Michele Byers
Biographic Data
| ID | 631475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michele Byers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michele |
| FAMILY NAME | Byers |
| SIGNATURE | BYERS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2234-335X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Cis-lunar space and the security dilemma
Discussions about space security have long focused on Earth orbit, where satellites are extensively used to support military activities on the surface of the planet, and where that use makes satellites themselves potentially attractive targets. This is about to change, as the US military prepares to expand its activities into the vast region between Earth geosynchronous orbit and the moon, an area otherwise known as “cis-lunar space.” If it does,…
The dead and the abhorred: Mindhunter and the persistence of mother-blame
In her study of violent protagonists in American literature, Wilson-Scott argues that “mothers are frequently used as the principle traumatizing factor, demonized and depersonalized in order to reassert their violent offspring’s humanity” (p. 191). Further, Wilson-Scott states that her work “reveals the persistent assumption that mothers make monsters” (p. 193). Taking our tacit agreement with Wilson-Scott as a starting point, we argue along with…
China and the Northwest Passage
As climate change continues to melt Arctic sea-ice, the Northwest Passage will likely see more international cargo shipments in the future. Since China is the world’s largest trading and shipping state, a significant portion of that traffic can be expected to involve Chinese companies. For this reason, it is widely assumed that China will eventually side with the United States in its longstanding dispute with Canada about the legal status of the …
Arctic SAR and the “security dilemma”
This article explains how search and rescue (SAR) equipment and personnel can strengthen Canada’s Arctic security without contributing to a classic “security dilemma”—whereby a perceived military buildup by one state leads to a responsive buildup by another state, and so on into an arms race. This is because Arctic SAR involves dual-use assets that can fulfill most existing and reasonably foreseeable Arctic security roles as a secondary mission. …
Cold, dark, and dangerous: International cooperation in the arctic and space
This article compares Russian–Western cooperation in the Arctic and Space, with a focus on why cooperation continued after the 2014 annexation of Crimea. On the basis of this comparative approach, continued cooperation is linked to the following factors: (1) the Arctic and Space are remote and extreme environments; (2) they are militarised but not substantially weaponised; (3) they both suffer from ‘tragedies of the commons’; (4) Arctic and Space…
Who (the) Girls and Boys Are
In this article I use four middle-grade novels to query the relationship between gendered forms of childhood and gender nonconformity in tweens. For the young characters in these novels, objects and spaces of gender enfranchisement—including gendered forms of childhood—are often out of reach. Using conceptual tools such as the orientation of objects, queer futures, and the transgender gaze, this work examines the ways in which these novels narrat…
“Fats,” futurity, and the contemporary young adult novel
Fat characters in young adult novels were once cautionary tales. Today, fat embodied characters are not restricted to these old narratives, and alternative avenues through which to imagine futures long denied them are opened up. What possible futures are imaginable within the diegetic constraints of young adult fiction today? A reading of a small sample of recent publications shows that contemporary young adult literature creates new spaces for, …
Toxic splash: Russian rocket stages dropped in Arctic waters raise health, environmental and legal concerns
Russia has dropped rocket stages fuelled with unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) into the Barents Sea and the North Water Polynya—areas of considerable ecological importance—on ten occasions since 2002. The stages come from SS-19 intercontinental missiles that have been re-purposed for launching satellites. UDMH is a highly toxic chemical that has caused widespread health and environmental damage in Kazakhstan and Russia as a result of its ex…
Crises and international cooperation: An Arctic case study
This article contributes the insight that during an international crisis, a pre-existing state of complex interdependence can help to preserve cooperation. It derives the insight from a case study on the International Relations of the Arctic before and after the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea. The case study is examined through the lens of Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye's concept of 'complex interdependence', as developed in their 1977 book Pow…
International Law and the Arctic
Climate change and rising oil prices have thrust the Arctic to the top of the foreign policy agenda and raised difficult issues of sovereignty, security and environmental protection. Improved access for shipping and resource development is leading to new international rules on safety, pollution prevention and emergency response. Around the Arctic, maritime boundary disputes are being negotiated and resolved, and new international institutions, su…
Deterritorializing collective biography
This paper proposes a new move in the methodological practice of collective biography, by provoking a shift beyond any remnant attachment to the speaking/ writing subject towards her dispersal and displacement via textual interventions that stress multivocality. These include the use of photographs, drama, and various genres of writing. Using a story selected from a collective biography workshop on sexuality and schooling, we document how we work…
Post-Jewish: Theorizing the Emergence of Jewishness in Canadian Television
Outside Looking In: Viewing First Nations Peoples in Canadian Dramatic Television Series
Feminist cohorts and waves: Attitudes of junior female academics
Speaking about the Nation: Critiques from the Canadian Margins
Who Owns the Arctic: Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North
Cold Peace: Arctic Cooperation and Canadian Foreign Policy
The Arctic, located directly between the United States and the Soviet Union, was on the front lines of the Cold War. Nuclear submarines prowled the Arctic Ocean while long-range bombers circled overhead. Runways and radar stations were built across the Canadian north, along with underwater acoustic sensors for detecting the submarines.A more cooperative approach has emerged since 1990, when the United States and the Soviet Union agreed on the loc…
What Was Canada? Locating the Language of an Empty National Archive
The Stuff of Legend: T/Selling the Story of Reena Virk
This essay looks at texts that tell stories that claim to be "true," "based on," or "indebted to" the murder of Reena Virk. Girls in these stories are value-laden symbols that frame and reframe the story of girlhood identity within the Canadian nation in particular ways. I argue that these framings often obliterate the particularity of girlhood identities through which the nation might be understood as mired in histories of racialized and sexuali…
The Pariah Princess: Agency, Representation, and Neoliberal Jewish Girlhood
The focus of the essay is the well known (and worn) stereotype of the Jewish American Princess or JAP. Spoiled, frigid, loud, defiant, the JAP refuses to behave in civilized ways even as she constantly transgresses the boundaries of civilized social spaces. Both an intimate insider, and an eternal outsider, the JAP is a boundary figure whose presence draws and redraws myths of assimilative ideals and citizenship rights in American culture. The co…
Canadian Idol and the Myth of National Identity
Negotiating Ethno-Cultural Identity: The Experience of Greek and Jewish Youth in Halifax
This paper focuses on the lived experiences of young people growing up Greek Canadian and Jewish Canadian in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is based on data collected in a pilot study conducted with second-generation Greek and second-, third-, and fourth-generation Jewish youth in Halifax in 2004-05. Most of the existing research on the second generation and beyond lumps together the experiences of different ethnocultural groups. Perhaps even more impo…
When US Scholars Speak of ‘Sovereignty’, what do they Mean
The term ‘sovereignty’ figures prominently in international affairs and academic analysis. But does ‘sovereignty’ mean the same thing in different countries and political cultures? In this article, we examine conceptions of sovereignty as they appear in the writings of US scholars of international law and those international relations scholars who deal with international law, in order to obtain a clearer picture of what ‘sovereignty’ means in Ame…
War, Law, and Geopolitical Change
Times change and we with time-Emperor Lothar I (795-855 CE)In 1837, British were crushing a rebellion in Upper Canada, now Ontario. The United States, although unwilling to antagonize a superpower by supporting rebels directly, did not prevent a private militia from being formed in upstate New York. The volunteers used a steamboat, Caroline, to transport arms and men to rebel headquarters on Canadian side of Niagara River. The British responded w…
The American Tradition of International Law: Great Expectations, 1789-1914
Journal Article The American Tradition of International Law: Great Expectations, 1789–1914 Get access Janis Mark Weston. The American Tradition of International Law: Great Expectations, 1789–1914. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. vii, 162 pp. $65.00 (cloth). Michael Byers Michael Byers University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 48, Issue…
Policing the High Seas: The Proliferation Security Initiative
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Preemptive Self‐defense: Hegemony, Equality and Strategies of Legal Change
Crises and international cooperation: An Arctic case study
This article contributes the insight that during an international crisis, a pre-existing state of complex interdependence can help to preserve cooperation. It derives the insight from a case study on the International Relations of the Arctic before and after the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea. The case study is examined through the lens of Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye's concept of 'complex interdependence', as developed in their 1977 book Pow…
Deterritorializing collective biography
This paper proposes a new move in the methodological practice of collective biography, by provoking a shift beyond any remnant attachment to the speaking/ writing subject towards her dispersal and displacement via textual interventions that stress multivocality. These include the use of photographs, drama, and various genres of writing. Using a story selected from a collective biography workshop on sexuality and schooling, we document how we work…
Terrorism, The use of Force and International Law After 11 September
The United States response to the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 was encouraging for those who worry about a tendency towards unilateralism on the part of the single super-power. The US deliberately engaged a number of international organisations and built an extensive coalition of supporting States before engaging in military action
When US Scholars Speak of ‘Sovereignty’, what do they Mean
The term ‘sovereignty’ figures prominently in international affairs and academic analysis. But does ‘sovereignty’ mean the same thing in different countries and political cultures? In this article, we examine conceptions of sovereignty as they appear in the writings of US scholars of international law and those international relations scholars who deal with international law, in order to obtain a clearer picture of what ‘sovereignty’ means in Ame…
Letting the Exception Prove the Rule
It is unlikely that George W. Bush feels constrained by international law when deciding whether to use military force abroad. Nevertheless, many of the United States' allies are reluctant to cooperate with and participate in military actions that cannot reasonably be justified under international law. And supportive allies, while perhaps not strictly necessary to the United States in its recent and foreseeable military campaigns, do make the mili…
Feminist cohorts and waves: Attitudes of junior female academics
Agreeing to Disagree: Security Council Resolution 1441 and Intentional Ambiguity
Resolution 1441, adopted unanimously on 8 November 2002, was initially celebrated as reflecting a newfound sense of unity and resolve among the Council's fifteen members.'The Council recalled its previous resolutions on Iraq, required the Iraqi government to account for all of its chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, and insisted on full cooperation with UN and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) weapons inspectors-to whom the Council…
Arctic SAR and the “security dilemma”
This article explains how search and rescue (SAR) equipment and personnel can strengthen Canada’s Arctic security without contributing to a classic “security dilemma”—whereby a perceived military buildup by one state leads to a responsive buildup by another state, and so on into an arms race. This is because Arctic SAR involves dual-use assets that can fulfill most existing and reasonably foreseeable Arctic security roles as a secondary mission. …
Cold, dark, and dangerous: International cooperation in the arctic and space
This article compares Russian–Western cooperation in the Arctic and Space, with a focus on why cooperation continued after the 2014 annexation of Crimea. On the basis of this comparative approach, continued cooperation is linked to the following factors: (1) the Arctic and Space are remote and extreme environments; (2) they are militarised but not substantially weaponised; (3) they both suffer from ‘tragedies of the commons’; (4) Arctic and Space…
Toxic splash: Russian rocket stages dropped in Arctic waters raise health, environmental and legal concerns
Russia has dropped rocket stages fuelled with unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) into the Barents Sea and the North Water Polynya—areas of considerable ecological importance—on ten occasions since 2002. The stages come from SS-19 intercontinental missiles that have been re-purposed for launching satellites. UDMH is a highly toxic chemical that has caused widespread health and environmental damage in Kazakhstan and Russia as a result of its ex…
Cold Peace: Arctic Cooperation and Canadian Foreign Policy
The Arctic, located directly between the United States and the Soviet Union, was on the front lines of the Cold War. Nuclear submarines prowled the Arctic Ocean while long-range bombers circled overhead. Runways and radar stations were built across the Canadian north, along with underwater acoustic sensors for detecting the submarines.A more cooperative approach has emerged since 1990, when the United States and the Soviet Union agreed on the loc…
Negotiating Ethno-Cultural Identity: The Experience of Greek and Jewish Youth in Halifax
This paper focuses on the lived experiences of young people growing up Greek Canadian and Jewish Canadian in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is based on data collected in a pilot study conducted with second-generation Greek and second-, third-, and fourth-generation Jewish youth in Halifax in 2004-05. Most of the existing research on the second generation and beyond lumps together the experiences of different ethnocultural groups. Perhaps even more impo…
The Sovereignty Revolution
THE SOVEREIGNTY REVOLUTION Alan Cranston Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xx, 102pp, US$19.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8047-4761 -x)One thinks twice before criticizing a book that has been lauded by Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Oscar Arias Sanchez. One thinks thrice when the book's author is Alan Cranston, who served four terms as a progressive and influential member of the US senate, spent his life campaigning for nuclear di…
The dead and the abhorred: Mindhunter and the persistence of mother-blame
In her study of violent protagonists in American literature, Wilson-Scott argues that “mothers are frequently used as the principle traumatizing factor, demonized and depersonalized in order to reassert their violent offspring’s humanity” (p. 191). Further, Wilson-Scott states that her work “reveals the persistent assumption that mothers make monsters” (p. 193). Taking our tacit agreement with Wilson-Scott as a starting point, we argue along with…
What Was Canada? Locating the Language of an Empty National Archive
United States Hegemony and the Foundations of International Law
State Immunity: Article 18 of the International Law Commission' Draft
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Gender/Sexuality/Desire: Subversion of Difference and Construction of Loss in the Adolescent Drama of "My So-Called Life"
Buchbesprechungen
Dissertation entstanden ist: nicht alle Teile werden fr Nicht-Juristen gleichermaen interessant sein. Zumindest die Kernfrage jedoch: die nach dem Verhltnis von Macht und (internationalem) Recht, drfte allgemeines inter-disziplinres Interesse wecken. Sie wird freilich nicht in dieser Allgemeinheit behandelt, sondern fr den Prozess der Entwicklung von Vlkergewohnheitsrecht. Und noch spezifischer befasst sich die Arbeit mit der "interaction, within…
The International Law Commission of the United Nations
Journal Article The International Law Commission of the United Nations Get access Morton Jeffrey S., The International Law Commission of the United Nations. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. xvi, 225 pp. $29.95. Michael Byers Michael Byers Duke University School of Law Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 44, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 80–81, https:/…
The role of law in international politics: Essays in International Relations and International Law
1. The Importance of International Law 2. Carl Schmitt, Hans Morgenthau, and the Image of Law in International Relations 3. How Do Norms Matter? 4. The Concept of International Law 5. Emerging Patterns of Governance and International Law 6. Domestic Politics and International Resources: What Role for International Law? 7. Human Rights and the Politics of Representation: Is There a Role for International Law? 8. Politics and Human Rights: An Essen…
The Role of Law in International Politics
This book contains original essays by eighteen of the world's leading scholars and practitioners of international relations and international law. Together they address the highly topical question of the role that international law plays in international politics at the turn of the century. Both theoretical and political in its scope, it examines the character of international rules and norms, the way in which they develop, and how they affect po…
Canadian Armed Forces under United States Command
APPARENT that negotiations were under way to place a substantial part of the Canadian armed forcesland and sea forces as well as airunder the operational control of a
Terrorism, The use of Force and International Law After 11 September
The United States response to the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 was encouraging for those who worry about a tendency towards unilateralism on the part of the single super-power. The US deliberately engaged a number of international organisations and built an extensive coalition of supporting States before engaging in military action
Terrorism, the Use of Force and International Law after 11 September
There were at least four possible legal justifications for the use of force against Afghanistan: Chapter VII of the UN Charter, intervention by invitation, humanitarian intervention and self-defence. The United States relied solely on the last justification, with the choice having been based on considerations arising out of the interaction of international politics and international law. In pursuing a claim of self-defence, the US adopted a two-p…
Preemptive Self‐defense: Hegemony, Equality and Strategies of Legal Change
Letting the Exception Prove the Rule
It is unlikely that George W. Bush feels constrained by international law when deciding whether to use military force abroad. Nevertheless, many of the United States' allies are reluctant to cooperate with and participate in military actions that cannot reasonably be justified under international law. And supportive allies, while perhaps not strictly necessary to the United States in its recent and foreseeable military campaigns, do make the mili…
The Sovereignty Revolution
THE SOVEREIGNTY REVOLUTION Alan Cranston Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xx, 102pp, US$19.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8047-4761 -x)One thinks twice before criticizing a book that has been lauded by Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Oscar Arias Sanchez. One thinks thrice when the book's author is Alan Cranston, who served four terms as a progressive and influential member of the US senate, spent his life campaigning for nuclear di…
United States Hegemony and the Foundations of International Law
Policing the High Seas: The Proliferation Security Initiative
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Agreeing to Disagree: Security Council Resolution 1441 and Intentional Ambiguity
Resolution 1441, adopted unanimously on 8 November 2002, was initially celebrated as reflecting a newfound sense of unity and resolve among the Council's fifteen members.'The Council recalled its previous resolutions on Iraq, required the Iraqi government to account for all of its chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, and insisted on full cooperation with UN and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) weapons inspectors-to whom the Council…
Not yet havoc: Geopolitical change and the international rules on military force
This article considers the relationship between geopolitical change and the evolving international rules on military force. Its focus is the impact of the United States’ rise to hegemonic status on the rules governing recourse to force (the jus ad bellum ) and the conduct of hostilities (the jus in bello , otherwise known as ‘international humanitarian law’). For reasons of space and clarity of analysis, the article does not focus on the differen…
The Sovereignty Revolution
War, Law, and Geopolitical Change
War, Law, and Geopolitical Change
Times change and we with time-Emperor Lothar I (795-855 CE)In 1837, British were crushing a rebellion in Upper Canada, now Ontario. The United States, although unwilling to antagonize a superpower by supporting rebels directly, did not prevent a private militia from being formed in upstate New York. The volunteers used a steamboat, Caroline, to transport arms and men to rebel headquarters on Canadian side of Niagara River. The British responded w…
The American Tradition of International Law: Great Expectations, 1789-1914
Journal Article The American Tradition of International Law: Great Expectations, 1789–1914 Get access Janis Mark Weston. The American Tradition of International Law: Great Expectations, 1789–1914. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. vii, 162 pp. $65.00 (cloth). Michael Byers Michael Byers University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 48, Issue…
When US Scholars Speak of ‘Sovereignty’, what do they Mean
The term ‘sovereignty’ figures prominently in international affairs and academic analysis. But does ‘sovereignty’ mean the same thing in different countries and political cultures? In this article, we examine conceptions of sovereignty as they appear in the writings of US scholars of international law and those international relations scholars who deal with international law, in order to obtain a clearer picture of what ‘sovereignty’ means in Ame…
Canadian Idol and the Myth of National Identity
Negotiating Ethno-Cultural Identity: The Experience of Greek and Jewish Youth in Halifax
This paper focuses on the lived experiences of young people growing up Greek Canadian and Jewish Canadian in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is based on data collected in a pilot study conducted with second-generation Greek and second-, third-, and fourth-generation Jewish youth in Halifax in 2004-05. Most of the existing research on the second generation and beyond lumps together the experiences of different ethnocultural groups. Perhaps even more impo…
The Pariah Princess: Agency, Representation, and Neoliberal Jewish Girlhood
The focus of the essay is the well known (and worn) stereotype of the Jewish American Princess or JAP. Spoiled, frigid, loud, defiant, the JAP refuses to behave in civilized ways even as she constantly transgresses the boundaries of civilized social spaces. Both an intimate insider, and an eternal outsider, the JAP is a boundary figure whose presence draws and redraws myths of assimilative ideals and citizenship rights in American culture. The co…
Who Owns the Arctic: Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North
Political science (32 works) · Sociology (27 works) · Law (26 works) · Politics (20 works) · Law (18 works) · International Law and Human Rights (15 works) · International law (13 works) · Political economy (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (9 works)