Global South to the Rescue
Global South to the Rescue

Author: Paul Amar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-25

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1135720355

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This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of an epochal shift in global order – the fact that global-south countries have taken up leadership roles in peacekeeping missions, humanitarian interventions, and transnational military industries: Brazil has taken charge of the UN military mission in Haiti; Nigeria has deployed peacekeeping troops throughout West Africa; Indonesians have assumed crucial roles in UN Afghanistan operations; Fijians, South Africans, and Chileans have became essential actors in global mercenary firms; Venezuela and its Bolivarian allies have established a framework for "revolutionary" humanitarian interventions; and Turkey, India, Kenya, and Egypt are asserting themselves in bold new ways on the global stage. In this context, this collection sheds critical light on intersections between imperialism and humanitarianism, between neoliberal globalization and "rescue industry" transnationalism, and between patterns of geopolitical hegemony and trajectories of peacekeeping internationalism. These case studies are grouped into three clusters (I) Globalizing Peacekeeper Identities, (II) Assertive "Regional Internationalisms," and (III) Emergent Alternative Paradigms. Together, these articulate a new research agenda and offer significant contributions to fields of global studies, transnational gender and race studies, critical security studies and peace studies, comparative politics, police and military sociology, Third World diplomatic history, and international relations. This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Rescue from Death
Rescue from Death

Author: Robert Taylor

Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing

Published: 2018-01-08

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1457543451

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Jesus revealed God’s heart toward sinners when He told the story of the father who, from a great distance, saw his prodigal son coming home and ran to embrace and kiss him. But what if the son had not decided to return? Is it conceivable that this same father would insist that his son suffer without relief for all eternity? The discrepancy between the traditional view of hell and the heart of God displayed in Jesus Christ led Robert Taylor to investigate the key biblical passages that address the destiny of the unsaved. Scripture, research, and pivotal insights, drawn from the consistent application of the literal method of interpretation, fill the pages of Rescue from Death. In this fresh look at the Bible, Robert pays special attention to Matthew’s Gospel, where most of Jesus’ teachings on hell can be found, as well as the Book of Revelation, exploring the truth about Antichrist, Satan, and the new heaven and earth. Jesus’ sacrifice at Calvary is also closely observed. The good news is that Jesus came to rescue humanity from death, the penalty for sin established in Eden, declared throughout the Old Testament, warned of by John the Baptist, taught by Jesus, and affirmed by the apostles. By shining a spotlight on God’s true justice, Rescue from Death magnifies both the righteousness and the goodness of God. Carefully observing what the Bible actually says, Rescue from Death tackles the tough issues head-on. Small group discussion questions are provided for each chapter to stimulate critical thinking and help facilitate much needed conversation within the body of Christ. Dig into God’s Word and discover a Savior who loves everyone, died for the world, and rescues from death all who believe in Him.

Refuge
Refuge

Author: Alexander Betts

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0190659157

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Immigration has become the great divisive issue of our times. In Refuge, Paul Collier and Alexander Betts set out a policy vision that can empower refugees to help themselves, contribute to their host societies, and ultimately rebuild their countries of origin.

Rethinking Democracy
Rethinking Democracy

Author: Rajni Kothari

Publisher: Orient Blackswan

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9788125028949

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Rethinking Democracy is an insightful and reflective monograph on democracy in general and Indian democracy in particular. In this work, Rajni Kothari revisits the core arguments he has laid down in his various writings in the past four decades Politics in India, State Against Democracy, Communalism in India, etc. While revisiting his writings, Kothari reflects, interrogates and even contests some of his earlier formulations on democracy, state and civil society, developing a new paradigm on the basis of his intellectual experience and activist experience. Kothari makes a powerful critique of prevailing democratic theory and practice in a changing global as well as Indian contaxt and concludes that democracy has failed to achieve its objective of human emancipation and survives merely as a dream. However, this disillusionment with democracy does not deter him from searching for an alternative model of a decentralized, participatory and emancipatory democracy.

The Imprint of Another Life
The Imprint of Another Life

Author: Margaret Homans

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2013-07-18

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0472118889

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How adoption and its literary representations shed new light on notions of value, origins, and identity

Therapy Gone Mad
Therapy Gone Mad

Author: Carol Lynn Mithers

Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company

Published: 1994-04-20

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13:

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"In Therapy Gone Mad, journalist Carol Lynn Mithers offers a riveting story of betrayal by psychology and psychotherapy on a massive scale." "The Center for Feeling Therapy was founded in Los Angeles in 1971 by a group of dissidents from Arthur Janov's Primal Institute. Its charismatic leaders, Joe Hart and Richard "Riggs" Corriere, soon reached the mainstream, writing several books and appearing on "The Tonight Show" to hawk their radical approach to therapy. But soon after the Center's closing, on the eve of Ronald Reagan's election victory, patients began to file charges of physical and sexual abuse with the California authorities; the Center had become a cult community where patients' lives were no longer their own. Mithers methodically builds her story of the evolution of a cult from its seemingly innocent, hopeful beginning to its horrifying, explosive end." "What drew these patients there? Who were they, what happened to them, where are they now? Through their own eyes, Mithers recreates the Center's astonishing rise and fall through the 1970s - that "lost" decade when psychotherapy became an essential tool to "finding yourself." What she has achieved here is a stunning look at the search for inner fulfillment that wreaked havoc on many of the young people of the Sixties as they tried to grow up." "Therapy Gone Mad is a gripping portrait of a generation looking for itself - and of our obsession, as a society, with the cult of psychotherapy."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Rethinking, Repackaging, and Rescuing World Trade Law in the Post-Pandemic Era
Rethinking, Repackaging, and Rescuing World Trade Law in the Post-Pandemic Era

Author: Amrita Bahri

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-08-26

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1509951717

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This book explores the ways to 'rethink', 'repackage' and 'rescue' world trade law in the post-COVID-19 era. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as an important context, the book makes original and critical contributions to the growing debate over a range of emerging challenges and systemic issues that might change the landscape of world trade law in the years to come. The book asks: do these unprecedented times and challenges call for reengineering the world trading system and a further retreat from trade liberalisation? The authors offer a rigorous and insightful analysis of whether and how the existing trade institutions and/or rules, including their latest developments, may provide room to deal with pandemic-induced trade-related issues, sustainable development goals, future crises and other existential threats to the multilateral trading system. The book reinforces the importance of international cooperation and the pressing need to reinvigorate the world trading system. The pandemic has provided a unique opportunity for governments to rebuild the political will needed for such cooperation. One should never let a serious crisis go to waste.

Corporate Insolvency Law
Corporate Insolvency Law

Author: Vanessa Finch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-10-19

Total Pages: 839

ISBN-13: 1107039916

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A new and substantially revised edition which looks critically at the broad effect and conceptual underpinnings of corporate insolvency law.

Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question
Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-12-24

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9004392130

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Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question is one of the very first academic works, which examine the field of genomics from an Islamic perspective. This twelve-chapter volume presents the results from a pioneering seminar held in 2017 at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, in Qatar. The contributors to this volume, coming from different disciplines and specializations, approached the key ethical questions raised by the emerging field of genomics, viz. the Genome Question (GQ), from various angles and perspectives. Their shared thesis is that the breadth and depth of both the GQ and the Islamic tradition necessitate going beyond just producing quick answers in response to immediate questions. In order to accommodate the complexity and wide scope of the GQ, the volume included critical analyses of the ethical discourse on genomics, from outside the Islamic tradition. Within the Islamic tradition, the contributing authors explored how the QG can be better explored by involving insights from various disciplines including Quran exegesis, Islamic jurisprudence, philosophy and theology. Besides its interest for researchers and students specialized in ethics, bioethics and Islamic studies, this volume will be a source of important information for geneticists, genomicists and social scientists who are interested in the ethical discourse about genomics in the Muslim world. Contributors include Arzoo Ahmed, Abbas Amir, Saadia Bendenia, Mohammed Ghaly, Mutaz al-Khatib, Amara Naceur, Aasim I. Padela, Ayman Shabana, Trevor Stammers, Mehrunisha Suleman and Hub Zwart.

Rethinking the Holocaust
Rethinking the Holocaust

Author: Yehuda Bauer

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9780300093001

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Drawing on research from various historians, the author offers opinions on how to define and explain the Holocaust, comparison to other genocides, and the connection between the Holocaust and the establishment of Israel.