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  • The Gaza Tribunal

    Britain’s Complicity in Genocide

    ‘An extraordinary act of truth-telling and accountability for one of the greatest crimes of our time. This book is essential in the pursuit of justice for the Palestinian people’—Francesca Albanese‘We have learnt that “genocide denial” is a critical part of any genocidal project. The Gaza Tribunal is part of our resistance to the genocide, its enablement and its denial’—Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah‘At a ... Read more

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  • The Human Right to Dominate

    Series series Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics
    At the turn of the millennium, a new phenomenon emerged: conservatives, who just decades before had rejected the expanding human rights culture, began to embrace human rights in order to advance their political goals. In this book, Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon account for how human rights--generally conceived as a counter-hegemonic instrument for righting historical injustices--are being ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Human Shields

    A History of People in the Line of Fire

    A chilling global history of the human shield phenomenon.From Syrian civilians locked in iron cages to veterans joining peaceful indigenous water protectors at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, from Sri Lanka to Iraq and from Yemen to the United States, human beings have been used as shields for protection, coercion, or deterrence. Over the past decade, human shields have also appeared with ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Human Shields

    A History of People in the Line of Fire, Updated with a New Preface and Epilogue

    A chilling global history of the human shield phenomenon—now with urgent new reflections on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.In practically all contemporary wars, human shields are used to protect, coerce, deter, and legitimize lethal violence. Over the past decade, human shields have also appeared with increasing frequency in antinuclear struggles, civil and environmental protests, and even computer ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything

    Tales from the Pentagon

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    David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare, a ground-breaking theorist whose ideas "are revolutionizing military thinking throughout the west" (Washington Post). Indeed, his vision of modern warfare powerfully influenced the United States' decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the Surge," now recognized as a ... Read more

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  • After the Apocalypse

    America's Role in a World Transformed

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    A bold and urgent perspective on how American foreign policy must change in response to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Limits of Power and The Age of Illusions.The purpose of U.S. foreign policy has, at least theoretically, been to keep Americans safe. Yet as we confront a radically changed world, it has become indisputably ... Read more

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  • Restraint

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    America's Deadly Embrace of Counter-Insurgency

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  • The Big Stick

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    "Speak softly and carry a big stick" Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the right sentiment, perhaps, in an age of imperial rivalry but today many Americans doubt the utility of their global military presence, thinking it outdated, unnecessary or even dangerous.In The Big Stick, Eliot A. Cohen-a scholar and practitioner of ... Read more

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  • War Against the People

    Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification

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