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  • Science of Coercion

    Communication Research & Psychological Warfare, 1945–1960

    by Christopher Simpson and 2 more

    series Forbidden Bookshelf #13
    A provocative and eye-opening study of the essential role the US military and the Central Intelligence Agency played in the advancement of communication studies during the Cold War era, now with a new introduction by Robert W. McChesney and a new preface by the authorSince the mid-twentieth century, the great advances in our knowledge about the most effective methods of mass communication and ... Read more

    € 13,40 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Forbidden Bookshelf Presents Christopher Simpson

    The Splendid Blond Beast, Blowback, and Science of Coercion

    by Christopher Simpson

    series Forbidden Bookshelf
    Three provocative exposés from a National Jewish Book Award–winning journalist address the CIA’s recruitment of Nazis and use of psychological warfare.The Splendid Blond Beast: This groundbreaking investigation into the CIA’s post–World War II liberation and recruitment of Nazi war criminals—including the pivotal role played by CIA director Allen Dulles—traces the roots not only of US government ... Read more

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  • Law, Technology and Dispute Resolution

    The Privatisation of Coercion

    by Riikka Koulu

    series Law, Science and Society
    The use of new information and communication technologies both inside the courts and in private online dispute resolution services is quickly changing everyday conflict management. However, the implications of the increasingly disruptive role of technology in dispute resolution remain largely undiscussed. In this book, assistant professor of law and digitalisation Riikka Koulu examines the ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Coercion: Toward a Theory of Coercive Airpower for Post-Cold War Conflict - Doctrine, Operation Desert Storm, Four Major Theories of Punishment, Risk, Decapitation, and Denial

    by Progressive Management

    This excellent report, professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, confronts an issue of high interest to airmen and policy makers alike: What does coercion theory suggest about the use of airpower in the early twenty-first century? More specifically, Colonel Hinman seeks to determine whether any of the existing theories of coercion can stand alone as a coherent, ... Read more

    € 6,46

  • The Importance of Assent

    A Theory of Coercion and Dignity

    by Jan-Willem Van der Rijt

    series Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy #25
    The view that persons are entitled to respect because of their moral agency is commonplace in contemporary moral theory. What exactly this respect entails, however, is far less uncontroversial. In this book, Van der Rijt argues powerfully that this respect for persons’ moral agency must also encompass respect for their subjective moral judgments – even when these judgments can be shown to be ... Read more

    € 107,90

  • GITMO, Terrorists, and Enhanced Interrogation: The Legality, Utility and Morality of Coercion, Regaining the Moral High Ground, Reparations for Guantanamo Detainees, Comparison to Japanese Internment

    by Progressive Management

    This is a digital reproduction of several academic research papers regarding GITMO, the handling of terrorists and enemy combatants, and the use of enhanced interrogation. These documents are professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.Contents: Regaining the Moral High Ground on Gitmo... Is There a Basis for Released Guantanamo Detainees to Receive Reparations? * ... Read more

    € 4,62

  • Parables of Coercion

    Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain

    by Seth Kimmel

    In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, competing scholarly communities sought to define a Spain that was, at least officially, entirely Christian, even if many suspected that newer converts from Islam and Judaism were Christian in name only. Unlike previous books on conversion in early modern Spain, however, Parables of Coercion focuses not on the experience of the converts themselves, but ... Read more

    € 28,33

  • Economics Of Coercion And Conflict, The

    by Mark Harrison

    series The Tricontinental Series On Global Economic Issues #5
    The papers brought together in this volume represent a decade of advances in the historical political economy of defence, dictatorship, and warfare. They address defining events and institutions of the world in the twentieth century: economic consequences of repression and violence, the outcomes of two world wars, and the rise and fall of communism. They cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, ... Read more

    € 48,60

  • Communal Labor in Colonial Kenya

    The Legitimization of Coercion, 1912–1930

    by O. Okia

    This book advances research into the government-forced labor used widely in colonial Kenya from 1930 to 1963 after the passage of the International Labor Organization’s Forced Labour Convention. While the 1930 Convention intended to mark the suppression of forced labor practices, various exemptions meant that many coercive labor practices continued in colonial territories. Focusing on East Africa ... Read more

    € 73,35

  • Managing Conflicts in India

    Policies of Coercion and Accommodation

    by Bidisha Biswas

    Bidisha Biswas explores the question of how a democratic state chooses between policies of coercion and accommodation when dealing with political violence by addressing an important, yet under examined, topic—India’ approach to internal conflicts. In Managing Conflicts in India, Biswas selects three cases of conflict: the separatist campaign in Punjab during the 1980s; the protracted insurgency in ... Read more

    € 41,19

  • The Betrayal of Liberalism

    How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control

    by Hilton Kramer and 1 more

    Just fifty years ago the literary critic Lionel Trilling spoke of liberalism as “not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition” in American society. At the turn of the twentieth century this is clearly no longer the case, when conservative ideas have succeeded in many areas of public policy. Yet America's mainstream institutions—the media, the academy, popular culture, religion, ... Read more

    € 13,40

  • Incidents of Coercion: A Journal of Visits to Ireland in 1882 and 1888

    by George John Shaw -Lefevre Eversley

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