JuraLaw International™ and the International Bar Association Co-Publish Law, Ethics, and Armed Conflict: An International Law Reader

October 1, 2026—On the eightieth anniversary of the Nuremberg Tribunal’s judgment of October 1, 1946, JuraLaw International™, the legal imprint of TellerBooks™, and the International Bar Association are proud to announce the co-publication of Law, Ethics, and Armed Conflict: An International Law Reader. The Nuremberg judgment marks one of the most significant moments in the history of international humanitarian law and international criminal law, and this volume is a fitting way to commemorate it. The book examines contemporary challenges to the application of international law in conflicts around the world, including those in Afghanistan, Gaza and the West Bank, Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, and Iran.

Law, Ethics, and Armed Conflict arrives as more than 130 armed conflicts are under way across the globe. In many theaters of war, parties to conflict deliberately target civilians with growing frequency. This volume brings together leading voices in international law—practitioners, scholars, military lawyers who advise commanders on the battlefield, and humanitarian professionals—who share a commitment to protecting civilians in armed conflict.

Across eleven chapters, the contributors confront the most pressing legal and ethical questions of contemporary warfare. They examine states’ ongoing duty to prevent genocide in conflict and post-conflict settings, the procedures for trials in absentia, and the forcible transfer of children during armed conflict. They probe accountability for the crime of aggression, the emerging legal framework for gray-zone and hybrid warfare, and the influence of social media on wartime diplomacy. They weigh the interplay between customary international law and U.S. constitutional law, the proportionality rule at the heart of the law of targeting, and the role of universal jurisdiction in strengthening international justice and accountability. The volume closes with a meditation on human dignity as the guiding principle of international humanitarian and operational law.

The contributors share a conviction that international humanitarian law retains its power to mitigate human suffering; what has too often eroded is the will to apply it. This volume invites readers to understand that framework more deeply and to defend it more resolutely.

Edited by Frank G. Lumpkin IV, the volume features contributions from John M. Balouziyeh, Douglas K. Bryson, Federica D’Alessandra, Professor Darío Dangón Moisés, Dr. Olúfẹ́mi Elias, Dr. Mark Ellis, Lieutenant Colonel John D. Ford, Baroness Helena Kennedy, Shirley Magniez-Pouget, M. Braxton Marcela, Sarah McIntosh, Naomi Prodeau, Ambassador Stephen Rapp, Eleonora Scala, Sara Segneri, and Marissa Kardon Weber.

Dr. Olúfẹ́mi Elias, Member of the United Nations International Law Commission and of the Institut de Droit international, and Judge ad hoc of the International Court of Justice, praised the book: “This timely volume examines how law can respond to contemporary threats and shape a just, durable post-conflict order. Its particular strength lies in the attention it gives to law’s practical role in strengthening institutions of peace. Addressing the challenges of conflict’s aftermath, it yields valuable insights for scholars and practitioners alike, while making a broader case for law—not war—as the foundation of international relations.”

The book is available as an open-access eBook exclusively at: https://www.tellerbooks.com/LawEthicsArmedConflict.

 

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Time Books™ Publishes Charting Syria’s Future: A Strategic Framework for Recovery and Renewal, by Salam Fayyad

Time Books™ Publishes Charting Syria’s Future: A Strategic Framework for Recovery and Renewal, by Salam Fayyad

A roadmap for consolidating Syria’s hard-won gains before the window of opportunity closes

 

September 26, 2026—Time Books™, an imprint of TellerBooks™, announces the publication of Charting Syria’s Future: A Strategic Framework for Recovery and Renewal, by Salam Fayyad, available at https://www.tellerbooks.com/books/pub_pol/Charting_Syria_Future.html.

The fall of the Assad regime ended more than six decades of authoritarian rule in Syria and opened an era of remarkable renewal. Today, the country has achieved what many thought impossible: a functioning state, ministries and courts back in operation, embassies reopened, and billions in investment pledged. A nation once designated a State Sponsor of Terrorism has joined the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, acceded to the Global IHL Initiative, and pledged to destroy its remaining chemical weapons. Charting Syria’s Future examines this historic moment, showing how a country many feared would relapse into civil war has instead laid the foundations for durable stability.

But the work is not done. Syria, together with its international partners, must now build on hard-won gains before complacency or renewed violence forecloses the options this moment has opened. Written for policymakers and all those invested in Syria’s renewal, this book pioneers a coherent path toward a future the Syrian people want and deserve.

Spanning eight policy domains critical to Syria’s stabilization—promoting security sector reform and minority protection, designing a disability justice framework, strengthening Syrian civil society, reintegrating refugees and IDPs, rebuilding digital public infrastructure, engaging external stakeholders through diplomacy, and leveraging the removal of sanctions—Charting Syria’s Future presents an achievable strategic framework for Syria’s recovery and renewal. 

This volume brings together leading voices in public policy, law, military affairs, humanitarian assistance, diplomacy, and governance, including Salam Fayyad (editor), John Balouziyeh, Thomas Hinds, Heather Mercer, Sejal Goud, Judah Guggenheim, Martin Palomo, and Zubaida Qaissi.

 About the Editor

Dr. Salam Fayyad is an economist and former prime minister of the Palestinian Authority. With the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1987 to 2001, his tenure included serving as IMF resident representative in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He then served as manager of the Arab Bank in Palestine. Currently, Dr. Fayyad is a Daniella Lipper Coules ’95 Distinguished Visitor in Foreign Affairs at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is also a Distinguished Statesman with the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security and a Distinguished Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

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Sofia Classics Library™ Publishes The Republic of Plato (Annotated): A Critical Edition by John Teller

September 26, 2026—Sofia Classics Library™, an imprint of TellerBooks™, announces the publication of The Republic of Plato (Annotated): A Critical Edition by Dr. John Teller.

Plato’s Republic, one of the most influential philosophical works in Western thought, pursues a single great question—what is justice?—through an ascending inquiry into the soul, the ideal city, and the virtues that a just order demands of rulers and citizens alike.

The work’s reach extends across philosophy, political theory, ethics, and education; alongside the Bible, it has been called one of the most influential books ever written. At its center stands an enduring claim about the bond between personal virtue and the common good.

That bond is embodied in the figure of the philosopher-king. Having ascended from the cave and seen the truth, he does not remain in the light of contemplation where his own good lies. He descends again—back into the darkness, at real cost and real risk—to free those still in chains. His rule is an act of sacrifice rather than self-interest. Socrates lived that ideal to its end: refusing to compromise the truth, he accepted the sentence handed down for standing by his principles, though it cost him his life.

This critical, annotated edition of Plato’s Republic includes:

• an introduction to the work and its historical setting;

• a summary and commentary on each of the Republic's ten books;

• Dr. Teller's classic essay, “Socrates as Proto-Christ: Socrates' Cave and Christ's Descent into Hades,” which reads Socrates’s ethical teaching, trial, and allegory of the cave as a foreshadowing of Christ;

• commentary throughout that builds a bridge between Socrates and Jesus, two of the most consequential figures in human history; and

• a conclusion assessing The Republic's impact and enduring significance.

 

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About Sofia Classics Library™

Sofia Classics Library™, an imprint of TellerBooks™, publishes critical editions of the foundational works of the Western philosophical and political tradition. The series begins with the ancient Greeks, Plato and Aristotle; advances through the great books of the Enlightenment and its critics, including Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Burke; and concludes with Mill, Bastiat, and the other nineteenth-century thinkers who ushered in the modern era. Together, these works shaped contemporary Western civilization.

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LogosLight™ publishes Al-Kitab Al-Muqaddas; Holy Bible (Arabic-English Bilingual Edition)

 LogosLight™, an imprint of TellerBooks™, is delighted to announce the publication of “Al-Kitab Al-Muqaddas; Holy Bible (Arabic-English Bilingual Edition). Al-'Ahad Al-Jadeed; New Testament.”

 Al-Kitab al-Muqaddas (Holy Bible) brings together the World English Bible and the Smith & Van Dyke Arabic translation into a Bilingual Edition of the New Testament (Al-‘Ahad al-Jadeed). With translations in a side-by-side format and short vowel markings (harakat) in the Arabic text, Al-Kitab al-Muqaddas is the perfect Bible for native English speakers studying Arabic or native Arabic speakers learning English. The Arabic is published in a generously large font to facilitate deciphering of the diacritical marks.

 Published by the LogosLight imprint of TellerBooks and available in paperback and e-book format, Al-Kitab al-Muqaddas is ideal for both English and Arabic-speaking homes.

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JuraLaw™ publishes “China, Taiwan and the Crime of Aggression: An International Criminal Law Analysis of China’s Military Operations in the Indo-Pacific Region”

JuraLaw™, an imprint of TellerBooks™, is delighted to announce the publication of “China, Taiwan and the Crime of Aggression: An International Criminal Law Analysis of China’s Military Operations in the Indo-Pacific Region,” written by John Dotson, Brian C. Chao and Brian Zhang.

This volume examines China’s conduct in the Indo-Pacific region through the prism of the crime of aggression. It focuses on Chinese military operations and gray zone tactics, with a focus on the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, with a view to determine whether such operations involve a use of force that rises to the level of an armed attack for purposes of the crime of aggression.

While this study focuses on China’s conduct towards Taiwan, it also examines China’s conduct towards a range of other states in the Asia Pacific region, including the Philippines, Japan, South Korea and Australia, with a view to determine whether senior leaders of the People’s Republic of China could be held liable under international criminal law for the crime of aggression. After examining the historical context of Taiwan (the Republic of China) and the People’s Republic of China, the authors conclude that Taiwan fulfills the criteria for statehood under both the declaratory and constitutive theories of statehood under public international law and, therefore, that Taiwan could be a victim of the crime of aggression.

Following a detailed review of a range of military analyses, government investigations and think tank reports examining Chinese kinetic attacks and cyberattacks against Taiwan and neighboring states, this treatise concludes that the conduct of China’s senior leaders towards Taiwan and neighboring states meets the elements of the crime of aggression under international criminal law.

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LogosLight™ publishes “What the Bible Teaches About Homosexuality: A Response to Revisionist, Pro-LGBTQI+ Theology”

 LogosLight™, an imprint of TellerBooks™, is delighted to announce the publication of “What the Bible Teaches About Homosexuality: A Response to Revisionist, Pro-LGBTQI+ Theology.”

 In recent years, a pro-LGBTQI+ Christian movement has emerged that has adopted a revisionist theology that teaches that homosexuality is not a sin prohibited by the Bible. According to this movement, there is nothing in the Bible that brands homosexuality as sin; instead, the verses condemning homosexuality as sin in modern translations of the Bible are prohibiting not homosexual relations between loving, committed partners, but rather, pederasty and idolatry. This theology teaches that the Christian Church has allowed prejudice against homosexuals and cultural taboos to corrupt the teachings of the Church, resulting in scriptural misinterpretation and mistranslation.

The revisionists argue that the God who inspired the Bible allows sexual relations between same-sex couples and permits transgenderism and bisexuality within the context of loving, committed relationships. Revisionist church leaders and intellectuals have offered abundant arguments advocating for their position and for the abandonment of traditional teachings on marriage, which they brand as outdated and based on historic prejudices.
 
This book stands as a refutation and response to the revisionists. Standing on the solid ground of the Scripture, it scrutinizes the arguments of the revisionists and responds to them point-by-point. It critically examines and refutes the teachings of the most prominent proponents of pro-LGBTQ+ theology, including the Rev. Dr. Mel White and the Rev. Elder Don Eastman.
 
Seeking to correct the course of revisionist theologians, this book aims to set the Christian church back on the course of historic orthodox Christian teachings on gender, sex and marriage.
 
Cover art, “Sodom and Gomorrah,” © 2010 by W. David Lilley, Jr.
 
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LogosLight™ publishes “Answering Islam: A Christian Response to the Claims of Islam”

 LogosLight™, an imprint of TellerBooks™, has published Answering Islam: A Christian Response to the Claims of Islam. This book sets forth a reasoned response to Islam’s claim that Christianity represents a corruption of Islam, the one true religion.

The purpose of this book is to show that for every claim made in Islam, there is a reasoned counterclaim in support of Christianity. This book acknowledges that the seeker who sets out to understand and know God through reason alone can never come to truly know God; reasoned arguments can be leveraged both in support of and against the tenets of Christianity. Ultimately, one cannot rely on logic, reason or science alone to either prove or disprove Christianity or the veracity of the Bible. Faith must fill the gap. Every seeker of God must make a choice to either accept the claims of Christ and the Bible or to reject them. Both choices involve faith.

While acknowledging that reason alone is insufficient to prove the claims of Christianity and, ultimately, attain knowledge of God, this book demonstrates that reason is sufficient to refute and respond to Islam’s claims against Christianity. By offering reasoned responses to Islam’s claims, this book demonstrates that the choice to follow Christ is not an unreasonable one. It is a choice that is supported by reason.

This book is an invitation to every Muslim to carefully weigh the arguments in favor of Christ and the claims of the Bible and, after considering the arguments and through careful prayer, to accept Christ as Lord and Savior, and thereby experience new life, hope and eternal salvation.

Available as a paperback at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1681090996?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 and as a Kindle eBook at https://www.amazon.com/Answering-Islam-Christian-Response-Claims-ebook/dp/B09NBCCP43/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=.