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  • Outsourcing Empire

    How Company-States Made the Modern World

    by Professor Andrew Phillips, J. C. Sharman ...
    How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world’s first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states. But as Outsourcing Empire shows, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, company-states—not sovereign states—drove ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Ties That Bound

    Slavery and Power in Africa

    by J. C. Sharman ...
    How slavery and the slave trade provided African rulers with a path to political powerAcross history, slavery has been central to political power. By the nineteenth century, African rulers dominated the slave trade with the European and Islamic worlds. In Ties That Bound, J. C. Sharman shows how these rulers were empowered by slavery, converting profits from the market for humans into political ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Empires of the Weak

    The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order

    by J. C. Sharman ...
    How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world orderWhat accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian military competition gave Europeans a decisive advantage in war over other civilizations from 1500 ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Vigilantes beyond Borders

    NGOs as Enforcers of International Law

    by Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, J. C. Sharman ...
    How and why NGOs are increasingly taking independent and direct action in global law enforcement, from human rights to the environmentNongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have generally served as advocates and service providers, leaving enforcement to states. Now, NGOs are increasingly acting as private police, prosecutors, and intelligence agencies in enforcing international law. NGOs today can ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Havens in a Storm

    The Struggle for Global Tax Regulation

    by J. C. Sharman ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    Small states have learned in recent decades that capital accumulates where taxes are low; as a result, tax havens have increasingly competed for the attention of international investors with tax and regulatory concessions. Economically powerful countries including France, Britain, Japan, and the United States, however, wished to stanch the offshore flow of domestic taxable capital. Since 1998 the ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Despot's Guide to Wealth Management

    On the International Campaign against Grand Corruption

    by J. C. Sharman ...
    An unprecedented new international moral and legal rule forbids one state from hosting money stolen by the leaders of another state. The aim is to counter grand corruption or kleptocracy ("rule by thieves"), when leaders of poorer countries—such as Marcos in the Philippines, Mobutu in the Congo, and more recently those overthrown in revolutions in the Arab world and Ukraine—loot billions of ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Money Laundry

    Regulating Criminal Finance in the Global Economy

    by J. C. Sharman ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    A generation ago not a single country had laws to counter money laundering; now, more countries have standardized anti–money laundering (AML) policies than have armed forces. In The Money Laundry, J. C. Sharman investigates whether AML policy works, and why it has spread so rapidly to so many states with so little in common. Sharman asserts that there are few benefits to such policies but high ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Puppet Masters: How the Corrupt Use Legal Structures to Hide Stolen Assets and What to Do About It

    by Emile van der Does de Willebois, J.C. Sharman, Robert Harrison, Ji Won Park, Emily Halter ...
    Billions in corrupt assets, complex money trails, strings of shell companies and other spurious legal structures. These form the complex web of subterfuge in corruption cases, behind which hides the benefi cial owner—the puppet master and benefi ciary of it all. Linking the benefi cial owner to the proceeds of corruption is notoriously hard. With sizable wealth and resources on their side, they ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Global Shell Games

    Experiments in Transnational Relations, Crime, and Terrorism

    by Michael G. Findley, Daniel L. Nielson, J. C. Sharman ...
    Series Book 128 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    Every year a staggering number of unidentified shell corporations succeed in hiding perpetrators of terrorist financing, corruption and illegal arms trades, but the degree to which firms flout global identification standards remains unknown. Adopting a unique, experimental methodology, Global Shell Games attempts to unveil the sordid world of anonymous shell corporations. Posing as twenty-one ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • International Order in Diversity

    War, Trade and Rule in the Indian Ocean

    by Andrew Phillips, J. C. Sharman ...
    Series Book 137 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    International relations scholars typically expect political communities to resemble one another the more they are exposed to pressures of war, economic competition and the spread of hegemonic legitimacy standards. However, historically it is heterogeneity, not homogeneity, that has most often defined international systems. Examining the Indian Ocean region - the centre of early modern ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

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    Empires of the Weak

    The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World

    by J.C. Sharman ...
    Narrated by John Lee ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 26 min

    What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian military competition gave Europeans a decisive advantage in war over other civilizations from 1500 onward. In contrast, Empires of the Weak argues that Europeans actually had no ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

    by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson ...
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