Sumanta Banerjee -
India's Simmering Revolution:The Naxalite Uprising. Zed Books,
1984 Daniel L. Byman, Peter Chalk, Bruce Hoffman, William Rosenau,
David Brannan -
Trends in Outside Support for Insurgent Movements
- A Rand Corporation Publication, 2001
"...
Diasporas have provided important support (for insurgent movements) during
the past decade. Unlike states, diasporas provide more reliable funding and
tend to refrain from seeking control of insurgent movements.... One of the
most important forms of support a state can provide, ironically, is passive
acceptance of diaspora activism. Immigrant communities and other interested
outsiders often openly raise money, distribute propaganda, and aid an
insurgency's cause with little interference from a host government, even
when that host government generally opposes the insurgency.
Shutting down diaspora support requires
action by their government hosts... Understanding insurgent struggles
since the end of the Cold War requires recognizing the changing agendas and
limited means of state sponsors, the possible increase in the role of
diasporas, and the rise of other nonstate backers....it requires
understanding the importance of passive support - that besides tracking the
flow of arms, money, volunteers, and other active forms of support, analysts
must also look at what is not done in host countries that allows diasporas
and other interested outsiders to operate freely..."
*
Noam Chomsky Failed
States
*J N Dixit -
Assignment Colombo, Konarak Publishers, 1998
"...The LTTE's emergence as the most
dominant and effective politico-military force representing Tamil
interests was due to the following factors: First, the
character and personality of its leader V Prabhakaran who is
disciplined, austere and passionately committed to the cause of Sri
Lankan Tamils's liberation. Whatever he may be criticised for, it
cannot be denied that the man has an inner fire and dedication and
he is endowed with natural military abilities, both strategic and
tactical. He has also proved that he is a keen observer of the
nature of competitive and critical politics. He has proved his
abilities in judging political events and his adroitness in
responding to them..." [see also
Dixit on India's Role in the Struggle for Tamil Eelam]
*Harold
George, Sir, Nicolson -
Diplomacy
/ Paperback / Published 1988
*Micheline R. Ishay, Craig J. Calhoun -
Internationalism and Its Betrayal (Contradictions of Modernity, Vol 2)
/ Paperback / Published 1995
*Henry
A. Kissinger -
Diplomacy / Paperback / Published 1995
"...Kissinger's
approach is historical, beginning with Cardinal Richelieu's policy
in the Thirty Years' War, but his arguments are conceptual
dissections of the principles on which the statesman of the moment
operated. Whether discussing the Cardinal's raison d'{�}etat,
Metternich's (and then Palmerston's) balance-of-power, Bismarck's
naked Realpolitik, Wilson's rejection of the above in favor
of a vaporous collective security, the aggressive ideologies of
expansion that issued from World War I, or the more solid collective
security embodied in NATO, Kissinger is implicitly showing America's
present (and near future) administrators the analogous choices on
their post-Cold War menu. Referring often to John Quincy Adams'
famed 1821 admonition that "America should not go abroad in search
of monsters to destroy," Kissinger cautions against the exceptional
American temptation, regardless of party, to compel a democratic
transformation of the world. He would prefer the revival of a
balance-of-power outlook, which America has never practiced, but
through which, among other outcomes, Russia becomes reconciled to
its reduced, though still vast, territory..." (Editorial Review from
Booklist)
Arnold Krammer -
The Forgotten Friendship: Israel and the Soviet Bloc, 1947-53
William J.Lederer and Eugene Burdick -
The Ugly American
Mark Lloyd - Special
Forces: The Changing Face of Warfare
*Helen V. Milner -
Interests, Institutions, and Information : Domestic Politics and
International Relations / Hardcover / Published 1997
* R.W.Mansbach
and J.A.Vasquez -
In Search of Theory: A New Paradigm for Global Politics ,
New York, Columbia University Press [book
note]
Roger C. Molander, Andrew S.
Riddile, Peter A. Wilson -
Strategic Information Warfare: A New Face of War
Published by Rand
Pannikar, K.M.-
Principles and
Practice of Diplomacy,
Asia Publishing House, Bombay, 1956
*
Governmental Illegitimacy in International LawBook Description
When is a de facto authority not entitled to be
considered a 'government' for the purposes of International Law?
International reaction to the 1991-4 Haitian crisis is only the
most prominent in a series of events that suggest a norm of
governmental illegitimacy is emerging to challenge more
traditional notions of state sovereignty. This challenge has
dramatic implications for two fundamental legal strictures: that
against the use or threat of force against a state's political
independence, and that against interference in matters
'essentially' within a state's domestic jurisdiction. Yet
although human rights advocates have begun to speak of state
sovereignty as an 'anachronism', with some expansively
proclaiming the emergence of an international 'right to
democratic governance,' international law literature lacks
systematic treatment of governmental illegitimacy.
This work seeks to specify the international
law of collective non-recognition of governments, so as to
enable legal evaluation of cases in which competing factions
assert governmental authority. It subjects the recognition
controversies of the United Nations era to a systematic
examination, informed by theoretical and comparative
perspectives on governmental legitimacy.
The inquiry establishes that the category of
'illegitimate government' now occupies a place in international
law, with significant consequences for the legality of
intervention in certain instances. The principle of popular
sovereignty, hitherto vague and ambiguous, has acquired
sufficient determinacy to serve, in some circumstances, as a
basis for denial of legal recognition to putative governments.
This development does not imply, however, the
emergence in international law of a meaningful norm of
'democratic governance,' nor would such a norm serve the
purposes of the scheme of sovereign equality of states embodied
in the United Nations Charter.
Arundhati Roy.... |
* Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers,
2009 |
*An
Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire., 2004
"..The project of corporate globalization has cracked the
code of democracy. Free elections, a free press and an
independent judiciary mean little when the free market has
reduced them to commodities on sale to the highest
bidder..." |
*The
Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with
Arundhati Roy, 2004
|
*Come
September
(audio), 2004 |
*Instant-Mix
Imperial Democracy : Two Talks with Howard Zinn [abridged],
Audio CD, 2004 |
*For
Reasons of State
Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, 2003 |
*War
Talk 2003 |
*Power
Politics,2002
|
*Algebra
of Infinite Justice (Revised and Updated) 2002 |
*The
Greater Common Good 1999 |
*The
Cost of Living,
1999 |
*The
God of Small Things, 1998, 1997 Booker Prize Winner |
Zalmay Khalilzad and Ian O. Lesser (Ed) -
Sources
of Conflict in the 21st Century: Regional Futures and U.S. Strategy
Published by Rand
|