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  • International Law and Time

    Narratives and Techniques

    Edited by Klara Polackova Van der Ploeg, Luca Pasquet, León Castellanos-Jankiewicz ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book explores the close, complex and consequential – yet to a large extent implicit – relationship between international law and time. There is a conspicuous discrepancy between international law’s technical preoccupation with the mechanics of temporal rules and the absence of more foundational considerations of how time – both as an irrepressible physical dimension manifesting in the passage ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

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  • Multitude

    War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

    by Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri ...
    In their international bestseller Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri presented a grand unified vision of a world in which the old forms of imperialism are no longer effective. But what of Empire in an age of “American empire”? Has fear become our permanent condition and democracy an impossible dream? Such pessimism is profoundly mistaken, the authors argue. Empire, by interconnecting more ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Democracy in What State?

    by Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaid, Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Rancière, Kristin Ross, Slavoj Žižek ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    Series Book 11 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    "Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?"In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy, along with its critical weaknesses, and reconceive the practice to accommodate new political and cultural realities. Giorgio Agamben traces the tense history of constitutions and their coexistence with various ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Counter-History of the Present

    Untimely Interrogations into Globalization, Technology, Democracy

    by Gabriel Rockhill ...
    In Counter-History of the Present Gabriel Rockhill contests, dismantles, and displaces one of the most widespread understandings of the contemporary world: that we are all living in a democratized and globalized era intimately connected by a single, overarching economic and technological network. Noting how such a narrative fails to account for the experiences of the billions of people who lack ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Politics of International Law

    by Professor Martti Koskenniemi ...
    Today international law is everywhere. Wars are fought and opposed in its name. It is invoked to claim rights and to challenge them, to indict or support political leaders, to distribute resources and to expand or limit the powers of domestic and international institutions. International law is part of the way political (and economic) power is used, critiqued, and sometimes limited. Despite its ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The History of Development

    From Western Origins to Global Faith

    by Gilbert Rist ...
    Translated by Patrick Camiller ...
    Series series Development Essentials
    In this landmark text, Gilbert Rist provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history. He traces it from its origins in the Western view of history, through the early stages of the world system, the rise of US hegemony, and the supposed triumph of third-worldism, through to new concerns about the environment and globalization.Assessing ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Populist Century

    History, Theory, Critique

    by Pierre Rosanvallon ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    Populism is an expression of anger; its appeal stems from being presented as the solution to disorder in our times. The vision of democracy, society, and the economy it offers is coherent and attractive.At a time when the words and slogans of the left have lost much of their power to inspire, Pierre Rosanvallon takes populism for what it is: the rising ideology of the twenty-first century. In The ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • The Status of Law in World Society

    Meditations on the Role and Rule of Law

    by Friedrich Kratochwil ...
    Series Book 129 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    Friedrich Kratochwil's book explores the role of law in the international arena and the key discourses surrounding it. It explains the increased importance of law for politics, from law-fare to the judicialization of politics, to human rights, and why traditional expectations of progress through law have led to disappointment. Providing an overview of the debates in legal theory, philosophy, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • African Futures

    Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility

    Edited by Brian Goldstone, Juan Obarrio ...
    Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola—but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in contemporary anthropology, as evidenced by the incredible wealth of ideas offered in this landmark volume. A consortium comprised of some of the most ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Politics and the Past

    On Repairing Historical Injustices

    by Elazar Barkan, Roy Brooks, Alan Cairns, William K. Carroll, Dalton Conley, Brenda Coughlin, Laura Hein, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Elizabeth Johnson, Sharon Lean, Charles S. Maier, Jeffrey Olick, Ruth Phillips, R S. Ratner, Henry Rousso, Stef Vandeginste, Andrew Woolford ...
    Series series World Social Change
    Politics and the Past offers an original, multidisciplinary exploration of the growing public controversy over reparations for historical injustices. Demonstrating that "reparations politics" has become one of the most important features of international politics in recent years, the authors analyze why this is the case and show that reparations politics can be expected to be a major aspect of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Political Corruption

    Concepts and Contexts

    Edited by Michael Johnston ...
    Corruption is once again high on the international policy agenda as a result of globalization, the spread of democracy, and major scandals and reform initiatives. But the concept itself has been a focus for social scientists for many years, and new findings and data take on richer meanings when viewed in the context of long-term developments and enduring conceptual debates. This compendium, a much ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Corporate Obligations under International Law

    by Markos Karavias ...
    Series series Oxford Monographs in International Law
    This book examines the extent to which international law places obligations directly on corporate entities. It is often argued that corporations are bound by, inter alia, the same human rights and environmental obligations that states have. This book examines the source of these supposed obligations in treaty law, international custom, and in internationalized contracts, to determine whether they ... Read more

    $116.99 USD