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Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict (The University Center for Human Values ...
Michael W. Doyle
Princeton University Press, 2008
Does the United States have the right to defend itself by striking first, or must it wait until an attack is in progress? Is the Bush Doctrine of aggressive preventive action a justified and legal recourse against threats posed by terrorists and rogue states? Tackling one of the most controversial policy issues of the post-September 11 world, ...
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The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion
Marcia Mitchell, Thomas Mitchell
Polipoint Press, 2008
British secret service officer Katharine Gun's only crime was telling the truth, but she paid a steep price when she exposed a U.S.-U.K. spy operation to secure UN authorization for the Iraq invasion. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, this book tells the story of the young woman Sean Penn describes as "a hero of the human spirit."
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The Jericho Sanction
Oliver North
Avon, 2004
Exciting Book
I love OLLIE NORTH novels every one has me on the edge of my seat.They are exciting,moral,interesting.You feel as if you are reading the news paper.The best thing, I can let my grandchilren read them.Sincerely merle from wv
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The Loo Sanction: A Novel
Trevanian
Three Rivers Press, 2005
All Trevanian books rock!
I really enjoyed reading this book. The previous book "The Eiger sanction" was also really good. Good suspense, well written, and amazing charachters. The dialogue and tactics each of the charachters use in these books are what sold me on them. You will definately ...
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Shrewd Sanctions: Statecraft and State Sponsors of Terrorism
Meghan L. O'Sullivan
Brookings Institution Press, 2003
Crafting Effective Sanctions
Over the last two decades, American policymakers have increasingly used sanctions to punish countries that transgress U.S. and international norms, or attack U.S. interests. Sometimes these sanctions are coordinated with multilateral sanctions; sometimes the U.S. ...
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The Eiger Sanction: A Novel
Trevanian
Three Rivers Press, 2005
Good entertaining movie, but even greater novel...
I liked the movie, I saw a library copy, the night before I made this review, but reading a used hardcover that I bought of the original Trevanian novel, it was a lot of fun. Especially remembering the fun plot twists and tight control of textural dynamics by the ...
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Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor
Edward S. Miller
United States Naval Inst., 2007
Wonderful Book - For Its Scope
Not much to say except that this book is a must read for everyone who is interested in the origins of the Pacific War or World War II.
Author Miller does an excellent job of depicting Japan's vulnerable economy, desperately needing foreign exchange but being ...
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Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era)
Elizabeth R. Varon
The University of North Carolina Press, 2008
In the decades before the Civil War, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten or discredit their opponents. According to Elizabeth Varon, "disunion" was a startling and provocative keyword in Americans' political vocabulary: it connoted the failure of the founders' singular effort to establish a ...
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Secret Sanction
Brian Haig
Vision, 2002
Another excellent edition to the series.
Sean Drummond is an excellent character, funny and smart at the same time. I would heartily recommend any book in the series to anyone who enjoys Grisham, military adventure books, or just wants to be amused.
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Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Bourne Sanction
Eric Van Lustbader
Grand Central Publishing, 2008
bourne sanction
A continuation of a great character. Fast reading and i could not put it down.
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Council Unbound: The Growth of UN Decision Making on Conflict And Postconflict Issues After the Cold War
Michael J. Matheson
United States Institute of Peace Press, 2006
It has been described variously as everything from a global legislature to a self-important yet ineffectual debating society. And although the United Nations Security Council may have resembled the latter in many respects during the Cold War, when vetoes and disagreements among the permanent members often stymied the Council's work, the ...
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Does the Bible sanction slavery?: A discourse delivered at Norfolk, Conn., February 24, 1861
Joseph Eldridge
Cornell University Library, 1861
This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
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Intermediate Sanctions: Curbing Nonprofit Abuse
Bruce R. Hopkins, D. Benson Tesdahl
Wiley, 1997
What are the requirements of the new intermediate sanctions law? What is the definition of an excess benefit transaction? How will financial penalties be determined? How will sanctions be applied? What are the law's expanded reporting and disclosure requirements? What can nonprofits do to plan for ...
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Conflict Sanctions
Chris Belpasso
AuthorHouse, 2007
BETRAYAL In his life Tony McCade had seen the best and worst of what life had to offer. From the steamy jungles of Vietnam to the streets of Panama City, McCade had matured from a phantom warrior with MACV-SOG to a highly effective member of America's first line of national defense, the Central Intelligence Agency. However he thought that life was ...
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Cuba: Confronting the U.S. Embargo
Peter Schwab
Palgrave Macmillan, 1998
The U.S. is wrong
This book is very interesting. It tells the Cuban side to the economic embargo. Schwab gives specific examples of how the U.S. embargo has hurt the Cuban people. He also provides an idea for an alternative to a U.S. dominated Cuba. Schwab gives us the side of the ...
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