Surrender Is Not an Option

Surrender Is Not an Option
Author: John Bolton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2008-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1416552855

A former ambassador to the United Nations explains his controversial efforts to defend American interests and reform the U.N., presenting his argument for why he believes the United States can enable a greater global security arrangement for modern times. Reprint.

Legislative Calendar

Legislative Calendar
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2006
Genre: United States
ISBN:

CIS Annual

CIS Annual
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2005
Genre: Government publications
ISBN:

The United Nations Human Rights Council

The United Nations Human Rights Council
Author: Rosa Freedman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2013-03-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1135115141

The United Nations Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to replace the UN Commission on Human Rights. The Council’s mandate and founding principles demonstrate that one of the main aims, at its creation, was for the Council to overcome the Commission’s flaws. Despite the need to avoid repeating its predecessor's failings, the Council’s form, nature and many of its roles and functions are strikingly similar to those of the Commission. This book examines the creation and formative years of the United Nations Human Rights Council and assesses the extent to which the Council has fulfilled its mandate. International law and theories of international relations are used to examine the Council and its functions. Council sessions, procedures and mechanisms are analysed in-depth, with particular consideration given to whether the Council has become politicised to the same extent as the Commission. Whilst remaining aware of the key differences in their functions, Rosa Freedman compares the work of the Council to that of treaty-based human rights bodies. The author draws on observations from her attendance at Council proceedings in order to offer a unique account of how the body works in practice. The United Nations Human Rights Council will be of great interest to students and scholars of human rights law and international relations, as well as lawyers, NGOs and relevant government agencies.

The Impeachment Report

The Impeachment Report
Author: The House Intelligence Committee
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-12-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0593237544

The official report from the House Intelligence Committee on Donald Trump’s secret pressure campaign against Ukraine, featuring an exclusive introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and biographer Jon Meacham For only the fourth time in American history, the House of Representatives has conducted an impeachment inquiry into a sitting United States president. This landmark document details the findings of the House Intelligence Committee’s historic investigation of whether President Donald J. Trump committed impeachable offenses when he sought to have Ukraine announce investigations of former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Penetrating a dense web of connected activity by the president, his ambassador Gordon Sondland, his personal attorney Rudolph Giuliani, and many others, these pages offer a damning, blow-by-blow account of the president’s attempts to “use the powers of his office to solicit foreign interference on his behalf in the 2020 election” and his subsequent attempts to obstruct the House investigation into his actions. Published here with an introduction offering critical context from bestselling presidential historian Jon Meacham, The Impeachment Report is necessary reading for every American concerned about the fate of our democracy.