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Transfer of Arms, Leverage, and Peace in the Middle East
Although Israel has been primarily dependent on U.S. arms for its national security since 1968, supplying military aid has not conferred the degree of policy leverage anticipated by the United States. This study is the first to analyze the reasons why the tactics of transferring or withholding arms have failed to achieve U.S. foreign policy goals in the Middle East. Providing a thorough, up-to-date reexamination of the U.S.-Israeli relationship, Nachmias gives a comprehensive account of U.S. Middle East policy from 1968 to 1988 and explores the international and regional dilemmas that have undercut U.S. policy initiatives for peace. Nachmias argues that the use of military aid to achieve for...
The Politics of International Humanitarian Aid Operations
The theories and case studies examined in this volume constitute a thorough study of foreign intervention in civil conflicts for the purpose of rendering humanitarian aid. The classical paradigm of the ethics of intervention forbids the violation of territorial sovereignty. Public international law and the UN charter also mandate nonintervention within the territorial boundaries of a state. Nevertheless, in recent years, as a result of brutal civil conflicts and their violent and inhumane consequences—as in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Cambodia—international aid interventions have become an accepted practice. Still, international humanitarian aid involves unsettled, controversial issues—dilemmas concerning donors, recipients, and international organizations. These issues, as well as the concepts of sovereignty, human rights, coercive interventions, and peacekeeping, are critically evaluated in this volume, which will be of interest to scholars and policymakers in international relations, human rights, and military affairs.
Human Rights Interdependence in National and International Politics
This book offers a fresh approach to human rights by analyzing the role of institutional checks and balances, governmentalism and system's approach, intended for the prevention of human rights violations, the enforcement of human rights norms and rules, and important actors such as International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGO), and domestic Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). The book presents case studies that offer innovative, political, historical, and social perspectives on how the International Human Rights Regime (IHRG) is practiced. It critically examines the interpretation, inconsistency, and application of the human rights norms in the Global South, and shows how the national mobilization of human rights is directly affected by the interdependence existing between the national and the transnational levels. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students, and practitioners of human rights, and more broadly of comparative politics, international law, global governance, international and nongovernmental organizations.
The Politics of Forced Migration
They exist under the bland label of "displaced persons." Twenty-one million people, forced to surrender what they held dear and sent into exile, hope to return to their homes in every region of the earth. Their yearnings often have been thwarted by strategic and political constraints while both the international community and the wealthy nations have marginalized their plight. Through representative case studies from Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe, this book challenges the routine reaction to forced migration and argues that it has always been "too little too late." The authors conclude that lack of an adequate international legal regime; lack of adequate resources; lack of operational cooperation among the donors, and bureaucratic pathologies, are the main reasons for the continued suffering of forced migrants. The book addresses these issues and offers novel conceptual, legal and operational approaches towards revising the international refugee regime.
Peacekeeping and the UN Agencies
This book is a long overdue assessment of the role of the UN specialized Agencies in peacekeeping operations. Special emphasis is given to that most vexed category, 'complex emergencies', invloving entrapped or victimized civilian populations and a plethora of UN national military and NGO actors.While based on the full range of recent history, the contributions to this volume are forward looking and policy-oriented, bringing a hard edged practicality to complex and hitherto under-examined issues.
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Zionism, Post-Zionism & the Arab Problem
"Dr. Mazur's book is a must read! It will serve to uplift the young of our generation and strengthen their confidence and trust in the righteousness of the Zionist way " Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Moshe (Bogie) Ya'alon Vice Prime Minister & Minister of Strategic Affairs "Belongs in the permanent collection of core books owned by every person who loves Zion and cares about the welfare of the State of Israel " Zvi Hauser, Cabinet Secretary, Gov't of Israel "Definition of the problem is half the solution. Dr. Mazur's complete and comprehensive display of the core issues allows the reader to fully understand the Arab-Israeli conflict from the Zionist perspective and understand that world peace will not com...
Advocacy and Change in International Organizations
How do international organizations change? Many organizations expand into new areas or abandon programmes of work. Advocacy and Change in International Organizations argues that they do so not only at the collective direction of member states. Advocacy is a crucial but overlooked source of change in international organizations. Different actors can advocate for change: national diplomats, international bureaucrats, external experts, or civil society activists. They can use one of three advocacy strategies: social pressure, persuasion, and 'authority talk'. The success of each strategy depends on the presence of favourable conditions related to characteristics of advocates, targets, issues, a...
The Rise and Decline of a Global Security Actor
The Rise and Decline of a Global Security Actor investigates the rise of the UNHCR as a global security actor and follows the refugee agency through some of the past two decades' major conflict-induced humanitarian emergencies, including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq, Kosovo, and Zaire/Congo.
The United Nations under Dag Hammarskjold, 1953-1961
Organized around the major events that marked Hammarskjöld's eight and a half years in office, this volume takes stock of Hammarskjöld first as a person and then as an international functionary. Also included are a bibliography, chronology, index, and an appendix of significant documents.
