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La création du poste de Délégué Général du gouvernement français dans les territoires occupés fut demandée par les autorités allemandes. Dès le 6 juillet 1940, en effet, le président de la C.A.A. écrivait au président de la Délégation française : "... nous suggérons de placer sous une direction unique les personnalités déléguées auprès du Chef de l'administration militaire en France pour les territoires ...

"Why do powerful intervening militaries have such difficulty managing seemingly weak local partners in counterinsurgency wars? Set within the context of costly, large-scale military interventions such as the U.S. war in Afghanistan, this book explains under what conditions local allies, such as the U.S.-allied regime in Kabul, comply with (or defy) the policy demands of larger security partners. Analyzing ...

"The Trouble with the Congo suggests a new explanation for international peacebuilding failures in civil wars. Drawing from more than 330 interviews and a year and a half of field research, it develops a case study of the international intervention during the Democratic Republic of the Congo's unsuccessful transition from war to peace and democracy (2003-2006). Grassroots rivalries over land, resources, ...

"If you are a bystander and witness a crime, should intervention to prevent that crime be a legal obligation? Or is moral responsibility enough? In The Crime of Complicity, Amos N. Guiora addresses these profoundly important questions and the bystander-victim relationship from a deeply personal and legal perspective, focusing on the Holocaust and then exploring cases in contemporary society. Sharing ...

"Armed conflict has become the overarching challenge for foreign policy and puts development and humanitarian assistance at considerable risk. How to deal with the situation? What to do? A milestone in its field, this guidebook provides conceptual thought and practical support. It leads both practitioner and academic reader through a planning and evaluation process that helps the user to better design ...

Includes bibliographical references and index. xxiii, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"This book traces Japan's impact on these national identities, from its clumsy intervention in Siberia, through its ambitious attempts to create the new state of Manchukuo on the Asian mainland and to reshape the politics of the Chinese and Mongols, to its brief but dramatic foray into Southeast Asia. The book compares the perspective of societies such as India and Tibet, which observed Japan from ...

Subject: Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: The Destruction of Dresden and the Excess of the Real -- Visual Mediations: Dresden in Postwar Photography and Fine Art -- Architectural Interventions I: West and East German Postwar Debates -- Architectural Interventions II: Dresden's Altmarkt and the Topology of Power -- Literary Voices I: The Built Environment and Memoryscapes in Brigitte Reimann ...

Includes bibliographical references. xiii, 286 pages : maps ; 23 cm

Lit. opg.: p. 135-158. 162 p. ; 30 cm.

"[This book] seeks to break the cycle of indifference and confront the political will not to intervene that was so painfully evident in 1994. Drawing on incisive case studies contrasting American and Canadian government responses to Rwandan Genocide and events in Kosovo in 1999, the W21 [Will to Intervene Project] research team draws on lessons learned from its interviews with over eighty policy makers ...

Elucidates the role and the non-intervention of Pius XII and of the Vatican hierarchy during the Shoah. Focuses on the significance of specific choices and actions. On the issue of how much the Vatican knew about the extermination of the Jews, concludes that there is no doubt that it was aware of what was happening in Europe. The Church avoided a break with Nazi Germany, speaking of the "horrors of ...

ADA 380 018. viii, 135 leaves : illustrations