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Between Peril and Promise / Druk 2
2023 || Paperback || Rochester || CQ Press
In this concise introduction to international law, students gain a clear appreciation for how politics shapes the development of international law, and how international law shapes political relations between states. Throughout the book, Rochester takes this complex subject and makes it accessible with his vibrant, easy-to-read prose.
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KADOC studies on religion, culture and society The Struggle with Leviathan
Paperback || Emiel Lamberts || Universitaire Pers Leuven
A panoramic picture of international politics and the formation of the modern State.
The opposition to the omnipotence of the State - as symbolised by Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan (1651) - had a significant impact on the political organisation of European society. A liberal strategy intended to provide a protective legal status for individual citizens, whereas a social strategy aimed to strengthen the social fabric to counterbalance the power of the State. Gradually both strategies became interwo...
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The Rimutaka Singularity
2023 || Paperback || Evelyne de Leeuw || Mijnbestseller.nl
The question, really, is not who or what Rikste van Witzenburg-Meijer was.
My great-aunt; black sheep; adventuress; sartorial icon; party animal; truck driver; firewoman during the London Blitz; among the crew of a crashing Catalina; or passenger on the SS Rimutaka - core of the most heavily armed and longest-distance convoy of World War II.
The question is why she was who and what she was. Why did she become a self-declared journalist on the ocean liner JP Coen in 1927? Why did she marry qu...