International Human Rights, 4th Ed.,
2013
University of Nebraska at Omaha
International Human Rights, 4th Ed., Eric A. Heinze
International Dialogue
Jack Donnelly’s most recent edition of his well-known text, International Human Rights, provides an updated discussion of the evolution of international human rights since the end of World War II. Like previous editions, this book provides an accessible, relatively comprehensive, and self-consciously analytical treatment of the broad subject of international human rights. While the book is clearly intended for classroom use, and is indeed accessible enough to be understood by most upper-division undergraduates, it is not a “textbook” in the traditional sense, in that Donnelly is not shy about offering his own arguments and interpretations about a variety of controversial …
Kant's Political Theory: Interpretations And Applications,
2013
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Kant's Political Theory: Interpretations And Applications, Alice Pinheiro Walla
International Dialogue
For a long time in Anglo-American political philosophy “Kant’s political philosophy” meant not Kant’s own developed political thought, but an application of his moral theory to political issues. Thankfully, Kant’s legal and political thought is experiencing a renaissance in the English-speaking world after a long period of neglect. Not only Kant’s short political writings such as Toward Perpetual Peace, “On The Common Saying: This May be True in Theory but it Does Not Hold in Practice,” and “An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment” are being rediscovered; also the Doctrine of Right, the first part of the Metaphysics of …
Michael Oakeshott: Religion, Politics And The Moral Life,
2013
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Michael Oakeshott: Religion, Politics And The Moral Life, Noël K. O'Sullivan
International Dialogue
Although students of Michael Oakeshott have special reason to be grateful to Timothy Fuller for this carefully selected volume of ten of Oakeshott’s early and mid-career essays, as well as for the scholarly introduction Fuller has provided, his book will also appeal to general readers concerned to grapple with the central issues of modern life and thought with which Oakeshott constantly wrestled. Four of the essays have never been previously published and six are now made available in a more accessible form.
Insurgent Encounters: Transnational Activism, Ethnography, And The Political,
2013
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Insurgent Encounters: Transnational Activism, Ethnography, And The Political, Julie A. Pelton
International Dialogue
nsurgent Encounters: Transnational Activism, Ethnography, and the Political, edited by Jeffrey Juris and Alex Khasnabish, opens with a vignette describing an encounter between international activists and Zapatista base communities in 2006–7. The moment, and the thick description of it in the introduction, serves as an exemplar of the ethnographic approach to studying social movements advocated in this book: at once romantic, mysterious, and radical, while also rife with contradictions, struggles, and tensions. Juris and Khasnabish have gathered together a diverse collection of work on transnational activism that highlights the importance of ethnography as a set of methods largely neglected in …
Coalitions Of Convenience: United States Military Interventions After The Cold War,
2013
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Coalitions Of Convenience: United States Military Interventions After The Cold War, Jeffrey A. Griffin
International Dialogue
Sarah Kreps’ Coalitions of Convenience: United States Military Interventions after the Cold War provides a timely comparative analysis of military intervention in the context of a continuously globalizing world. Kreps endeavors to shed light on an important facet of international society today—military intervention. The study explores the question of why states, when they have the capacity to act unilaterally, often choose to take a multilateral approach. More specifically, Kreps questions why coercive and powerful states, particularly the United States, intervene multilaterally when the capacity exists for unilateral action. As the sole superpower in the international system, the way in which …
U.S. Cultural Diplomacy And Archeology: Soft Power, Hard Heritage,
2013
University of Nebraska at Omaha
U.S. Cultural Diplomacy And Archeology: Soft Power, Hard Heritage, Nicholas J. Cull
International Dialogue
The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 generated a maelstrom of images. There were cities lit by the “shock and awe” bombardment, the falling statues, the traumatized civilians and scene after scene of coalition forces vainly searching for weapons of mass destruction. But among the most peculiarly troubling were the images of the looting of Iraq’s national museum. The human suffering was sadly familiar to the TV audience around the world but the looting broke new ground. The images of looting spoke of the depth of the anarchy into which Iraq was tumbling. They represented the destruction of something greater …
The Power Of Religion In The Public Sphere,
2013
University of Nebraska at Omaha
The Power Of Religion In The Public Sphere, Robin Alice Roth
International Dialogue
Of the numerous topics current philosophy is attentive to certainly the issue of religion is central. This anthology starts with Jürgen Habermas’ notion of “the public sphere” and works to connect this notion to the issue of religion. Of course, religion has long been part of the public sphere. For much of human history, people established their various formations of society and state in a manner continuous with religion. Their discourses were compact. Habermas’ early works argue for a differentiation of the religious and political spheres from the public sphere that eventually overcame “representational” culture, with its authoritarianism, particularly with …
Balkan Genocides: Holocaust And Ethnic Cleansing In The Twentieth Century,
2013
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Balkan Genocides: Holocaust And Ethnic Cleansing In The Twentieth Century, Marko A. Hoare
International Dialogue
The sudden explosion of interest in genocide as a topic of academic study over the past decade or so has involved academics rushing to produce “big” general theories in their efforts to have their voices heard. But more often than not, their haste has produced books that are insufficiently researched and theses that strain to be profound. In Balkan Genocides: Holocaust and Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century, Paul Mojzes has attempted something more moderately ambitious: an overview of the Balkan genocides of the twentieth century, focusing principally on the territory of the former Yugoslavia but involving forays into other …
Cutting The Fuse: The Explosion Of Global Suicide Terrorism And How To Stop It,
2013
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Cutting The Fuse: The Explosion Of Global Suicide Terrorism And How To Stop It, Sunil K. Sahu
International Dialogue
Since 9/11 there has been a burgeoning literature on terrorism written by journalists, scholars, policy makers, diplomats, and military professionals. The last decade has also witnessed a dramatic increase in suicide terrorist attacks—violent attacks designed to kill others where the death of the attacker is a necessary part of the action—especially against American interests. There were twenty suicide terrorist attacks worldwide in 2000, one of which was anti-American inspired; the number of such attacks increased ten-fold by 2010, 90% of which were anti-American inspired. Although suicide bombing was used by imperial Japan at the end of World War II, the …
Genocide And The Europeans,
2013
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Genocide And The Europeans, Kate Ferguson
International Dialogue
Next year the world will commemorate twenty years since the Rwandan genocide and the following year will mark twenty years since the genocide at Srebrenica. As the International Community prepares to honor these grim milestones, somber deliberation of the mistakes of the past must inform the development of a more committed future. Karen Smith’s book, Genocide and the Europeans, provides just such a reflection for Europe, tracing the continent’s policy responses to incidents of genocide since the Holocaust. It is an important text that draws a detailed history of the past sixty years, pairing the careful analysis of an international …
The Foundations Of Deliberative Democracy: Empirical Research And Normative Implications,
2013
University of Nebraska at Omaha
The Foundations Of Deliberative Democracy: Empirical Research And Normative Implications, Lauren Johnston
International Dialogue
As the theory of deliberative democracy developed in the late-1980s and 1990s much of the focus was on its normative foundations. However, for the last decade there has been a greater focus on practice and institutionalization, accompanied by a wealth of empirical evidence on deliberative democracy. Therefore, there is now a need to return to these normative debates in light of this empirical evidence. Jürg Steiner’s book aims to contribute to this endeavour by concentrating on the “interplay between normative and empirical aspects of deliberation” (1). In undertaking this goal he acknowledges that he is not a professional philosopher, but …
Respect For Nature: A Theory Of Environmental Ethics,
2013
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Respect For Nature: A Theory Of Environmental Ethics, Edward Abplanalp
International Dialogue
Paul Taylor’s Respect for Nature was first published 1986 when environmental ethics was a relatively new field. In it he defended a deontological biocentric environmental ethic predicated on the idea that all living beings have inherent value. It was a groundbreaking work in non-anthropocentric ethics, and since then it has been frequently anthologized and used in ethics and environmental philosophy courses taught around the world. The Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition of Respect for Nature (2011) contains a two-page forward by Dale Jamieson, who notes the continued urgency for intellectuals to consider the meaning of “respect for nature.” When Respect for Nature …
Table Of Contents,
2013
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Table Of Contents, Rory J. Conces
International Dialogue
Table of Contents for Volume 3
Notes From The Editor,
2013
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Notes From The Editor, Rory J. Conces
International Dialogue
Notes from International Dialogue's Editor-in-Chief, Rory J. Conces for Volume 3.
Islam In Denmark: The Challenge Of Diversity,
2013
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Islam In Denmark: The Challenge Of Diversity, Aje Carlbom
International Dialogue
In public debates contemporary Denmark stands out as an extraordinary nationalist and racist country. This is particularly so on issues concerned with Islam and Muslim immigration. The growth of the nationalist political party Dansk folkeparti, the Muhammad caricatures and harsh laws regulating family reunion are often used as examples by outside observers trying to describe political transformations in the country. These, and some other themes, are discussed in the anthology Islam in Denmark: The Challenge of Diversity (2012), edited by Jørgen S. Nielsen, professor and director of The Centre for European Islamic Thought at the University of Copenhagen. What kind …
Laws, Outlaws And Terrorists: Lessons From The War On Terrorism,
2013
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Laws, Outlaws And Terrorists: Lessons From The War On Terrorism, Malin Isaksson
International Dialogue
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The Duty To Rescue And The Duty To Aid The Starving,
2013
University of Nebraska at Omaha
The Duty To Rescue And The Duty To Aid The Starving, Per Bauhn
International Dialogue
In this article I intend to argue that while there are certainly important similarities between the duty to rescue and the duty to aid the famine-stricken and starving, there are also important differences between these two duties. Both the duty to rescue and the duty to provide aid need to be qualified by conditions regarding necessity, possibility, and comparable cost, as well as by a principle concerning special relationships of responsibility. However, while the duty to rescue can be fulfilled by individual agents, the duty to aid the famine-stricken and starving requires large-scale interventions to change political and social structures, …
War And Peace Theology In German And Swedish Christian Zionism,
2013
University of Nebraska at Omaha
War And Peace Theology In German And Swedish Christian Zionism, Kristian Steiner
International Dialogue
This is a comparative study of how Swedish and German Christian Zionist literature from 1967–2012 portrays the chances for peace and the risk for war, globally and in the Middle East. Christian Zionism is a theology supporting the establishment and the preservation of the modern state of Israel as a Jewish homeland. Christian Zionist literature, in Germany and Sweden, demonstrates very little hope for peace, since this world is assumed fallen, heading for the apocalypse, in the hands of the Devil, and inhabited by a sinful humanity beyond improvement. The image of Arabs is clearly that of an enemy image; …
Hopi Oral Tradition And The Archaeology Of Identity,
2013
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Hopi Oral Tradition And The Archaeology Of Identity, Brady Desanti
International Dialogue
Native American activists of the civil rights era leveled heavy critiques at archaeology and anthropology for their prior support of colonial legislation and lack of sensitivity towards Native viewpoints. Archaeology in particular was taken to task for the destruction of numerous burial sites and the theft of thousands of Native American bodily remains and cultural items for over a century. The decades-long efforts by Native Americans and their non-Indian allies (which included some archaeologists) to secure the return of these remains and objects paid off in 1990. The passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) mandates …
Just Democracy: The Rawls-Machiavelli Programme,
2013
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Just Democracy: The Rawls-Machiavelli Programme, Joseph Bien
International Dialogue
Professor Philippe Van Parijs is attempting nothing less than to examine and resolve the age old question of how one might have a just democracy in a modern state, especially when one is referring to those member states of the European Union. This is at the very least difficult but admirable task.
