Author: Jonathan Kirshner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: coercion, currency
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1995-10-16
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 069103768X
ISBN-13: 9780691037684

Jonathan Kirshner here examines how states can and have used international currency relationships and arrangements as instruments of coercive power for the advancement of state security. Kirshner lays the groundwork for the study of what he calls monetary power by providing a taxonomy of the forms that such power can take and of the conditions under which it can have effect. He then establishes the actual existence of monetary power by showing how the taxonomy is supported by the historical record, including cases from nations from all over the globe and throughout the twentieth century. He un

Author: Marc Galanter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: coercion, healing, faith, cults
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1999-05-20
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0195123697
ISBN-13: 9780195123692

From the mass weddings of Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church to the ritual suicides at Heaven’s Gate, charismatic cults and their devotees have become facts of American life. Using material gleaned from twenty-five years of direct encounters with cults and their detractors, as well as extensive research, Marc Galanter offers the most extensive psychological analysis of these organizations available. Cults explores not only how members feel and think at all stages of their involvement, but also how larger social and psychological forces reinforce individual commitment within the cu

Author: Matt Matravers
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: coercion, rationale, punishment, justice
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2000-10-05
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 0198295731
ISBN-13: 9780198295730

This book aims to answer the question of why, and by what right, some people punish others. With a groundbreaking new theory, Matravers argues that the justification of punishment must be embedded in a larger political and moral theory. He also uses the problem of punishment to undermine contemporary accounts of justice.

Author: Lawrence Freedman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: cases, concepts, coercion, strategic
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1998-06-11
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0198293496
ISBN-13: 9780198293491

This book argues for a reappraisal of the role of strategic coercion, defined as the deliberate and purposive use of overt threats to influence another’s strategic choices, and emphasizes the importance of drawing on the experiences of countries other than the United States, and of considering the new circumstances of the post cold war world.

Author: Richard Ned Lebow
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: relations, international, ethics, cooperation, coercion
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2006-12-05
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0415955254
ISBN-13: 9780415955256

Coercion, Cooperation and Ethics in International Relations brings together the recent essays of, Richard Ned Lebow, one of the leading scholars of international relations and U.S. Foreign Policy. Lebow’s work has centered on the instrumental value of ethics in foreign policy decision making and the disastrous consequences which follow when ethical standard are flouted. Unlike most realists who have considered ethical considerations irrelevant in states’ calculations of their national interest, Lebow has argued that self interest, and hence, national interest can only be formulated

Author: David A. Hoekema
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Keywords: state, punishment, coercion, wrongs, rights
Number of Pages: 153
Published: 1987-01
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0941664074
ISBN-13: 9780941664073

Author: Thomas Szasz
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: psychiatry, history, critical, cure, coercion
Number of Pages: 293
Published: 2007-07-03
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0765803798
ISBN-13: 9780765803795

In this provocative new study of the history of pschiatry, Szasz challenges conventional beliefs about it. He asserts that, in fact, psychiatrists are not concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of bona fide illnesses. He contends that the truth about psychiatry, its self-evident ends, and the means used to achieve them is sociallly unacceptable. Psychiatric tradition, social expectation, and the law make it clear that coercion is the profession’s determining characteristic. Psychiatrists may "diagnose" or "treat" people without their consent or even against their cl