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  • The Arms Trade and International Criminal Law

    Reframing Accountability for Complicit Weapon Suppliers

    by Tomas Hamilton ...
    Series series Oxford Monographs in International Humanitarian & Criminal Law
    Despite the establishment of UN embargoes, the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), and the EU Common Position, arms export regulation suffers from significant legal and practical limitations. This book critically evaluates the existing body of 'Arms Trade Law', highlighting its inadequacies in preventing weapons from reaching perpetrators of mass violence. Drawing on interviews, participant observation, and ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

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  • The Politics of Human Rights

    The Quest for Dignity

    by Sabine C. Carey, Mark Gibney, Steven C. Poe ...
    Human rights is an important issue in contemporary politics, and the last few decades have also seen a remarkable increase in research and teaching on the subject. This book introduces students to the study of human rights and aims to build on their interest while simultaneously offering an alternative vision of the subject. Many texts focus on the theoretical and legal issues surrounding human ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • When Things Fell Apart

    State Failure in Late-Century Africa

    by Robert H. Bates ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates advances an exploration of state failure in Africa. In so doing, he not only plumbs the depths of the continent's late-century tragedy, but also the logic of political order, and the foundations of the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • United Nations Reform

    Edited by Eric Fawcett, Hanna Newcombe ...
    Edward C. Luck, President Emeritus, Senior Policy Advisor, United Nations Association of the United States of AmericaThis book is important reading for anyone interested in the future of the UN. It contains hundreds of reform ideas, most of them sound, all of them stimulating. The diversity of views and subjects reflects the breadth of the UN’s global agenda and the exemplary contributions ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imposing Standards

    The North-South Dimension to Global Tax Politics

    by Martin Hearson ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Money
    In Imposing Standards**, Martin Hearson shifts the focus of political rhetoric regarding international tax rules from tax havens and the Global North to the damaging impact of this regime on the Global South.** Even when not exploited by tax dodgers, international tax standards place severe limits on the ability of developing countries to tax businesses, denying the Global South access to much ... Read more

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  • Looting Africa

    The Economics of Exploitation

    by Patrick Bond ...
    Despite the rhetoric, the people of Sub-Saharan Africa are become poorer. From Tony Blair's Africa Commission and the Make Poverty History campaign to the Hong Kong WTO meeting, Africa's gains have been mainly limited to public relations. The central problems remain exploitative debt and financial relationships with the North, phantom aid, unfair trade, distorted investment and the continent's ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Sweet Talk

    Paternalism and Collective Action in North-South Trade Relations

    by J. P. Singh ...
    Series series Emerging Frontiers in the Global Economy
    Developed nations strive to create the impression that their hearts and pockets bleed for the developing world. Yet, the global North continues to offer unfavorable trade terms to the global South. Truly fair trade would make reciprocal concessions to developing countries while allowing them to better their own positions. However, five hundred years of colonial racism and post-colonial paternalism ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Political Parties in Africa

    Ethnicity and Party Formation

    by Sebastian Elischer ...
    This book examines the effects of ethnicity on party politics in sub-Saharan Africa. Sebastian Elischer analyzes political parties in Ghana, Kenya and Namibia in detail, and provides a preliminary analysis of parties in seven other countries including Tanzania, Botswana, Senegal, Zambia, Malawi, Burkina Faso and Benin. Elischer finds that five party types exist: the mono-ethnic, the ethnic ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Sailing the Water's Edge

    The Domestic Politics of American Foreign Policy

    by Dustin Tingley, Helen V. Milner ...
    How U.S. domestic politics shapes the nation's foreign policyWhen engaging with other countries, the U.S. government has a number of different policy instruments at its disposal, including foreign aid, international trade, and the use of military force. But what determines which policies are chosen? Does the United States rely too much on the use of military power and coercion in its foreign ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Comparing Democracies

    Elections and Voting in a Changing World

    by Lawrence LeDuc, Pippa Norris, Richard G. Niemi ...
    This book provides you with a theoretical and comparative understanding of the major topics related to elections and voting behaviour. It explores important work taking place on new areas, whilst at the same time covering the key themes that you’ll encounter throughout your studies.Edited by three leading figures in the field, the new edition brings together an impressive range of contributors and ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • International Commercial Arbitration and the Brussels I Regulation

    by Louise Hauberg Wilhelmsen ...
    Series series Elgar Arbitration Law and Practice series
    This new work provides a timely and in-depth examination of the interface between the recast Brussels I Regulation and international commercial arbitration.The nature of the exclusion of arbitration from the original Brussels I Regulation on the recognition and enforcement of judgments, and subsequent decisions of the CJEU in cases such as West Tankers, resulted in the use of delaying tactics by ... Read more

    $171.99 USD

  • Truth Commissions and Criminal Courts

    by Alison Bisset ...
    This detailed evaluation of the relationship between trials and truth commissions challenges their assumed compatibility through an analysis of their operational features at national, inter-state and international levels. Alison Bisset conducts case-study analyses of national practice in South Africa, East Timor and Sierra Leone, evaluates the problems posed by the International Criminal Court and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD