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  • The UN Charter

    Five Pillars for Humankind

    by David J. Scheffer, Mark S. Ellis ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book reintroduces the U.N. Charter to the global audience by describing the Charter as the most important seculardocument in the world, for it is essentially the constitution of global governance to which all nations are bound, even if some honor it in the breach. The co-authors explain the core principles embedded in the Charter, which embodies codified customary international law for all ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • The United States and the International Criminal Court

    National Security and International Law

    by Gary J. Bass, Bartram S. Brown, Abram Chayes, Robinson O. Everett, Richard J. Goldstone, Madeline Morris, William L. Nash, Leila Nadya Sadat, Michael P. Scharf, David J. Scheffer, Ruth Wedgwood, Samantha Power, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Lawrence Weschler ...
    American reluctance to join the International Criminal Court illuminates important trends in international security and a central dilemma facing U.S. Foreign policy in the 21st century. The ICC will prosecute individuals who commit egregious international human rights violations such as genocide. The Court is a logical culmination of the global trends toward expanding human rights and creating ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • Disorder

    Hard Times in the 21st Century

    by Helen Thompson ...
    Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western democratic societies in the 2020s. The 21st century has brought a powerful tide of geopolitical, economic, and democratic shocks. Their fallout has led central banks to create over $25 trillion of new money, brought about a new age of geopolitical competition, destabilised the Middle East, ruptured ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Umbrella of U.S. Power

    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    Chomsky observes the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a "Path to a Better World," while chronicling how far off the trail the United States is with respect to actual political practice and conduct. Analysing the contradictions of U.S. power while illustrating the real progress won by sustained popular struggle, Chomsky cuts through official political rhetoric to ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The World America Made

    by Robert Kagan ...
    What would the world look like if America were to reduce its role as a global leader in order to focus all its energies on solving its problems at home? And is America really in decline? Robert Kagan, New York Times best-selling author and one of the country’s most influential strategic thinkers, paints a vivid, alarming picture of what the world might look like if the United States were truly to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Here Come the Black Helicopters!

    UN Global Governance and the Loss of Freedom

    by Dick Morris, Eileen McGann ...
    When it comes to spotting political abuses and covert conspiracies designed to strip Americans of their rights and freedoms, no one is more vigilant than #1 New York Times bestselling authors Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Screwed!, Revolt!, Fleeced, Outrage). In their latest call-to-arms, Here Come the Black Helicopters!, Morris and McGann expose the most potent threat to American sovereignty to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Prisoners of the American Dream

    Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class

    by Mike Davis ...
    Series series Essential Mike Davis
    This comprehensive study of class struggle in America asks: Why has there never been a mass working class party in the U.S.?“One of the most uncompromising books about American political economy ever written—brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched.” —Village VoicePrisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Second Civil War

    How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America

    by Ronald Brownstein ...
    In recent years American politics has seemingly become much more partisan, more zero-sum, more vicious, and less able to confront the real problems our nation faces. What has happened?In The Second Civil War, respected political commentator Ronald Brownstein diagnoses the electoral, demographic, and institutional forces that have wreaked such change over the American political landscape, pulling ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century

    by Jeffry A. Frieden ...
    "Magisterial history...one of the most comprehensive histories of modern capitalism yet written." —Michael Hirsh, New York Times Book ReviewIn 1900 international trade reached unprecedented levels and the world's economies were more open to one another than ever before. Then as now, many people considered globalization to be inevitable and irreversible. Yet the entire edifice collapsed in a few ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Democrats

    A Critical History

    by Lance Selfa ...
    An assessment of the state of the Democratic Party in the new millennium, the betrayal of progressive ideals, and how real change can happen.The 2006 elections put the Democrats in the majority in both houses of Congress, yet those hoping for change were deeply disappointed. Likewise, the striking victory of Barack Obama and the Democrats in 2008 created a wave of optimism, but the promise would ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction

    by Jussi M. Hanhimaki ...
    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 Hanhimaki 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

    $8.95 USD

  • Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents

    From Wilson to Obama

    by Steven F. Hayward ...
    Larry Schweikart, a retired history professor, is ready to set the record straight on the American presidents. He goes through each of the first 26 presidents from Washington to Taft and debunks myths, lies, and fake news made fact by the uninformed. Discover why George Washington favored American isolationism; James Madison supported states' rights; what Lincoln promised to Southerners about ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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