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  • Shame

    The Politics and Power of an Emotion

    by David Keen ...
    The uses of shame (and shamelessness) in spheres that range from social media and consumerism to polarized politics and mass violenceToday, we are caught in a shame spiral—a vortex of mutual shaming that pervades everything from politics to social media. We are shamed for our looks, our culture, our ethnicity, our sexuality, our poverty, our wrongdoings, our politics. But what is the point of all ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Wreckonomics

    Why It's Time to End the War on Everything

    The United States' ignominious exit from Afghanistan in 2021 topped two decades of failure and devastation wrought by the war on terror. A long-running "fight against migration" has stoked chaos and rights abuses while pushing migrants onto more dangerous routes. For its part, the war on drugs has failed to dampen narcotics demand while fueling atrocities from Mexico to the Philippines. Why do ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • When Disasters Come Home

    Making and Manipulating Emergencies In The West

    by David Keen ...
    In the late twentieth century, disasters seemed like distant happenings in countries far away from the prosperous West. But today they are ‘coming home’ with a vengeance. From global warming to migration crises, from assaults on democracy to Covid-19 and the fall-out of war in Ukraine – the West is in the grip of multiple, overlapping crises that keep its populations in a state of perpetual fear ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Useful Enemies: When Waging Wars Is More Important Than Winning Them

    by David Keen ...
    There are currently between twenty and thirty civil wars worldwide, while at a global level the Cold War has been succeeded by a "war on drugs" and a "war on terror" that continues to rage a decade after 9/11. Why is this, when we know how destructive war is in both human and economic terms? Why do the efforts of aid organizations and international diplomats founder so often?In this important book ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Useful Enemies: When Waging Wars Is More Important Than Winning Them

    by David Keen ...
    There are currently between twenty and thirty civil wars worldwide, while at a global level the Cold War has been succeeded by a "war on drugs" and a "war on terror" that continues to rage a decade after 9/11. Why is this, when we know how destructive war is in both human and economic terms? Why do the efforts of aid organizations and international diplomats founder so often?In this important book ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

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    Shame

    The Politics and Power of an Emotion

    by David Keen ...
    Narrated by Julian Elfer ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 18 min

    The uses of shame (and shamelessness) in spheres that range from social media and consumerism to polarized politics and mass violenceToday, we are caught in a shame spiral—a vortex of mutual shaming that pervades everything from politics to social media. We are shamed for our looks, our culture, our ethnicity, our sexuality, our poverty, our wrongdoings, our politics. But what is the point of all ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Wreckonomics

    Why It's Time to End the War on Everything

    Narrated by Colin Mace ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 29 min

    The United States' ignominious exit from Afghanistan in 2021 topped two decades of failure and devastation wrought by the war on terror. A long-running “fight against migration” has stoked chaos and rights abuses while pushing migrants onto more dangerous routes. For its part, the war on drugs has failed to dampen narcotics demand while fueling atrocities from Mexico to the Philippines.Why do such ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • Has the West Lost It?

    A Provocation

    The West's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns. How will the West react to its new status of superpower in decline?In Kishore Mahbubani's timely polemic, he argues passionately that the West can no longer presume to impose its ideology on the world, and crucially, that it must stop seeking to intervene, ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Could It Happen Here?

    Canada in the Age of Trump and Brexit

    by Michael Adams ...
    From award-winning author Michael Adams, Could It Happen Here? draws on groundbreaking new social research to show whether Canadian society is at risk of the populist forces afflicting other parts of the world.Americans elected Donald Trump. Britons opted to leave the European Union. Far-right, populist politicians channeling anger at out-of-touch “elites” are gaining ground across Europe. In vote ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • International Security

    A Very Short Introduction

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    The subject of international security is never out of the headlines. The subjects of war and peace, military strategy, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and revisionist states remain central to the discussion, but burgeoning concerns such as climate change, migration, poverty, health, and international terrorism have complicated the field. So what really matters? The traditional prioritization ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Getting Back in the Game

    A Foreign Policy Handbook for Canada

    Has Canada lost its place in the world? Are we destined for a future as a middle power, denied a seat at the "grown-ups table"? Some would argue yes, that decades of neglect and inattention have rendered Canadian foreign policy ineffective at best and non-existent at worst.Paul Heinbecker disagrees. The golden days of Lester B. Pearson may be long gone, he contends (and perhaps they weren't quite ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The False Promise of Liberal Order

    Nostalgia, Delusion and the Rise of Trump

    In an age of demagogues, hostile great powers and trade wars, foreign policy traditionalists dream of restoring liberal international order. This order, they claim, ushered in seventy years of peace and prosperity and saw post-war America domesticate the world to its values.The False Promise of Liberal Order exposes the flaws in this nostalgic vision. The world shaped by America came about as a ... Read more

    $16.00 USD