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If states are not to go to war, what should they do instead? In The Alternatives to War, James Pattison considers the case for the alternatives to military action to address mass atrocities and aggression. The volume examines the normative issues raised by measures ranging from comprehensive economic sanctions, diplomacy, and positive incentives, to criminal prosecutions, nonviolent resistance, accepting refugees, and arming rebels. For instance, given the indiscriminateness of many sanctions regimes, are sanctions any better than war? Should states avoid 'megaphone diplomacy' and adopt more subtle measures? What, if anything, can nonviolent methods such as civilian defence and civilian peacekeeping do in the face of a ruthless opponent? Is it a serious concern that positive incentives can appear to reward aggressors? Overall, Pattison provides a comprehensive account of the ethics of the alternatives to war. In doing so, he argues that the case for war is weaker and the case for many of the alternatives is stronger than commonly thought. The upshot is that, when reacting to mass atrocities and aggression, states are generally required to pursue the alternatives to war rather than military action. The volume concludes that this has significant implications for pacifism, just war theory, and the responsibility to protect doctrine.

Introduction: Covert action -- Part one: Cold war (1. False starts: fromcounter-attack to liberation ; 2. Operation Valuable: defending Greece, detaching Albania ; 3. Pinpricks: the early Cold War ; 4. A long game: exploring rifts behind the Iron Curtain) -- Part two: The end of Empire (5. Operation Boot: regime change in Iran ; 6. Expansion: covert action before Suez ; 7. Interdependence: covert action after Suez ; 8. Decolonization and drift: the battle for influence after Empire ; 9. Militarization: secret wars in Yemen and Indonesia) -- Part three: Age of illusions (10. Operations Storm and Beyond: from Latin America to Oman ; 11. Troubles: covert action in northern Ireland ; 12. Containment: the Second Coldv war ; 13. Transition: the new agenda ; 14. Counter-terrorism: disrupting threats, managing risks) -- Conclusion: The British way

Accounting for moral parenthood -- The acquisition of parental rights -- The content of parental rights -- The acquisition of parental responsibilities -- The content of parental responsibilities -- Parental decision-making

Despite the spread of democratization following the Cold War's end, all signs indicate that we are currently seeing a resurgence of authoritarianism. Around forty percent of the world's people live under some form of authoritarian rule, and authoritarian regimes govern about a third of the world's countries. In Authoritarianism: What Everyone Needs to KnowRG, Erica Frantz guides us through today's authoritarian wave, explaining how it came to be and what its features are. She also looks at authoritarians themselves, focusing in particular on the techniques they use to take power, the strategies they use to survive, and how they fall. As she demonstrates, understanding how politics works in authoritarian regimes and recognizing the factors that either give rise to them or trigger their downfall, remains as important as ever. This book paves the ways for such an understanding. Authoritarianism is a clear and concise overview that provides readers with a context for making sense of one of the most important-and most worrying-developments in contemporary world politics.

Introduction -- A short story of enrichment -- Becoming bourgeois -- Quests for legitimacy and superiority -- Family history -- Rich Russians' philanthropy -- A man's world -- The inheritors' coming of age -- Rich Russians and the West -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

This volume explores the recent phenomenon of 'pop-feminism' and pop-feminist writing across North America, Britain, and Germany and examines what feminist politics look like in the twenty-first century

'An Introduction to Global Health Delivery' is a short but immersive introduction to global health's origins, actors, interventions, and challenges. Informed by physician Joia Mukherjee's quarter-century of experience fighting disease and poverty in more than a dozen countries, it delivers a clear-eyed overview of the movement underway to reduce global health disparities and establish sustainable access to care, including details of what has worked so far - and what hasn't

Part I. Past imperfect: prehistory and history -- When did it all begin? -- Why people fought in the evolutionary state of nature -- The clash of the state-leviathans -- Part II. Flaws and miconceptions in disciplinary grand theories -- Anthropology: why people fought (if they did) -- The causes of war (or their absence) in international relations theory -- Part III. The modernization peace -- Has war been declining - and why? -- Challenges to the modernization peace: past and future -- Conclusion: the logic of war and peace

Extraordinary tribunals in modern Egypt : a genealogy -- Whitewashing a coup -- The revolution's court -- Who was responsible for the 1948 debacle? -- Rhetoric and historical polemics -- The advent of the people's court -- Officers-brothers relations : what went wrong? -- The trial of the Murshid -- Trapped between two revolutions -- Appendix I: Decree on the crime of treason : law no. 344 of 1952 -- Appendix II: decree on the establishment of the revolution's court -- Appendix III: Decree on the establishment of the people's court (1954)

"In this raw, searing new narrative account, Howard Jones reopens the case of My Lai by examining individual accounts of both victims and soldiers through extensive archival and original research. Jones evokes the horror of the event itself, the attempt to suppress it, as well as the response to Calley's sentence and the seemingly unanswerable question of whether he had merely been following orders. My Lai also surveys how news of the slaughter intensified opposition to the Vietnam War by undermining any pretense of American moral superiority. Compelling, comprehensive, and sobering, Howard Jones' My Lai chronicles how the strategic failures and competing objectives of American leaders resulted in one of the most devastating tragedies of the Vietnam War"--

Between 1830 and 1914 in Britain a dramatic modification of the reputation of Edmund Burke (1730-1797) occurred. Burke, an Irishman and Whig politician, is now most commonly known as the 'founder of modern conservatism' - an intellectual tradition which is also deeply connected to the identity of the British Conservative Party. The idea of "Burkean conservatism" - a political philosophy which upholds "the authority of tradition", the organic, historic conception of society, and the necessity of order, religion, and property - has been incredibly influential both in international academic analysis and in the wider political world. This is a highly significant intellectual construct, but its origins have not yet been understood. This volume demonstrates, for the first time, that the transformation of Burke into the "founder of conservatism" was in fact part of wider developments in British political, intellectual, and cultural history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing from a wide range of sources, including political texts, parliamentary speeches, histories, biographies, and educational curricula, 'Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism' shows how and why Burke's reputation was transformed over a formative period of British history. In doing so, it bridges the significant gap between the history of political thought as conventionally understood and the history of the making of political traditions