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Soft Power
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Joseph S. Nye |
"Joseph Nye coined the term "soft power" in the late 1980s. It is now used frequently - and often incorrectly - by political leaders, editorial writers, and academics around the world. So what is sof… |
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Rebels without borders
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Idean Salehyan |
"Rebellion, insurgency, or civil war-conflict within a society is customarily treated as a matter of domestic politics and analysts generally focus their attention on local causes. Yet fighting betwe… |
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Another century of war?
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Gabriel Kolko |
"The war in Afghanistan was apparently a decisive military triumph. But was it also a political failure? Gabriel Kolko, whose masterly studies of conflict have redefined our views of modern warfare a… |
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I wouldn't start from here
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Andrew Mueller |
What is a jaded rock journalist doing dodging landmines to talk to mercenaries and terrorists? And what kind of conversation can a man who prefers hunting for perfect three-minute pop songs and tubes… |
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Expanding Global Military Capacity for Humanitarian Intervention
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Michael E. O'Hanlon |
"Humanitarian military intervention and muscular peace operations have been partially effective in recent years in saving thousands of lives from the Balkans to Haiti to Somalia to Cambodia to Mozamb… |
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How the end begins
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Ron Rosenbaum |
An alarming, deeply reported analysis of how close--and how often--the world has come to nuclear annihilation, and why we are once again on the brink. |
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Seriously not all right
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Ron Capps |
"SERIOUSLY NOT ALL RIGHT : Five Wars in Ten Years is a memoir by Ron Capps, who served both in military intelligence and in the foreign service and as an observer over the span of ten years in wars r… |
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The fourth revolution
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John Micklethwait |
"From the bestselling authors of The Right Nation, a visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-state. Dy… |
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Clinton's grand strategy
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James D. Boys |
"President Clinton's time in office coincided with historic global events following the end of the Cold War. The collapse of Communism called for a new US Grand Strategy to address the emerging geopo… |
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Peace agreements
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Nina Caspersen |
Since the end of the Cold War a significant number of peace agreements have been signed, many of them in bloody intra-state conflicts that were previously thought beyond resolution. How have these ag… |
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Cosmopolitan democracy
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Daniele Archibugi,David Held |
"The form of international regulation which dominated world politics for more than forty years has collapsed, while no alternative has yet emerged. The end of the Cold War has created new opportuniti… |
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Reconciliation
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Benazir Bhutto |
Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan in October 2007, after eight years of exile, hopeful that she could be a catalyst for change. Upon a tumultuous reception, she survived a suicide-bomb attack that … |
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Post-capitalist society
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Peter F. Drucker |
Business guru Peter Drucker provides an incisive analysis of the major world transformation taking place, from the Age of Capitalism to the Knowledge Society, and examines the radical effects it will… |
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America's secret war
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George Friedman |
THE STARTLING TRUTH BEHIND AMERICA'S FOREIGN POLICY AND WAR EFFORT IN AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, AND BEYOND--FROM THE FOUNDER OF THE COMPANY DUBBED BY BARRON'S AS "THE SHADOW CIA"Dubbed by Barron's as "The S… |
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Los grandes cambios de nuestro tiempo
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Coloquio de Invierno (1992 Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico) |
"Based on important two-week conference (Feb. 1992) at UNAM with authorative experts from Latin America, the US, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Twenty-five presentations in vol. 1 address from various per… |
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Crossing the Rubicon
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C. Raja Mohan |
Covers the post-1980 period. |
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Die postnationale Konstellation
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Jürgen Habermas |
"Does a global economy render the traditional nation-state obsolete? Does globalization threaten democratic life, or offer it new forms of expression? What are the implications of globalization for o… |
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Humane Warfare
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Christoph Coker |
The decision to fight 'humanitarian wars' - such as Kosovo - and the development of technology to make war more humane, illustrates the trend in the West to try to humanise war, and thereby humanise … |
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Webster's New World Robert's Rules of Order Simplified and Applied
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Robert McConnell Productions |
This is the clearest, most useful guide to parliamentary procedure, now with new information on effective and reliable procedures for nominations, elections, ballots, balloting, and ballot counting. |
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Concepts of non-provocative defence
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Geoffrey Wiseman |
"This book examines the viability of non-provocative defence - the controversial idea that defensive military policies and practices reduce the risk of wars and provide a viable basis for defending a… |
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