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Seeking Peace and Justice in the 21st Century
Humanitarian Intervention, Responsibility to Protect, and Legitimacy Wars
Series: Global Horizons
Esteemed scholar Richard Falk draws on his vast experience as a public intellectual and special rapporteur for the United Nations to examine the ethics and politics of humanitarian intervention in the 21st Century. As well as analysing the theoretical and conceptual basis of the responsibility to...
To Be Published December 29th 2013 by Routledge
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(Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance
Series: Global Horizons
In this important and path-breaking book, esteemed scholar and public intellectual Richard Falk explores how we can re-imagine the system of global governance to make it more ethical and humane. Divided into three parts, this book firstly scrutinizes the main aspects of Global Governance including...
To Be Published September 25th 2013 by Routledge
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International Law and the Third World
Reshaping Justice
Series: Routledge Research in International Law
This volume is devoted to critically exploring the past, present and future relevance of international law to the priorities of the countries, peoples and regions of the South. Within the limits of space it has tried to be comprehensive in scope and representative in perspective and...
Published August 17th 2010 by Routledge-Cavendish
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Achieving Human Rights
Richard Falk once again captures our attention with a nuanced analysis of what we need to do - at the personal level as well as state actions - to refocus our pursuit of human rights in a post-9/11 world. From democratic global governance, to the costs of the Iraq War, the preeminent role of the...
Published October 27th 2008 by Routledge
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The Costs of War
International Law, the UN, and World Order After Iraq
In The Costs of War, Richard Falk brings together some of his recent essays, published and unpublished, examining the impact that the Iraq War has had and will have on international law, human rights, and democracy. A new introduction provides an overview as well as a sense of the current context...
Published September 30th 2007 by Routledge
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The Declining World Order
America's Imperial Geopolitics
Series: Global Horizons
This work delineates the impact of terrorism--and the American response--on the basic structure of international relations, the dimming prospects for global reform and the tendency to override the role of sovereign territorial states. Falk examines the changing role of the state, the relevance of...
Published June 14th 2004 by Routledge
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Reframing the International
Law, Culture, Politics
Re-Framing the International insists that, if we are to properly face the challenges of the coming century, we need to re-examine international politics and development through the prism of ethics and morality. International relations must now contend with a widening circle of participants...
Published June 27th 2002 by Routledge
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Human Rights Horizons
The Pursuit of Justice in a Globalizing World
In Human Rights Horizons, one of the world's foremost authorities on human rights and international relations maps out the way to a more just and human global society. Borders are being erased; democracy and capitalism are spreading. The world is rapidly changing, and these changes are...
Published July 26th 2000 by Routledge