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War Against Muslims Post 9/11?, Alev Dudek Mar 2015

War Against Muslims Post 9/11?, Alev Dudek

Alev Dudek

9/11 has changed the life of Muslims substantially. Almost overnight, they became the target of media-hype, various “anti-terror” efforts, religious intolerance and hate crimes.

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Anatomy Of Dissent In Islamic Societies, Ahmed Souaiaia Dec 2013

Anatomy Of Dissent In Islamic Societies, Ahmed Souaiaia

Ahmed E SOUAIAIA

The 'Arab Spring' that began in 2011 has placed a spotlight on the transfer of political power in Islamic societies, reviving old questions about the place of political dissent and rebellion in Islamic civilization and raising new ones about the place of religion in modern Islamic societies.

In Anatomy of Dissent in Islamic Societies, Ahmed E. Souaiaia examines the complex historical evolution of Islamic civilization in an effort to trace the roots of the paradigms and principles of Islamic political and legal theories. This study is one of the first attempts at providing a fuller picture of the place of …

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Regulation Of Preventive And Premptive Use Of Force In The United Nations Charter: A Search For Original Intent, Timothy Kearley Dec 2002

Regulation Of Preventive And Premptive Use Of Force In The United Nations Charter: A Search For Original Intent, Timothy Kearley

Timothy G. Kearley

This article investigates whether the drafters of the United Nations Charter intended to permit a state to use force in self defense, either preventatively or preemptively, before that state has been the victim of an armed attack. It makes extensive use of a source not much used previously--the volume in the Foreign Relations of the United States series that includes the minutes of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Conference on International Organization at which the Charter was drafted, and in which the U.S. delegation played a key role in drafting Article 51, the self defense provision.

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Raising The Caroline, Timothy Kearley Dec 1998

Raising The Caroline, Timothy Kearley

Timothy G. Kearley

This article examines the Caroline case, which articulates when one state can lawfully use force in the territory of another state in peacetime against another state that has been unable or unwilling to prevent its territory from being used to harm the state taking action. It analyzes how the doctrine arising from this case has been misconstrued by some to apply to all uses of force in self defense.

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