteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Today, as a husband and father, life is wonderfully ordinary, but the memory of his ordeal lives on. Here, for the first time and with unflinching candour, he lays bare the experiences of those years and their aftermath. Life after Life is a ... En savoir plus

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  • Clooney's War

    South Sudan, humanitarian failure and celebrity

    par Alex Perry ...
    In this book Alex Perry explores how humanitarian activities across the world, including those of celebrities like George Clooney and others brought pressure to bear that resulted in the creation of South Sudan as a separate state. This at a time when senior diplomats believed the chances of the new nation surviving and thriving were slim. Predictably, it seems an outcome that should have solved ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD

  • Bin Laden, Islam, & America's New War on Terrorism

    par As'Ad Abukhalil ...
    Lebanese scholar As'ad AbuKhalil examines the roots of the September 11 crisis, the causes for antipathy toward the United States, and the historical relations between the U.S. and the Islamic world. AbuKhalil also reviews the background of U.S. entanglement with the Middle East, and how it catalyzed militant fundamentalist networks that came to perceive the United States as an enemy. Beginning ... En savoir plus

    $10.79 CAD

  • The Edge of Disaster

    Rebulding a Resilient Nation

    par Stephen Flynn ...
    Why do we remain unprepared for the next terrorist attack or natural disaster? Where are we most vulnerable? How have we allowed our government to be so negligent? Who will keep you and your family safe? Is America living on borrowed time? How can we become a more resilient nation?Americans are in denial when it comes to facing up to how vulnerable our nation is to disaster, be it terrorist attack ... En savoir plus

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  • The Convenient Terrorist

    Two Whistleblowers' Stories of Torture, Terror, Secret Wars, and CIA Lies

    par John Kiriakou, Joseph Hickman ...
    A startling spotlight on the darkest corners of America’s War on Terror,” where nothing is quite what it seems.The Convenient Terrorist is the definitive inside account of the capture, torture, and detention of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value target” captured by the CIA after 9/11. But was Abu Zubaydah, who is still being indefinitely held by the United States under shadowy circumstances, the ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Behind the Killing Fields

    A Khmer Rouge Leader and One of His Victims

    par Gina Chon, Sambath Thet ...
    Collections series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    In recent history, atrocities have often been committed in the name of lofty ideals. One of the most disturbing examples took place in Cambodia's Killing Fields, where tens of thousands of victims were executed and hastily disposed of by Khmer Rouge cadres. Nearly thirty years after these bloody purges, two journalists entered the jungles of Cambodia to uncover secrets still buried there.Based on ... En savoir plus

    $62.99 CAD

  • Justice and Security in the 21st Century

    Risks, Rights and the Rule of Law

    Modifié par Barbara Hudson, Synnove Ugelvik ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Liberty and Security
    This book examines the question of whether justice or security is the primary virtue of 21st-century society.The issue of enhancing security without undermining justice – managing risk without undermining the rule of law – has always been problematic. However, recent developments such as new counter-terrorism measures, the expanding scope of criminal law, harsher migration control and an ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

  • Access to Justice as a Human Right

    Modifié par Francesco Francioni ...
    Collections series Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law
    In international law, as in any other legal system, respect and protection of human rights can be guaranteed only by the availability of effective judicial remedies. When a right is violated or damage is caused, access to justice is of fundamental importance for the injured individual and it is an essential component of the rule of law. Yet, access to justice as a human right remains problematic ... En savoir plus

    $61.59 CAD