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The Fourth Geneva Convention for Civilians: The History of International Humanitarian LawThe Fourth Geneva Convention, signed on 12th August 1949, defines necessary humanitarian protections for civilians during armed conflict and occupation. One-hundred-and-ninety-six countries are signatories to the Geneva Conventions, and this particular facet has laid the foundations for all subsequent humanitarian global law. How did...
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Angola at the Crossroads: Between Kleptocracy and DevelopmentAngola is poised between a past marked by civil war and corruption, and a future of potential economic development. This book examines the post-Civil War period which began in 2002 and saw the rise of a corrupt ruling elite, as well as recent developments...
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Henry Adams: The Historian as Political TheoristHenry Adams has been a neglected figure in recent years. The Education of Henry Adams is widely accepted as a classic of American letters, but his other work is little read except by specialists. His brilliant journalism is out of print, while Mont Saint...
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Time Counts: Quantitative Analysis for Historical Social ScienceHow to study the past using data Quantitative Analysis for Historical Social Science advances historical research in the social sciences by bridging the divide between qualitative and quantitative analysis. Gregory Wawro and Ira Katznelson argue for an expansion of the standard quantitative methodological toolkit...
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Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and MyanmarCrimes in Archival Form explores the many ways in which human rights "facts" are produced rather than found. Using Myanmar as his case study, Ken MacLean examines the fact-finding practices of a human rights group, two cross-border humanitarian agencies, an international law clinic, and...
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Violence Against Women in and Beyond Conflict: The Coloniality of ViolenceViolence against Women in and beyond Conflict explores the processes and structures that underlie and contribute to sexual violence and internal displacement in armed conflict, utilizing extensive ethnographic research to provide cutting-edge insights. The author argues that the key to understanding violence against women...
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Crimes of the Powerful: White-Collar Crime and BeyondAs politicians and the media perpetuate the stereotype of the "common criminal," crimes committed by the powerful remain for the most part invisible or are reframed as a "bad decision" or a "rare mistake." This is a topic that remains marginalized within the field...
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The Politics of Street TreesThis book focuses on the politics of street trees and the institutions, actors and processes that govern their planning, planting and maintenance. This is an innovative approach which is particularly important in the context of mounting environmental and societal challenges and reveals a huge...
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How Democracies Live: Power, Statecraft, and Freedom in Modern SocietiesTimes have not been kind to democracy. This book is in its defense. In the new century, the triumph of democracy at the end of the Cold War turned to retrenchment. The core democracies, in America and Britain, succumbed to polarization and misrule. Dictatorships,...
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Insurgent Terrorism: Intergroup Relationships and the Killing of CiviliansInsurgent groups consist of individuals willing to organize and commit acts of terror to achieve their goals. By nature, they depend on public support, yet they sometimes target private civilians in addition to military personnel and government officials. This book examines insurgentembeddedness--the extent to...
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The Essential Writings of B. R. AmbedkarProviding an important introduction, this book is a compilation of judiciously selected, thoroughly edited writings of B. R. Ambedkar. It serves as an excellent guide to the evolution of his thought and should be a ready reference on Ambedkar's most important works for students...
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Defining Effective Transboundary Water CooperationThis book establishes a framework for defining transboundary water cooperation and a methodology for evaluating its effectiveness, which will contribute to more effective and therefore successful cooperation processes.With the increasing focus on transboundary cooperation as a part of the Sustainable Development Goal Framework, there...
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India Grows at Night: A Liberal Case for a Strong StateAuthor: Gurcharan DasPublisher: India PenguinPublished: 01/01/2019Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780143421078Audience: Young AdultAbout the AuthorGurcharan Das is an author and public intellectual, best known for a much-acclaimed trilogy on the classical Indian goals of life. India Unbound is the first, on artha, or 'material well-being',...
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O capital, Livro IObra prima de Marx, considerada a mais profunda investigaç o crítica do modo de produç o capitalista. Esta ediç o conta com introduções de Jacob Gorender, José Arthur Giannotti e Louis Althusser, além de texto de orelha de Francisco de Oliveira.Author: Karl MarxPublisher: Boitempo...
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O capital, Livro IIClássico originalmente publicado em 1885 na Alemanha, o volume é peça imprescindível para a compreensão plena do Livro I d'O capital e trata de forma abrangente do processo de circulação do capital, desde o consumo até a distribuição. Um dos pontos importantes examinados por...
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Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State SolutionPoliticians, economists, and Wall Street would have us believe that limitless economic expansion is the Holy Grail, and that there is no conflict between growing the economy and protecting the environment. Supply Shock debunks these widely accepted myths and demonstrates that we are in...
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Imagine a Country: An Immodest Proposal for AmericaImagine a country with a high-speed passenger rail system better than any on earth. imagine a country that has found a way to almost eliminate two of the biggest producers of carbon in history: coal/oil/gas fueled electrical generators and gas fueled cars and trucks.Imagine...
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Crisis and Compromise1963, a year suffused with unrest and nationwide demands for change, was a turbulent period in our nation's history. It was a time of freedom rides, sit-ins, demonstrations, and protests, all leading to the momentous August 28th March on Washington, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther...
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Egyptian Foreign Relations Under Al-Sisi: External Alignments Since 2013Considering both changes and continuities, this book examines how, why, and along which lines Egypt's external alignments under the al-Sisi regime emerged and developed.Egypt's foreign relations have changed substantially since the current regime took power in 2013. To assess this, the author develops and...
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Reflecting on the GCC Crisis: Qatar and Its NeighboursIn June 2017, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt (the quartet) enacted a diplomatic, economic, and physical blockade of Qatar. Gulf politics has always been fractious, but this stunning political gambit took everyone - Qatari leaders, scholars, the international community - entirely by...
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