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International Ethics

A Critical Introduction

By: Richard Shapcott

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International Ethics

A Critical Introduction

By: Richard Shapcott

Is it is justifiable to make any basic moral distinction between 'insiders and outsiders'? Do we have substantive duties of 'justice' to all human beings or merely Humanitarian duties of aid and assistance? These are two of the most crucial questions confronting world politics and the field of international ethics today. International Ethics: A Critical Introduction provides an engaging and accessible introduction to these foundational questions. In a cogent and carefully argued analysis, Richard Shapcott critically examines the theories of cosmopolitanism, communitarianism, realism and pluralism and scrutinises their approaches to the various obligations which members of 'bounded' communities, primarily nation-states, have to 'outsiders' and 'foreigners'. He then takes the theoretical approaches in context by discussing the ethics of hospitality and membership of political communities, issues of mutual aid and humanitarianism abroad, the ethics of harm related to interstate international violence, and the challenge of severe global poverty. The book concludes by suggesting that the terms of international ethical life in the 21st century require reframing in a way that focuses more intently on the nature of harm between communities and individuals. This book provides students and scholars with a conceptual framework with which to analyse the policies, actions and philosophy of governments, NGOs and international corporations. Above all, it offers the means whereby individuals can assess their own positions on contemporary ethical issues such as global poverty, humanitarian intervention, migration and refugees and global warming.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745657435

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Justice, Community and Dialogue in International Relations

By: Richard Shapcott

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Justice, Community and Dialogue in International Relations

By: Richard Shapcott

A philosophical hermeneutic study of the problem of cultural diversity and international morality.

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284

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Cambridge University Press

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0521784476

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Theories of International Relations, Third Edition

By: Scott Burchill,Matthew Paterson,Christian Reus-Smit,Andrew Linklater,Richard Devetak,Jacqui True,Jack Donnelly

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Theories of International Relations, Third Edition

By: Scott Burchill,Matthew Paterson,Christian Reus-Smit,Andrew Linklater,Richard Devetak,Jacqui True,Jack Donnelly

The fully updated and revised third edition of this widely used text provides a comprehensive survey of leading perspectives in the field including an entirely new chapter on Realism by Jack Donnelly. The introduction explains the nature of theory and the reasons for studying international relations in a theoretically informed way. The nine chapters which follow--written by leading scholars in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand--provide thorough examinations of each of the major approaches currently prevailing in the discipline.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1403948658

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Strengthening the Responsibility to Protect

A Transitional Cosmopolitan Approach

By: Richard Illingworth

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Strengthening the Responsibility to Protect

A Transitional Cosmopolitan Approach

By: Richard Illingworth

This book provides a systematic analysis of reform measures aimed at strengthening the implementation of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P) doctrine, utilising a cosmopolitan lens. In 2005, member states of the United Nations (UN) accepted a ‘Responsibility to Protect’ against four mass atrocity crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing. Despite this commitment, mass atrocities remain a pervasive aspect of the international landscape. In addressing R2P reform, the book utilises a ‘transitional cosmopolitan’ lens. The aim of this transitional cosmopolitan approach is to promote incremental progress towards solving moral problems by operating within particular contexts and practical barriers to change. Three areas for reform are explored: the UN Security Council P5’s power of veto, to prevent the veto obstructing timely and decisive R2P response action; the powers of the UN General Assembly as an alternative means for responding to mass atrocity situations; and the establishment of an ‘R2P Commission’ to hold states accountable for their R2P commitments. These are not advocated as the definitive areas for R2P reform. However, each of the recommendations made can contribute at least some positive progress towards a more cosmopolitan application of the R2P that would help in curbing mass atrocity and improving the protection of fundamental human rights. This book will be of much interest to students of the Responsibility to Protect, genocide, humanitarian protection, and International Relations in general.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000968278

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Critical International Theory

An Intellectual History

By: Richard Devetak

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Critical International Theory

An Intellectual History

By: Richard Devetak

Whether inspired by the Frankfurt School or Antonio Gramsci, the impact of critical theory on the study of international relations has grown considerably since its advent in the early 1980s. This book offers the first intellectual history of critical international theory. Richard Devetak approaches this history by locating its emergence in the rising prestige of theory and the theoretical persona. As theory's prestige rose in the discipline of international relations it opened the way for normative and metatheoretical reconsiderations of the discipline and the world. The book traces the lines of intellectual inheritance through the Frankfurt School to the Enlightenment, German idealism, and historical materialism, to reveal the construction of a particular kind of intellectual persona: the critical international theorist who has mastered reflexive, dialectical forms of social philosophy. . In addition to the extensive treatment of critical theory's reception and development in international relations, the book recovers a rival form of theory that originates outside the usual inheritance of critical international theory in Renaissance humanism and the civil Enlightenment. This historical mode of theorising was intended to combat metaphysical encroachments on politics and international relations and to prioritise the mundane demands of civil government over the self-reflective demands of dialectical social philosophies. By proposing contextualist intellectual history as a form of critical theory, Critical International Theory defends a mode of historical critique that refuses the normative temptations to project present conceptions onto an alien past, and to abstract from the offices of civil government.

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Oxford University Press

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0192556606

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Annals of Windsor

Vol. II

By: Robert Richard Tighe,James Edward Davis

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Annals of Windsor

Vol. II

By: Robert Richard Tighe,James Edward Davis

Reprint of the original, first published in 1858. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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338232959X

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An Index to the Pedigrees and Arms Contained in the Heralds' Visitation

And Other Genealogical Manuscripts in the British Museum

By: Richard Sims

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An Index to the Pedigrees and Arms Contained in the Heralds' Visitation

And Other Genealogical Manuscripts in the British Museum

By: Richard Sims

The Heralds' Visitations were compiled by a Commission under the Privy Seal issued to the two provincial Kings-of-Arms. The arms were recorded with the descents, marriages, and issue, and, hence, the Visitations contain the pedigrees of the landed proprietors of the time entitled to bear arms. Since the Heralds' Visitations are unindexed, Mr. Sims set about, in this work, to index all the names of persons having pedigrees and coats of arms in the principal manuscripts in the British Museum. The arrangement is alphabetical by county and thereunder alphabetical by surname, with persons of the same surname being distinguished from each other by reference to place of residence. References are given after each name to the exact number of the manuscript wherein the pedigrees and coats of arms are contained.

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0806304006

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9780806304007

International Ethics

A Critical Introduction

By: Richard Shapcott

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A Critical Introduction

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Poetry

The Ultimate Guide

By: Richard Bradford

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Poetry

The Ultimate Guide

By: Richard Bradford

Richard Bradford's new introduction to poetry begins with and answers the slippery question, 'what is poetry?'. The book provides a compact history of English poetry from the 16th century to the present day and surveys the major critical and theoretical approaches to verse. It tackles the important issues of gender, race and nationality and concludes with a lengthy account of how to recognise good poetry. This engaging and readable book is accessible to all readers, from those who simply enjoy poetry through university first years to graduate students. Poetry: The Ultimate Guide provides the technical and critical tools you need to approach and evaluate poetry, and to articulate your own views.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137267917

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Sport in Australian Drama

By: Richard Fotheringham

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Sport in Australian Drama

By: Richard Fotheringham

Sport in Australian Drama, first published in 1992, provides an intelligent view of Australian society at play.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521401569

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The Complete Poems of Robert Herrick

Vol. II

By: Alexander Balloch Grosart,Roxburghe Club,Richard Barnfield

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The Complete Poems of Robert Herrick

Vol. II

By: Alexander Balloch Grosart,Roxburghe Club,Richard Barnfield

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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High-Latitude Rainforests and Associated Ecosystems of the West Coast of the Americas

Climate, Hydrology, Ecology and Conservation

By: Richard G. Lawford

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High-Latitude Rainforests and Associated Ecosystems of the West Coast of the Americas

Climate, Hydrology, Ecology and Conservation

By: Richard G. Lawford

Regional intercomparisons between ecosystems on different continents can be a powerful tool to better understand the ways in which ecosystems respond to global change. Large areas are often needed to characterize the causal mechanisms governing interactions between ecozones and their environments. Factors such as weather and climate patterns, land-ocean and land-atmosphere interactions all play important roles. As a result of the strong physical north-south symmetry between the western coasts of North and South America, the similarities in climate, coastal oceanography and physiography between these two regions have been extensively documented. High Latitude Rain Forests and Associated Ecosystems of the West Coast of the Americas presents current research on West Coast forest and river ecology, and compares ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest with those of South America.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387944877

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9780387944876

Wordsworth's Bardic Vocation, 1787-1842

By: Richard Gravil

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Wordsworth's Bardic Vocation, 1787-1842

By: Richard Gravil

Wordsworth's Bardic Vocation, the most comprehensive critical study of the poet since the 1960s, presents the poet as balladist, sonneteer, minstrel, elegist, prophet of nature, and national bard. The book argues that Wordsworth's uniquely various oeuvre is unified by his sense of bardic vocation. Like Walt Whitman or the bards of Cumbria, Wordsworth sees himself as 'the people's remembrancer'. Like them, he sings of nature and endurance, laments the fallen, fosters national independence and liberty. His task is to reconcile in one society 'the living and the dead' and to nurture both 'the people' and 'the kind'. Review Comment: 'This erudite exposition, profligate with its ideas ... succeeds as few others have done in apprehending Wordsworth's career holistically, incorporating all its diversities and apparent inconsistencies into a unified vision. It justifies fully the notion proposed by Hughes and Heaney that he was England's last national poet.' - Duncan Wu, Review of English Studies

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1847603459

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Data Management. Data, Data Everywhere

24th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 24, Glasgow, UK, July 3-5, 2007, Proceedings

By: Richard Cooper

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Data Management. Data, Data Everywhere

24th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 24, Glasgow, UK, July 3-5, 2007, Proceedings

By: Richard Cooper

This book features the refereed proceedings from the 24th British National Conference on Databases, held in Glasgow, Scotland in July 2007. The eighteen full papers and seven poster papers are presented, together with two invited contributions. Papers are organized into topical sections covering data applications, searching XML documents, querying XML documents, XML transformation, clustering and security, data mining, and extraction.

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3540733892

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Nutritional Approaches To Aging Research

By: Moment

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Nutritional Approaches To Aging Research

By: Moment

The general plan of this volume, Nutritional Approaches to Aging Research is for each chapter to present first a reasonably succinct state-of-the-art appraisal of present knowledge in the particular field or problem covered. This will vary considerable depending on the subject matter. Following this, each chapter will focus on the problems and pitfalls, both conceptual and technological, of work in the particular field and, no less important, present some of the opportunities and implications of work in that particular area.

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1351083570

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Book's by Richard Shapcott

International Ethics

International Ethics

Justice, Community and Dialogue in International Relations

Justice, Community and Dialogue in International Relations

Theories of International Relations, Third Edition

Theories of International Relations, Third Edition

Strengthening the Responsibility to Protect

Strengthening the Responsibility to Protect

Critical International Theory

Critical International Theory

Annals of Windsor

Annals of Windsor

An Index to the Pedigrees and Arms Contained in the Heralds' Visitation

An Index to the Pedigrees and Arms Contained in the Heralds' Visitation

International Ethics

International Ethics

Poetry

Poetry

Sport in Australian Drama

Sport in Australian Drama

The Complete Poems of Robert Herrick

The Complete Poems of Robert Herrick

High-Latitude Rainforests and Associated Ecosystems of the West Coast of the Americas

High-Latitude Rainforests and Associated Ecosystems of the West Coast of the Americas

Wordsworth's Bardic Vocation, 1787-1842

Wordsworth's Bardic Vocation, 1787-1842

Data Management. Data, Data Everywhere

Data Management. Data, Data Everywhere

Nutritional Approaches To Aging Research

Nutritional Approaches To Aging Research

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