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The Laws of War in International Thought

By: Pablo Kalmanovitz

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The Laws of War in International Thought

By: Pablo Kalmanovitz

The Law of Armed Conflict is usually understood to be a regime of exception that applies only during armed conflict and regulates hostilities among enemies. It assigns privileges to states far beyond what they are allowed to do in peacetime, and it mandates certain protections for non-combatants, which can often be defeated by appeals to military necessity or advantage. The Laws of War in International Thought examines the intellectual history of the laws of war before their codification. It reconstructs the processes by which political and legal theorists built the laws' distinctive vocabularies and legitimized some of their broadest permissions, and it situates these processes within the broader intellectual project that from early modernity spelled out the nature, function, and powers of state sovereignty. The book focuses on four historical moments in the intellectual history of the laws of war: the doctrine of just war in Spanish scholasticism; Hugo Grotius's theory of solemn war; the Enlightenment theory of regular war; and late nineteenth-century humanitarianism. By looking at these moments, Pablo Kalmanovitz shows how challenging and polemical it has been for international theorists to justify the exceptional and permissive character of the laws of war. In this way, he contributes to recover a sense of the historical foundations and many still problematic aspects of the Law of Armed Conflict.

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Oxford University Press

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0192507419

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9780192507419

Democracy in Colombia

Clientelist Politics and Guerrilla Warfare

By: Jorge Pablo Osterling

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Democracy in Colombia

Clientelist Politics and Guerrilla Warfare

By: Jorge Pablo Osterling

Â In what is destined to prove the definitive text for the present generation on the political, economic, and social structure of Colombia, Jorge Pablo Osterling explores the enigmatic nature of this special, even critical, anchor to the northern tier of South America. In many ways, Colombia is a huge success story: it is one of the oldest, most stable, functioning democracies; the land is blessed with rich and diversified resources and products; and its foreign debt has been kept in check as a consequence of sound economic management. But despite its positive social, cultural, economic, and political indicators, Colombia has been a nation beset by serious problems: overt corruption and unemployment are very high; and its public service facilities to outlying rural areas remain weak, thus making schooling, water supplies, health care, and electrification hard to establish at high levels. Above all, Colombia has a reputation, well earned, as one of the most violent nations in the world. Drug trafficking, common crime, and guerrilla activity are all pandemic and conspire to destabilize the regime. In this straightforward, compelling account, Osterling shows how this paradox has evolved, and why it has persisted over the past fifty years. He draws attention to parallel political structures: a functioning set of civilian institutions that coexist alongside one of the most powerful closed, hierarchical political elites in Latin America. Osterling locates the central problem of the maintenance of interpersonal relations as being more important to the functioning of Colombian society than impersonal norms. This is a country in which political bosses vie with popular democracy for control of the country.

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390

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Transaction Publishers

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1412821525

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9781412821520

Distributive Justice in Transitions

By: Morten Bergsmo,César Rodriguez-Garavito,Pablo Kalmanovitz,Maria Paula Saffon

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Distributive Justice in Transitions

By: Morten Bergsmo,César Rodriguez-Garavito,Pablo Kalmanovitz,Maria Paula Saffon

The chapters of this book explore, from different disciplinary perspectives, the relationship between transitional justice, distributive justice, and economic efficiency in the settlement of internal armed conflicts. They specifically discuss the role of land reform as an instrument of these goals, and examine how the balance between different perspectives has been attempted (or not) in selected cases of internal armed conflicts, and how it should be attempted in principle. Although most chapters closely examine the Colombian case, some provide a comparative perspective that includes countries in Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe, while others examine some of the more general, theoretical issues involved.

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Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher

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8293081120

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9788293081128

The Laws of War in International Thought

By: Pablo Kalmanovitz

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The Laws of War in International Thought

By: Pablo Kalmanovitz

This book investigates the intellectual history of the laws of war. It reconstructs the distinctive ways of thinking about the legal regulation of war in history, contrasts these to more familiar just war and realist approaches, and shows how closely connected they have been to the process of spelling out the nature, function, and powers of state sovereignty.

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0198790252

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9780198790259

God's Zoo

By: Pablo Urbanyi

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God's Zoo

By: Pablo Urbanyi

The novel recounts some of the childhood experiences of Fénix, a boy who grows up in the Hungarian city of Ipolyság, within the context of the German invasion and the subsequent Russian advance and domination of Hungary. Fénix, who supposedly got his name because he was born at the "dawn" of the Second World War, which his parents believed to be "Humanity's rebirth, when technology, medicine and other sciences [would take] a great leap", lives in a loveless world, with his mother, an utterly cold materialist, and his father, at the head of his handicrafts factory by day, or at the Casino amusing himself with prostitutes by night. And so, abandoned by his natural parents, little Fénix seeks refuge in the love of Judit, daughter of the peasant family that lives behind his mansion, and tends the animals, orchard and vegetables; she works as a servant in the home while she looks after Fénix. Judit and Fénix build a relationship that is at the same time a combination of friendship, brotherhood, motherhood, deep love and sexuality. During the war, from the first appearance of Hungarian troops that recapture the city for Hungary from Czechoslovakia, the arrival of the Nazis who take the Jews out of the city (including Fénix's best friend) and send them to un unknown destination, up to the takeover of the city by the Russians, the love between Judit and Fénix perseveres and grows, until Judit's sudden death when she steps on a mine."--

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The Laws of War in International Thought

The Laws of War in International Thought

Democracy in Colombia

Democracy in Colombia

Distributive Justice in Transitions

Distributive Justice in Transitions

The Laws of War in International Thought

The Laws of War in International Thought

God's Zoo

God's Zoo

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