Bøger af Douglas Lovelace

With the publication of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents, Index IV, Oxford University Press continues to provide periodic volumes containing cumulative indexes to the series. Index IV (covering Terrorism Vols. 101-120) adds to the previous index volumes in order to ensure comprehensive searchability within the series. The availability of the cumulative index as well as the volume-specific indexes makes the series more convenient for thereader and provides the researcher with multiple ways to search for information. Index IV also features improved double-columned index formatting for ease of use in a more compact volume.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on the worldwide counter-terrorism effort. Volume 122, U.N. Response to Al Qaeda-Developments Through 2011, discusses recent actions by the United Nations in response to Al-Qaeda, particularly focusing on sanctions under Security Council Resolution 1267 as well as regional responses and court challenges to 1267 sanctions. Thedocuments introduced by Kristen Boon include the key Security Council resolutions, EU regulations, court decisions, and reports by Security Council committees and external bodies. The documents and commentary cover developments through 2011.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on the worldwide counter-terrorism effort. Volume 121, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, covers recent developments relating to the 2010 NPT Review Conference, primarily those pertaining to Iran and North Korea. Key documents are presented with introductory analysis by Kristen Boon.

Volume 116 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents, Assessing President Obama's National Security Strategy extends the previous volumes on the Administration's national security policy by highlighting its specific strategies. The volume begins with an assessment of the recently published Obama National Security Strategy. It also includes other strategy documents, official statements, and budget documents to allow readers to compare and contrast thisAdministration's approach to its predecessor.

Volume 115 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents, Gangs, Terrorism, and International Disorder discusses the growing impact criminal groups have had on national and international security systems. As the nexus between gangs and terrorist groups becomes stronger, this volume will help analysts and governments better defend against their threats.

Volume 110 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents, "Assessing the GWOT", explores all aspects of the current war against terrorists, as waged by the U.S. overseas. The financial burden of that war and the inflluence of Iran in Iraq serve as particular focal points for this vital reference volume.

The focus of Volume 108 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is Extraordinary Rendition, the policy through which the U.S. transfers terrorist suspects to other national jurisdictions for the sake of torture-based interrogations. The volume's documents and expert commentary (by new Co-Editor Aziz Huq) present the world community's views on this policy, including the views of the U.N., the E.U., and five national jurisdictions. This volume also addressesthe legal problems inherent in America's international system of "black sites": CIA detention and interrogation facilities located outside the U.S.

Volume 107 of Terrorism, "U.N. Response to Al Qaeda", guides researchers through the history of one set of sanctions against those two organizations, sanctions based on U.N. Security Council Resolution 1267. In addition to the pertinent U.N. resolutions, this volume presents EU implementing regulations and court cases challenging those regulations. The expert commentary from new Co-Editor Kristen Boon highlights the human rights implications of placing a givenperson on the list of parties whose assets must be frozen under 1267.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on various topics in the worldwide effort to combat terrorism. Volume 130, Detention Under International Law: Safeguards Against Torture and Other Abuses, is the third in a three-volume arc on detention under international law. This volume provides an overview of the major documents and human rights judgments that address thetreatment of the lawfully detained in times of peace and war. Professor Kristen Boon offers commentary on treaties, declarations, reports, and decisions from multinational and regional bodies and human rights courts that discuss the mistreatment of prisoners and enforced disappearances. This volume addresses the need toeradicate the abuse of alleged criminals in detention, including suspected terrorists, and the continued role of the United Nations, regional human rights systems, and local laws to define and eliminate these practices already prohibited by international law.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on various topics in the worldwide effort to combat terrorism. Among the documents collected are transcripts of Congressional testimony, reports by such federal government bodies as the Congressional Research Service (CRS) and the Government Accountability Office (GAO), United Nations Security Council resolutions, reports and investigationsby the United Nations Secretary-General and other dedicated UN bodies, and case law from the U.S. and around the globe covering issues related to terrorism. Most volumes carry a single theme, and inside each volume the documents appear within topic-based categories. The series also includes a subject indexand other indices that guide the user through this complex area of the law.Volume 129, Detention Under International Law: The State of Emergency Exception and Evolving Topics, is the second in a three-volume arc that looks at detention under international law. In this volume, Professor Kristen Boon describes how international human rights instruments and courts at the regional and multinational levels have carved out a "state of emergency" exception to allow for detention in some circumstances. This volume frames and discusses two emerging topics indetention: the right of habeas corpus (the right to challenge one''s detention), and the broadening intersection between international human rights law and international humanitarian law. Professor Boon illustrates her commentary by organizing treaties, reports by UN agencies and non-governmental organizations,judgments in regional international human rights courts, and through comments, adjudications, and reports from UN human rights treaty bodies.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on various topics in the worldwide effort to combat terrorism. Volume 125, Piracy and International Maritime Security - Developments Through 2011, details the most recent initiatives at the multinational, regional, and domestic levels towards eradicating the maritime security threat stemming from piracy and armed robbery off thecoast of Somalia. Professor Kristen Boon has organized primary source documents by the UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council, and UN bodies and NGOs, including international caselaw, that chart the global policies and efforts towards ending the immediate threat of piracy and armed robbery off the Somali Coast whilealso addressing its underlying causes.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on the worldwide counter-terrorism effort. Volume 123, Global Stability and U.S. National Security, includes documents that illuminate instability concerns in key regions of the world and offer insights into how the lack of stability negatively affects U.S. interests, as well as the interests of other nations. The documents selectedby Douglas Lovelace include primarily studies of instability concerns in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as a document providing a general assessment of global stability and reports on Southeast and Central Asia and Latin America.

Volume 114 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents, European Responses to Terrorist Radicalization, approaches the subject as it has been identified and addressed by the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Germany. The introduction to this provides background information on terrorist incidents, and evaluates the evolution of policy on radicalization. It also contains an analysis of radicalization generated by the Organization of Security andCooperation in Europe, providing insight into trans-European cooperation efforts relating to counter-radicalization policy in Europe.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on various topics in the worldwide effort to combat terrorism. Among the documents collected are transcripts of Congressional testimony, reports by such federal government bodies as the Congressional Research Service (CRS) and the Government Accountability Office (GAO), United Nations Security Council resolutions, reports and investigationsby the United Nations Secretary-General and other dedicated UN bodies, and case law from the U.S. and around the globe covering issues related to terrorism. Most volumes carry a single theme, and inside each volume the documents appear within topic-based categories. The series also includes a subject indexand other indices that guide the user through this complex area of the law.Volume 126, The Intersection of Law and War, takes a fresh look at the ways in which law and war intersect in this modern age of multifaceted and multidimensional warfare. Professor Douglas Lovelace, Jr. has organized Congressional Research Service reports and United Nations studies to discuss how U.S. law and international law bear on contemporary national security issues such as: terrorism in the context of the war powers debate; the use of drones for targeted killings; maintainingand closing the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay; and illegal border crossing into the United States.

Volume 118 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents, International Nuclear Security contains documents that illustrate the implementation and evolution of the nuclear regulation, disarmament, and non-proliferation regimes created by various states and international bodies. Efforts to control nuclear weapons have redoubled since the events of September 11, 2001. In order to help States prevent and respond to the risk of nuclear terrorism, the InternationalAtomic Energy Agency established a nuclear security program in 2002 and the United Nations General Assembly also adopted the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism in 2005. Both instruments focus on verification and the various other documents in this volume provide acomprehensive look at modern efforts to combat nuclear security concerns.

Volume 117 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents, Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and Conflict in Afghanistan, includes recent documents relating to the conflict in Afghanistan against the Taliban and its foreign allies. The volume addresses components of the new approach of integrating political and military strategies to improve Western approaches in the region. The first section of the volume includes documents generated by the North American Treaty Organization. These documents focus on the concept of counter-insurgency as a new approach to war-making. The second section focuses on documents issued by the United Nations: those describing the political side of the military conflict, the human rights situation, and the socio-economic dimension of international efforts. The third section portrays the European Union''s role in Afghanistan. The finalsection includes an overview of recent political and military developments. This collection of documents provides a comprehensive documentary overview of strategies in Afghanistan as of early 2010.

Volume 113 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents, Piracy and International Maritime Security sets out the key international materials on piracy, including international treaties, cases, agreements, and Security Council Resolutions. Also included are various national laws and cases on piracy.

Although Bush Administration interrogation policies have generated much debate and concern in the public sphere, researchers often find themselves stymied by a lack of information and guidance on a still mysterious realm of the U.S. war on terror. Volume 109 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents ("Terror-Based Interrogation") answers that need with a comprehensive documentary presentation and authoritative commentary on that primary sourcematerial.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on various topics relating to the worldwide effort to combat terrorism, as well as efforts by the United States and other nations to protect their national security interests.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on various topics relating to the worldwide effort to combat terrorism, as well as efforts by the United States and other nations to protect their national security interests.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on various topics relating to the worldwide effort to combat terrorism, as well as efforts by the United States and other nations to protect their national security interests.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on various topics relating to the worldwide effort to combat terrorism, as well as efforts by the United States and other nations to protect their national security interests.