Human Wishes Enemy Combatant

Author : Edmond Caldwell
Publisher : Grand Iota
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1874400857

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Human Wishes / Enemy Combatant by Edmond Caldwell Pdf

The unnamed, somewhat paranoid hero's experiences of "In-Between places" such as an airport baggage reclaim area, a hotel complex that exists solely to cater for bumped airline passengers, a rest stop, and a shopping mall, are achingly funny. But the humour takes increasingly dark turns: the "literary novel" is turned inside out as we encounter a plot to kidnap and replace the critic James Wood, an unknown play allegedly by Samuel Beckett (featuring Dr Johnson and his cat Hodge) is discovered and its fugitive production discussed, and, finally, the horror of the Palestinian Nakba is confronted. First published in 2012, this novel was received enthusiastically before quickly slipping out of print. Our edition, including an afterword by Joseph G Ramsey, is published by agreement with Edmond Caldwell's estate.

Author : Edmond Caldwell
Publisher : Interbirth Books / Say It with Stones
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0615577954

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Human Wishes/Enemy Combatant by Edmond Caldwell Pdf

He might be the dead-end flâneur of non-places like highway rest stops, airport terminals, and shopping malls, or he might be a Gitmo-bound enemy of the state. He might be the son of American working-class parents, or he might be the cousin of a Middle Eastern revolutionary the US labels a terrorist. He might be in possession of a lost Beckett play, or he might just have to go to the bathroom a lot. "He" is the nameless hero of Human Wishes / Enemy Combatant, and he's probably no more than a pronoun. With a looping itinerary that takes us from St. Petersburg, Russie to Salem, Massachusetts, from the Palestinian Nakba to a plot to replace New Yorker critic James Wood with a shadowy look-alike, Human Wishes / Enemy Combatant might just be the novel that explodes mainstream, corporate "literary fiction" from the inside out. "These 'anti-stories about In Between places' bristle with vibrant, fact-filled paranoia and good, old-fashioned self-deprecation, making constant, unexpected turns at breakneck pace. From St. Petersburg to Palestine, from coffin-shaped Joseph Cornell boxes to Monty Python doing Beckett, from reflections on the onslaught of Taylorism to violent, youthful misreadings ofAnimal Farm, the pure writerly intensity of the material, and the audacious panache of each new sentence, never for a moment flag." -Jacob Wren, *Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed* "Literary squatter . . . saboteur . . . an unreadable run-on paragraph . . . and unpublished, and, evidently, unpublishable novel." -Norah Piehl, Director of Communications, Boston Book Festival "Edmond Caldwell is right . . ." -James Wood

Author : Andreas Feuerstein
Publisher : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783838254630

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Human Rights and the War on Terrorism by Andreas Feuerstein Pdf

In the war on terrorism, does the United States Judiciary fulfill its critical function to guarantee compliance by the Executive with the political norms and ideals of human rights codified both in the United States Constitution and International Law?This study examines the means by which policies such as the Bush Administration applies in the war on terrorism can be achieved in the United States system of government. It focuses on the legal concepts affected by the Bush Administration’s treatment of alleged enemy combatants after September 11, 2001 by analyzing three lawsuits filed with United States Courts. The three cases—Rumsfeld v. Padilla, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, and Rasul v. Bush—so far have been the only cases reviewed by the highest court of the nation, the United States Supreme Court.

Author : Henry J. Steiner,Philip Alston,Ryan Goodman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1534 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199279425

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International Human Rights in Context by Henry J. Steiner,Philip Alston,Ryan Goodman Pdf

Completely revised and updated to bring it up to date with recent events, this popular textbook incorporates a wide range of carefully edited materials from both primary and secondary sources.

Author : Peter Berkowitz
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780817946234

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Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution by Peter Berkowitz Pdf

Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution examines three enemy combatant cases that represent the leading edge of U.S. efforts to devise legal rules, consistent with American constitutional principles, for waging the global war on terror. The distinguished contributors analyze the crucial questions these cases raise about the balance between national security and civil liberties in wartime and call for a reexamination of the complex connections between the Constitution and international law.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Combatants and noncombatants (International law)
ISBN : PURD:32754073527677

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City on the Hill Or Prison on the Bay? by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : PSU:000063502541

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Legal Issues Regarding Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense as Unlawful Enemy Combatants by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services Pdf

Author : Diane Webber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000597936

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Human Rights Law and Counter Terrorism Strategies by Diane Webber Pdf

In 2006, the United Nations urged Member States to ensure that counter terrorism policies guaranteed respect for human rights and the rule of law. This book demonstrates that, in many cases, counter terrorism policies relating to preventive detention, targeted killing and measures relating to returning foreign terrorist fighters have failed to respect human rights, and this encourages vulnerable people to be drawn towards supporting or committing acts of terrorism. Furthermore, in recent years, jurisprudence and public opinion in some countries have shifted from being at one stage more protective of human rights, to an acquiescence that some particularly draconian counter terrorism methods are necessary and acceptable. This book analyzes why this has happened, with a focus on the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel, and offers suggestions to address this issue. The work will be essential reading for students, academics and policy-makers working in the areas of human rights, humanitarian law, and counter terrorism.

Author : Yoram Dinstein,Fania Domb
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004219120

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The Progression of International Law by Yoram Dinstein,Fania Domb Pdf

This volume was produced to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Israel Yearbook on Human Rights. Forty years have yielded an impressive forty annual volumes. When it was started in 1971, the Yearbook was the first of its kind anywhere in the world. It has always understood its mandate as transcending the narrow borders of the discipline of either national or international human rights. From the outset, international humanitarian law and international criminal law were understood as coming within the proper framework of the Yearbook, as were on occasion articles on diverse freedoms that may seem out of bounds to a strict interpreter of the phrase “human rights”.

Author : Johann Choi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978717114

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Re-embodying Pastoral Theology by Johann Choi Pdf

With the dominance of psychotherapeutic theories and methods in the field of pastoral theology, the typical pastoral encounter has been understood to be a private conference in which a pastor addresses a sufferer’s thoughts and emotions. What results is a kind of dualism that is contrary to a historically Christian affirmation of—and concern for—the body. The phenomenon of moral injury further problematizes this model of pastoral care in part due to a greater awareness that trauma is imprinted as much in the body as in the mind. Re-embodying Pastoral Theology uses the problem of moral injury in veterans to propose a pastoral theology that recognizes ritual as the means by which the Christian community addresses the body in pastoral care. In advancing this new approach to “ritual care,” the author draws from the fields of psychology, ritual studies, liturgical studies, and historical theology, as well as the experiences of veterans throughout history. This book endeavors to re-think the Christian approach to moral injury and re-embody the field of pastoral theology.

Author : Christopher Blakesley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004478954

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Terrorism and Anti-Terrorism: A Normative and Practical Assessment by Christopher Blakesley Pdf

This book addresses the complex, challenging, and dangerous problems relating to terrorism and to the attempts to address and stop terrorism. It includes not only a positivistic legal analysis of issues, but attempts to assess the costs facing us all in this modern reality of political violence. Blakesley challenges the so-called realist premise of fighting fire with fire and attempts to devolve a working definition of terrorism that may be applied to whatever group or nation that uses terror or terrorism as a tactic or strategy. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Author : Glenn P. Hastedt
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0073545856

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Annual Editions: American Foreign Policy by Glenn P. Hastedt Pdf

This edition presents an overview of American foreign policy. It is divided into eight units. The first unit addresses questions of grand strategy. The second unit focuses on selected regional and bilateral relations. In the third unit, [the attention] shifts inward to the ways in which domestic forces affect the content of American foreign policy. The fourth unit looks at the institutions the make American foreign policy. In the fifth unit, the process by which American foreign policy is made is illustrated through accounts of recent foreign policy decisions. The sixth and seventh units provide an overview of the economic and military issues confronting the United States today. The final unit looks in depth at the issues surrounding the war in Iraq and its aftermath from a variety of different perspectives.-Pref.

Author : Rorke Denver,Ellis Henican
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501124112

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Worth Dying For by Rorke Denver,Ellis Henican Pdf

"A Navy SEAL commander explores the practical and philosophical questions of heroic service that have emerged about America's past decade at war, from the qualities of heroes and the reasons we fight to how war impacts families and whether or not soldiers can be held accountable for wartime actions, "--NoveList.

Author : Ryan Jenkins,Michael Robillard,Bradley Jay Strawser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190495657

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Who Should Die? by Ryan Jenkins,Michael Robillard,Bradley Jay Strawser Pdf

"This academic text brings together, in one volume, the most recent and innovative accounts of liability in war. It offers a "who's who" of contemporary scholars working on and rigorously debating the major ethical questions surrounding self-defense and killing in war, including: liability to harm, rights theory, selective conscientious objection, obligations toward civilians, and autonomous weapons. This volume pulls together, expands upon, and provides new and updated analyses of the concept of liability (and related concepts) that have yet to be captured in a single work. As a convenient and authoritative collection of such discussions, this title is uniquely and well suited for university-level teaching and as a scholarly reference for ethicists, policymakers, and other stakeholders."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Human rights
ISBN : STANFORD:36105134515449

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Global Human Rights Law Collection by Anonim Pdf