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Nentwich, Julia C., and Franziska Vogt, eds. (Un)doing Gender empirisch. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-32863-4.

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Frazer, Bianca C., and Heather R. Walker, eds. (Un)doing Diabetes: Representation, Disability, Culture. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83110-3.

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Küffner, Carla. Un/doing deportation – Die Arbeit an der Ausreisepflicht. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-38107-3.

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Krammer, Stefan, and Marlen Bidwell-Steiner. (Un)Doing Gender als gelebtes Unterrichtsprinzip: Sprache-Politik-Performanz. Wien: Facultas.WUV, 2010.

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Carolyn, Birdsall, ed. Inside knowledge: (un)doing ways of knowing in the humanities. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.

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Krzyżanowski, Michał. (Un)Doing Europe: Discourses and practices of negotiating the EU constitution. Bruxelles: Peter Lang, 2007.

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Phillipa, Kafka. ( Un)doing the missionary position: Gender asymmetry in contemporary Asian American women's writing. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1997.

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Schemien, Alexia. Of virgins, curanderas, and wrestler saints: Un/doing religion in contemporary Mexican American literature. Trier: WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2018.

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Brigitte, Lévy, and Andrew Caroline, eds. Evaluating experiences: Doing development with women = Un bilan des expériences de développement avec les femmes. Ottawa: University of Ottawa & Canadian Association for the Study of International Development, 1995.

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dos Santos Pinto, Jovita, Pamela Ohene-Nyako, Mélanie-Evely Pétrémont, Anne Lavanchy, Barbara Lüthi, Patricia Purtschert, and Damir Skenderovic, eds. Un/doing Race. Seismo Verlag AG, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.33058/seismo.20745.

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dos Santos Pinto, Jovita, Pamela Ohene-Nyako, Mélanie-Evely Pétrémont, Anne Lavanchy, Barbara Lüthi, Patricia Purtschert, and Damir Skenderovic, eds. Un/doing Race. Seismo Verlag AG, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.33058/seismo.30819.

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Hirschauer, Stefan, ed. Un/doing Differences. Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783845292540.

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Haeckel, Maya Victoria. (un-)doing Flamenco. GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2019.

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LAV, DOS SANTOS PINTO. UN/DOING RACE. RACIALISATION EN SUISSE. SEISMO, 2022.

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Un-Dieting: Un-Doing the Diet Mentality...and Staying Trim Forever. 1st Books Library, 2000.

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Smith, Frederick J. A Rediscovery of Free Will: An Un-Doing. Dandelion Books, LLC, 2007.

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Küffner, Carla. Un/doing Deportation - Die Arbeit an der Ausreisepflicht. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, 2022.

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A rediscovery of free will: An un-doing. Tempe, Ariz: Dandelion Books, 2006.

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Hirschauer, Stefan, and Damaris Nübling. Namen und Geschlechter: Studien Zum Onymischen un/doing Gender. de Gruyter GmbH, Walter, 2018.

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Hirschauer, Stefan, and Damaris Nübling. Namen und Geschlechter: Studien Zum Onymischen un/doing Gender. de Gruyter GmbH, Walter, 2018.

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Hirschauer, Stefan, and Damaris Nübling. Namen und Geschlechter: Studien Zum Onymischen un/doing Gender. de Gruyter GmbH, Walter, 2018.

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Learning by Doing. un Monde Connecté: Créer un Objet Connecté Avec Arduino et Blynk. Independently Published, 2020.

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Reinardy, Scott. Journalism's Lost Generation: The un-Doing of U. S. Newspaper Newsrooms. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

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Unzipping the Parka: Stories of Minnesotans Doing Very Un-Minnesotan Things. Landon Books LLC, 2016.

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Reinardy, Scott. Journalism's Lost Generation: The un-Doing of U. S. Newspaper Newsrooms. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

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Mauerer, Gerlinde. Schritt Für Schritt: Väterkarenzen und un-Doing Gender in der Familienarbeit. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2022.

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Weitkämper, Florian. Lehrkräfte und soziale Ungleichheit: Eine ethnographische Studie zum un/doing authority in Grundschulen. Springer VS, 2018.

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Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel: Order, Form, and Creative Un-Doing. Routledge, 2023.

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Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel: Order, Form, and Creative Un-Doing. Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.

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Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel: Order, Form, and Creative Un-Doing. Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.

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Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel: Order, Form, and Creative Un-Doing. Routledge, 2023.

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Learning by Doing. un Monde Sous Android: Initiation Par la Pratique Au développement Android. Independently Published, 2021.

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Sokolova, Karina, and Charles Perez. Learning by Doing. un Monde de Données: Initiation Sans Prérequis Au Domaine de la Donnée. Independently Published, 2020.

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Shepherd, Laura J. Gender, UN Peacebuilding, and the Politics of Space. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199982721.001.0001.

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The United Nations is an organization founded at least in part on hope: hope for a postwar future offering security, human rights, justice, “social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom.” This book documents some of the ways in which the UN engages with peacebuilding as a practice of hope, under the auspices of the UN Peacebuilding Commission that was created in 2005. Hope was part of the Commission’s foundational mandate: the hope that the Commission, as a principal actor in the UN peacebuilding apparatus, would “integrate a gender perspective into all of its work”; and the hope that the Commission would “consult with civil society, non-governmental organizations, including women’s organizations, and the private sector engaged in peacebuilding activities, as appropriate.” This book engages with the work that gender is doing conceptually to organize the way that peacebuilding is defined, enacted, and resourced, as well as exploring the ways in which women, gender, and civil society are constructed in UN peacebuilding discourse. Laying bare the logics of gender and space that organize the discourse, the author argues that these constructions work independently and together to constitute the terrain of UN peacebuilding discourse in three ways: to create “conditions of impossibility” in the implementation of peacebuilding activities that take gender seriously as a power dynamic; to heavily circumscribe women’s meaningful participation in peacebuilding; and to produce hierarchies that paradoxically undermine the contemporary emphasis on “bottom-up” governance of peacebuilding activities.
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Rodley, Nigel S. R2P and International Law. Edited by Alex J. Bellamy and Tim Dunne. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198753841.013.11.

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Reluctant for its first two decades to consider states’ human rights performance, the UN gradually developed an extensive network of machinery to examine human rights violations in some states and categories of violation in all states. Action was limited to investigation and condemnation. The overwhelming majority of states and commentators rejected the notion of ‘humanitarian intervention’ that had had some currency until the UN Charter’s proscription of the use of force by states. It took the UN sixty years to accept that the Security Council could and should take necessary coercive measures, including armed force, to confront the most extreme forms of human rights violation or atrocity such as genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. In doing so, it sanctified a new doctrine and codified its scope. Political and material realities seem to require sober expectations about the UN’s actual ability to protect populations from these atrocities.
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von Billerbeck, Sarah, Birte Julia Gippert, Kseniya Oksamytna, and Oisín Tansey. United Nations Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191925474.001.0001.

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Abstract Why do countries hosting United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations tend to consolidate authoritarian forms of governance, despite the UN’s own stated aim of promoting democratization? This book advances a theoretically innovative and empirically rich answer to this question: while the UN does not intentionally promote authoritarianism, it faces a number of constraints and dilemmas that give rise to what we call authoritarian enabling. Enabling can occur through two mechanisms, capacity-building and the creation of a permissive environment, which enhance the ability of host governments to engage in authoritarian behavior and signal to them that doing so is low cost. We illustrate these two mechanisms with four in-depth case studies of UN peacekeeping operations: the UN Transitional Administration in Cambodia (UNTAC), the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo / UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC/MONUSCO), the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti / Mission des Nations Unies pour la Stabilisation en Haïti (MINUSTAH), and the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). While enabling stops short of the outright promotion of authoritarianism, it explains why the UN’s activities often appear to contradict its stated objectives and the outcomes it delivers fall short of its goals. In addition to its theoretical and empirical contributions, the book suggests how these dilemmas and challenges can be overcome.
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Trapp, Kimberley. Can Non-State Actors Mount an Armed Attack? Edited by Marc Weller. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780199673049.003.0031.

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Article 2(4) of the UN Charter prohibits the use of force between States. In so doing, it addresses itself to a strictly interstate context and does not speak to the phenomenon of uses of force by non-state actors (NSAs). The question examined in this chapter is whether the exception to that prohibition—the right to use force in self-defence—is nevertheless responsive to the war-making capacity of NSAs. Otherwise put, is the definition of ‘armed attack’ in Article 51 of the UN Charter (and related customary international law) conditioned on the attacker being a state? In exploring this question, the chapter considers whether attribution is a necessary condition (in ratione personae terms) for the applicability of Article 51 by assessing the language of the Charter (including its travaux préparatoires), jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice, and state practice.
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Wirthle, Tobias. Immediate and Progressive Realisation in International Human Rights Law. Hart Publishing, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509982509.

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This book makes a new and original contribution to the old debate about differences between socio-economic and civil and political rights, which has engaged human rights discourse over several decades.Although scholars and practitioners now agree that these categories are more alike than originally assumed, they continue to delineate them based on the alleged difference between immediate and progressive realisation. The book asks whether this differentiation is still valid by exploring the historical and theoretical background, the text of relevant UN human rights treaties, and the practice of the UN human rights committees. By so doing, it shows that the standards of realisation converge more than diverge and that this last remaining distinction should be abandoned. Human rights lawyers, advocates, practitioners and policy makers will find this book invaluable as it brings much needed clarification to this key question.
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Salton, Herman T. Security Council. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198733591.003.0006.

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This chapter looks at the decision-making process of the Security Council on Rwanda and considers its most visible conundrum: why did states unanimously decide to reduce UNAMIR in late April 1994, only to reverse their position in early May? The chapter addresses this question by considering the Council’s informal (or secret) consultations of April and May 1994 and by assessing them alongside the recollections of UN officials (including the SG’s Special Representative to the Council) and the Goulding Archive. In so doing, the chapter questions a number of assumptions about the Rwandan crisis: that the SC was united in its opposition to the peacekeeping mission; that states only pursued their national interests; and that the Secretariat had no influence over the Council.
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Laurence, Marion. Intrusive Impartiality. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197747575.001.0001.

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Abstract Impartiality is a central norm in United Nations peace operations, a guiding principle that has helped legitimize multilateral intervention in dozens of armed conflicts around the world. In practice, it has long been associated with passive monitoring of cease-fires and peace agreements. In the twenty-first century, however, its meaning has been stretched to permit a range of forceful, intrusive, and ideologically prescriptive practices, all in the name of building durable peace. How did this happen? Intrusive Impartiality draws on original interview and archival data to explain how new ways of practicing impartiality emerge, spread, and become institutionalized in UN peace operations. It shows that new ways of practicing impartiality are products of contestation, learning, and the interplay between top-down pressures and bottom-up drivers of change in UN peace operations. These findings challenge top-down theories of change in international organizations by foregrounding the creativity and agency of the field staff who are responsible for translating mandates into action. Intrusive Impartiality explains why peacekeepers approach their work differently based on past experience and it shows how they adjust their day-to-day practices to suit local circumstances. The book also demonstrates that they are continuously learning from each other in real time. Combining insights from practice theory and the literature on norm contestation, Intrusive Impartiality provides an innovative framework for studying authority and change in global governance. In doing so, the book sheds light on controversial changes in peacekeeping practice and yields important insights for policymakers about leadership, staffing, hiring, and training for UN peacekeepers.
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Bellamy, Alex J., and Tim Dunne, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198753841.001.0001.

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In 2005, world leaders made a unanimous commitment to the responsibility to protect (R2P) principle. This Handbook provides a comprehensive assessment of the theory, politics, and practice of R2P, which interrogates its place in world politics and key international institutions, its impact and relationship with the most significant contemporary crises and its future trajectories. In so doing, this book provides a one-stop ‘shop’ for R2P focused around seven themes: ‘history’—examining the evolution of sovereignty, responsibility, and humanitarian intervention; ‘theory’—evaluating the key normative and conceptual puzzles provoked by R2P; ‘institutions’—examining the implementation of R2P through global institutions, especially the UN; ‘regional perspectives’—charting how different parts of the world relate to R2P; ‘cross-cutting themes’—focusing on its relationship with peacebuilding, peacekeeping, gender, protection, and other thematic issues; ‘cases’—exploring how R2P relates to the most pressing international problems; and ‘future trajectories’—where leading thinkers and practitioners reflect on the norm’s future.
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Adrián, Francisco-J. Hernández, and Angelos Theocharis, eds. River Delta Futures. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350417649.

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How are climate change, weather-related disasters, food and water insecurity, and energetic and infrastructural collapse narrated audiovisually in the most environmentally vulnerable areas of the Planet? This book addresses this and related questions by adopting a local and transdisciplinary perspective on river deltas from different areas of the world. River deltas have historically been hotspots for human civilizations, as populations settled in their fertile grounds seeking resources and opportunities for prosperity. Despite this, the terrains and livelihoods of those who rely on them are under threat from human exploitation, environmental degradation, and rapidly accelerating climate change. Inspired by the UN Sustainable Development Goals, this book provides a range of focused audiovisual analyses of deltaic spaces. Ranging across a variety of media, including documentary filmmaking, animation, photography, collaborative comic making, participatory visual art practices, soundwalking, and film analysis, it examines the role that contemporary audiovisual media play in forging global environmental imaginaries. In doing so, it adopts a transdisciplinary approach to the Blue Humanities from countries across the world, including Canada, Bolivia, Brazil, Greece, Nigeria, Senegal, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
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Falkner, Robert, and Barry Buzan, eds. Great Powers, Climate Change, and Global Environmental Responsibilities. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198866022.001.0001.

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This book is the first of its kind to examine the role of great powers in the international politics of climate change. It develops a novel analytical framework for studying environmental power in international relations, what counts as a great power in the environmental field, and what their special environmental responsibilities are. In doing so, the book connects International Relations (IR) debates on power inequality, great powers, and great power management, with global environmental politics (GEP) scholarship. The book brings together leading scholars in IR and GEP whose contributions focus on major environmental powers (United States, China, European Union, India, Brazil, Russia) and international institutions and issue areas (UN Security Concil, multilateral environmental agreements, international climate leadership, coal politics). The contributors to this volume examine how individual great powers have responded to the global climate challenge and whether they have accepted a special responsibility for stabilizing the global climate. They place emerging discourses on great power responsibility in the context of wider debates about international environmental leadership and climate change securitization. And they provide new insights into how international power inequality intersects with the global ecological crisis, and what special role great powers could and should play in the international fight against global warming.
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Melber, Henning. Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations and the Decolonisation of Africa. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190087562.001.0001.

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In 1953 Dag Hammarskjöld became the second Secretary-General of the United Nations—the highest international civil servant. Before his mission was cut short by a 1961 plane crash in then Northern Rhodesia (today Zambia), he used his office to act on the basis of anti-hegemonic values, including solidarity and recognition of otherness. The dubious circumstances of Hammarskjöld’s death have received much attention, including a new official investigation (which is summarized in a chapter), but have perhaps overshadowed his diplomatic legacy—one that has often been hotly contested. This book summarizes Hammarskjöld’s personal background and the normative frameworks of the United Nations. He then explores the years of African decolonization during which Hammarskjöld was in office, investigating the scope and limits of his influence within the context of global governance during the Cold War. It paints a picture of a man with strong guiding principles, but limited room for maneuver, colliding with the essential interests of the big powers as the ‘wind of change’ blew over the African continent. The book is a critical contribution to the study of international politics and the role of the UN in the African decolonization processes during the Cold War. It is also exploring the role of individuals in leadership positions of the international civil service and by doing so is a tribute to the achievements of a cosmopolitan Swede.
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O'Meara, Jennifer. Engaging Dialogue. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474420624.001.0001.

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This book examines the centrality of dialogue to American independent cinema, arguing that it is impossible to separate small budgets from the old adage that ‘talk is cheap’. Focusing on the 1980s until the present, particularly on films by writer-directors like Jim Jarmusch, Noah Baumbach and Richard Linklater, the book demonstrates dialogue’s ability to engage audiences and bind together the narrative, aesthetic and performative elements of selected cinema. When compared to the dialogue norms of more mainstream cinema, the verbal styles of these independent writer-directors are found to be marked by alternations between various extremes, particularly those of naturalism and hyper-stylization, and between the poles of efficiency and excess. More broadly, these writer-directors are used as case studies that allow for an understanding of how dialogue functions in verbally experimental cinema, which, this book contends, is more often found in ‘independent’ or ‘art’ cinema. In questioning the association of dialogue-centred films with the ‘literary’ and the ‘un-cinematic’, the book highlights how speech in independent cinema can instead hinge on what is termed ‘cinematic verbalism’: when dialogue is designed and executed in complex, medium-specific ways. More broadly, the book provides a framework for analysing dialogue design and execution that can be readily applied to other films and filmmakers. It also highlights how speech can be central to cinema without overshadowing its medium-specific components. In so doing, the book develops new connections between film dialogue, reception studies, independent cinema and auteur studies.
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O'Meara, Chris. Necessity and Proportionality and the Right of Self-Defence in International Law. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198863403.001.0001.

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States invariably justify using force extraterritorially by reference to their inherent right of self-defence. In so doing, they accept that the exercise of such right is conditioned by the customary international law requirements of necessity and proportionality. To date, these requirements have received little attention. They are notorious for being normatively indeterminate and operationally complex. As a breach of either requirement renders ostensibly defensive action unlawful, increased determinacy regarding their scope and content is crucial to how international law constrains military force. This book examines the conceptual meaning, substance and practical application of necessity and proportionality as they relate to the right of self-defence following the adoption of the UN Charter in 1945. It provides a coherent and up-to-date description of the applicable contemporary international law and proposes an analytical framework to guide its operation and appraisal. This book contends that necessity and proportionality are conceptually distinct and must be applied in the foregoing order to avoid an insufficient ‘catch-all’ description of (il)legality. Necessity determines whether defensive force may be used to respond to an armed attack and where it must be directed. Proportionality governs how much total force is permissible and prohibits excessive responses. Both requirements are shown to apply on an ongoing basis throughout the duration of an armed conflict prompted by self-defence. Compliance with necessity and proportionality ensures that the purposes of self-defence are met (and nothing more) and that defensive force is not unduly disruptive to third-party interests and to international peace and security.
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Corr, Alice. The Grammar of the Utterance. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198856597.001.0001.

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Abstract This book examines how speakers of Ibero-Romance ‘do things’ with conversational units of language, paying particular attention to what they do with utterance-oriented elements such as vocatives, interjections, and particles; and to what they do with illocutionary complementizers, items attested cross-linguistically which look like, but do not behave like, subordinators. Taking the behaviour of conversation-oriented units of language as a window into the indexical nature of language, it argues that these items provide insight into how language-as-grammar builds the universe of discourse. By identifying the underlying unity in how different Ibero-Romance languages, alongside their Romance cousins and Latin ancestors, use grammar to refer—i.e. to connect our inner world to the one outside—, the book’s empirical arguments are underpinned by the philosophical position that the architecture of grammar is also the architecture of thought. The book thus brings together the recent flurry of work seeking to incorporate aspects of the context of the utterance into the syntax, a line of enquiry broadly founded on empirical considerations, with the pursuit of explanatory adequacy via a so-called ‘un-Cartesian’ grammar of reference. In so doing, it formalizes the intuition that language users do things not with words, but with grammar. The book brings new insight to the comparative morphosyntax of (Ibero-)Romance, particularly in its diatopic, diastrastic, and diamesic dimensions, and showcases the utility of careful descriptive work on this language family in advancing our empirical and conceptual understanding of the organization of grammar.
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Kott, Sandrine, Eva-Maria Muschik, and Elisabeth Roehrlich, eds. International Organizations and the Cold War. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350423985.

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The post-WWII era was a time of superpower confrontation and antagonistic bloc politics, but it was also a period in which organized internationalism reached its peak as both an ideological value and a political practice.This open access volume explores how international organizations affected the evolution and nature of Cold War rivalries, and how they in turn were shaped by them. In seeking to understand the role that international organizations have played as sites of confrontation, this volume also highlights their role as spaces for mediation and negotiation, particularly for middle-size powers and colonized or newly decolonized countries. Through multiple perspectives, based on a diverse array of historical sources, the authors collectively explore how international organizations were able to bridge and move beyond the Cold War divide by promoting common causes and shaping common scientific knowledge, communities and practices. Rather than focusing exclusively on western-dominated institutions within the UN system which have received the most scholarly attention to date,International Organizations and the Cold Warhighlights the role of lesser-known groups such as the Paris-based International Child Center, the Prague-based International Union of Students and historical actors such as Soviet public health experts and Chinese development specialists. In doing so, it asks new questions about the role of international organizations in securing peace and security across the modern world, and their role as negotiator in times of tension and crisis. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
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Palmore, Erdman P., Frank Whittington, and Suzanne Kunkel, eds. The International Handbook on Aging. 3rd ed. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400671333.

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The United Nations World Assembly on Aging has made advancing health and well-being into old age a worldwide call for action. And this text at hand shows us what researchers worldwide are doing to answer that call. Here, three of America’s most esteemed experts on aging lead a global team of contributors - each an expert in his or her country - to show us what the top challenges of each nation are, and what top research is being done there to meet those. While we cannot predict with absolute certainty all of the issues that will arise over the next 20 years, we can anticipate some and we must start now to prepare for these challenges, an expert from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services warned at a recent UN World Assembly on Aging. Needed response to the global population shift is not just the responsibility of governments, but will be a product of wise, long-term decisions made by individuals and societies, she explained. In most nations globally, populations are graying and the number of people aged 65 and older is vastly increasing, creating a larger segment of senior citizens than the world has ever before seen. Across human history, the elderly accounted for no more than 3 percent of the world population. By the year 2030, the elderly are expected to make up about 25 percent of the world population. And while longevity is of course seen as a great success, longer lifespan for such masses also creates dilemmas. For example, the incidence of dementia has already increased significantly with an 11-fold increase in people aged 65 and older in the US since the turn of the century, and a similar increase in aged people in Scotland has researchers there scrambling to find treatments for what they expect will be a 75 percent increase in dementia over the next 25 years. Chronic diseases that come with aging are already taxing health care systems in the US and around the world to Japan, with most experts aware their current health systems would be overrun and lack enough staff and facilities to handle the needs of an elderly population multiplying largely in the coming two decades. Increases in psychological issues such as dealing with the depression often striking aged people are impending, too, as are social issues such as how families, and public policies, will deal with the changing shape of the family.
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Kolb, Robert. The International Court of Justice. Hart Publishing Ltd, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781509922109.

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The International Court of Justice (in French, the Cour internationale de justice), also commonly known as the World Court or ICJ, is the oldest, most important and most famous judicial arm of the United Nations. Established by the United Nations Charter in 1945 and based in the Peace Palace in the Hague, the primary function of the Court is to adjudicate in disputes brought before it by states, and to provide authoritative, influential advisory opinions on matters referred to it by various international organisations, agencies and the UN General Assembly. This new work, by a leading academic authority on international law who also appears as an advocate before the Court, examines the Statute of the Court, its procedures, conventions and practices, in a way that will provide invaluable assistance to all international lawyers. The book covers matters such as: the composition of the Court and elections, the office and role of ad hoc judges, the significance of the occasional use of smaller Chambers, jurisdiction, the law applied, preliminary objections, the range of contentious disputes which may be submitted to the Court, the status of advisory opinions, relationship to the Security Council, applications to intervene, the status of judgments and remedies. Referring to a wealth of primary and secondary sources, this work provides international lawyers with a readable, comprehensive and authoritative work of reference which will greatly enhance understanding and knowledge of the ICJ. The book has been translated and lightly updated from the French original, R Kolb, La Cour international de Justice (Paris, Pedone, 2013), by Alan Perry, Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. Winner of the 2014 American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit for High Technical Craftsmanship and Utility to Practicing Lawyers and Scholars: 'Robert Kolb's International Court of Justice provides a magisterial, lucid study of its subject. The breadth and depth of the treatment are impressive: Kolb takes the reader from the history of the Court, to its role in international society, to the more technical questions concerning its composition, powers and procedures, to the development of its jurisprudence, and to its future. The finely grained discussion provides much more than a mere survey of the Court's constitutive instruments and decisions. It engages the Court as an institution and asks how it actually operates, and secures efficacy and authority in doing so. The book's careful and detailed coverage of the Court's legal framework and operation will benefit practitioners and scholars alike. There is no doubt that Kolb's volume immediately takes a place among the authoritative references on the Court.' ASIL Book Awards Committee
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