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The Justification of Responsibility in the UN Security Council

Practices of Normative Ordering in International Relations

By: Holger Niemann

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The Justification of Responsibility in the UN Security Council

Practices of Normative Ordering in International Relations

By: Holger Niemann

The UN Security Council has been given the primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. The precise meaning of this responsibility, however, is contested. This lack of clarity is frequently criticised as a source of incoherent and selective decision-making, undermining the legitimacy of the Security Council. In case studies of the Security Council’s controversies on Iraq and Syria, this book instead reveals contestation and competing interpretations of responsibility as crucial conditions for the constitution and negotiation of normative order. The case studies also underline the importance of public Security Council meetings as dynamic sites for coping with a plurality of normative orders and how their symbolic and material manifestations shape processes of collective legitimation. This book concludes that these processes demonstrate the crucial role of justification and critique as practices of normative ordering in the Security Council. The Justification of Responsibility in the UN Security Council argues that normative orders in international organisations are constructed by multifaceted processes of questioning, reaffirming and coordinating claims of normativity and legitimacy. Connecting research on norms and legitimacy in international relations with pragmatist sociology, the book provides an account of the complexities and inconsistencies of decision-making processes and their normative foundations in international organisations. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of international organisations, international relations theory and global governance.

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Routledge

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1351336932

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On a Knife Edge

How Germany Lost the First World War

By: Holger Afflerbach

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On a Knife Edge

How Germany Lost the First World War

By: Holger Afflerbach

Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of the war was actually in the balance until relatively late in the war. Using new evidence from diaries, letters and memoirs, he fundamentally revises our understanding of German strategy from the decision to go to war and the failure of the western offensive to the radicalisation of Germany's war effort under Hindenburg and Ludendorff and the ultimate collapse of the Central Powers. He uncovers the struggles in wartime Germany between supporters of peace and hardliners who wanted to fight to the finish. He suggests that Germany was not nearly as committed to all-out conquest as previous accounts argue. Numerous German peace advances could have offered the opportunity to end the war before it dragged Europe into the abyss.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108967183

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Sound Insulation in Buildings

By: Jens Holger Rindel

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Sound Insulation in Buildings

By: Jens Holger Rindel

The book explains sound insulation in buildings at a level suitable for both graduate students and expert consultants. Theoretical models are set out for sound transmission in buildings, with an emphasis on thick and heavy constructions. Thus, the description is not restrained by the common assumption of bending waves which is characteristic of thin plates, only. A general description is provided, with the modal density in the structures as a key parameter. At low frequencies statistical energy analysis is replaced by modal energy analysis. Sound transmission through windows and facades is represented by a model that allows any angle on incidence, including the special case of grazing incidence. One chapter is devoted to the subjective evaluation of sound insulation, particularly noise from neighbours, and how this can be applied in a sound classification scheme for dwellings. Measurement methods in building acoustics are presented with emphasis on modern methods using MLS signals or sine sweeps. The analysis and estimation of measurement uncertainty is discussed in detail. In a final chapter examples of experimental buildings with high sound insulation are explained.

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CRC Press

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1351230727

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Luxury Fleet

The Imperial German Navy 1888-1918

By: Holger Herwig

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Luxury Fleet

The Imperial German Navy 1888-1918

By: Holger Herwig

Originally published in 1980 ‘Luxury’ Fleet (the phrase was Winston Churchill’s) was the first history of the Imperial German navy from 1888 to 1918. After tracing the historical background to German naval ambitions, the first two sections of the book analyse Admiral Tirpitz’s programme of building a battle fleet strong enough to engage the Royal Navy in the North Sea. The author shows the fleet in its European setting and describes the warships and the attitudes of the officer corps and seamen. The final section of the book discusses the tactical deployment of the German fleet during the First World War, both in home waters and overseas; and it weighs the balance between those who supported fleet actions in preference to those who favoured cruiser and submarine warfare.

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Routledge

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1317703669

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Drugs on Trial

Experimental Pharmacology and Therapeutic Innovation in the Eighteenth-Century

By: Andreas-Holger Maehle

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Drugs on Trial

Experimental Pharmacology and Therapeutic Innovation in the Eighteenth-Century

By: Andreas-Holger Maehle

This book describes the main issues of eighteenth-century pharmacology and therapeutics and provides detailed case studies of three key areas: lithontriptics (remedies against urinary stones), opium, and Peruvian bark (quinine).

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BRILL

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9004333290

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9789004333291

The Marne, 1914

The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World

By: Holger H. Herwig

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The Marne, 1914

The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World

By: Holger H. Herwig

For the first time in a generation, here is a bold new account of the Battle of the Marne, a cataclysmic encounter that prevented a quick German victory in World War I and changed the course of two wars and the world. With exclusive information based on newly unearthed documents, Holger H. Herwig re-creates the dramatic battle and reinterprets Germany’s aggressive “Schlieffen Plan” as a carefully crafted design to avoid a protracted war against superior coalitions. He paints a fresh portrait of the run-up to the Marne and puts in dazzling relief the Battle of the Marne itself: the French resolve to win, and the crucial lack of coordination between Germany’s First and Second Armies. Herwig also provides stunning cameos of all the important players, from Germany’s Chief of General Staff Helmuth von Moltke to his rival, France’s Joseph Joffre. Revelatory and riveting, this is the source on this seminal event.

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Random House

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1588369099

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9781588369093

The Justification of Responsibility in the UN Security Council

Practices of Normative Ordering in International Relations

By: Holger Niemann

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The Justification of Responsibility in the UN Security Council

The Justification of Responsibility in the UN Security Council

On a Knife Edge

On a Knife Edge

Sound Insulation in Buildings

Sound Insulation in Buildings

Luxury Fleet

Luxury Fleet

Drugs on Trial

Drugs on Trial

The Marne, 1914

The Marne, 1914

The Justification of Responsibility in the UN Security Council

The Justification of Responsibility in the UN Security Council

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