What determines the strategies by which a state mobilizes resources for war? And does war preparation strengthen or weaken the state in relation to society? By exploring these questions, Michael Barnett develops a theoretical framework that traces the connection between war preparation and changes in state-society relations, and applies that framework to Egypt from 1952 to 1977 and Israel from 1948 through 1977. The study addresses major issues in international relations, comparative politics and Middle Eastern studies. The author argues that Egyptian and Israeli war preparation strategies were a function of systemic, state and societal variables, and that leaders in each state attempted to balance the demands imposed by international conflict with their domestic economic and political objectives.
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• War Preparation and State Power
• The Framework
• Preferences and Constraints
• State Strategies for War Preparation
• The Conservation and Transformation of State Power
• An Excursion on State Power
• Egypt and Israel in Historical Perspective
• Egypt
• Israel
• Explaining Egyptian War Preparation Strategies
• Consolidation and Intent, 1952-1956
• From the Suez War to the 1967 War
• Defeat, Consolidation, and Redemption, 1967-1973
• From Victory to Self-Defeat, 1973-1977
• Explaining Israeli War Preparation Strategies
• Mobilization and Integration, 1948-1956
• In the Eye of the Hurricane, 1957-1967
• Life during Wartime, 1967-1977
• War and the Transformation of State Power
• Egyptian War Preparation Strategies and State Power
• Israeli War Preparation Strategies and State Power
• Egypt and Israel in Comparative and Theoretical Perspective
• The Construction of the Government's War Preparation Strategies
• War Preparation and State Power
• Jewish Investment and Capital Inflow, 1932-1939
• National and Public versus Private Jewish Capital Flow to Palestine, 1918-1937
• Summary of Fiscal Operations, 1962/63-1978
• Soviet-Egyptian Military Aid Accounts
• Arab Financial Assistance to Egypt, 1973-1976
• Capital Imports to Israel, 1950-1967
• Share of Capital Imports in Total Resources and Gross Investments, 1950-1967
• Investments by Branch in the Economy, 1950-1967
• Gross Investment in Fixed Assets, by Investing Sector, 1952-1966
• Capital Imports to Israel, 1967-1977.

What determines the strategies by which a state mobilizes resources for war? And does war preparation strengthen or weaken the state in relation to society? By exploring these questions, Michael Barnett develops a theoretical framework that traces the connection between war preparation and changes in state-society relations, and applies that framework to Egypt from 1952 to 1977 and Israel from 1948 through 1977. The study addresses major issues in international relations, comparative politics and Middle Eastern studies. The author argues that Egyptian and Israeli war preparation strategies were a function of systemic, state and societal variables, and that leaders in each state attempted to balance the demands imposed by international conflict with their domestic economic and political objectives.
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• The politics of uniqueness : the status of the Israeli case / Michael N. Barnett
• Israeli foreign policy : a realist ideal-type or a breed of its own? / Shibley Telhami
• Israel Diaspora relations in comparative perspective / Gabriel Sheffer
• Gender and international relations : a comparison of citizen attitudes in Israel and Egypt / Mark Tessler and Ina Warriner
• Israel in the world economy : Israel as an East Asian State / Michael N. Barnett
• The fetish of Jerusalem : a hegemonic analysis / Ian S. Lustick
• Society-formation and the case of Israel / Joel S. Migdal
• Between uniqueness and exclusion : the politics of identity in Israel / Rebecca Kook
• Zionism and colonialism : a comparative approach / Gershon Shafir
• On the uniqueness of Israel : multiple readings / Yehezkel Dror.

• 1. A Narrative of Arab Politics Dialogues and Regional Order Which Dialogues Among Which Arab States? Organization of the Book
• 2. The Game of Arab Politics The Structure of Arab Politics Symbolic Exchanges The Changing Game of Arab Politics
• 3. The Creation of "Arab" Polticis, 1920-1945 Arab Nationalism Arab Nationalism and Independence Arab Nationalism and Palestine Arab Nationalism and Unification
• 4. Securing Arabaism, 1945-1955 Palestine and Israel Arab Nationalism and Sovereignty Arab Nationalism and the West
• 5. The Ascent and Descent of Arabism, 1956-1967 Suez, Arabism and the West Arabism and the Rise and Decline of Unificiation The Debate about Israel
• 6. Sovereignty and Statism, 1967-1990 Khartoum and the Consecration of Sovereignty The War of Ramadan, the Peace Process, and Constricted Arabism Fragmentation in Arab Politics
• 7. The End of the Arab States System? Arab Politics Since the Gulf War The Gulf War The Reorganization of Arab-Israeli Politics The Changing Security Order The Future Arab Order
• 8. The Making and Unmaking of Arab Politics The Pattern of Strategic Interaction A Narrative of Arab Politics.
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-- A.M. Ansari, CMEIS, University of Durham, Journal of Islamic Studies.
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• 1. A Narrative of Arab Politics Dialogues and Regional Order Which Dialogues Among Which Arab States? Organization of the Book
• 2. The Game of Arab Politics The Structure of Arab Politics Symbolic Exchanges The Changing Game of Arab Politics
• 3. The Creation of "Arab" Polticis, 1920-1945 Arab Nationalism Arab Nationalism and Independence Arab Nationalism and Palestine Arab Nationalism and Unification
• 4. Securing Arabaism, 1945-1955 Palestine and Israel Arab Nationalism and Sovereignty Arab Nationalism and the West
• 5. The Ascent and Descent of Arabism, 1956-1967 Suez, Arabism and the West Arabism and the Rise and Decline of Unificiation The Debate about Israel
• 6. Sovereignty and Statism, 1967-1990 Khartoum and the Consecration of Sovereignty The War of Ramadan, the Peace Process, and Constricted Arabism Fragmentation in Arab Politics
• 7. The End of the Arab States System? Arab Politics Since the Gulf War The Gulf War The Reorganization of Arab-Israeli Politics The Changing Security Order The Future Arab Order
• 8. The Making and Unmaking of Arab Politics The Pattern of Strategic Interaction A Narrative of Arab Politics.
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-- A.M. Ansari, CMEIS, University of Durham, Journal of Islamic Studies.
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• 1. A Narrative of Arab Politics Dialogues and Regional Order Which Dialogues Among Which Arab States? Organization of the Book
• 2. The Game of Arab Politics The Structure of Arab Politics Symbolic Exchanges The Changing Game of Arab Politics
• 3. The Creation of "Arab" Polticis, 1920-1945 Arab Nationalism Arab Nationalism and Independence Arab Nationalism and Palestine Arab Nationalism and Unification
• 4. Securing Arabaism, 1945-1955 Palestine and Israel Arab Nationalism and Sovereignty Arab Nationalism and the West
• 5. The Ascent and Descent of Arabism, 1956-1967 Suez, Arabism and the West Arabism and the Rise and Decline of Unificiation The Debate about Israel
• 6. Sovereignty and Statism, 1967-1990 Khartoum and the Consecration of Sovereignty The War of Ramadan, the Peace Process, and Constricted Arabism Fragmentation in Arab Politics
• 7. The End of the Arab States System? Arab Politics Since the Gulf War The Gulf War The Reorganization of Arab-Israeli Politics The Changing Security Order The Future Arab Order
• 8. The Making and Unmaking of Arab Politics The Pattern of Strategic Interaction A Narrative of Arab Politics.
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-- A.M. Ansari, CMEIS, University of Durham, Journal of Islamic Studies.
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• Part I. Introduction and Theoretical Overview:
• 1. Security communities in theoretical perspective Emanuel Adler and Michael Barnett--
• 2. A framework for the study of security communities Emanuel Adler and Michael Barnett-- Part II. Studies in Security Communities:
• 3. Insecurity, security, and asecurity in the West European non-war community Ole Waever--
• 4. Seeds of peaceful change: the OSCE's security community-building model Emanuel Adler--
• 5. Caravans in opposite directions: society, state and the development of a community in the Gulf Cooperation Council Michael Barnett and Gregory A. Gaus III--
• 6. Collective identity and conflict resolution in Southeast Asia Amitav Acharya--
• 7. Australia and the search for security community in the 1990s Richard A. Higgott and Kim Richard Nossal--
• 8. An emerging security community in South America? Andrew Hurrell--
• 9. The United States and Mexico: a pluralistic security community Guadelupe Gonzalez and Stephan Haggard--
• 10. No fences make good neighbours: the development of the US-Canadian security community, 1871-1940 Sean Shore--
• 11. A neo-Kantian perspective: democracy, interdependence and international organization in building security communities Bruce Russett-- Part III. Conclusions:
• 12. International communities, secure or otherwise Charles Tilly--
• 13. Studying security communities in theory, comparison, and history Michael Barnett and Emanuel Adler.
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This book argues that community can exist at the international level, and that security politics is profoundly shaped by it, with states dwelling within an international community having the capacity to develop a pacific disposition. By investigating the relationship between international community and the possibility for peaceful change, this book revisits the concept first pioneered by Karl Deutsch: 'security communities'. Leading scholars examine security communities in various historical and regional contexts: in places where they exist, where they are emerging, and where they are hardly detectable. Building on constructivist theory, the volume is an important contribution to international relations theory and security studies, attempting to understand the conjunction of transnational forces, state power and international organizations that can produce a security community.
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• Introduction: Depraved Indifference
• 1. It Was a Very Good Year
• 2. Rwanda Through Rose-Colored Glasses
• 3. "If This Is an Easy Operation..."
• 4. The Fog of Genocide
• 5. Diplomatic Games
• 6. The Hunt for Moral ResponsibilityBrief Chronology of Rwandan Conflict Selected Chronology of United Nations' Security AgendaAcknowledgments Notes Index.
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Why was the UN a bystander during the Rwandan genocide? Do its sins of omission leave it morally responsible for the hundreds of thousands of dead? Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda for much of the genocide. Based on his first-hand experiences, archival work, and interviews with many key participants, he reconstructs the history of the UN's involvement in Rwanda. In the weeks leading up to the genocide, the author documents, the UN was increasingly aware or had good reason to suspect that Rwanda was a site of crimes against humanity. Yet it failed to act. In Eyewitness to a Genocide, Barnett argues that its indifference was driven not by incompetence or cynicism but rather by reasoned choices cradled by moral considerations. Employing a novel approach to ethics in practice and in relationship to international organizations, Barnett offers an unsettling possibility: the UN culture recast the ethical commitments of well-intentioned individuals, arresting any duty to aid at the outset of the genocide. Barnett argues that the UN bears some moral responsibility for the genocide. Particularly disturbing is his observation that not only did the UN violate its moral responsibilities, but also that many in New York believed that they were "doing the right thing" as they did so. Barnett addresses the ways in which the Rwandan genocide raises a warning about this age of humanitarianism and concludes by asking whether it is possible to build moral institutions.
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• Introduction: Depraved indifference?
• 1. It was a very good year
• 2. Rwanda through rose-colored glasses
• 3. "If this is an easy operation..."
• 4. The fog of genocide
• 5. Diplomatic games
• 6. The hunt for moral responsibility
• Chronology of Rwandan conflict.

• Introduction: Depraved indifference?
• 1. It was a very good year
• 2. Rwanda through rose-colored glasses
• 3. "If this is an easy operation..."
• 4. The fog of genocide
• 5. Diplomatic games
• 6. The hunt for moral responsibility
• Brief chronology of Rwandan conflict
• Selected chronology of United Nations' security agenda.

• Bureaucratizing world politics
• International organizations as bureaucracies
• Expertise and power at the International Monetary Fund
• Defining refugees and voluntary repatriation at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• Genocide and the peacekeeping culture at the United Nations
• The legitimacy of an expanding global bureaucracy.

• Bureaucratizing world politics
• International organizations as bureaucracies
• Expertise and power at the International Monetary Fund
• Defining refugees and voluntary repatriation at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• Genocide and the peacekeeping culture at the United Nations
• The legitimacy of an expanding global bureaucracy.

An innovative perspective on the behavior of international organizations and their effects on global politics. The authors argue against the conventional wisdom that these bodies are little more than instruments of state.

• 1. Power and global governance Michael N. Barnett and Raymond Duvall--
• 2. Power, institutions, and the production of inequality Andrew Hurrell--
• 3. Policing and global governance Mark Laffey and Jutta Weldes--
• 4. Power, fairness and the global economy Ethan Kapstein--
• 5. Power politics and the institutionalization of international relations Lloyd Gruber--
• 6. Power, nested governance, and the WTO: a comparative institutional approach Greg Shaffer--
• 7. The power of liberal international organizations Michael N. Barnett and Martha Finnemore--
• 8. The power of interpretive communities Ian Johnstone--
• 9. Class powers and the politics of global governance Mark Rupert--
• 10. Global civil society and global governmentality: or, the search for the political and the state amidst capillaries of power Ronnie Lipschutz--
• 11. Governing the innocent? The 'civilian' in international law Helen Kinsella--
• 12. Colonial and postcolonial global governance Himadeep Muppidi--
• 13. Knowledge in power: the epistemic construction of global governance Emanuel Adler and Steven Bernstein.
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This edited volume examines power in its different dimensions in global governance. Scholars tend to underestimate the importance of power in international relations because of a failure to see its multiple forms. To expand the conceptual aperture, this book presents and employs a taxonomy that alerts scholars to the different kinds of power that are present in world politics. A team of international scholars demonstrate how these different forms connect and intersect in global governance in a range of different issue areas. Bringing together a variety of theoretical perspectives, this volume invites scholars to reconsider their conceptualization of power in world politics and how such a move can enliven and enrich their understanding of global governance.
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• 1. Power and global governance Michael N. Barnett and Raymond Duvall--
• 2. Power, institutions, and the production of inequality Andrew Hurrell--
• 3. Policing and global governance Mark Laffey and Jutta Weldes--
• 4. Power, fairness and the global economy Ethan Kapstein--
• 5. Power politics and the institutionalization of international relations Lloyd Gruber--
• 6. Power, nested governance, and the WTO: a comparative institutional approach Greg Shaffer--
• 7. The power of liberal international organizations Michael N. Barnett and Martha Finnemore--
• 8. The power of interpretive communities Ian Johnstone--
• 9. Class powers and the politics of global governance Mark Rupert--
• 10. Global civil society and global governmentality: or, the search for the political and the state amidst capillaries of power Ronnie Lipschutz--
• 11. Governing the innocent? The 'civilian' in international law Helen Kinsella--
• 12. Colonial and postcolonial global governance Himadeep Muppidi--
• 13. Knowledge in power: the epistemic construction of global governance Emanuel Adler and Steven Bernstein.
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This edited volume examines power in its different dimensions in global governance. Scholars tend to underestimate the importance of power in international relations because of a failure to see its multiple forms. To expand the conceptual aperture, this book presents and employs a taxonomy that alerts scholars to the different kinds of power that are present in world politics. A team of international scholars demonstrate how these different forms connect and intersect in global governance in a range of different issue areas. Bringing together a variety of theoretical perspectives, this volume invites scholars to reconsider their conceptualization of power in world politics and how such a move can enliven and enrich their understanding of global governance.
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• Humanitarianism : a brief history of the present / Michael Barnett and Thomas G. Weiss
• The rise of emergency relief aid / James D. Fearon
• The imperative to reduce suffering : charity, progress, and emergencies in the field of humanitarian action / Craig Calhoun
• Saying "no" to Wal-Mart? : money and morality in professional humanitarianism / Stephen Hopgood
• Humanitarian organizations : accountable - why, to whom, for what, and how? / Janice Gross Stein
• The grand strategies of humanitarianism / Michael Barnett and Jack Snyder
• The power of holding humanitarianism hostage and the myth of protective principles / Laura Hammond
• Sacrifice, triage, and global humanitarianism / Peter Redfield
• The distributive commitments of international NGOs / Jennifer C. Rubenstein
• Humanitarianism as a scholarly vocation / Michael Barnett
• Humanitarianism and practitioners : social science matters / Peter J. Hoffman and Thomas G. Weiss.

• Humanitarianism : a brief history of the present / Michael Barnett and Thomas G. Weiss
• The rise of emergency relief aid / James D. Fearon
• The imperative to reduce suffering : charity, progress, and emergencies in the field of humanitarian action / Craig Calhoun
• Saying "no" to Wal-Mart? : money and morality in professional humanitarianism / Stephen Hopgood
• Humanitarian organizations : accountable
• why, to whom, for what, and how? / Janice Gross Stein
• The grand strategies of humanitarianism / Michael Barnett and Jack Snyder
• The power of holding humanitarianism hostage and the myth of protective principles / Laura Hammond
• Sacrifice, triage, and global humanitarianism / Peter Redfield
• The distributive commitments of international NGOs / Jennifer C. Rubenstein
• Humanitarianism as a scholarly vocation / Michael Barnett
• Humanitarianism and practitioners : social science matters / Peter J. Hoffman and Thomas G. Weiss.

This volume addresses the humanitarian identity crisis, including humanitarianism's relationship to accountability, great powers, privatization and corporate philanthropy, warlords, and the ethical evaluations that inform life-and-death decision making during and after emergencies.

• 1. Introduction: The International Humanitarian Order
• Section 1: UN and World Order
• 2. Bringing in the New World Order: Legitimacy, Liberalism, and the United Nations World Politics
• 3. The New U.N. Politics of Peace: From Juridical Sovereignty to Empirical Sovereignty." Global Governance
• 4. The United Nations and Global Security: The Norm is Mightier Than the Sword
• 5. Humanitarianism with a Sovereign Face: UNHCR in the Global Undertow
• Section 2: The Ethics of Intervention
• 6. The Politics of Indifference at the United Nations: The Security Council, Peacekeeping, and Genocide in Rwanda
• 7. UNHCR and the Ethics of Repatriation.
• 8. Building a Republican Peace: Stabilizing States After War
• 9. Humanitarianism Transformed.
• 10. Conclusion: Beyond the International Humanitarian Order?
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One of the genuinely remarkable but relatively unnoticed developments of the last half-century is the blossoming of an international humanitarian order - a complex of norms, informal institutions, laws, and discourses that legitimate and compel various kinds of interventions by state and nonstate actors with the explicit goal of preserving and protecting human life. For those who have sacrificed to build this order, and for those who have come to rely on it, the international humanitarian represents a towering achievement cause for sobriety. What kind of international humanitarian order is being imagined, created and practiced? To what extent are the international agents of this order deliverers of progress or disappointment? Featuring previously published and original essays, this collection offers a critical assessment of the practices and politics of global ethical interventions in the context of the post-cold war transformation of the international humanitarian order. After an introduction that introduces the reader to the concept and the significance of the international humanitarian order, Section I explores the braided relationship between international order and the UN, whiles Section II critically examines international ethics in practice. The Conclusion reflects on these and other themes, asking why the international humanitarian order retains such a loyal following despite its flaws, what is the relationship of this order to power and politics, how such relationships implicate our understanding of moral progress, and how the international humanitarian order challenges both practitioners and scholars to rethink the meaning of their vocations.
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• Co-dependence : humanitarianism and the world
• The humanitarian big bang
• Saving slaves, sinners, savages, and societies
• Saving soldiers and civilians during war
• The new international
• Neo-humanitarianism
• Humanitarianism during wartime
• It's a humanitarian's world
• Armed for humanity
• Politics and anti-politics, or, The new paternalism.

Empire of Humanity explores humanitarianism's remarkable growth from its humble origins in the early nineteenth century to its current prominence in global life. In contrast to most contemporary accounts of humanitarianism that concentrate on the last two decades, Michael Barnett ties the past to the present, connecting the antislavery and missionary movements of the nineteenth century to today's peacebuilding missions, the Cold War interventions in places like Biafra and Cambodia to post Cold War humanitarian operations in regions such as the Great Lakes of Africa and the Balkans; and the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1863 to the emergence of the major international humanitarian organizations of the twentieth century. Based on extensive archival work, close encounters with many of today's leading international agencies, and interviews with dozens of aid workers in the field and at headquarters, Empire of Humanity provides a history that is both global and intimate. Avoiding both romanticism and cynicism, Empire of Humanity explores humanitarianism's enduring themes, trends, and, most strikingly, ethical ambiguities. Humanitarianism hopes to change the world, but the world has left its mark on humanitarianism. Humanitarianism has undergone three distinct global ages imperial, postcolonial, and liberal each of which has shaped what humanitarianism can do and what it is. The world has produced not one humanitarianism, but instead varieties of humanitarianism. Furthermore, Barnett observes that the world of humanitarianism is divided between an emergency camp that wants to save lives and nothing else and an alchemist camp that wants to remove the causes of suffering. These camps offer different visions of what are the purpose and principles of humanitarianism, and, accordingly respond differently to the same global challenges and humanitarianism emergencies. Humanitarianism has developed a metropolis of global institutions of care, amounting to a global governance of humanity. This humanitarian governance, Barnett observes, is an empire of humanity: it exercises power over the very individuals it hopes to emancipate. Although many use humanitarianism as a symbol of moral progress, Barnett provocatively argues that humanitarianism has undergone its most impressive gains after moments of radical inhumanity, when the "international community" believes that it must atone for its sins and reduce the breach between what we do and who we think we are. Humanitarianism is not only about the needs of its beneficiaries; it also is about the needs of the compassionate.".
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