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  • The New Sovereignty

    Compliance with International Regulatory Agreements

    by Abram Chayes, Antonia Handler Chayes ...
    In an increasingly complex and interdependent world, states resort to a bewildering array of regulatory agreements to deal with problems as disparate as climate change, nuclear proliferation, international trade, satellite communications, species destruction, and intellectual property. In such a system, there must be some means of ensuring reasonably reliable performance of treaty obligations. The ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • The New Sovereignty

    Compliance with International Regulatory Agreements

    by Abram Chayes, Antonia Handler Chayes ...
    In an increasingly complex and interdependent world, states resort to a bewildering array of regulatory agreements to deal with problems as disparate as climate change, nuclear proliferation, international trade, satellite communications, species destruction, and intellectual property. In such a system, there must be some means of ensuring reasonably reliable performance of treaty obligations. The ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • The United States and the International Criminal Court

    National Security and International Law

    by Gary J. Bass, Bartram S. Brown, Abram Chayes, Robinson O. Everett, Richard J. Goldstone, Madeline Morris, William L. Nash, Leila Nadya Sadat, Michael P. Scharf, David J. Scheffer, Ruth Wedgwood, Samantha Power, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Lawrence Weschler ...
    American reluctance to join the International Criminal Court illuminates important trends in international security and a central dilemma facing U.S. Foreign policy in the 21st century. The ICC will prosecute individuals who commit egregious international human rights violations such as genocide. The Court is a logical culmination of the global trends toward expanding human rights and creating ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • Here Come the Black Helicopters!

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    Rules for the World provides an innovative perspective on the behavior of international organizations and their effects on global politics. Arguing against the conventional wisdom that these bodies are little more than instruments of states, Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore begin with the fundamental insight that international organizations are bureaucracies that have authority to make rules ... Read more

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  • The Second Civil War

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  • The Democrats

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    An assessment of the state of the Democratic Party in the new millennium, the betrayal of progressive ideals, and how real change can happen.The 2006 elections put the Democrats in the majority in both houses of Congress, yet those hoping for change were deeply disappointed. Likewise, the striking victory of Barack Obama and the Democrats in 2008 created a wave of optimism, but the promise would ... Read more

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    Institutions, Actors, Global Impact

    by Andreas Staab ...
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  • Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents

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  • Shaping the Humanitarian World

    by Peter Walker, Daniel Maxwell ...
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    Providing a critical introduction to the notion of humanitarianism in global politics, tracing the concept from its origins to the twenty-first century, this book examines how the so called international community works in response to humanitarian crises and the systems that bind and divide them.By tracing the history on international humanitarian action from its early roots through the birth of ... Read more

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