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... sanctions, they transformed into de facto comprehensive sanctions. Secondly, that transformation was instantaneous and unprompted. Thirdly, a near-famine followed within weeks. I make nested analytical, functional, and explanatory arguments. The analytical argument is that targeted sanctions are best...

... to engage in the politics of famine production. They did not recognize that states avoid famine when deterred by a democracy. He, however, insists that his critique is "not to abandon humanitarianism, which can again be a force for ethical progress. But a humanitarianism that sets itself against or above...

... at a global level, as part of the modern human rights regime.37 According to Sanyal, post-war human rights norms, alongside the rise of a humanitarian global development complex, means that the dispossessed masses of primitive accumulation can no longer be disposed of through mass murder or famine. Instead...

... 080/07393148.2014. 924246 414 Book Reviews Notes on Contributor Professor Anthony is the author of a book on the politics of agricultural technology transfer and articles on refugees, famine, military intervention, development theory, class identity, and the forcible relocation of populations through...

... technology transfer and articles on refugees, famine, military intervention, development theory, class identity, and the forcible relocation of populations through the politics of both race and war. Her current work concerns US foreign policy, LGBTQ human rights, and the export of the culture war to Africa...

... splits among the various pro-democracy groups in Russia. Many members of the Yeltsin regime described the events of these years as the work of competent and moral revolutionaries, who took the right actions and in so doing prevented catastrophe-whether famine, civil strife, or nuclear war. Supporters...

... of agricultural technology transfer and articles on refugees, famine, military intervention, development theory, class identity, and the forcible relocation of populations through the politics of both race and war. Her current work concerns the idea of the failed state. James J. Chriss, Beyond Community Policing...

... Roth, Passionate Professionals: The Paradoxes of Aid Work (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2015); Monika Krause, The Good Project: Humanitarian NGOs and the Fragmentation of Reasons (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2014). 9Alex de Waal, Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry...

... will certainly offer as the current century progresses. @NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE 443 Notes on contributor Constance G. Anthony is the author of a book on the politics of agricultural technology transfer and articles on refugees, famine, military intervention, development theory, class identity, and the forcible...

... right. Amartya Sen gives the system due credit for preventing, by way of open information access and entitlement guarantees, the famines that were common under British rule?8 And no less it deserves credit for a degree of religious and multicultural tolerance that is notoriously absent in most...

... Society Publishers, 2006); Evan D.G. Fraser and Andrew Rimas, Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations, 1st ed. (New York: Free Press, 2010); Julian Cribb, The Corning Famine: The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It, 1st ed. (Berkeley, CA: University...

... of both nature and humanity to adapt, creating a harro·wing future in which floods, fires and famine displace millions, species disappear and the planet is irreversibly damaged."l What is politically possible remains yet to be realized even as we collectively face mass extinctions events, amplified...

... Books. Feuer, Lewis. 1969. The Conflict of Generations. New York: Basic Books. Filene, Peter. 1967. Americans and the Soviet Experiment 1917-1933. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Fisher, Harold H. 1927. The Famine in Soviet Russia 1919-1923. The Operations of the American...

..., a famine, or an earthquake." The American delegate, Franklin Lindsey, explained that this definition applied to the atomic bomb, radioactive materials, and deadly chemical and biological mixtures. He ruled out the inclusion of airplanes and warships in the WMD category because they were merely "carriers...

... dimension: now the ICRC also needed to be perceived publicly as an active element in mitigating the famine in Biafra without being seen as partisan by the Nigerian side. For the Western publics, "starving Biafrans" came to epitomize innocent victims irrespective of time and place. But for the ICRC...

...) Department of Political Science, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA Neoliberal globalization's promise of economic growth - along with war, famine, environmental disasters, and other social dislocating events - has led to mass migration under dire conditions. Immigrants have responded...

..., and natural resources). He concluded that ecological degradation would gradually lead to disease, famine, and social conflicts, and accordingly advised against developing countries pursuing industrialization, arguing that by avoiding industrialization, they would be less vulnerable to imminent population...

... of failures all over Africa with "food and famine as an inevitable feature of late capitalism" (p. 146). The market is the problem as is the commodification of everyday life; humanitarian assistance simply resets "the clock to circumstances of a pre-famine period" (p. 147). Bush also critiques rich states...

... hardship, poverty, or famine, or die just because they have been unlucky or have fallen victim to impersonal natural forces. Every significant misfortune is caused by a (spiritual) force whose malevolence is motivated in some morally understandable way. In other words, when this world does not run its...

... famine of 1770 to Muslim elites, rather than the British administration, setting a pattern for future Hindutva historiography. 45Sarkar, Hindu Nationalism, 229. 46lbid., 93. 47For example, the work of Robin Horton, including Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West: Essays on Magic, Religion...