The EU's human rights policies are plagued by double standards: it applies radically different approaches in its external and internal operations. In this book, Andrew Williams reveals the nature and scope of this bifurcation and the resultant discrimination, and argues that the ironical condition revealed undermines both the EU's commitment to human rights and its moral credibility.

EU Human Rights Policies: A Study in Irony (Oxford Studies in European Law)

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WILLIAMS, Andrew

Words, Language & Grammar

Oxford University Press

A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa

History

Middle East

JONATHAN CAPE.

Nightfall, 6th June 1944. D-Day is over and the Allies have carved a tenuous foothold in "Fortress Europe". The future of Europe hangs in the balance as Hitler's formidable SS Panzer troops threaten to drive them back into the sea. This is the remarkable story of the Allied struggle for survival - the battle from the beaches of Normandy to the heart of Hitler's Reich and ultimate victory just 11 months later. The campaign to free Europe from Nazi oppression through the collective operations from D-Day to Berlin mark one of the greatest ever military offensives. The Allies overcame initial setbacks to inflict a devastating defeat on Hitler's crack divisions in France - a victory that was threatened just months later in the bitter winter fighting of the Battle of the Bulge. The final crossing of the Rhine and the advance into Germany changed the course of European history forever. The text introduces men and women from both sides - British, American and German soldiers - who bravery and endurance made the final push through Europe the defining drama of World War II.

D-Day to Berlin

Hodder&Stoughton

Meaning and International Relations (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)

This innovative volume brings together specialists in international relations to tackle a set of difficult questions about what it means to live in a globalized world where the purpose and direction of world politics are no longer clear-cut. What emerges from these essays is a very clear sense that while we may be living in an era that lacks a single, universal purpose, ours is still a world replete with meaning. The authors in this volume stress the need for a pluralistic conception of meaning in a globalized world and demonstrate how increased communication and interaction in transnational spaces work to produce complex tapestries of culture and politics. Meaning and International Relations also makes an original and convincing case for the relevance of hermeneutic approaches to understanding contemporary international relations.

Politics & Social Sciences

Mandaville, Peter

Politics & Government

Routledge

Military power is now the main vehicle for regime change. The US army has been used on more than 30 different occasions in the post-Cold War world compared with just 10 during the whole of the Cold War era.  Leading scholar Andrew Williams tackles contemporary thinking on war with this detailed study on liberal thinking over the last century about how wars should be ended, using a vast range of historical archival material from diplomatic, other official and personal papers, which this study situates within the debates that have emerged in political theory. He examines the main strategies used at the end, and in the aftermath, of wars by liberal states to consolidate their liberal gains and to prevent the re-occurrence of wars with those states they have fought. This new study also explores how various strategies: revenge; restitution; reparation; restraint; retribution; reconciliation; and reconstruction, have been used by liberal states not only to defeat their enemies but also transform them. This is a major new contribution to contemporary thinking and action. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of politics, international relations and security studies.

Liberalism and War: The Victors and the Vanquished (New International Relations)

Andrew Williams delivers a detailed study on liberal thinking over the last century about how wars should be ended, examining the main strategies used by liberal states not only to defeat their enemies but also to transform them.

Conflict and Development (Routledge Perspectives on Development)

Over the past decade, a new awareness of the relationship between conflicts and development has grown. Developmental factors can act as a trigger for violence, as well as for ending violence and for triggering post-conflict reconstruction. This book explores the complexity of the links between violent conflict (usually civil wars) and development, under-development and uneven development. It emphasizes the connections between stable developed economies and civil wars in other parts of the world, and examines how structural factors (such as the organization of the global economy) virtually condemn some regions to conflict and under-development. This valuable introductory text explains, reviews and critically evaluates this complex relationship. It focuses on intra-state conflicts and complex political emergencies that combine transnational and internal characteristics. Attention is also given to inter-state conflicts. Chapters emphasize how the relationship between conflict and development traverses many scales (macro, meso and micro) and dimensions (economic, political and cultural). Furthermore it explains how different developmental challenges and opportunities emerge along the full life-cycle of conflict. Specifically, the role of poverty, state, market, civil society, globalization, humanitarian aid, refuges, gender and health within conflict dynamics are examined. The book also investigates specific developmental issues emerging during conflict management and post conflict reconstruction. Both authors have a background in conducting research in deeply divided societies, and argue that many of the processes connected with war and peace making deliberately write people out of the equation. This book attempts to ‘write people in’. By drawing on contemporary theoretical debates and examining current policies and events, the text unpacks the difficult and complex aspects of the relationships between armed conflict and development and makes them accessible, interesting and policy relevant. It considers how peace making, peace building, and post-war reconstruction are usually more sustainable and successful if politicians, policy makers, entrepreneurs and those working for international NGOs take on board local opinion and capacity. Written in an accessible style, the book considers the main contemporary theories and arguments on conflict, development and the interactions between the two. The text is illuminated throughout with case studies drawn from Africa, the Balkans, Asia and the Middle East.

Business & Money

Mac Ginty, Roger

Economics

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EU Human Rights Policies: A Study in Irony (Oxford Studies in European Law)

EU Human Rights Policies: A Study in Irony (Oxford Studies in European Law)

A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa

D-Day to Berlin

Meaning and International Relations (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)

Liberalism and War: The Victors and the Vanquished (New International Relations)

Liberalism and War: The Victors and the Vanquished (New International Relations)

Conflict and Development (Routledge Perspectives on Development)

Conflict and Development (Routledge Perspectives on Development)

Meaning and International Relations (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)