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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

We are said to face a crisis of over-criminalization: our criminal law has become chaotic, unprincipled, and over-expansive. This book proposes a theory of criminal law, as an institution that can play an important but limited role in the civil order of a political community: it shows how criminal law could be ordered, principled, and restrained

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 -- 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

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

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"--

Machine generated contents note: -- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2: MODERN JEWISH NATIONALISM, 1872-1897 -- CHAPTER 3: THEODOR HERZL AND THE CREATION OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT 1897-1917 -- CHAPTER 4: THE WEIZMANN ERA AND THE BALFOUR DECLARATION -- CHAPTER 5: SOCIALIST AND REVISIONIST ZIONISMS, 1917-1937 -- CHAPTER 6: ZIONISM IN WORLD WAR II AND ITS AFTERMATH -- CHAPTER 7: ZIONISM IN A JEWISH STATE, 1948-1967 -- CHAPTER 8: 1967-1977: NATIONALISM AND MESSIANISM -- CHAPTER 9: 1977-1995 -- CHAPTER 10: SINCE 1995 -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- INDEX