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  • A Billion Lives

    An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity

    by Jan Egeland ...
    Called "the world's conscience" and one of the 100 most influential people of our time by Time magazine, Jan Egeland has been the public face of the United Nations. As Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, he was in charge of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for three and a half years.One of the bravest and most adventuresome figures on the international ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Humanitarianism, War, and Politics

    Solferino to Syria and Beyond

    Series series New Millennium Books in International Studies
    What is humanitarianism? This authoritative book provides a comprehensive analysis of the original idea and its evolution, exploring its triangulation with war and politics. Peter J. Hoffman and Thomas G. Weiss trace the origins of humanitarianism, its social movement, and the institutions (international humanitarian law) and organizations (providers of assistance and protection) that comprise it. ... Read more

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    Hillary Rodham Clinton’s inside look at the choices and challenges she has faced is “a subtle, finely calibrated work…with succinct and often shrewd appraisals of the complex web of political, economic, and historical forces in play around the world” (The New York Times).In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, Hillary Rodham Clinton expected to return to the United States Senate. To her ... Read more

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  • Hopes and Prospects

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    "Chomsky's gritty, politically charged essays redefine the nature and practice of democracy in an increasingly unsteady world climate" ( Foreword Reviews).In this urgent book, Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (including under Pres. Barack Obama), the ... Read more

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  • Interventions

    A Life in War and Peace

    "[A] resolute, detailed, and unflinching review of [Annan’s] most difficult hours…No one ever came closer to being the voice of “we the peoples” and no one paid a higher price for it. The world still needs such a voice, but the next person who tries to fill that role will want to reflect long and hard on the lessons of this candid, courageous, and unsparing memoir." --Michael Ignatieff, The New ... Read more

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  • Making the Future

    Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Taken together, Chomsky's essays present a powerful counter-narrative to official accounts of the major political events of the past four years: the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. presidential race, the ascendancy of China, Latin America's leftward turn, the threat of nuclear proliferation in Iran and North Korea, Israel's invasion of Gaza and expansion of settlements in Jerusalem and the ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Truth

    Inside the Lies That Put the White House on Trial and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity

    by Joseph Wilson ...
    Through the last three presidential administrations and two wars with Iraq, no one has personally witnessed, influenced, or fueled news over more history-making events than Joseph Wilson. The last American diplomat to sit face-to-face with Saddam Hussein, he is a consummate insider who has the intelligence, principles, and independence to examine current American foreign policy and the inner ... Read more

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  • Interventions

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Noam Chomsky says that the freedom to challenge power is not just an opportunity, it’s a responsibility. For the past several years Chomsky has been writing essays for The New York Times Syndicate to do just that: challenge power and expose the global consequences of U.S. policy and military actions worldwide. Interventions is a collection of these essays, revised and updated with notes by the ... Read more

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  • With Every Mistake

    by Gwynne Dyer ...
    This essential collection contains the best of Gwynne Dyer’s writing on the post–September 11 world.Since 1973, writer, historian and filmmaker Gwynne Dyer has written a widely syndicated newspaper column on international affairs, regularly published in 45 countries. With Every Mistake is not only a collection of the very best of Dyer’s recent work, but an examination of how, time and again, the ... Read more

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  • War of Necessity, War of Choice

    A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars

    Richard Haass, a member of the National Security Council staff in the George H. W. Bush administration and the State Department director of policy planning for George W. Bush, reviews the causes and strategies of the first and second Iraq wars while providing a thoughtful examination of the means and ends of U.S. foreign policy.War of Necessity, War of Choice—part history, part memoir—provides ... Read more

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  • How The Obama Administration Threatens Our National Security

    Series series Encounter Broadsides
    In this revealing broadside, Victor Davis Hanson explains how President Obama has imprinted his domestic ideology of victimhood onto a therapeutic, Carter-inspired foreign policy. In Obama’s vision, the United State renounces its role as a defender of the postwar order and instead becomes an agent of global change one that questions our existing system of defense, values, alliances, interests, ... Read more

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  • The Obamians

    The Struggle Inside the White House to Redefine American Power

    by James Mann ...
    The definitive analysis of the events, ideas, personalities, and conflicts that have defined Obama’s foreign policyWhen Barack Obama took office, he brought with him a new group of foreign policy advisers intent on carving out a new global role for America in the wake of the Bush administration’s war in Iraq. Now the acclaimed author of Rise of the Vulcans offers a definitive, even-handed account ... Read more

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