In the first of these, Le Corbusier, Un Fascisme Français, Xavier de Jarcy claims that Le Corbusier never renounced the fascist ideals he embraced in the 1920s and that he was a supporter of Marshal Pétain and the Vichy regime, the French government that collaborated with the Nazis.
After the Iraq war in 2003, when Gaddafi surrendered his weapons of mass destruction and renounced terrorism, the key international role was played by the foreign minister, Moussa Koussa, who defected to Britain at the start of the uprising.
In Lenin's very last writings, long after he renounced the utopia of State and Revolution, he explored the idea of a modest, "realistic" project for Bolshevism.
Khodorkovsky, who was released in December after a surprise pardon, renounced his claims to Yukos assets during an earlier trial, and restated on Monday that he will not seek to benefit from the Hague court's ruling.
She replied that they had been forced to respond to the nuclear armament of the Soviet Union – a country that had not renounced the goals of world revolution.
Cuba renounced direct support for militant groups years ago and is sponsoring peace talks between the Farc and Colombia's government.
Jordan later renounced its claim in favour of the Palestinian right of self-determination.
Carne told MPs that the level of bonus that he had renounced was "in the tens of thousands" as missed performance targets would have cut his entitlement anyway.
The MDC has consistently renounced violence and resisted calls to organise street protests against what it regards a stolen election.
That Barack Obama presided over the killing of an American citizen like Awlaki (albeit one who had renounced his citizenship) marks a major advance in solidifying and legitimising the war paradigm.
His parents promptly flew to Cairo and formally renounced their Egyptian citizenship, to prevent their two other sons from being deprived of their British status.
