Modern Geopolitics and Security: Strategies for Unwinnable Conflicts
ISBN: 9780429254253
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / CRC Press
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The transformation from traditional war between nation-states to conflict between nation-states and nonstate actors requires decision makers, policy analysts, military commanders, intelligence officials, and legislators to answer the question: is there a strategy for an unwinnable conflict? This question takes on particular urgency given the extrao

Amos Guiora is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Global Justice at the S. J. Quinney College of Law, the University of Utah. Guiora who teaches Criminal Procedure, International Law, Global Perspectives on Counterterrorism, and Religion and Terrorism incorporates innovative scenario-based instruction to address national and international security issues and dilemmas. Guiora is a Member of the American Bar Association's Law and National Security Advisory Committee; a Research Associate at the University of Oxford, Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict; a Research Fellow at the International Institute on Counter-Terrorism, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzylia, Israel; and a Corresponding Member, The Netherlands School of Human Rights Research, University of Utrecht School of Law. Professor Guiora has published extensively both in the United States and Europe on issues related to national security, limits of interrogation, religion, and terrorism, and the limits of power, multiculturalism, and human rights. He is the author of Legitimate Target A Criteria Based Approach to Targeted Killing; Freedom from Religion: Rights and National Security (first and second editions); Global Perspectives on Counterterrorism (first and second editions); Fundamentals of Counterterrorism; Constitutional Limits on Coercive Interrogation; Homeland Security: What is it and Where is it Going; Tolerating Intolerance: The Price of Protecting Extremism (2013), and Geopolitics and Security: Sovereignty, Intervention and the Law (2013).

Professor Guiora has received grants from both the Stuart Family Foundation and the Earhart Foundation and was awarded a Senior Specialist Fulbright Fellowship for The Netherlands in 2008. He served for 19 years in the Israel Defense Forces as Lieutenant Colonel (retired), and held a number of senior command positions, including Commander of t

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