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El tráfico y el consumo de drogas ilegales es una problemática global que ha sido abordada en espacios nacionales, regionales y multilaterales desde diferentes perspectivas. En América Latina y en Colombia se ha impuesto una estrategia prohibicionista, sin embargo, esta obra reflexiona sobre las consecuencias de ésta y la importancia de dirigir el debate hacia un enfoque de derechos humanos y salud pública.
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This book is based on an in-depth, filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Emilie Hafner-Burton, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of International Justice and Human Rights at UC San Diego and co-director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation at the School. This extensive conversation covers topics such international law, when and why international laws work and don't work, the international human rights system...
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Noah Weisbord is associate professor of law at Queen's University in Canada and served on the International Criminal Court's working group that drafted the crime of aggression. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.
A gripping behind-the-scenes account of the dramatic legal fight to hold leaders personally responsible for aggressive war
On July 17, 2018, starting an unjust war became a prosecutable international crime alongside genocide, crimes against...
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Noam Chomsky discusses Western power and propaganda with filmmaker and investigative journalist Andre Vltchek.
This book is the perfect introduction to Chomsky's political thinking, and makes a refreshing read for anyone who is uneasy about the West's wider role in the world.
Beginning with the New York newsstand where Chomsky started his political education as a teenager, the discussion broadens out to encompass colonialism and imperial...
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Dialogar sobre la justicia y los derechos es en sí mismo dialogar acerca de los márgenes de protección que se establecen en la Constitución. De modo tal que la presente obra se constituye como un acierto alrededor del desarrollo investigativo de profesores de la Institución Universitaria de Envigado, la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California , la Universidad de Medellín y la Fundación Universitaria Colombo Internacional.
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The domestic phase of Washington's war on drugs has received considerable criticism over the years from a variety of individuals. Until recently, however, most critics have not stressed the damage that the international phase of the drug war has done to our Latin American neighbors. That lack of attention has begun to change and Ted Carpenter chronicles our disenchantment with the hemispheric drug war. Some prominent Latin American political leaders...
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Hans J. Morgenthau es un autor fundamental para el estudio de las relaciones internacionales y es considerado uno de los máximos exponentes del realismo político. Este libro propone una reconstrucción de su pensamiento que permita interpretar la teoría de la política internacional de Morgenthau no solo como una herramienta al servicio del poder, sino también como una palanca a favor de la paz entre las naciones. El papel, prudente y sabio, de...
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"Winner of the 2015 Certificate of Merit for a Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship, American Society of International Law" "Winner of the 2015 International Law Best Book Award, International Law Section of the International Studies Association" "Honorable Mention for the 2015 Chadwick Alger Award, International Studies Association" Karen J. Alter is professor of political science and law at Northwestern University and a permanent visiting...
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Michael W. Doyle is the Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law, and Political Science at Columbia University. He served as assistant secretary-general and special adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and is currently the chair of the U.N. Democracy Fund. His books include Making War and Building Peace (Princeton) and Ways of War and Peace.
Does the United States have the right to defend itself by striking first, or must it...
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Noam Chomsky says that the freedom to challenge power is not just an opportunity, it's a responsibility. For the past several years Chomsky has been writing essays for The New York Times Syndicate to do just that: challenge power and expose the global consequences of U.S. policy and military actions worldwide. Interventions is a collection of these essays, revised and updated with notes by the author. While Chomsky's New York Times Syndicate writings...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006" Michael Ignatieff is Carr Professor of Human Rights Practice and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His numerous books include Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (Princeton) and The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror.
With the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, the most controversial...
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Jeremy A. Rabkin is Professor of Government at Cornell University, where he teaches courses on international law and American constitutional history.
What authority does international law really have for the United States? When and to what extent should the United States participate in the international legal system? This forcefully argued book by legal scholar Jeremy Rabkin provides an insightful new look at this important and much-debated question.
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In Lawmaking under Pressure, Giovanni Mantilla analyzes the origins and development of the international humanitarian treaty rules that now exist to regulate internal armed conflict. Until well into the twentieth century, states allowed atrocious violence as an acceptable product of internal conflict. Why have states created international laws to control internal armed conflict? Why did states compromise their national security by accepting these...
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On August 21, 2013, chemical weapons were unleashed on the civilian population in Syria, killing another 1,400 people in a civil war that had already claimed the lives of more than 140,000. As is all too often the case, the innocent found themselves victims of a violent struggle for political power. Such events are why human rights activists have long pressed for institutions such as the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and prosecute...
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The United States has a unique leadership role because it is made up of people from different ethnic, racial and religious backgrounds. Elected leaders have very close ties to their old countries that international relations to those countries are very personal. In this book, you will study some of the reasons for the United States' influence. You will also read about the leadership roles the US have internationally.
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Wael B. Hallaq boldly argues that the "Islamic state," judged by any standard definition of what the modern state represents, is both an impossible and inherently self-contradictory concept. Comparing the legal, political, moral, and constitutional histories of pre-modern Islam and Euro-America, he finds the adoption and practice of the modern state to be highly problematic for modern Muslims. He then conducts a more expansive critique of modernity's...
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For the first time in a book, defence counsel, investigators, journalists, and academics pool their knowledge and experience to answer the burning questions. What has happened to the fundamental principles of the sovereign equality of nations and the right of self-determination? Why do international criminal tribunals target Africa? How has international criminal justice affected the lives of citizens throughout the world? What about universal jurisdiction?...
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Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan traces the history of America's increasing commitment to nations and regions around the world, arguing that the U.S. is following the paths of other great powers that have fallen victim to imperial overstretch; and argues for a new foreign policy based on George Washington's policy of isolationism.
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"Melting ice, a military arms race, the rush to exploit resources at any cost-the Arctic is now the stage on which our future will be decided. And as temperatures rise and the ice retreats, Vladimir Putin orders Russia's oil rigs to move north. But one early September morning in 2013 thirty men and women from eighteen countries-the crew of Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise-decide to draw a line in the ice and protest the drilling in the Arctic. Thrown together...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005" Noah Feldman is Professor of Law at New York University and, in 2003, was Senior Constitutional Adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. He is the author of After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003).
What do we owe Iraq?
America is up to its neck in nation building--but the public debate, focused on getting the troops home,...
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