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    Leveraging norms: the ECHR and Turkey's human rights reforms
    (Univ Pennsylvania Press, 2007) Department of International Relations; Smith, Thomas W.; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/A
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    The new law of war: legitimizing hi-tech and infrastructural violence
    (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2002) Department of International Relations; Smith, Thomas W.; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/A
    This article examines how humanitarian laws of war have been recast in light of a new generation of hi-tech weapons and innovations in strategic theory. Far from falling into disuse, humanitarian law is invoked more frequently than ever to confer legitimacy on military action. New legal interpretations, diminished ad bellum rules, and an expansive view of military necessity are coalescing in a regime of legal warfare that licenses hi-tech states to launch wars as long as their conduct is deemed just. The ascendance of technical legalism has undercut customary restraints on the use of armed force and has opened a legal chasm between technological haves and have-nots. Most striking is the use of legal language to justify the erosion of distinctions between soldiers and civilians and to legitimize collateral damage. Hi-tech warfare has dramatically curbed immediate civilian casualties, yet the law sanctions infrastructural campaigns that harm long-term public health and human rights in ways that are now clear.
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    Teaching politics abroad: the internationalization of a profession?
    (amer Political science assoc, 2000) Department of International Relations; Smith, Thomas W.; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/A
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    History and international relations
    (Routledge, 2014) Department of International Relations; Smith, Thomas W.; Faculty Member; Department of International Relations; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/A
    This book is a major contribution to the debate about philosophy and method in history and international relations. The author analyses IR scholarship from classical realism to quantitative and postmodern work.