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Can we put an end to sweatshops?
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Archon Fung,Dara O'Rourke,Charles Sabel,Archon Fung |
"Knowing that information about the conditions of workers around the world can influence what consumers buy and what governments regulate, Dara O'Rourke, Archon Fung, and Charles Sabel argue that mak… |
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Canada in Haiti
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Anthony Fenton,Yves Engler |
While western leaders make speeches about building democracy, their actions speak louder than words. Based upon documents gathered using Access to Information requests, human rights investigations an… |
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Out of Iraq
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William R. Polk,George McGovern,George S. McGovern |
"The authors present a detailed blueprint for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq that is bound to stir a national debate. Former senator George McGovern and William R. Polk, a leading authority on the Middle … |
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Race for the world
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Wilhelm Rall,Jane Fraser,Lowell L. Bryan |
"This book focuses on new and useful ways of thinking about strategy in the integrating world economy. What will it take to win in markets and industries that are fundamentally changing and evolving?… |
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Theory and reform in the European Union
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Stelios Stavridis,Dimitris N. Chryssochoou,Michael J. Tsinisizelis,Kostas Ifantis |
This substantially updated and revised edition offers a comprehensive overview of the challenges confronting the political system as well as the international politics of the European Union. It draws… |
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Not on our watch
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Don Cheadle,John Prendergast |
Presents a call to action on behalf of the genocide victims of Sudan's Darfur, describing the brutalities taking place there and outlining six strategies for making key differences. |
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The New world order
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Matthew Polesetsky,William Dudley |
Debates topics relating to today's changing world order such as the role of the U.S. in the world, the role of economics, military conflict, the end of the Cold War, and the roles of the UN and NATO. |
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Voting with dollars
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Bruce A. Ackerman,Ian Ayres |
"In this book, two leading law professors challenge the existing campaign reform agenda and present a new initiative that avoids the mistakes of the past.".
"Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres build on th… |
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Dead heat : global justice and global warming
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Paul Baer,Tom Athanasiou |
"Today's record-breaking heat waves, droughts, and floods foreshadow an increasingly unstable future. The Bush Administration, meanwhile, has chosen to reject the Kyoto Protocol, deny the consequence… |
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The Chechen Wars
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Matthew Evangelista |
"Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin improvised a system of "asymmetric federalism" to help maintain its successor state, the Russian Federation. However, when sparks of independ… |
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The European Union
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Simon Usherwood,John Pinder |
This *Very Short Introduction* explains the European Union in plain English. Fully updated for 2008 to include controversial and current topics such as the EU's enlargement and its role in ongoing wo… |
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India in the world order
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Baldev Raj Nayar,T. V. Paul |
"Two scholars come together to examine India's relationship with the world's major powers and its own search for a significant role in the international system. Central to the argument is India's bel… |
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Conflict between India and Pakistan
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Lyon, Peter,Peter Lyon |
"India and Pakistan are perhaps the most dangerous neighbors on the globe with opposing ethnic and religious forces threatening far fetching social and political upheavals. With each nation now comma… |
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