National Insecurity And Human Rights
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Author | : Alison Brysk |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2007-10-22 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0520098609 |
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Author | : Melvin A. Goodman |
Publisher | : City Lights Books |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2013-02-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0872865959 |
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"Mel Goodman has spent the last few decades telling us what's gone wrong with American intelligence and the American military, and now, in National Insecurity, he tells us what we must do to change the way the system works, and how to fix it. Goodman is not only telling us how to save wasted billions—he is also telling us how to save ourselves."—Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker Upon leaving the White House in 1961, President Eisenhower famously warned Americans about the dangers of a "military industrial complex," and was clearly worried about the destabilizing effects of a national economy based on outsized investments in military spending. As more and more Americans fall into poverty and the global economy spirals downward, the United States is spending more on the military than ever before. What are the consequences and what can be done? Melvin A. Goodman, a twenty-four-year veteran of the CIA, brings peerless authority to his argument that US military spending is indeed making Americans poorer and less secure while undermining our political standing in the world. Drawing from his firsthand experience with war planners and intelligence strategists, Goodman offers an insider's critique of the US military economy from President's Eisenhower's farewell warning to Barack Obama's expansion of the military's power. He outlines a much needed vision for how to alter our military policy, practices and spending in order to better position the United States globally and enhance prosperity and security at home. Melvin A. Goodman is the Director of the National Security Project at the Center for International Policy. A former professor of international security at the National War College and an intelligence adviser to strategic disarmament talks in the 1970s, he is the author of several books, including the critically acclaimed The Failure of Intelligence.
Author | : Bryan S. Turner |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2015-10-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0271030445 |
Download Vulnerability and Human Rights Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The mass violence of the twentieth century’s two world wars—followed more recently by decentralized and privatized warfare, manifested in terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and other localized forms of killing—has led to a heightened awareness of human beings’ vulnerability and the precarious nature of the institutions they create to protect themselves from violence and exploitation. This vulnerability, something humans share amid the diversity of cultural beliefs and values that mark their differences, provides solid ground on which to construct a framework of human rights. Bryan Turner undertakes this task here, developing a sociology of rights from a sociology of the human body. His blending of empirical research with normative analysis constitutes an important step forward for the discipline of sociology. Like anthropology, sociology has traditionally eschewed the study of justice as beyond the limits of a discipline that pays homage to cultural relativism and the “value neutrality” of positivistic science. Turner’s expanded approach accordingly involves a truly interdisciplinary dialogue with the literature of economics, law, medicine, philosophy, political science, and religion.
Author | : David Rothkopf |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 161039738X |
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In the wake of 9/11, America and its people have experienced a sense of vulnerability unprecedented in the nation's recent history. Buffeted by challenges from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the financial crisis, from Washington dysfunction to the rise of China and the dawn of the era of cyber warfare, two very different presidents and their advisors have struggled to cope with a relentless array of new threats. You may think you know the story. But in National Insecurity, David Rothkopf offers an entirely new perspective into the hidden struggles, the surprising triumphs, and the shocking failures of those charged with leading the United States through one of the most difficult periods in its history. Thanks to his extraordinary access, Rothkopf provides fresh insights drawing on more than one hundred exclusive interviews with the key players who shaped this era. At its core, National Insecurity is the gripping story of a superpower in crisis, seeking to adapt to a rapidly changing world, sometimes showing inspiring resilience -- but often undone by the human flaws of those at the top, the mismanagement of its own system, the temptation to concentrate too much power within the hands of too few in the White House itself, and an unwillingness to draw the right lessons from the recent past. Nonetheless, within that story are unmistakable clues to a way forward that can help restore American leadership.
Author | : Chris Beyrer |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2007-09-28 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780801886478 |
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Provides critical evidenced based assessements and tools with which to investigate the role of rights abrogation in the health of populations.
Author | : Bertrand G. Ramcharan |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9004303146 |
Download United Nations Protection of Humanity and Its Habitat Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book is a study of the future of international law as well as the future of the United Nations. It is the first study ever bringing together the laws, policies and practices of the UN for the protection of the earth, the oceans, outer space, human rights, victims of armed conflicts and of humanitarian emergencies, the poor, the vulnerable and the disadvantaged world-wide. It reviews unprecedented dangers and challenges facing humanity such as climate change and weapons of mass destruction, and argues that the international law of the future must become an international law of security and of protection. It submits that the concept of international security in the UN Charter can no longer be restricted to situations of armed conflict but must be given its natural meaning: whatever threatens the security of humanity. It calls for the Security Council to perform its role as the guardian of the security of humankind and sees a leadership role for the UN Secretary-General in analysing and presenting challenges of international security and protection to the Security Council for its attention. Written by a seasoned scholar / practitioner of international law and the United Nations, who has served in key policy, peacemaking, peacekeeping and human rights positions in the United Nations, this book offers indispensable new vistas of international law and policy, and the future role of the United Nations.
Author | : Dapo Akande |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2020-02-13 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0198824777 |
Download Human Rights and 21st Century Challenges Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The world is faced with significant and interrelated challenges in the 21st century which threaten human rights in a number of ways. This book examines three of the largest issues of the century - armed conflict, environment, and poverty - and examines how these may be addressed using a human rights framework. It considers how these challenges threaten human rights and reassesses our understanding of human rights in the light of these issues. This multidisciplinary text considers both foundational and applied questions such as the relationship between morality and the laws of war, as well as the application of the International Human Rights Framework in cyber space. Alongside analyses from some of the most prominent lawyers, philosophers, and political theorists in the debate, each section includes contributions by those who have served as Special Rapporteurs within the United Nations Human Rights System on the challenges facing international human rights laws today.
Author | : Human Rights Watch |
Publisher | : Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | : 782 |
Release | : 2020-01-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1644210061 |
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The best country-by-country assessment of human rights. The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.
Author | : Human Rights Watch |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 681 |
Release | : 2014-02-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 144731848X |
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Human Rights Watch's 'World Report 2014' is their flagship 24th annual review of global trends and news in human rights.
Author | : Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2007-02-12 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1134134231 |
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Pt. 1. Concepts : it works in ethics, does it work in theory? -- pt. 2. Implications.