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  • From Kinshasa to Kandahar

    Canada and Fragile States in Historical Perspective

    by Stephanie M. Bangarth, Duane Bratt, Darren Brunk, Hevina S. Dashwood, Jean Daudelin, Tom Keating, Stephen Saideman, Julian Schofield, Kevin Spooner, Andrew Thompson, David Webster ...
    Series Book 7 - Beyond Boundaries: Canadian Defence and Strategic Studies Series
    Failed or fragile states are those that are unable or unwilling to provide a socio-political framework for citizens and meet their basic needs. They are a source of terrorism and international crime, as well as incubators of infectious disease, environmental degradation, and unregulated mass migration. Canada's engagement with countries such as the Congo, East Timor, Bosnia, and Afghanistan ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • The Full Catastrophe

    Travels Among the New Greek Ruins

    by James Angelos ...
    A transporting, good-humored, and revealing account of Greece’s dire troubles, reported from the mountain villages, idyllic islands, and hardscrabble streets that define the country todayIn recent years, small Greece, often associated with ancient philosophers and marble ruins, whitewashed villages and cerulean seas, has been at the center of a debt crisis that has sown economic and social ruin, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction

    by Jussi M. Hanhimaki ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The United Nations has been called everything from "the best hope of mankind" to "irrelevant" and "obsolete." With this much-needed introduction to the UN, Jussi Hanhimäki engages the current debate over the organizations effectiveness as he provides a clear understanding of how it was originally conceived, how it has come to its present form, and how it must confront new challenges in a rapidly ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Hawks of Peace: Notes of the Russian Ambassador

    by Dmitry Rogozin ...
    The Hawks of Peace. Notes of Russian Ambassador is a unique analytical edition where Russian Deputy Premier Dmitry Rogozin shares his notes on personalities and events that shaped the history of post-Communist Russia, believing that without those it would be impossible to understand the past and envisage the future of his country. Permanent Representative of Russia to NATO until recently, in his ... Read more

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  • Iran: From Regional Challenge to Global Threat

    by Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs ...
    This anthology of 31 recent studies by eleven leading security and diplomatic experts outlines the Iranian threat to Israel, the Middle East region, and the West. Iran's progress in developing nuclear weapons is now openly acknowledged by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN watchdog, based in Vienna. Iran's efforts to reach beyond the Middle East in order to penetrate the Western ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Refuelling Europe

    A Roadmap for completing the Single Energy Market

    by David Buchan ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    The Ukraine crisis has reignited debate in Europe surrounding the EU’s lack ofa fully functioning single energy market. It has brought home to all memberstates the general need for a more coordinated energy policy, even though theymay differ on aspects of what needs to be done. This research highlights thatintegration of the internal energy market should still be the EU’s main instrumentto reach ... Read more

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  • EU Economic Governance

    The French and German Views

    by Jean-Francois Jamet, Werner Mussler, Stefaan de Corte ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    One could view the current crisis as an opportunity to make up for past mistakes or past reluctance to do what was necessary. This was the approach adopted by the European institutions when they came up with their proposals on economic governance. This paper aims to provide an insight into the thinking of French and German policymakers when it comes to the issue of how the economic governance of ... Read more

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  • China Experiments

    From Local Innovations to National Reform

    by Ann M. Florini, Hairong Lai, Yeling Tan ...
    All societies face a key question: how to empower governments to perform essential governmental functions while constraining the arbitrary exercise of power. This balance, always in flux, is particularly fluid in today's China. This insightful book examines the changing relationship between that state and its society, as demonstrated by numerous experiments in governance at subnational levels, and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Tragedy of the Middle East

    by Barry Rubin ...
    I'll confess that in some ways, The 'Tragedy of the Middle East is my favorite of everything I've written. The title was chosen in great sincerity because the theme here is to explain how the region's modern history really is a tragedy.' Terrible mistakes were made; the wrong roads were chosen. Bloodthirsty ideology took hold; pragmatism was thrown out the window. And yet alongside all of these ... Read more

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  • Heroes of the 90s: People and Money. The Modern History of Russian Capitalism

    by Valeria Bashkirova, Vladislav Dorofeev, Alexander Solovev ...
    Heroes of the 90s is a book composed by journalists of the newspaper Kommersant. The book sheds light on the transformation of the USSR and the country’s social, state, financial, economic and civic institutions into a new state — the Russian Federation. The book covers Russia’s first decade as a new country, the turbulent 90s that formed Russia’s reality today. The book revisits the storming of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Power and Control of the Chinese Communist Party

    An introduction to China's cadre management

    by Julia Marinaccio ...
    The ebook is an introduction into China's cadre management focusing on the institutional mechanisms and organizational processes that allow the CCP to exert control and power over its state apparatus. By means of selection and appointment, the Party continues to influence career mobility of its agents. Mobility patterns reflect first and foremost the political priorities of the party-state, but ... Read more

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  • The Next Multiannual Financial Framework

    From National Interest to Building a Common Future

    by Stefaan de Corte, Nico Groenendijk, Corina Suceveanu ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    The Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) is the budget of the European Union and the most important tool to finance common policy areas, actions and strategies. Upon a proposal from the European Commission, it has to be approved by the majority of the members of the European Parliament, before it can be unanimously adopted by the Council. This procedure, as well as the views of the different ... Read more

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