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Radical History - Interview On Hindsight - Citizen In The Republic Of The Arts: Lucien Henry, Terence Irving
Radical History - Interview On Hindsight - Citizen In The Republic Of The Arts: Lucien Henry, Terence Irving
Terry Irving
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Rediscovering Radical History, Terence Irving
Street Railway Strikes, Collective Violence, And The Canadian State, 1886-1914, Eric Tucker
Street Railway Strikes, Collective Violence, And The Canadian State, 1886-1914, Eric Tucker
Eric M. Tucker
Street railway strikes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were often accompanied by high levels of public disorder. The challenge to public authorities, however, was not just in the scale of the disorder but also the disjuncture between the behaviour that a significant portion of the working-class community felt was legitimate in the circumstances and what the law tolerated. Public officials confronted with this dilemma had to negotiate between the disparate zones of community and legal toleration. How much disorder would they tolerate before mobilizing the coercive power of the state to protect the right of the street …
The Life And Times Of Targeted Killing, Markus Gunneflo
The Life And Times Of Targeted Killing, Markus Gunneflo
Markus Gunneflo
Against the background of the ongoing shift in the perception of the legality and legitimacy of extraterritorial lethal force in counterterrorism, my doctoral thesis analyses the emergence of so-called “targeted killing” in the history of Israel and the US, as well as in international law. It finds that the relationship between targeted killing and law, particularly international law, is not a straightforward case of more or less determinate and legally binding norms being applied to state measures adopted in situations of insecurity (in this case, those of the second Intifada and 9/11) but rather one of a much longer and …