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  • The Archivability of Television

    Essays on Preservation and Perseverance

    by Caroline Frick, Kate Cronin, Owen Gottlieb, Ruta Abolins, Hannah Spaulding, Walter Podrazik, Lynne Carmichael, Eric Hoyt, Mary Huelsbeck, Amanda Smith, Maureen Mauk, Olivia Riley, Pauline Lampert, Hugo Ljungbäck, Quinlan Miller, Matt St. John ...
    Series Book 3 - The Peabody Series in Media History
    This anthology critically evaluates archives and archival processes that collect, order, and preserve elements of television as historically, culturally, socially, politically, and economically significant material.What do we know about how television moved from ephemeral broadcasts and mounds of paperwork documenting bureaucratic and creative processes to become historical material housed in ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Hypocrisy and Human Rights

    Resisting Accountability for Mass Atrocities

    by Kate Cronin-Furman ...
    Hypocrisy and Human Rights examines what human rights pressure does when it does not work. Repressive states with absolutely no intention of complying with their human rights obligations often change course dramatically in response to international pressure. They create toothless commissions, permit but then obstruct international observers' visits, and pass showpiece legislation while ... Read more

    $15.19 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 Times**China and the United ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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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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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Getting Back in the Game

    A Foreign Policy Handbook for Canada

    by Paul Heinbecker ...
    Has Canada lost its place in the world? Are we destined for a future as a middle power, denied a seat at the "grown-ups table"? Some would argue yes, that decades of neglect and inattention have rendered Canadian foreign policy ineffective at best and non-existent at worst.Paul Heinbecker disagrees. The golden days of Lester B. Pearson may be long gone, he contends (and perhaps they weren't quite ... Read more

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  • Winning the War on War

    The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide

    by Joshua S. Goldstein ...
    Everyone knows: wars are getting worse, more civilians are dying, and peacemaking achieves nothing, right? Wrong.Despite all the bad-news headlines, peacekeeping is working. Fewer wars are starting, more are ending, and those that remain are smaller and more localized. But peace doesn’t just happen; it needs to be put into effect. Moreover, understanding the global decline in armed conflict is ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Navigating a New World

    Canada's Global Future

    by Lloyd Axworthy ...
    In Navigating a New World Lloyd Axworthy charts how we can become active citizens in the demanding world of the twenty-first century, to make it safer, more sustainable and more humane. Throughout he emphasizes the human story. As we meet refugees from civil war and drought, child soldiers and landmine victims, the moral imperative is clear: this is a deeply compassionate appeal to confront ... Read more

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  • The Beijing Consensus

    Legitimizing Authoritarianism in Our Time

    by Stefan Halper ...
    Beijing presents a clear and gathering threat to Washington -- but not for the reasons you think. China's challenge to the West stems from its transformative brand of capitalism and an entirely different conception of the international community. In The Beijing Consensus, a leading expert in international relations presents a coherent integration of the many sides of U.S.-China relations. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Politics of Human Rights

    The Quest for Dignity

    by Sabine C. Carey, Mark Gibney, Steven C. Poe ...
    Human rights is an important issue in contemporary politics, and the last few decades have also seen a remarkable increase in research and teaching on the subject. This book introduces students to the study of human rights and aims to build on their interest while simultaneously offering an alternative vision of the subject. Many texts focus on the theoretical and legal issues surrounding human ... Read more

    $41.89 USD

  • Propaganda, Inc.

    Selling America's Culture to the World

    by Nancy Snow ...
    An eye-opening overview of American cultural policy fully updated through the end of the Bush presidency, Propaganda, Inc. reveals how the United States Information Agency became a bureaucracy deeply distrustful of dissent, and one-way in its promotion of American corporate interests overseas.Nancy Snow spent two years inside the Agency, and here provides an insider's account of its crooked ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Shaping the Humanitarian World

    by Peter Walker, Daniel Maxwell ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    Providing a critical introduction to the notion of humanitarianism in global politics, tracing the concept from its origins to the twenty-first century, this book examines how the so called international community works in response to humanitarian crises and the systems that bind and divide them.By tracing the history on international humanitarian action from its early roots through the birth of ... Read more

    $57.99 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