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  • Borders, Fences and Walls

    State of Insecurity?

    by Elisabeth Vallet ...
    Series series Border Regions Series
    Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the question remains ’Do good fences still make good neighbours’? Since the Great Wall of China, the Antonine Wall, built in Scotland to support Hadrian's Wall, the Roman ’Limes’ or the Danevirk fence, the ’wall’ has been a constant in the protection of defined entities claiming sovereignty, East and West. But is the wall more than an historical ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Walled

    Barriers, Migration, and Resistance in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

    Edited by Andréanne Bissonnette, Élisabeth Vallet ...
    In 1993, then-U.S. President Bill Clinton oversaw the construction of the first stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border walls. Since that pivotal moment, every subsequent U.S. president has allowed for the construction of additional miles of walls or fences. Despite his initial pledge to halt the expansion of border walls, in July 2022, President Joe Biden authorized the construction of new sections in ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Borders and Border Walls

    In-Security, Symbolism, Vulnerabilities

    Edited by Andréanne Bissonnette, Élisabeth Vallet ...
    Series series Routledge Geopolitics Series
    This book addresses the recent evolution of borderlines around the world as an attempt to control transnational movements with a view to securitization of borders rooted in the need to control mobility and preserve national identities.This book moves beyond physical borders and studies new manifestations of borders such as technological and symbolic walls. It brings together scholars from various ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Open Borders

    In Defense of Free Movement

    by Andrew Burridge, Charles Heller, Michael Huemer, Natasha King, Meryem Lakhdar, Christine Leuenberger, Jenna M. Loyd, Thomas Nail, Joseph Nevins, Peter Mancina, No Borders Morocco, Polly Pallister-Wilkins, Lorenzo Pezanni, Said Saddiki, Rozalinda Borcila, Nandita Sharma, Jacqueline Stevens, Maurice Stierl, Elisabeth Vallet, Semillas Autonomas ...
    Series series
    Border control continues to be a highly contested and politically charged subject around the world. This collection of essays challenges reactionary nationalism by making the positive case for the benefits of free movement for countries on both ends of the exchange. Open Borders counters the knee-jerk reaction to build walls and close borders by arguing that there is not a moral, legal, ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

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    Understand the Financial Forces That Drive Our World-and Our Future

    by Craig Hovey, Gregory Rehmke ...
    Think outside the borders.Global economics affects every aspect of our lives. Free trade agreements, tariffs, terrorism, trade deficits, international debt, global warming, OPEC, outsourcing, and sweat shops are just some of the forces driving our world, food supply, jobs, and future. The Complete Idiots Guide® to Global Economics provides the key to understanding the various facts, figures, ... Read more

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  • The Oil and the Glory

    The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea

    by Steve LeVine ...
    Remote, forbidding, and volatile, the Caspian Sea long tantalized the world with its vast oil reserves. But outsiders, blocked by the closed Soviet system, couldn’t get to it. Then the Soviet Union collapsed, and a wholesale rush into the region erupted. Along with oilmen, representatives of the world’s leading nations flocked to the Caspian for a share of the thirty billion barrels of proven oil ... Read more

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  • America

    Our Next Chapter

    by Chuck Hagel, Peter Kaminsky ...
    Senator Chuck Hagel has long been admired by his colleagues on both sides of the Senate floor for his honesty, integrity, and common-sense approach to the challenges of our times. The Los Angeles Times has praised his "bold positions on foreign policy and national security" and wondered, "What's not to like?" In America: Our Next Chapter, Nebraska-born Hagel offers a hard-hitting examination of ... Read more

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  • Foreign Policy Breakthroughs

    Cases in Successful Diplomacy

    Edited by Robert Hutchings, Jeremi Suri ...
    Diplomacy is essential to the conduct of foreign policy and international business in the twenty-first century. Yet, few international actors are trained to understand or practice effective diplomacy. Poor diplomacy has contributed to repeated setbacks for the United States and other major powers in the last decade. Drawing on deep historical research, this book aims to 'reinvent' diplomacy for ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Reworking the Relationship between Asylum and Employment

    by Penelope Mathew ...
    Touching on the laws and practices of a wide array of countries around the globe, this book examines the extent to which refugees and asylum-seekers’ right to work is protected by international human rights law. The book examines a number of key international treaties, national constitutions and some foundational cases from national courts in order to make the case that the practise of restricting ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Spaces of Aid

    How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism

    by Lisa Smirl ...
    Aid workers commonly bemoan that the experience of working in the field sits uneasily with the goals they've signed up to: visiting project sites in air-conditioned Land Cruisers while the intended beneficiaries walk barefoot through the heat, or checking emails from within gated compounds while surrounding communities have no running water.Spaces of Aid provides the first book-length analysis of ... Read more

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  • The Challenge of Global Commons and Flows for US Power

    The Perils of Missing the Human Domain

    by Mika Aaltola, Juha Käpylä ...
    Global commons are domains that fall outside the direct jurisdiction of sovereign states - the high seas, air, space, and most recently man-made cyberspace - and thus should be usable by anyone. These domains, even if outside the direct responsibility and governance of sovereign entities, are of crucial interest for the contemporary world order. This book elaborates a practice-based approach to ... Read more

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  • Japan And China: A Contest In Aid To Sub-saharan Africa

    by Koichi Sakamoto ...
    Since the opening up of China in 1979, the country had experienced phenomenal economic growth over the decades and overtook Japan as the second-largest economy in 2010. With the establishment of a conservative administration led by Shinzo Abe in December 2012 and Xi Jinping's ascendance to power as the General Secretary of China's ruling party a month earlier, the two countries intensified their ... Read more

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