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Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs, 1948–2003 by Itamar Rabinovich

APR 21, 2004 Podcast

Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs, 1948-2003

Itamar Rabinovich discusses the current Palestinian-Israeli "war of attrition" following the failure of Camp David and the Oslo Process.

APR 21, 2004 Article

Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2 No. 11 (Spring 2004): Environmental Rights: SECTION 1 THE INSEPARABILITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTALISM: The Ecological Roots of a Democracy Movement

Kilburn and Vanek describe how widespread environmentalism propelled the human rights agenda of a generation of young activists in the former Czechoslovakia.

Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics

APR 13, 2004 Podcast

Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics

Joseph Nye's concept of "soft power" has become part of the international relations lexicon. In this 2004 book talk, he argues that hard power alone cannot ...

APR 5, 2004 Article

The Uses of History: Reflections on the Fall of Yugoslavia

Distinguished sociologist Kai Erikson described his many journeys to the town of Pakrac, in the former Yugoslavia, beginning during the war in 1992, and the interviews ...

MAR 31, 2004 Article

Promoting Democracy through International Law

Failing to draw adequately on international law, the model of democracy promoted by the Bush administration is neither effective nor legitimate in the eyes of ...