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ItemNo Preview AvailableOne world: The ethics of globalization(Yale University Press, 2004-12-01)The book encompasses four main global issues: climate change, the role of the World Trade Organization, human rights and humanitarian intervention, and foreign aid. Singer addresses each vital issue from an ethical perspective and offers alternatives to the state-centric approach that characterizes international theory and relations today. On climate change, for example, he sees the ethical issue as one that concerns a common global resource - the capacity of the atmosphere to absorb waste gases. How much of this resource should developed notions appropriate, and how much should be left for developing nations? Regarding the WTO, Singer asks whether the organization allows free trade to override all other values, and he assesses the evidence for and against the view that globalization helps the poor. In his consideration of human rights, the author asks to what extent we can develop global laws protecting human rights and what the criteria for intervention should be when these rights are violated. Finally, Singer addresses the obligations of the world's rich nations to assist the poor nations. © 2002 by Peter Singer. All rights reserved.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableOne World: The Ethics of Globalization(Yale University Press, 2002)Amy Gutmann, George Kateb, Stephen Macedo, Alan Patten, and Chuck Beitz all served as Director of the Center during the writing of One World or One World Now, and I thank them for their support. Students in my Practical Ethics course ...
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ItemLetters from aboriginal women of Victoria, 1867-1926(The History Department, The University of Melbourne, 2002)This edited collection of women’s correspondence, Letters From Aboriginal Women of Victoria, 1867-1926, constitutes an important historical record of the experiences of Aboriginal women during a crucial period of social change. In particular the letters are valuable for the insight they offer into the impact on Aboriginal communities of government legislation and mission policies and the women’s assertion of their entitlement to freedom and agency. Written by 81 different women, the letters cover such issues as children, family, religion, land, housing and material assistance.
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ItemA country with a government and a flag: the Rif War in Morocco, 1921-1926(Middle East & North African Studies Press Ltd., 1986)The Rif War, which took place in Northern Morocco between 1921 and 1926 and which almost shattered Spain's protectorate there, as well as threatening France's hold over the rest of Morocco, is, perhaps the most important anti-colonial struggle of the pre-World War II era. Not only did it lead to the deaths of tens of thousands of Spanish soldiers - 10,000 of them in one battle alone in 1921 - but it also led indirectly to the Spanish Civil War and spurred on the nascent nationalist cause in Morocco itself. Yet the events of the war and the personalities of its leading protagonists, at least on the Moroccan side, are curiously little known. nor is the innovative nature of their convictions fully understood.
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ItemThe philosophy of nature: a guide to the new essentialism(Acumen Publishing, 2002)
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ItemEthical Encounter(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2002)
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ItemDissent Events: Protest, the Media, and the Political Gimmick in Australia(University of New South Wales Press, 2002)
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ItemMedia Matrix: Sexing the New Reality(Allen & Unwin, 2003)
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ItemUnearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island(Wakefield Press, 2002)