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Dino Buzzati's classic tale chronicles the terrible winter that sent the starving bears down into the valley in search of food, as well as their struggles with an army of wild boars, a wily professor who may or may not be a magician, snarling Marmoset the Cat, and, worse still, treachery within their own ranks. Over all this, the bears triumph with bravery, ingenuity, humility, and high spirits. [via]
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Through in-depth research and detailed historical context, Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls report on the injustice of U.S. policies in Afghanistan historically and in the post-9/11 era. Drawing from declassified government documents and on-the-ground interviews with Afghan activists, journalists, lawyers, refugees, and students, Bleeding Afghanistan examines the connections between the U.S. training and arming of Mujahideen commanders and the subversion of Afghan democracy today. Bleeding Afghanistan boldly critiques the exploitation of Afghan women to justify war by both conservatives and liberals, analyzes uncritical media coverage of U.S. policies, and examines the ways in which the U.S. benefits from being in Afghanistan. [via]
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Welcome to Inner Horner, a nation so small it can only accommodate one citizen at a time. The other six citizens must wait their turns in the Short-Term Residency Zone of the surrounding country of Outer Horner. It's a long-standing arrangement between the fantastical, not-exactly-human citizens of the two countries. But when Inner Horner suddenly shrinks, forcing three-quarters of the citizen then in residence over the border into Outer Horner territory, the Outer Hornerites declare an Invasion In Progress--having fallen under the spell of the power-hungry and demagogic Phil.
So begins The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil. Fueled by Saunders's unrivaled wit, outlandish imagination, and incisive political sensibility, here is a deeply strange yet strangely familiar fable of power and impotence, justice and injustice--an Animal Farm for our times.
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A debate on the theory of intellectual property, the evolution of copyright and patent law, and the use of technology to protect intellectual property. An important book on cutting-edge issues. [via]
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This analysis of the philosophical foundations of international criminal law focuses on the moral, legal, and political questions that arise when individuals who commit collective crimes, such as crimes against humanity, are held accountable by international criminal tribunals. These tribunals challenge one of the most sacred prerogatives of states--sovereignty--and breaches to this sovereignty can only be justified in limited circumstances. The book should appeal to students of international law, political philosophy, international relations, and human rights theory. [via]
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How human rights have come to dominate world politics, from Kosovo to East Timor. Hailed by the Observer as "a book to stop another Holocaust," Crimes Against Humanity is the first work to weave together history, philosophy, international law, and politics into a comprehensive and engrossing account of the increasingly significant movement for world human rights. Robertson, one of the world's leading human rights lawyers, reveals how human rights, a concept virtually unknown before the second world war, has over the last fifty years penetrated the legal armor of the sovereign state, providing a justification for the international communitywith or without the United Nationsto bring down tyrants and torturers. Called "absorbing and important" by the Guardian [London], Crimes Against Humanity defines a whole new field of inquiry. [via]
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This new textbook provides an introduction to human rights in international relations at the turn of the twenty-first century. It examines the policy-making process that establishes and tries to apply human rights norms through the UN, regional organizations, state foreign policy, human rights groups, and transnational corporations. It documents the many changes in international human rights during the past half-century, and considers the future of universal human rights. Containing chapter-by-chapter guides to further reading and discussion questions, this book will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students of human rights, and their teachers. [via]
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With all its defects, with all the failures that we can check up against it, the UN still represents mans best-organized hope to substitute the conference table for the battlefield.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
The signing of the United Nations Charter in 1945 was an unprecedented development in the history of humankind. For the first time, the worlds most powerful sovereign nation states came together to create an autonomous organization designed to, in the Charters words, save succeeding generations from the scourge of war [and] reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights. Sixty years later, the UN still doggedly pursues that mandate, albeit not without difficulty and certainly not without criticism.
In The Parliament of Man, the distinguished scholar Paul Kennedy gives a thorough and timely history of the United Nations that explains the institutions roots and functions while also casting an objective eye on the UNs effectiveness as a body and on its prospects for success in meeting the challenges that lie ahead.
Building on expertise he gained in drafting official reports for the UNs fiftieth anniversary on how to improve the organizations performance, Kennedy makes sense of the many commissions and committees, and how its six main operating bodiesGeneral Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council (UNESCO), Trusteeship Council, Secretariat, and International Courtoperate and interact. Citing examples from the UNs history, he shows how the five permanent members of the Security Councilthe United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, China, and Franceon numerous occasions overcame political antagonisms to spearhead military supervision of aid in humanitarian crises, and how lack of cooperation among the great powers has hamstrung such initiatives as the control of greenhouse gas emissions and exacerbated the deleterious effects of globalization on developing nations economies.
As a body, the UN emerges here for what it is: fallible, human-based, oftentimes dependent on the whims of powerful national governments or the foibles of individual senior UN administrators, but utterly indispensable. In The Parliament of Man, Kennedy ably proves that it is difficult to imagine how much more riven and ruinous our world of six billion people would be if there had been no UN social, environmental, and cultural agendasand no institutions to attempt to put them into practice on the ground. [via]
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El presente libro, que considera la guerra como la más severa prueba a que puedan enfrentarse hombres y mujeres, es una obra maestra de la teoría política y moral. En la obra se mezclan los ejemplos históricos, las opiniones de los decisores y participantes en conflictos armados, así como la tradición filosófica, teológica y politológica sobre el tema. Concretamente, se ocupa del ius ad bellum, justicia o injusticia del recurso de la guerra; del ius in bellum, la justicia o injustica de las conductas que se dan o pueden darse una vez iniciadas las hostilidades; y del ius post bellum, la justicia o injusticia de los acuerdos y tratados de paz. En los tres campos la aportación de Walzer es novedosa, alejada del pensamiento convencional acerca de la guerra convencional dominante en la teoría internacional, y apropiada para analizar la conflictividad armada de la posguerra fría, donde los conflictos armados entre Estados son la excepción. Esta edición aborda en su prefacio el problema de las implicaciones morales de la intervención en los incontables conflictos interétnicos que fueron moneda corriente en la pasada década de los noventa, y aporta una serie de ejemplos históricos que van desde el ataque de los atenienses a la isla-Estado de Melos hasta la masacre de My-Lay. "En nuestros días, el lenguaje de la teoría de la guerra justa se utiliza prácticamente en todas partes, y lo mismo está en boca de los gobernantes legítimos que en la de los ilegítimos. Es difícil imaginar una intervención militar que no reciba el apoyo de sus promotores... De hecho, únicamente en los Estados democráticos pueden los ciudadanos unirse a la polémica con libertad y sentido crítico. Este libro fue escrito para ellos, en la creencia de que la teoría de la guerra justa es una guía necesaria para la toma de decisiones democráticas."MICHAEL WALZER [via]
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