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Predators and Parasites : Persistent Agents of Transnational Harm and Great Power Authority.

What explains variance in the policy of Great Powers toward drug traffickers, pirates, and terrorists? Does counterharm policy depend just on the degree of material harm caused to a powerful state by such nonstate actors, or do normative, moral, and emotional factors also play a role? Why did the U....

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: University of Michigan Press 2009.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Great power authority in world politics
  • Paths as predators and parasites of great power authority
  • Enemies of all mankind? : the Barbary Corsairs in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
  • "We may defy moral criticism if our execution shall correspond to the principles we profess" : British moral authority and the Barbary pirates
  • "This country will define our times, not be defined by them" : 9/11 and the war on terror.