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  • World Protests

    A Study of Key Protest Issues in the 21st Century

    by Isabel Ortiz, Sara Burke, Mohamed Berrada, Hernán Saenz Cortés ...
    This is an open access book.The start of the 21st century has seen the world shaken by protests, from the Arab Spring to the Yellow Vests, from the Occupy movement to the social uprisings in Latin America. There are periods in history when large numbers of people have rebelled against the way things are, demanding change, such as in 1848, 1917, and 1968. Today we are living in another time of ... Read more

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  • The Great Convergence

    Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World

    by Kishore Mahbubani ...
    The twenty-first century has seen a rise in the global middle class that brings an unprecedented convergence of interests and perceptions, cultures and values. Kishore Mahbubani is optimistic. We are creating a new global civilization. Eighty-eight percent of the world's population outside the West is rising to Western living standards, and sharing Western aspirations. Yet Mahbubani, one of the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Border and Rule

    Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

    by Harsha Walia, Nick Estes ...
    In Border and Rule, one of North America’s foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation.Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of the conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate change ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Poorer Nations

    A Possible History of the Global South

    by Vijay Prashad ...
    In The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Third World and told the story of the rise and fall of the Non-Aligned Movement.With The Poorer Nations, Prashad takes up the story where he left it. Since the ’70s, the countries of the Global South have struggled to express themselves politically. Prashad analyzes the failures of neoliberalism, as well as the rise of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Humanitarian Intervention

    by Thomas G. Weiss ...
    Series series War and Conflict in the Modern World
    A singular development in the post-Cold War era is the use of military force to protect human beings. From Rwanda to Kosovo, Sierra Leone to East Timor, and Libya to Côte d�Ivoire, soldiers have rescued civilians in some of the world's most notorious war zones. But what about Syria? Why have we observed the Syrian slaughter and done nothing? Is humanitarian intervention in crisis? Is the so-called ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • Risk Rules

    How Local Politics Threaten the Global Economy

    by Marvin Zonis, Dan Lefkovitz, Sam Wilkin, Joseph Yackley ...
    Four political analysts explore the importance of local issues to global business and politics in this fully updated edition of The Kimchi Matters.Today's focus on globalization has obscured the fact that political stability and economic growth are determined at the local level. Investors and foreign policymakers set themselves up for failure when they don't consider the unique local dynamics of a ... Read more

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  • Democracy in Retreat

    The Revolt of the Middle Class and the Worldwide Decline of Representative Government

    by Joshua Kurlantzick ...
    Since the end of the Cold War, the assumption among most political theorists has been that as nations develop economically, they will also become more democratic—especially if a vibrant middle class takes root. This assumption underlies the expansion of the European Union and much of American foreign policy, bolstered by such examples as South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, and even to some ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • War, Conflict and Human Rights

    Theory and Practice

    by Chandra Lekha Sriram, Olga Martin-Ortega, Johanna Herman ...
    War, Conflict and Human Rights is an innovative inter-disciplinary textbook, combining aspects of law, politics and conflict analysis to examine the relationship between human rights and armed conflict.This third edition has been fully revised and updated, and contains a completely new chapter on business, conflict and human rights. Making use of both theoretical and practical approaches, the ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • 5 Steps to a 5: AP Comparative Government

    by Suzanne Bailey, Glenn Hastedt ...
    The newest addition to the popular test prep series that has prepared millions of students for AP exams in every subjectAP Comparative Government and Politics is a fast-growing Advanced Placement test. This new addition to the popular test prep series covers the current course syllabus and will help you build the skills, knowledge, and test-taking confidence you need to reach your full potential. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Responsibility to Protect

    Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All

    by Gareth Evans ...
    ""Never again!"" the world has vowed time and again since the Holocaust. Yet genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other mass atrocity crimes continue to shock our consciences-from the killing fields of Cambodia to the machetes of Rwanda to the agony of Darfur.Gareth Evans has grappled with these issues firsthand. As Australian foreign minister, he was a key broker of the United Nations peace plan for ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • The A to Z of the Non-Aligned Movement and Third World

    by Guy Arnold ...
    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    During the long period when the world was divided between East and West and the Cold War threatened to turn hot with devastating consequences, the Non-Aligned Movement was one of the few institutions that consistently sought other outcomes not in its own interest, but that of all humanity. Consisting of over 100 states that are free of any formal alliances with any major power bloc, the Non ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Sanctions

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Bruce W. Jentleson ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To KnowRG
    A concise, authoritative overview of a little-understood yet extremely important phenomenon in world politics: the use of economic sanctions by one country to punish another. It's hard to browse the news without seeing reports of yet another imposition of sanctions by one country on another. The United States has sanctions against more than 30 countries. Russia has repeatedly imposed sanctions ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

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