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The state of sovereignty : territories, laws, populations
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ISBN: 1282103423 128226317X 0253003121 9786612103421 9786612263170 0253002680 9780253002686 9780253352316 0253352312 9780253220165 0253220165 9781282263178 9781282103429 9780253003126 6612103426 6612263172 Year: 2009 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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The State of Sovereignty examines how it came to pass that the nation-state became the prevailing form of governance in the world today. Spanning the 19th and 20th centuries and addressing colonization and decolonization around the globe, these essays argue that sovereignty is a set of historically contingent practices, and not something that accrues naturally to states. The contributors explore the different ways in which sovereign political forms have been defined and have defined themselves, placing recent debates about nations and national identity within a broader history of sovereignty, territory, and legality.


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Embodiments : From the Body to the Body Politic
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ISBN: 0810163675 Year: 2009 Publisher: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press,

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Emergency politics
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ISBN: 1282303775 9786612303777 1400830966 9781400830961 069114298X 9780691142982 9780691142982 9781282303775 9780691152592 0691152594 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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This book intervenes in contemporary debates about the threat posed to democratic life by political emergencies. Must emergency necessarily enhance and centralize top-down forms of sovereignty? Those who oppose executive branch enhancement often turn instead to law, insisting on the sovereignty of the rule of law or demanding that law rather than force be used to resolve conflicts with enemies. But are these the only options? Or are there more democratic ways to respond to invocations of emergency politics? Looking at how emergencies in the past and present have shaped the development of democracy, Bonnie Honig argues that democracies must resist emergency's pull to focus on life's necessities (food, security, and bare essentials) because these tend to privatize and isolate citizens rather than bring us together on behalf of hopeful futures. Emphasizing the connections between mere life and more life, emergence and emergency, Honig argues that emergencies call us to attend anew to a neglected paradox of democratic politics: that we need good citizens with aspirational ideals to make good politics while we need good politics to infuse citizens with idealism. Honig takes a broad approach to emergency, considering immigration politics, new rights claims, contemporary food politics and the infrastructure of consumption, and the limits of law during the Red Scare of the early twentieth century. Taking its bearings from Moses Mendelssohn, Franz Rosenzweig, and other Jewish thinkers, this is a major contribution to modern thought about the challenges and risks of democratic orientation and action in response to emergency.

Punishment and Political Order
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ISBN: 9780472023172 9780472901135 9781282463004 0472901133 0472023179 0472099825 0472069829 1282463004 9786612463006 Year: 2009 Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,

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Most of us think of punishment as an ugly display of power. But punishment also tells us something about the ideals and aspirations of a people and their government. How a state punishes reveals whether or not it is confident in its own legitimacy and sovereignty. Punishment and Political Order examines the questions raised by the state’s exercise of punitive power—from what it is about human psychology that desires sanction and order to how the state can administer pain while calling for justice. Keally McBride's book demonstrates punishment's place at the core of political administration and the stated ideals of the polity.


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Oxford readings in philosophical theology
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ISBN: 1299132871 0191553328 9780191553325 9780199237494 0199237492 0199237484 9780199237487 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Over the past sixty years, within the analytic tradition of philosophy, there has been a significant revival of interest in the philosophy of religion. More recently, philosophers of religion have turned in a more self-consciously interdisciplinary direction, with special focus on topics that have traditionally been the provenance of systematic theologians in the Christian tradition. The present volumes Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology, volumes 1 and 2aim to bringtogether some of the most important essays on six central topics in recent philosophical theology. Volume 1 collects essays


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Broken landscape : Indians, Indian tribes, and the constitution
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ISBN: 0190260262 1282328360 9786612328367 019970659X 9780199706594 9780195373066 0195373065 9780190260262 9781282328365 6612328363 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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Broken Landscape is a sweeping chronicle of the ways that Indian tribal sovereignty is recognized within the Constitution and as it has been interpreted and misinterpreted through legal analysis and practice over the intervening decades. Built on a history of war and usurpation of land, the relationship between Indian tribes and the United States government was formally inscribed within federal structure--a structure not mirrored in the traditions of tribal governance. Although the Constitution recognized the sovereignty of Indian nations, it did not safeguard tribes against the tides of natio


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Understanding Iran
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ISBN: 083304558X 9786612033407 1282033409 0833046772 9780833046772 9780833045584 9781282033405 6612033401 Year: 2009 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corp.,

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Iran remains among the most poorly understood countries in the world and, for most Americans, terra incognita. A small community of American analysts in the government, academia, and the country's think tanks is, of course, working on Iran, but the overwhelming majority of them have never been to Iran or have visited only briefly. The consequences of this unfamiliarity have been distinctly negative for American policy, pushing most analyses toward a highly reductionist view. This monograph, the result of a workshop and the authors' own experience and analysis, is a concise, accessible handbook


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Ethics of peacebuilding
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ISBN: 1281947636 9786611947637 074863049X 9780748630493 9780748624485 0748624481 9781281947635 0748624473 0748624481 9780748624478 6611947639 Year: 2009 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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This book explores the ethical dimension of peacebuilding. In the aftermath of the Cold War the hope for a more stable and just international order was rapidly dissolved by the internecine conflicts that plagued all continents. The Rwanda and Srebrenica genocides demonstrated the challenge of promoting peace in a world increasingly defined by intra-state conflict and sub-national groups confronting nation-states. Murithi interrogates the role that ethics plays in promoting and consolidating peacebuilding and presents a synthesis of moral philosophy and international relations and an analysis o


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Waging humanitarian war : the ethics, law, and politics of humanitarian intervention
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ISBN: 0791477088 144160376X 9781441603760 0791476952 9780791476956 9780791477083 Year: 2009 Publisher: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press,

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How severe must human suffering be before military intervention is considered? Can there be commensurate legal grounding for such an argument? Which actors are the most appropriate agents of intervention? In this reasonable and straightforward approach to the perplexing issue of humanitarian intervention, Eric A. Heinze incorporates insights from various strands of ethical, legal, and international relations theory. He identifies the conditions under which humanitarian intervention is morally permissible, establishes the extent to which such an ethical argument can be grounded in international law, and determines which actors are best equipped to undertake this task under prevailing political conditions. Heinze presents the reader with a number of empirical examples, including the 1999 Kosovo intervention, the 2003 Iraq war, and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan. The result is a more theoretically consistent—and therefore more practically workable—approach to humanitarian intervention.


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Negotiating sovereignty and human rights : international society and the International Criminal Court
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ISBN: 1781703027 1847793428 9781847793423 1847797520 Year: 2009 Publisher: Manchester, U.K. ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,

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Negotiating sovereignty and human rights takes the transatlantic conflict over the International Criminal Court as a lens for an enquiry into the normative foundations of international society. The author shows how the way in which actors refer to core norms of the international society such as sovereignty and human rights affect the process and outcome of international negotiations.The book offers an innovative take on the long-standing debate over sovereignty and human rights in international relations. It goes beyond the simple and sometimes ideological duality of sovereignty versus human r

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International relations. --- Sovereignty. --- Human rights. --- International Criminal Court. --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Human rights --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Sovereignty --- State sovereignty (International relations) --- International law --- Political science --- Common heritage of mankind (International law) --- International relations --- Self-determination, National --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- National security --- World politics --- Law and legislation --- U.N. International Criminal Court --- United Nations. --- ICC --- CPI --- Cour pénale internationale --- Corte Penal Internacional --- Internationella brottmålsdomstolen --- Pengadilan Pidana Internasional --- Kokusai Keiji Saibansho --- Mezhdunarodnyĭ ugolovnyĭ sud --- Međunarodni kazneni sud --- Międzynarodowy Trybunał Karny --- Maḥkamat al-Jināʼīyah al-Duwalīyah --- Guo ji xing shi fa yuan --- 国际刑事法院 --- Samnakngān ʻAyakān Sān ʻĀyā Rawāng Prathēt --- Tribunal Penal Internacional --- Uluslararası Ceza Mahkemesi --- UCM --- human rights. --- ideological duality. --- international negotiations. --- international relations. --- international society. --- normative foundations. --- sovereignty. --- transatlantic conflict. --- world order.

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