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  • The Invention of the Passport

    Surveillance, Citizenship and the State

    by John C. Torpey ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    This book presents the first detailed history of the modern passport and why it became so important for controlling movement in the modern world. It explores the history of passport laws, the parliamentary debates about those laws, and the social responses to their implementation. The author argues that modern nation-states and the international state system have 'monopolized the 'legitimate means ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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  • The Shield of Achilles

    War, Peace, and the Course of History

    by Philip Bobbitt ...
    "We are at a moment in world affairs when the essential ideas that govern statecraft must change. For five centuries it has taken the resources of a state to destroy another state . . . This is no longer true, owing to advances in international telecommunications, rapid computation, and weapons of mass destruction. The change in statecraft that will accompany these developments will be as profound ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Decolonization

    A Short History

    by Jan C. Jansen, Jürgen Osterhammel ...
    Translated by Jeremiah Riemer ...
    A concise and accessible history of decolonization in the twentieth centuryThe end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of the most important and dramatic developments of the twentieth century. In the decades after World War II, dozens of new states emerged as actors in global politics. Long-established imperial regimes collapsed, some more or less peacefully, others amid ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Crimes against Humanity

    Historical Evolution and Contemporary Application

    by M. Cherif Bassiouni ...
    This book traces the evolution of crimes against humanity (CAH) and their application from the end of World War I to the present day, in terms of both historic legal analysis and subject-matter content. The first part of the book addresses general issues pertaining to the categorization of CAH in normative jurisprudential and doctrinal terms. This is followed by an analysis of the specific ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

  • Borrowing Constitutional Designs

    Constitutional Law in Weimar Germany and the French Fifth Republic

    by Cindy Skach ...
    After the collapse of communism, some thirty countries scrambled to craft democratic constitutions. Surprisingly, the constitutional model they most often chose was neither the pure parliamentary model found in most of Western Europe at the time, nor the presidential model of the Americas. Rather, it was semi-presidentialism--a rare model known more generally as the "French type." This ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to International Criminal Law

    Edited by William A. Schabas ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Law
    This comprehensive introduction to international criminal law addresses the big issues in the subject from an interdisciplinary perspective. Expert contributors include international lawyers, judges, prosecutors, criminologists and historians, as well as the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials. Serving as a foundation for deeper study, each chapter explores key academic debates and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Foundations of Modern Terrorism

    State, Society and the Dynamics of Political Violence

    by Martin A. Miller ...
    Why is it that terrorism has become such a central factor in our lives despite all the efforts to eradicate it? Ranging from early modern Europe to the contemporary Middle East, Martin Miller reveals the foundations of modern terrorism. He argues that the French Revolution was a watershed moment as it was then that ordinary citizens first claimed the right to govern. The traditional notion of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Human Rights after Hitler

    The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes

    by Dan Plesch ...
    Human Rights after Hitler reveals thousands of forgotten US and Allied war crimes prosecutions against Hitler and other Axis war criminals based on a popular movement for justice that stretched from Poland to the Pacific. These cases provide a great foundation for twenty-first-century human rights and accompany the achievements of the Nuremberg trials and postwar conventions. They include ... Read more

    $31.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Conservative Human Rights Revolution

    European Identity, Transnational Politics, and the Origins of the European Convention

    by Marco Duranti ...
    The European Court of Human Rights has long held unparalleled sway over questions of human rights violations across continental Europe, Britain, and beyond. Both its supporters and detractors accept the common view that the European human rights system was originally devised as a means of containing communism and fascism after World War II. In The Conservative Human Rights Revolution, Marco ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Democratic Extremism in Theory and Practice

    All Power to the People

    by Paul Lucardie ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy
    Democracy and extremism are usually considered as opposites. We assume that our system (in the UK, the USA, the Netherlands etc.) is democratic, and extremists try to destroy our system and introduce some kind of dictatorship, if not chaos and anarchy. Yet in many cases, the extremists seem sincere in their attempt to construct a more democratic polity. Hence, they can be called democrats and yet ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The Project-State and Its Rivals

    A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

    by Charles S. Maier ...
    A new and original history of the forces that shaped the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.We thought we knew the story of the twentieth century. For many in the West, after the two world conflicts and the long cold war, the verdict was clear: democratic values had prevailed over dictatorship. But if the twentieth century meant the triumph of liberalism, as many intellectuals proclaimed, why ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

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  • The Evolution of International Human Rights

    Visions Seen

    by Paul Gordon Lauren ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    This widely acclaimed and highly regarded book, used extensively by students, scholars, policymakers, and activists, now appears in a new third edition. Focusing on the theme of visions seen by those who dreamed of what might be, Lauren explores the dramatic transformation of a world patterned by centuries of human rights abuses into a global community that now boldly proclaims that the way ... Read more

    $40.49 USD