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Hegemony in the digital age the Arab/Israeli conflict online / by Marmura, Stephen M. E., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction : identity and authority in the age of networks -- Aims and scope -- Key terms and concepts -- Political mobilization -- The Web as a mass medium -- War on the Web -- Ideology and civil society -- Net-based activism and American Mid-East policy -- Grassroots mobilization and political opportunity -- Activism and the Net : relevant precedents -- Contemporary peace camp activism -- Net-based activism and American Mid-East policy -- Public opinion -- Backdrop : the mainstream media as a legitimating identity -- The Web as an alternative mass medium -- The voice of legitimacy : CNN.com and the Arab/Israeli conflict -- Introduction -- CNN.com's "land of conflict" -- Dominant themes and validity claims -- Anchoring authority in a de-centered medium -- Closing remarks -- Hate and holy war on the WWW -- Confronting the other -- Stormfront.org : promoting the cause of "White nationalism" -- Kahane.org : fighting to eliminate Israel's "Arab cancer" -- Radioislam.org : defending Islam and the West from the "Jewish threat" -- Closing remarks -- Hate and holy war on the WWW -- The struggle for influence -- Social movement integration and growth -- Building alliances : virtual and real -- Discussion -- Hegemony reconsidered : the Internet, civil society, and social fragmentation.…”
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Across the wall narratives of Israeli-Palestinian history /

Table of Contents: “…Palisad: Palestinian and Israeli academics in dialogue / Jamil Hilal and Ilan Pappé -- Politics and identity: a critical analysis of Israeli historiography and political thought / Ehud Adiv -- Oriental othering and national identity: a review of early Israeli anthropological studies of Palestinians / Dan Rabinowitz -- The Shoah on trial: aspects of the Holocaust in Israeli political culture / Moshe Zuckermann -- Jerusalem 1948: the phantom city / Salim Tamari --"Dis/Solving" the Palestinian refugee problem: Israeli "resettlement" plans in the first decade of the State (1948-1958) / Nur Mashala -- Fear, victimhood, self and other: on the road to reconciliation / lan Pappé -- Reflections on contemporary Palestinian history / Jamil Hilal -- Palestinian nationalism: the difficulties of narrating an ambivalent identity / Issam Nahar -- Gender, Nakba and Nation: Palestinian women's presence and absence in the narration of 1948 memories / Rema Hammami -- "Ethnocracy": the politics of Judaizing Israel/Palestine / Oren Yiftachel -- Democracy ... and the the experience of national liberation: the Palestinian case / Musa Budeiri -- The derailment of peace: Rabin's assassination, democracy and post-conflict agendas / Lev Grinberg -- Naming the colonizer in geographical Palestine: conceptual and political double binds and their possible solution / Uri Davis -- One-state Palestine: past, present and future / Ilan Pappé -- After Gaza / Jamil Hilal and Ilan Pappé.…”
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Conversations with remarkable Native Americans

Table of Contents: “…Madsen -- From the forgotten American to indigenous rights / Joëlle Rostkowski -- Conversation with series editor Gerald Vizenor -- Scott Momaday, poet, novelist, painter, and UNESCO artist for peace -- Suzan Harjo, policy advocate, journalist, and poet -- Richard West, lawyer and founding director of the National Museum of the American Indian -- Emil Her Many Horses, curator, National Museum of the American Indian -- Sven Haakanson, director of the Alutiiq Museum, Kodiak, Alaska -- Veronical Tiller, historian, consultant, and writer -- Erma Vizenor, tribal chair, White Earth Reservation, Minnesota -- Louisita Warren, elder of Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico -- Tony Abeyta, painter and sculptor -- David Bradley, painter and sculptor -- Darren Vigil Gray, painter and musician -- Jill Momaday, actress, model, and chief of protocol, State of New Mexico -- Rulen Tangen, dancer and choreographer -- Robert Tim Coulter, laywer, founder and director of the Indian Law Resource Center -- Kenneth Deer, journalist, educator, and UN indigenous representative -- Text from U.N. document: Declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples.…”
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Confronting the Yugoslav controversies a scholars' initiative /

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Dystopian fiction east and west universe of terror and trial / by Gottlieb, Erika

Table of Contents: “…The answers of utopia, tragedy, and dystopia -- Nineteenth-century precursors of the dystopian vision -- The dictator behind the mask : Zamiatin's We, Huxley's Brave new world, and Orwell's Ninteenth eighty-four -- Dictatorship without a mask : Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Vonnegut's Player piano, and Atwood's The handmaid's tale -- The writer on trial: socialist realism and the exile of speculative fiction -- The dystopia of revolutionary justice : Serge's Conquered city, Zazubrin's "The chip," and Rodionov's Chocolate -- The legalization of terror: Platonov's The foundation pit, Ribakov's Children of the Arbat, and Koestler's Darkness at noon -- Terror in war, terror in peace: Grossman's Life and fate, Tertz Sinyavski's The trial begins, and Daniel's This is Moscow speaking -- Collective paranoia: the persecutor and the persecuted: Andzrejewski, Déry, Fuks, Hlasko, Örkény, Vaculik, and Mrozek -- Kafka's ghost: The trial as theatre: Klima's The castle, Karvas's The big wig, and Havel''s Memorandum -- From terror to entropy : the downward spiral: Konwicki's A minor apocalypse, Déry's Mr G.A. in X and Zinoviev's The radiant future -- Speculative fiction returns from exile : Dystopian vision with a sneer: Voinovich's Moscow 2042, Aksyonov's The island of Crimea, Dalos's 1985, and Moldova's Hitler in Hungary -- Dystopia East and West: conclusion.…”
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Faulkner and his contemporaries

Table of Contents: “…Kenneth Holditch -- Cather's war and Faulkner's peace : a comparison of two novels, and more / Merrill Maguire Skaggs -- "Getting good at doing nothing" : Faulkner, Hemingway, and the fiction of gesture / Donald M. …”
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Contesting neoliberalism urban frontiers /

Table of Contents: “…Theories of neoliberalism and urban strategies of contention / William Sites -- Political polemics and local practices of community organizing and neoliberal politics in South Africa / Sophie Oldfield and Kristian Stokke -- Decommodifying electricity in postapartheid Johannesburg / Patrick Bond and Peter McInnes -- Spaces of resistance in Seattle and Cancun / Joel Wainwright -- Articulating neoliberalism: diverse economies and everyday life in postsocialist cities / Adrian Smith -- Modes of governance, modes of resistance: contesting neoliberalism in Calgary / Byron Miller -- Closed borders, open markets: immigrant day laborers' struggle for economic rights / Nik Theodore -- Space patrols--the new peace-keeping functions of nonprofits: contesting neoliberalism or the urban poor? …”
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North Korea the politics of regime survival /

Table of Contents: “…Kim -- Russo-North Korean relations under Kim Jong Il / Peggy Falkenheim Meyer -- North Korea-South Korea relations in the Kim Jong Il era / Seongji Woo -- (Bi-) multilateral approaches to defusing nuclear crisis: beyond the six-party talks as peace strategy / Young Whan Kihl -- Why hasn't North Korea collapsed? …”
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Between the lines readings on Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. "war on terror" /

Table of Contents: “…The outbreak of the Al Aqsa Intifada and its early development : September 2000-January 2001 -- A Likud-Labor gangster government after Sharon's victory in the 2001 elections : provocative escalations, defiant but handicapped resistance : January-October 2001 -- Back to the essence of the conflict : total war--Zionist left and right close national and class ranks -- The case of MK Azmi Bishara : revealing the true nature of Israel's democracy -- From "defensive shield" to "reforming the PA" : Jenin's noble tragedy : March 2002-February 2003 -- Israeli elections 2003 and the sweeping victory of Sharon : what once was will continue to be, only worse : March 2003 -- The occupation of Iraq : widening U.S. hegemony and its fallout for Palestine : July 2002-April 2003 -- Carte blanche : the era of force, force, and more force : May-September 2003 -- From Arafat's death to the disengagement spectacle : January 2004-September 2005 -- Expanding regionally, resisting locally : "he who wants peace prepares for war" : October 2005-November 2006.…”
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Medieval Italy texts in translation /

Table of Contents: “…Empire and cities in the late twelfth century : the Peace of Constance and its aftermath : two texts (1183, 1216) -- 16. …”
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Networks of nations the evolution, structure, and impact of International Networks, 1816-2001 / by Maoz, Zeev

Table of Contents: “…Democratic networks: resolving the democratic peace puzzle; 9. Interdependence and international conflict: the consequences of strategic and economic networks; 10. …”
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Poems from Guantánamo the detainees speak /

Table of Contents: “…They fight for peace / Shaker Abdurraheem Aamer -- O prison darkness / Abdulaziz -- I shall not complain / Abdulaziz -- To my father / Abdulla Thani Faris al-Anazi -- Lions in the cage / Ustad Badruzzaman Badr -- Homeward bound / Moazzam Begg -- Death poem / Jumah al Dossari -- They cannot help / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost -- Cup poems 1. / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost -- Cup poem 2 / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost -- Two fragments / Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost -- First poem of my life / Mohammed El Gharani -- Humiliated in the shackles / Sami al Haj -- The truth / Emad Abdullah Hassan -- Is it true? …”
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Virtue ethics in the Middle Ages commentaries on Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics, 1200 -1500 /

Table of Contents: “…Tracey -- Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas -- In war and peace : the virtue of courage in the writings of Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas / Jörn Müller -- Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas on magnanimity / Tobias Hoffmann -- Aquinas's interpretation of the Aristotelian virtue of justice and his doctrine of natural law / Matthias Perkams -- The late thirteenth century -- Heroic virtue in the commentary tradition on the Nicomachean ethics in the second half of the thirteenth century / Iacopo Costa -- Utrumfelix indigeat amicis : the reception of the Aristotelian theory of friendship at the Arts Faculty in Paris / Marco Toste -- The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries -- The cardinal virtues in medieval commentaries on the Nicomachean ethics, 1250-1350 / István P. …”
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Security in Iraq a framework for analyzing emerging threats as U.S. forces leave / by Gompert, David C.

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Dokdo historical appraisal and international justice /

Table of Contents: “…Van Dyke -- Territorial disputes in East Asia, the San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1951, and the legacy of U.S. security interests in East Asia / Seokwoo Lee -- A possible practical solution for the dispute over the Dokdo/Takeshima Islands from the perspective of the law of the sea / Atsuko Kanehara -- Dokdo, colonialism, and international law : lessons from the decision of the ICJ in the land and maritime dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria / Dakas CJ Dakas -- Problems of contiguity, natural unity, and ancient original title to islands with special reference to Dokdo / Kaiyan Homi Kaikobad -- An American assessment of South Korea's policy options towards its claim to Dokdo and its relations with Japan / Larry A. …”
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Evolving principles of international law studies in honour of Karel C. Wellens /

Table of Contents: “…/ Laurence Boisson de Chazournes and Pieter Jan Kuijper -- Certain other perspectives for a reform of the United Nations Security Council / Eric Suy -- Integrating the fragmented international public order : a theoretical perspective / Teruo Komori -- The right to peace as an emerging solidarity right / Theo van Boven -- The evolution of liberte, egalite and fraternite in the international community / Rein Mullerson -- The sovereigns are dead, long live the sovereigns - reflections on state sovereignty and international law / Andre de Hoogh -- Issues of shared responsibility before the International Court of Justice / Andre Nollkaemper -- Boundary treaties and their interpretation / Malcolm N. …”
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Performing Nordic heritage everyday practices and institutional culture /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Performing Nordic Heritage : Institutional Preservation and Popular Practices / Peter Aronsson & Lizette Gradén -- Walking Nordic : Performing Space, Place and Identity / Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch -- "Something in the Air" : Performing the North within Norden / Katla Kjartansdóttir and Kristinn Schram -- A Windmill and a Vikinghjem : The Importance of Visual Icons as Heritage Tropes among Danish-Americans / Hanne Pico Larsen -- Negotiating Local, National and Nordic Identities through Commemorations / Ingemar Lindaräng & Torbjörn Eng -- Banal Nordism : Recomposing an Old Song of Peace / Stuart Burch -- "Nordic" as Border Country Rhetoric : Danish versus German in South Jutland Museums and Memorial Culture / Olav Christensen -- Performing Nordic Spaces in Scandinavian-American Museums : Gift-exchange, Volunteerism, and Curatorial Practice / Lizette Gradén -- The Geopolitics of Distinction : Negotiating Regional Spaces in the Baltic Museums / Eglė Rindzevičiūtė -- Sweden versus Norden in Nordiska museet / Magdalena Hillström -- Performing the Nordic in Museums : Changing Ideas of Norden and their Political Implications / Peter Aronsson -- Conclusion: Performing Nordic Spaces in Everyday Life and Museums / Peter Aronsson & Lizette Gradén.…”
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Ethics, nationalism, and just war medieval and contemporary perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Thinking morally about war in the Middle Ages and today / James Turner Johnson -- Taming warriors in Classical and early Medieval political theory / John Von Heyking -- Augustine and just war : between virtue and duties / Henrik Syse -- Just war, schism, and peace in St. Augustine / Phillip W. Gray -- Is there a "presumption against war" in Aquinas's ethics? …”
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Re-imagining development communication in Africa

Table of Contents: “…: resolving inter-village rivalry through a form of communication / Kehbuma Langmia -- Communicating peace : women transcend cultural boundaries in post-genocide Rwanda / Eddah Mutua and Ayantu Tibeso -- Coding for development in the Silicon Savannah : the emerging role of digital technology in Kenya / George Gathigi and Ernest Waititu -- Sustainable development and rural access to telecommunications in Nigeria / Chukwudiebube Bede Opata.…”
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Red and blue nation? characteristics and causes of America's polarized politics. Vol. 1 /

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