When states kill [[electronic resource] ] : Latin America, the U.S., and technologies of terror / / edited by Cecilia Menjívar and Néstor Rodríguez

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777574003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2005
• ISBN: 0-292-79670-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (389 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MenjívarCecilia; RodriguezNéstor
• Disciplina: 303.6/25/098
• Soggetti: State-sponsored terrorism - Latin America
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: State terror in the U.S.-Latin American interstate regime / Cecilia Menjívar and Néstor Rodríguez -- Operation Condor as a hemispheric "counterterror" organization / J. Patrice McSherry -- "The blood of the people" : the Guardia Nacional's fifty-year war against the people of Nicaragua, 1927-1979 / Richard Grossman -- The culture and politics of state terror and repression in El Salvador / Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago -- Caught in the crossfire : militarization, paramilitarization, and state violence in Oaxaca, Mexico / Kristin Norget -- Bloody deeds/hechos sangrientos : reading Guatemala's record of political violence in cadaver reports / M. Gabriela Torres -- U.S. militarization of Honduras in the 1980s and the creation of CIA-backed death squads / Joan Kruckewitt -- "No hay rosas sin espinas" : statecraft in Costa Rica / Annamarie Oliverio and Pat Lauderdale -- The Colombian nightmare : human rights abuses and the contradictory effects of U.S. foreign policy / John C. Dugas -- The path of state terror in Peru / Abderrahman Beggar -- Turning on their masters : state terrorism and unlearning democracy in Uruguay / Jeffrey J. Ryan -- Producing and exporting state terror : the case of Argentina / Ariel C. Armony -- New responses to state terror / Cecilia Menjívar and Néstor Rodríguez
• Sommario/riassunto: Since the early twentieth century, technological transfers from the United States to Latin American countries have involved technologies of violence for social control. As the chapters in this book illustrate, these ; technological transfers have taken various forms, including the training of Latin American military personnel in surveillance and torture and the provision of political and logistic support for campaigns of state terror. The human cost for Latin America has been enormous—thousands of Latin Americans have been murdered, disappeared, or tortured, and whole communities have been terrorized into silence. Organized by region, the essays in this book address the topic of state-sponsored terrorism in a variety of ways. Most take the perspective that state-directed political violence is a modern development of a regional political structure in which U.S. political interests weigh heavily. Others acknowledge that Latin American states enthusiastically received U.S. support for their campaigns of terror. A few see local culture and history as key factors in the implementation of state campaigns of political violence. Together, all the essays exemplify how technologies of terror have been transferred among various Latin American countries, with particular attention to the role that the United States, as a "strong" state, has played in such transfers.

Ayna huwa al-fikr al-islami al-mu asir? : Min faysal al-tafriqa ila fasl al-maqal... / Muhammad Arkun

• Record Nr.: UNIORUON00072684
• Autore: ARKOUN, Mohammed
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Dar al-Saqi, 1993
• ISBN: 18-551-6706-9
• Descrizione fisica: xxviii, 198 p. ; 24 cm
• Disciplina: 909.097671
• Soggetti: Islam - Studi
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Arabo
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Forests in International Law : Is There Really a Need for an International Forest Convention? / / by Anja Eikermann

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910484963303321
• Autore: Eikermann Anja
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015
• ISBN: 3-319-14950-4
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (204 p.)
• Disciplina: 340; 344.046; 344046; 36370561; 634.92
• Soggetti: Environmental law, International; Environmental law; Environmental policy; Forest management; International Environmental Law; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice; Forestry Management
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: State of Research and Structure of the Book -- The Case for International Forest Regulation – The Benefits and Challenges of the Multifunctional Concept of Forests -- Agenda-Setting and Institution Building for Forests – Entangled Structures and the Failure of Legalization -- The Treaty Canopy – General, International Environmental and International Economic Law Covering Forests -- The Options for an International Regulation of Forests -- Conclusions -- Summary.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book investigates the potential need for an international convention on forests and establishes a multifunctional concept of forests as a cornerstone for international forest regulation. Accordingly, ; it examines a variety of international instruments pertaining directly or indirectly to forests and explores their entangled, fragmented nature. While contending that the lack of consistency in international law impedes the development of a stand-alone international forest convention, at the same time it argues that the lessons learned from fragmentation as well as from the history of forest discourse on the international level open up new options for the regulation of forests in international law, based on (new) concepts of coordination and cooperation.