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Security And Environmental Change - Simon Dalby, Len Broberg
Security And Environmental Change - Simon Dalby, Len Broberg
International Dialogue
In Security and Environmental Change, Simon Dalby seeks to reframe national security in terms of environmental change and its threats to human safety and prosperity. Dalby promises a multifaceted examination of the issue, making clear that environmental change encompasses more than climate change but includes all human modifications of the planet: deforestation, water diversion and species extinction to name a few. In addition, the book seeks to deconstruct and rebuild the notion of security, moving out of classically framed Cold War national security focused on nation states toward a more human centered security. This effort succeeds and, in the process, …
The Morality Of Humanitarian Interventions, Per Bauhn
The Morality Of Humanitarian Interventions, Per Bauhn
International Dialogue
In this paper I develop an argument to the effect that humanitarian moral interventions, far from being inconsistent with the normative framework of just war, fit in very well with the justifying conditions of this framework. The argument develops by considering three objections against humanitarian military interventions, emanating from just war criteria. The criteria in question are just authority, just cause, and non-combatant immunity. It will be argued that while just authority logically depends on just cause and has no independent argumentative force of its own, the criterion of just cause should be understood to include a defence of human …
Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, And The Politics Of Dwelling - David J. Gauthier, Joseph Bien
Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, And The Politics Of Dwelling - David J. Gauthier, Joseph Bien
International Dialogue
Books on Heidegger and books on Levinas are plentiful in English, French and German. Books dealing with a comparison of both authors, especially in terms of the politics of dwelling, are not at all common and certainly should demand our attention. This work appears to be a reworked version of a dissertation with all the standard problems that go with such an undertaking. That said, this is a useful introduction to the question of dwelling in the writings of two extremely important philosophers.
Darker Than Blue: On The Moral Economies Of Black Atlantic Culture - Paul Gilroy, Shiera S. El-Malik
Darker Than Blue: On The Moral Economies Of Black Atlantic Culture - Paul Gilroy, Shiera S. El-Malik
International Dialogue
In this work, Paul Gilroy charges academics including scholars of the African and Black Diaspora with inadequately addressing ethical questions of racial hierarchy. He posits that academics apply a uniquely American framework of racial hierarchy to their analyses of places other than the U.S. The result, according to Gilroy, is that American conceptions of blackness (and whiteness) then substitute for social structures regardless of people’s lived experiences. Further, this globalised spectacle of blackness operates in the service of the U.S. imperial war machine. Gilroy argues that the current moment of geo-political restructuring offers opportunities for rethinking the connection between racial …
Networking Futures: The Movements Against Corporate Globalization - Jeffrey S. Juris, Jackie Smith
Networking Futures: The Movements Against Corporate Globalization - Jeffrey S. Juris, Jackie Smith
International Dialogue
Networking Futures represents an important contribution to research on transnational organizing, social networks, and on the effects of technology on social relations. Juris, an anthropologist, draws from several years of field research that is part of his multi-sited, global ethnographic study. His experiences in the field lead him to offer, in addition to insightful analyses of contemporary organization and activism, important insights into the practice of social research in a networked, global age.
After Evil: A Politics Of Human Rights - Robert Meister, Debra L. Delaet
After Evil: A Politics Of Human Rights - Robert Meister, Debra L. Delaet
International Dialogue
In After Evil: A Politics of Human Rights, Robert Meister puts forth an original, subtle, and provocative critique of mainstream human rights discourse in contemporary global politics. He describes this discourse, which he capitalizes as Human Rights Discourse throughout the text, as “… a new discourse of global power that claims to supersede the cruelties perpetrated by both revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries during the previous two centuries” (3). Meister argues that this discourse creates a false temporal divide between historical periods of “evil” in which gross violations of human rights are committed and post-conflict periods of justice during which parties are …
Archaeologists As Activists - M. Jay Stottman, Curtis Hutt
Archaeologists As Activists - M. Jay Stottman, Curtis Hutt
International Dialogue
Archaeologists as Activists: Can Archaeologists Change the World? is comprised of papers edited by M. Jay Stottman—many of which were initially prepared for a session at the 2004 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology in St. Louis. The focus of this volume is “activist archaeology” as theorized and performed by archaeologists working in the last few decades in the United States. While the specific topics addressed are quite local, the questions raised and practices deployed are highly significant for archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians engaged in international settings. First, I must make a few disclaimers. This reviewer is neither …
Determinants Of Democratization: Explaining Regime Change In The World, 1972-2006 - Jan Teorell, Joseph Derdzinski
Determinants Of Democratization: Explaining Regime Change In The World, 1972-2006 - Jan Teorell, Joseph Derdzinski
International Dialogue
Just as the Color Revolutions of the last decade did, the Arab Spring once again brings the concept of democratization to the forefront of public discourse. They remind us yet once again how few countries have made at least the initial transition from authoritarianism, and how many more there are to democratize. Yet, having said this, the pool of countries that have liberalized politically and socially has grown tremendously in the past 40 years, yielding a fertile universe of cases for study and analysis. Jan Teorell at Sweden’s Lund University, in his compact but rich Determinants of Democratization: Explaining Regime …
Khalq (May 2, 1966 No. 4), People's Democratic Party Of Afghanistan
Khalq (May 2, 1966 No. 4), People's Democratic Party Of Afghanistan
Khalq
Khalq (Masses) was a socialist political party established in 1965 under the leadership of Noor Mohammad Taraki. In 1966 the party started to publish a newspaper under the same name “Khalq.” Articles in the newspapers were both, in Pashto and Dari languages. The government of King Zahir Shah banned the publication of Khalq after its sixth issue was published on May 22, 1966.
Khalq (April 11, 1966 Nos. 1-2), People's Democratic Party Of Afghanistan
Khalq (April 11, 1966 Nos. 1-2), People's Democratic Party Of Afghanistan
Khalq
Khalq (Masses) was a socialist political party established in 1965 under the leadership of Noor Mohammad Taraki. In 1966 the party started to publish a newspaper under the same name “Khalq.” Articles in the newspapers were both, in Pashto and Dari languages. The government of King Zahir Shah banned the publication of Khalq after its sixth issue was published on May 22, 1966.
Indian Frontier Policy: An Historical Sketch, John Adye Sir
Indian Frontier Policy: An Historical Sketch, John Adye Sir
Books in English
First Anglo-Afghan War of 1839-41; Events leading to the Second Anglo-Afghan War; and Frontier policy since the Second Afghan war, including expedition to Chiral is covered in this publication.
The Baluch And Afghan Frontiers Of India, Fortnightly Review (London, England)
The Baluch And Afghan Frontiers Of India, Fortnightly Review (London, England)
Books in English
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