Palestines Future: Law, Diplomacy, and Activism

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Professor Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, the author or co-author of 20 books and the editor or co-editor of another 20 books, political activist on world affairs, member of a number of International Commissions (MacBride Commission, Independent Commission on Kosovo) and formal United Nations roles.

Legally Married: Love and Law in the UK and the US

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The Church of Englands claim that marriage has been understood to be, always and exclusively, between a man and a woman is contestable on a number of grounds. Debates about marriage have a direct influence on peoples everyday lives, and it is a fundamental matter of equality and human rights. Yet the debates about same-sex marriage in the UK and the US are taking place in an informational vacuum too often filled by emotion and rhetoric.

Imperialism, Transnationalism and the Reconstruction of Postwar China, 1944-6

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Benjamin H. Kizer arrived in December 1944 in the wartime Chinese capital of Chongqing (Chungking) as the head of the China Office of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), itself established only a year previously. Kizer wrote at some length of the difficulty of the journey, having been warned more than once that it was one of the worst postings possible: Chongqing was hot, hilly, and lacking in any workable transport network. The buildings he was assigned were better than many, however.

A torch of fire, a cup of water: Myanmar between Democratization and Ethnic War

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Stammering out something, I knew not what, I rolled away from him against the wall, and then conjured him, whoever or whatever he might be, to keep quiet, and let me get up and light the lamp again. But his guttural responses satisfied me at once that he but ill comprehended my meaning.

The Meaning of the Cyber Revolution: Perils to Theory and Statecraft

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While decisionmakers warn about the cyber threat constantly, there is little systematic analysis of the issue from an international security studies perspective. Cyberweapons are expanding the range of possible harm between the concepts of war and peace, and give rise to enormous defense complications and dangers to strategic stability. It is detrimental to the intellectual progress and policy relevance of the security studies field to continue to avoid the cyber revolution's central questions.

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