by Eric A. Heinze (2009)
"In this straightforward approach to the perplexing issue of humanitarian intervention, Eric A. Heinze incorporates insights from various strands of ethical, legal, and international relations theory. He identifies the conditions under which humanitarian intervention is morally permissible, establishes the extent to which such an ethical argument can be grounded in international law, and determines which actors are best equipped to undertake this task under prevailing political conditions. Heinze presents the reader with a number of empirical examples. The result is a more theoretically consistent - and therefore more practically workable - approach to humanitarian intervention."--Jacket.
John T. Rourke
This concise text provides students and instructors with a comprehensive overview of world politics, inviting them in a straightforward and accessible way to explore international relations and its new challenges.
[by] Marie Brookter, with Jean Curtis
Daughter of tenant farmers in rural Louisiana, Marie Brookter rose to become a University of Chicago graduate, a campaign worker for Mayor Richard M. Daley, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson, a television producer and a civil rights activist.
Richard Evans
Evans examines 20th century Chinese history, especially the rise of Communism and the Cultural Revolution, using the career of Deng Xiaoping as the focus.
Amanda Smullen
"Through comparative analysis this book examines and explains the official rhetoric of agency reform across consensus and adversarial political cultures. It traces the trajectory of talk about agency reform in The Netherlands, Sweden and Australia and identifies the national styles of speaking that mediated the agency idea"--