Bøger af Ian Oliver

By recognizing the pervasive influence that Herodotus's career as an oral performer had on his composition of the Histories, The Audiences of Herodotus: Oral Performance and the Battle Narratives argues that the Histories' versions of the three most important battles in the Persian Wars-the battles of Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea-persistently and disproportionately advance the interests, biases, and political agendas of distinct audiences in the mid-fifth century, well before Herodotus assembled his famous work of history as it survives to us. The Salamis and Plataea narratives reflect a mid-century audience of Athenians and their allies; the Thermopylae narrative reflects an Amphictyonic audience gathered at the Pythian Festival. Ian Oliver concludes that, as a participant in a culture of wisdom performance (epideixis), Herodotus originally composed short, ideologically motivated performance pieces that he intended to promote tendentious reinterpretations of these momentous events, then relied on these narratives when he composed his final text: the unitary Histories.

It is estimated that perhaps more than 40% of countries globally are in what may be described as a ¿fragile¿ state where normal standards accepted by the majority are either wholly or partially absent. Thus there is an increasing need for them to receive assistance from International Organisations such as the United Nations, OECD, associated donor countries and assistance providers in Security Sector Reform to either restore the Rule of Law, which encompasses justice and security, as well as the restoration and promotion of human rights. This short book is designed to give the information that will be of assistance to consultants who will be deployed in Security Sector Reform Programmes and identifies some of the problems that they may confront.

Police, Government and Accountability is an examination of the relationship between police and central and local government in the United Kingdom. The second edition also re-examines the police and government relationship after the passing of the controversial Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 and the local government reforms.

The hostilities that saw the break-up of Tito's Yugoslavia ravaged the Balkans and generated some of the most tragic episodes in modern history. War and Peace in the Balkans explores the history of the conflict and its themes from an insider's perspective.