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“douglas roche”

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  • Recovery

    Peace Prospects in the Biden Era

    by Douglas Roche ...
    Humanity faces a triple emergency: the global problems of climate change, nuclear weapons, and the coronavirus are monumental. Cooperation between governments and peoples has never been so necessary for common survival. The election of Joe Biden as U.S. president opens a new path for world cooperation for peace. In this up-to-the-minute book, former Senator Douglas Roche, a leading Canadian ... Read more

    $7.36 USD

  • Keep Hope Alive

    Essays for a War-free World

    by Douglas Roche ...
    Finding the way to peace in a world in turmoil.The Ukraine war is a scarring tragedy, with hundreds of thousands killed and wounded, famines worsened, nuclear warfare threatened, and diplomacy unraveled. How do we get to a place of hope from here? This collection of essays shines a light on the reasons for my hope that humanity can achieve a peaceful and just coexistence through the U.N.'s New ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • How We Stopped Loving the Bomb

    An insider's account of the world on the brink of banning nuclear arms

    by Douglas Roche ...
    Nobody loves nuclear weapons--except their powerfully placed defenders in government, their supporters in the military, and terrorists. When President Barack Obama brought his vision of a nuclear weapons-free world to the White House, he re-energized the peace movement. Today the historical momentum to rid the world of nuclear weapons is once again gathering speed.Former Canadian Ambassador for ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The United Nations in the 21st Century

    Grappling with the world's most challenging issues: militarism, the environment, human rights, inequality

    by Douglas Roche ...
    After more than seven decades, the United Nations embodies humanity's hopes for peace, security, social justice, human rights, equality for women, and a voice for all. At the same time, it's where the conflicts and tensions amongst the governments and peoples of the world are often expressed.Douglas Roche -- who has spent his lifetime in the cause of peace as a Canadian member of parliament, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Peacemakers

    How people around the world are building a world free of war

    by Douglas Roche ...
    A world without war: this is the vision that Douglas Roche has pursued for decades. A long-time Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament, Canadian ambassador for disarmament, and later a senator, Roche has been in the thick of international affairs for more than forty years.Though few of us realize it, today the world is more peaceful than in past centuries. Death and destruction due to war ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Has China Won?

    The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy

    by Kishore Mahbubani ...
    **From a former president of the United Nations Security Council, an authoritative look at the US, China, and the defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century“An excellent and important book on the biggest question in international affairs: how will the relationship between the US and China evolve?” —Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator,** Financial TimesChina and the United ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Age of Revolutions

    Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

    by Fareed Zakaria ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2024The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live.**Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk—the early decades of the twenty-first century may be ... Read more

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  • The Post-American World: Release 2.0

    Release 2.0

    by Fareed Zakaria ...
    “A relentlessly intelligent book.” —Joseph Joffe, New York Times Book Review“This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.” So begins Fareed Zakaria’s blockbuster on the United States in the twenty-first century, and the trends he identifies have proceeded faster than anyone anticipated. How might the nation continue to thrive in a truly global era? ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Triangle of Power

    Rebalancing the New World Order

    by Alexander Stubb ...
    The liberal world order that emerged after the Second World War – and expanded triumphantly following the Cold War – is unravelling. Multilateral cooperation is giving way to multipolar rivalry and conflict. Global norms are eroding. What comes next will define the rest of the century; the search is on for a new global framework – a rebalancing of power.In The Triangle of Power, Finnish President ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Growing Pains

    the future of democracy (and work)

    by Gwynne Dyer ...
    We are now living in a world where Brexit and Trump are daily realities. But how did this come about? And what does it mean for the future?Populism and ultra-nationalism brought about the rise of Hitler and Mussolini in the 1930s. Now, as Trump sits in the White House, Britain negotiates its way out of the EU, and countries across Europe see substantial gains in support for the extreme Right, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Has Populism Won?

    The War on Liberal Democracy

    by Daniel Drache, Marc D. Froese ...
    In the shadow of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, two experts show us how and why global populism has taken root and what it will take to turn the tideFrom Trumpian America to Putin’s nationalist Russia, and from Poland to the Philippines, rapid change and rising inequality have fueled a retreat into tribalist nationalism fed by a fear of being left behind. Populist leaders reach into this fear, ... Read more

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  • After Europe

    by Ivan Krastev ...
    In this provocative book, renowned public intellectual Ivan Krastev reflects on the future of the European Union—and its potential lack of a future. With far-right nationalist parties on the rise across the continent and the United Kingdom planning for Brexit, the European Union is in disarray and plagued by doubts as never before. Krastev includes chapters devoted to Europe's major problems ... Read more

    $18.99 USD