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"This book examines the history of the Communist party of Greece (KKE) between 1918 and 1956 from an international perspective. Because the frontiers between the national and the international in the Communist world were not so clearly separated, international Communist institutions, geopolitical soviet interests and sister parties' strategies shaped in fundamental ways the KKE's leadership, its character and decision-making mechanisms as a party, and the way of life of its followers"--

Emiliano J. Buis examines the sources of classical Greece to challenge both the state-centeredness of mainstream international legal history and the omnipresence of war and excessive violence in ancient times. Making ample use of epigraphic as well as literary, rhetorical, and historiographical sources, the book offers the first widespread account of the narrative foundations of the (il)legality of warfare in the classical Hellenic world. In a clear yet sophisticated manner, Buis convincingly proves that the traditionally neglected study of the performance of ancient Greek poleis can contribute to a better historical understanding of those principles of international law underlying the practices and applicable rules on the use of force and the conduct of hostilities

"Echun prostethei: Works of art in Greece: the Greece islands and the Dodecanese: losses and survivals in the war; T.W. French, Losses and survivals in the Dodecanese; Geōrgiu Bakalakē, Ekthesis peri akropoleōs kai tu museiu autēs; W. Kraiker, Der Kunstschutz in Griechenland, Epistolē pros Keramopullon; R. Hampe, Kritikē tu tomu Zēmiai; Anadiarthrōsē Kemenōn, Symplērōmata kai scholia"-- Title page