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Private Armies and Military Intervention
This paper seeks to step back from the moral arguments surrounding private military intervention in civil conflicts, arguing that the view that 'military companies' are merely 'modern-day mercenaries' obscures the strategic implications of their activities for current conflict-resolution thinking.
The Market for Force
The legitimate use of force is generally presumed to be the realm of the state. However, the flourishing role of the private sector in security over the last twenty years has brought this into question. In this book Deborah Avant examines the privatization of security and its impact on the control of force. She describes the growth of private security companies, explains how the industry works, and describes its range of customers – including states, non-government organisations and commercial transnational corporations. She charts the inevitable trade-offs that the market for force imposes on the states, firms and people wishing to control it, suggests a new way to think about the control of force, and offers a model of institutional analysis that draws on both economic and sociological reasoning. The book contains case studies drawn from the US and Europe as well as Africa and the Middle East.
Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution
Conflict resolution theory has become relevant to the various challenges faced by the United Nations peacekeeping forces as efforts are made to learn from the traumatic and devastating impact of the many civil wars that have erupted in the 1990s. This work analyzes the theory.
The Anatomy of Terror
An edited volume which brings together the work of the leading historians on the subject of Stalin's Terror in the 1930s, underpinning new, innovative approaches and opening new perspectives in the field.
Biochar for Environmental Management
"Biochar is the carbon-rich product when biomass (such as wood, manure, or crop residues) is heated in a closed container with little or no available air. It can be used to improve agriculture and the environment in several ways, and its stability in soil and superior nutrient-retention properties make it an ideal soil amendment to increase crop yields. In addition to this, biochar sequestration, in combination with sustainable biomass production, can be carbon-negative and therefore used to actively remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, with major implications for mitigation of climate change. Biochar production can also be combined with bioenergy production through the use of the gase...
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Towards New Global Strategies
Preface; Introduction - Erik André Andersen and Birgit Lindsnæs; 1. Global public goods - concepts and definitions: The state and the citizen: Natural law as a public good - Peter Wivel; Public goods: Concept, definition, and method - Erik André Andersen and Birgit Lindsnæs; On human rights - Lone Lindholt and Birgit Lindsnæs; The global and the regional outlook: How can global public goods be advanced from a human rights perspective? - Birgit Lindsnæs. 2. Peace and security: Peace as a global public good - Bjørn Møller; International institutions for preserving peace and security - Erik André Andersen; The law of war - Rikke Ishøy; The case of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Erik André ...
Outraged
A collection of short pieces on topics dear to Paul Henry’s heart – some outrage him, some will outrage you, and others will outrage everybody. A smattering of sample topics: tipping; political zealots of all persuasion; dog owners; people who just stop at the top of escalators; roadwork signs that haven't been put away; closed-minded people; queueing; people who steal the magic from chidren's eyes; rubbish on the street; surcharges; children on planes; Twitter; wine served too cold; lights left on when no one's in the room PLUS much more. There are even terrific pieces on things Paul loves such as baseball; Las Vegas; nudity; road trips; boats; and knowing he's right. Written with the same flair, comic genius and deadpan delivery as his first bestselling book What was I thinking this is an excellent read that'll leave you chuckling, even if you disapprove of much of the content.
