War and Politics
War, marriage, tournament : Scottish politics and the Anglo French war, 1448 1450
... of war and politics in the late 1440s and early 1450s, not necessarily a bad thing if Scotland’s position is compared with that of Brittany, the kingdom was in no sense remote from events in northern ...
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The judgment of war : On the idea of legitimate force in world politics
... just war argumentation in the postwar period have all, to a greater or a lesser extent, continued and encouraged the broadly juristic reading of the tradition that, as we saw earlier, has led to the major problems ...
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Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War, and the Arts in the British World, 1750 1850
... In this book Holger Hoock outlines the material and psychological investment of culture in the process of British identity-formation from the mid 18th to the mid 19th century. Studying the context of national ...
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Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Politics of Anti-Communism at Columbia University: Anti-Intellectualism and the Cold War during the General's Columbia Presidency
... anti-communist government organizations, such as the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), often frustrated Eisenhower and prompted him to react in a way that showcased his patriotism at the expense of his ...
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US moral panics, Mexican politics, and the borderlands origins of the war on drugs
... Mexico’s war on drugs (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012); Benjamin ...the Politics of Drugs in Latin America, (Cham: Switzerland, Springer International Publishing, 2016), 33-53; Isaac ...
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Africa in Post-Cold War World Politics
... This paper examines Africa in post-Cold War world politics by looking at political, strategic and economic relations in the world. The findings suggest that Africa had suffered marginalization in the past, ...
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Screening the 'War on Terror' : the politics and aesthetics of torture in American and European cinema
... This thesis studies how North-American and European films depict political torture in the context of the ‘War on Terror’. It starts from the debate that was held in the political and public domain concerning the ...
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Playing the Great Game: Britain, War and Politics in Afghanistan since 1839
... explains quite well some of the humiliating setbacks suffered by British troops in Afghanistan in the last two centuries, including the recent difficulties faced by Brigadier Butler’s men in Helmand Province (p. 10–11). ...
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The United States and the politics of the laws of war since 1945
... Civil War that the American government realized that it needed an explicit code for its soldiers to ...Civil War, it was clear that most of the professional officers in the US armed forces were going to be ...
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Elite bargains and the politics of war and peace in Uganda and Zambia
... The ADF war has been described as ‘rebellion without a cause’, not least since the rebels lacked a coherent political agenda.590 This is however misleading since ADF brought together a number of small and ...
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Unlawful Combatants or Prisoners of War: The Law and Politics of Labels
... 62 The scope of this relaxation is circumscribed by Arti- cle 44(7), which provides that the accepted practice of members of the armed forces wearing uniforms is not[r] ...
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The politics of meaning in the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, 1914-1939
... choice and design of memorials reflected the political and.. religious preoccupations of those who contributed to them.[r] ...
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Reassessing Britain’s ‘post war consensus’: the politics of reason 1945–1979
... rational politics, was not to understand society so that its future could be ...that politics should be concerned with determining the purpose and efficiency of existing institutions and modifying them ...
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Tasmania and the First World War : a study of the effects of the First World War on Tasmanian society and politics, 1914 1919
... By late 1915 the Labor movement in Tasmania was divided to such an extent that there were serious proposals to oppose Labor candidates with union nominees in the 1916 State election... C[r] ...
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Scientific Freedom and Post-war Politics: Australia, 1945-55.
... Wentworth was a virulent and ardent anti-communist crusader. This is exemplified by the following sample of his initiatives. In 1946, he attended, and attempted to disrupt, the AASW meeting (discussed above) at which ...
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Governments and a war past: the politics of reconciliation
... A lot has changed since the civil war in Sierra Leone. A peace agreement is in place, calm elections have been held, and the government is in control of the country. 47,000 combatants put their guns down and begun ...
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European Politics and Diplomacy before the World War One 1908 – 1914
... But the German political reaction was not violent. Kiderlin who in June 1910 replaced Schoen at the post of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs advised his government to maintain calm and presented to the chancellor ...
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Is it Really Red vs. Blue? Politics, Religion, and the Culture War Within
... We examine a series of eight social and cultural issues that include government funding of abortion, partial-birth abortion, gay marriage, laws to protect homosexuals, gays in the military, gay adoption, women’s ...
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Life after Joe: Politics and War in the West Midlands, 1914–1918
... It is difficult to reach a decisive conclusion on the effects of the war on political culture, given the peculiar nature of the 1918 election. No party had sufficient funds to spend on expensive visual election ...
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MPs for Sale? Estimating Returns to Office in Post War British Politics
... the rise of the MP-as-lobbyist appears to date from the first few decades after World War II (see Stewart (1958) for an early study). In 1950 the Attlee Commission (convened to investigate outside interests and ...
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