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This updated and revised second edition of Advanced Introduction to International Conflict and Security Law provides a concise and insightful guide to the key principles of international law governing peacetime security, arms control, the use of force, armed conflict and post-conflict situations. Nigel D. White explores the complex legal regimes that have been created to control levels of armaments, to limit the occasions when governments can use military force, to mitigate the conduct of warfare and to build peace.

Frontmatter -- Einführung -- Miriam Grabarits, Detlev Mares -- 1. Quellen zur Umweltgeschichte -- Gerrit J. Schenk, Dieter Schott -- 2. Was ist Umweltgeschichte? Fragestellungen, Begriffe, Konzepte und Modelle -- Ressourcen und Politik -- Sven Page -- 3. Umweltaspekte im Peloponnesischen Krieg (431-404 v. Chr.) -- 3.1 Thukydides: Die Langen Mauern (5. Jhd. v. Chr.) -- 3.2 Thukydides: Die attische Seuche (5. Jhd. v. Chr.) -- 3.3 Xenophon: Die Schlacht bei den Arginusen und der anschließende Sturm (5./4. Jhd. v. Chr.) -- 3.4 Diodor: Die Schlacht bei den Arginusen und der anschließende Sturm (1. Jhd. v. Chr.) -- 3.5 Diodor: Der Arginusenprozess (1. Jhd. v. Chr.) -- 3.6 Thukydides: Der Einsatz natürlicher Ressourcen in der Kriegsführung (5. Jhd. v. Chr.) -- 3.7 Theophrastos: Verschiedene Holzarten und ihre Verwendung im Schiffbau (4. Jhd. v. Chr.) -- 3.8 Platon: Die Veränderung Attikas durch den Abbau natürlicher Ressourcen (5./4. Jhd. v. Chr.) -- 3.9 Herodot: Der Reichtum der Silberbergwerke und die athenische Flotte (5. Jhd. v. Chr.) -- Alexandra Eppinger -- 4. Eingriffe in die Umwelt durch antike Herrscher -- 4.1 Herodot: Überbrückung des Hellesponts durch den persischen Großkönig Xerxes I. (2. Hälfte 5. Jhd. v. Chr.) -- 4.2 Aischylos: "Die Perser" (472 v. Chr.) -- 4.3 Herodot: Der Kanal am Athos (2. Hälfte 5. Jhd. v. Chr.) -- 4.4 Lysias: Xerxes I. verletzt die Gesetze der Natur und der Götter (nach 387 v. Chr.) -- 4.5 Sueton: Die Ableitung des Fuciner Sees durch Kaiser Claudius (1. Drittel 2. Jhd. n. Chr.) -- 4.6 Plinius der Ältere: Die Ableitung des Fuciner Sees als technische Meisterleistung (ca. 70-77 n. Chr.) -- 4.7 Tacitus: Die Ableitung des Fuciner Sees als Geschichte des Scheiterns (ca. 110-120 n. Chr.) -- 4.8 Cassius Dio: Die Überbrückung der Donau (1. Drittel 3. Jhd. n. Chr.).

Extrajudicial, extraterritorial killings of War on Terror adversaries by the US state have become the new normal. Alongside targeted individuals, unnamed and uncounted others are maimed and killed. Despite the absence of law's conventional sites, processes, and actors, the US state celebrates these killings as the realization of 'justice.' Meanwhile, images, narrative, and affect do the work of law; authorizing and legitimizing the discounting of some lives so that others - implicitly, American nationals - may live. How then, as we live through this unending, globalized war, are we to make sense of law in relation to the valuing of life? Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to law to excavate the workings of necropolitical law, and interrogating the US state's justifications for the project of counterterror, this book's temporal arc, the long War on Terror, illuminates the profound continuities and many guises for racialized, imperial violence informing the contemporary discounting of life.

This edited book examines silence and silencing in and out of discourse, as viewed through a variety of contexts such as historical archives, day-to-day conversations, modern poetry, creative writing clubs, and visual novels, among others. The contributions engage with the historical shifts in how silence and silencing have been viewed, conceptualized and recorded throughout the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, then present a series of case studies from disciplines including linguistics, history, literature and culture, and geographical settings ranging from Argentina to the Philippines, Nigeria, Ireland, Morocco, Japan, South Africa, and Vietnam. Through these examples, the authors underline the thematic and methodological contact zones between different fields and traditions, providing a stimulating and truly interdisciplinary volume that will be of interest to scholars across the humanities

The Abortion Act 1967 may be the most contested law in UK history, sitting on a fault line between the shifting tectonic plates of a rapidly transforming society. While it has survived repeated calls for its reform, with its text barely altered for over five decades, women's experiences of accessing abortion services under it have evolved considerably. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, this book explores how the Abortion Act was given meaning by a diverse cast of actors including women seeking access to services, doctors and service providers, campaigners, judges, lawyers, and policy makers. By adopting an innovative biographical approach to the law, the book shows that the Abortion Act is a 'living law'. Using this historically grounded socio-legal approach, this enlightening book demonstrates how the Abortion Act both shaped and was shaped by a constantly changing society.

"In 1776, Thomas Paine declared the end of royal rule in America. Instead, "law is king," for the people rule themselves. Paine's declaration is the dominant American understanding of how political power is exercised. In making law king, lawyers became integral to the exercise of political power, so integral to law that one legal ethics philosopher has concluded, "lawyers are the law" in the United States. Lawyers, particularly private practice lawyers, have defended the exercise of this power by arguing they serve the public interest as well as the interests of their paying clients and, lastly, themselves. Since the early twentieth century, lawyers have also pointed to their duty to abide by ethics codes channeling their behavior. In this view, lawyers were in the marketplace selling their services, but not of the marketplace, because the services they provided clients were limited by the oath and the rules of lawyer ethics. Remnants of Conscience is the story of the justifications of the power lawyers have possessed in American history, tracing American lawyer ethics from its origins in the mid-eighteenth century to the crisis of professionalism facing lawyers today"--

When the US government resettled thousands of Hmong in 1975, the work was done by Christian organizations deputized by the state. Exploring the resiliency of tradition amid shaky US commitments to pluralism and secularism, Melissa May Borja shows how Hmong Americans developed a "new way" that blended Christianity with their longstanding practices.

In The Ideological Scramble for Africa, Frank Gerits examines how African leaders in the 1950s and 1960s crafted an anticolonial modernization project. Rather than choose Cold War sides between East and West, anticolonial nationalists worked to reverse the psychological and cultural destruction of colonialism.Kwame Nkrumah's African Union was envisioned as a federation of liberation to challenge the extant imperial forces: the US empire of liberty, the Soviet empire of equality, and the European empires of exploitation. In the 1950s, the goal of proving the potency of a pan-African ideology shaped the agenda of the Bandung Conference and Ghana's support for African liberation, while also determining what was at stake in the Congo crisis and in the fight against white minority rule in southern and eastern Africa. In the 1960s, the attempt to remake African psychology was abandoned, and socioeconomic development came into focus. Anticolonial nationalists did not simply resist or utilize imperial and Cold War pressures but drew strength from the example of the Haitian Revolution of 1791, in which Toussaint Louverture demanded the universal application of Europe's Enlightenment values. The liberationists of the postwar period wanted to redesign society in the image of the revolution that had created them. The Ideological Scramble for Africa demonstrates that the Cold War struggle between capitalism and Communism was only one of two ideological struggles that picked up speed after 1945; the battle between liberation and imperialism proved to be more enduring

"This book teaches you everything that you need to know about preparing your company for a potential data breach. We begin by talking about what the latest cybersecurity threats and attacks are that your company needs to be prepared for. Once we establish that we go into the different phases of the incident response lifecycle based on the NIST framework. This will teach you how to properly prepare and respond to cybersecurity incidents so that you can be sure to minimize the damage and fulfill all of your legal requirements during a cyberattack. This book is meant for the everyday business owner and makes these concepts simple to understand and apply"--

"Offering a pluralist reading of transitional justice, this book focuses on dealing with value and interest conflicts constructively and encourages diversity in approaches to transitional situations. Using interdisciplinary techniques, it offers an enriched, more systematic perspective on a field that is still undertheorized and misunderstood"--