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The Secret War in Afghanistan: The Soviet Union, China and Anglo-American Intelligence in the Afghan WarThe Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in support of a Marxist-Leninist government, and the subsequent nine-year conflict with the indigenous Afghan Mujahedeen was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Cold War. Key details of the circumstances surrounding the invasion and its ultimate conclusion only...
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Is the American Century Over?For more than a century, the United States has been the world's most powerful state. Now some analysts predict that China will soon take its place. Does this mean that we are living in a post-American world? Will China's rapid rise spark a new...
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Managing the Undesirables: Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Government"Originally published in French as Gerer les indesirables, Flammarion SA, 2008"--T.p. verso.Author: Michel AgierPublisher: Polity PressPublished: 01/25/2011Pages: 300Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 8.95h x 6.14w x 0.84dISBN: 9780745649023Review Citation(s): Choice 11/01/2011About the AuthorMichel Agier is an anthropologist and director of studies at the Institut de...
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After Terror: Promoting Dialogue Among CivilizationsAfter Terror presents sustained reflections by some of the world's most celebrated thinkers on the most pressing question of our time: how can we find ways to defuse the ticking bombs of terrorism and excessive interventions against it? It offers an antidote to the...
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The Abuse of Evil: The Corruption of Politics and Religion Since 9/11Since 9/11 politicians, preachers, conservatives and the media are all speaking about evil. In the past the dicourse about evil in our religious, philosophic and literary traditions has provoked thinking, questioning and inquiry. But today the appeal to evil is being used as a...
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Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: International Political Theory TodaySovereignty, Rights and Justice surveys the relationship between international relations theory and political theory, showing the way in which these two discourses, once considered separate, are now intertwined. In the first part of the book an historical overview of the international political theory on...
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My Life In The PLO: The Inside Story of the Palestinian StruggleThis is the inside story of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), from its beginnings in 1964 to the signing of the Oslo agreement in 1993. For over three decades, the main goal of the PLO was to achieve a just peace in the Arab-Israeli...
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Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of IranThe book that revealed Iran to the West, now with a new Afterword. Elaine Sciolino updates Persian Mirrors to include coverage of the 2005 presidential election in Iran. As a correspondent for Newsweek and The New York Times, Sciolino has had more experience covering...
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Endgame: Solving the Iraq CrisisWHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT IRAQ? Scott Ritter spent seven years in Iraq as an arms inspector for the United Nations. His 1998 resignation as the U.N.'s chief weapons inspector there made front-page headlines around the world. In Endgame, Ritter draws on his experiences...
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Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin LadenOn September 11, 2001, the world changed forever as more than three thousand men, women, and children lost their lives in the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil. The attack was masterminded by Osama bin Laden and his Jihad group -- an organization that...
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The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International CharityMichael Maren spent years in Africa, first as an aid worker, later as a journalist, where he witnessed at a harrowing series of wars, famines, and natural disasters. In this book, he claims that charities, such as CARE and Save the Children, are less...
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The Limits of Alliance: The United States, Nato, and the Eu in North and Central EuropeAre the relationships that the United States forged with North and Central Europe during the Cold War still viable today? As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) declines and the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) emerges, can the United States and Europe bridge...
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Brazil, the United States, and the South American Subsystem: Regional Politics and the Absent EmpireThe United States has often acted as an empire in Latin America. Nevertheless, there has been an obvious dissimilarity between U.S. actions in South America and U.S. actions in the rest of Latin America, which is illustrated by the fact that the United States...
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The law of international organisations: Third editionThe third edition of this long-running Melland Schill textbook provides an accessible, up-to-date account of the principles and norms of international law as they apply to the main type of international body: the inter-governmental organisation (IGO).Concentrating on the United Nations as the paradigmatic IGO,...
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Romania and the European Union: How the Weak Vanquished the StrongAccording to Tom Gallagher, Romania's predatory rulers, the heirs of the sinister communist dictator Ceausescu, have inflicted a humiliating defeat on the European Union. He argues convincingly that Brussels was tricked into offering full membership to this Balkan country in return for substantial reforms...
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Road to Pearl Harbor: The Coming of the War Between the United States and JapanThis is a probing narrative of the history which came to its climax at Pearl harbor; an account of the attitudes and actions, of the purposes and persons which brought about the war between the United States and Japan. It is full and impartial....
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Intermediaries in International ConflictFew scholars have attempted to evaluate critically the role mediators play in managing international conflicts. Thomas Princen examines where mediation fits in the larger realm of diplomatic practice, going beyond the usual state-centric focus to account for the mediating activities of a wide range...
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Imagining War: French and British Military Doctrine Between the WarsIn this innovative theoretical book, Elizabeth Kier uses a cultural approach to take issue with the conventional wisdom that military organizations inherently prefer offensive doctrines. Kier argues instead that a military's culture affects its choices between offensive and defensive military doctrines. Drawing on organizational...
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The Terrorist's Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert OrganizationsHow do terrorist groups control their members? Do the tools groups use to monitor their operatives and enforce discipline create security vulnerabilities that governments can exploit? The Terrorist's Dilemma is the first book to systematically examine the great variation in how terrorist groups are...
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The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western MasochismWhy the West must overcome its guilty conscience to foster a better global future Fascism, communism, genocide, slavery, racism, imperialism--the West has no shortage of reasons for guilt. And, indeed, since the Holocaust and the end of World War II, Europeans in particular have...
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