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Product Details: American policing is in crisis. The end of the Cold War brought a 'peace dividend' of redundancy for many British and American Service personnel.
How can people’s mindset not only negatively influence their own well-being and wealth, but also that of an entire society? On the Swiss border with Austria in 1938, a police captain refuses to enforce a law barring Jewish refugees from entering his country. Fifty years after Hannah Arendt examined the dynamics of conformity in her seminal account of the Eichmann trial, Beautiful Souls explores the flipside of the banality of evil, mapping out what impels ordinary people to defy the sway of authority and convention. Available Languages: English, French and German
At the height of the Second Intifada, a member of Israel's most elite military unit informs his commander he doesn't want to serve in the occupied territories.