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  • Pedagogy, Politics and Philosophy of Peace

    Interrogating Peace and Peacemaking

    Edited by Carmel Borg, Michael Grech ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Critical Education
    In an age where official and sponsored violence are becoming normalised and conceived of as legitimate tools of peace keeping, a number of leading academics and activists represented in Pedagogy, Politics and Philosophy of Peace interrogate and resist the intensification of the militarisation of civil life and of international relations. Coming from different areas of study, the contributors to ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

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  • The Control Factor

    Our Struggle to See the True Threat

    by Bill Siegel ...
    For those who believe America is worth defending, The Control Factor explores the psychological maneuvers, fantasies, and entanglements we engage in to avoid clearly seeing the Islamic threat that confronts us. The prerequisite for developing necessary strategies to ensure our survival is taking responsibility for our perceptions and actions. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Manifesto for the Earth

    Action Now for Peace, Global Justice and a Sustainable Future

    by Mikhail S. Gorbachev ...
    For more than a decade Mikhail Gorbachev has been engaged in working to protect the earth and its inhabitants via the organization he founded in 1992, Green Cross International. In an age when ecological crises, poverty and military conflicts are humanity's main challenges, Gorbachev urges us to stop regarding these problems in isolation. The man who changed the destiny of Russia, Europe and the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The United Nations, Peace and Security

    From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect

    by Ramesh Thakur ...
    Ending humanitarian atrocities has become as important for the United Nations as preventing interstate war. This book examines the transformation of UN operations, analysing its changing role and structure. Ramesh Thakur asks why, when and how force may be used, and argues that the growing gulf between legality and legitimacy is evidence of an eroded sense of international community. He considers ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Critical Theory

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Eric Bronner ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose -- and, if at all possible, cure -- the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukács and Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Banning Landmines

    Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy, and Human Security

    Edited by Jody Williams, Stephen D. Goose, Mary Wareham ...
    Series series National State Papers
    Banning Landmines: Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy, and Human Security looks at accomplishments and setbacks in the crucial first decade of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. The first half of the book considers the implementation of the prohibitions and humanitarian assistance provisions of the treaty, as well as efforts to promote universal acceptance of the treaty among governments and non-state armed ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Understanding Emerging Security Challenges

    Threats and Opportunities

    by Ashok Swain ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This book offers an overview of emerging security challenges in the global environment in the post-Cold War era.After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent shifting of international political environment, a new broader concept of security began to gain acceptance. This concept encompassed socio-economic-environmental challenges, such as resource scarcity and climate change, water-sharing ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • What Is a People?

    by Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Georges Didi-Huberman, Sadri Khiari, Jacques Rancière, Pierre Bourdieu, Kevin Olson ...
    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    Series Book 50 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    What Is a People? seeks to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and as a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu follows with a sociolinguistic analysis of "popular" and its transformation of democracy, beliefs, songs, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Voices from the Camps

    A People's History of Palestinian Refugees in Jordan, 2006

    by Nabil Marshood ...
    As debate continues about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and its root causes simmer, Palestinian refugees have become increasingly invisible. Voices from the Camps is about their humanity. This sociological study explores refugee camps in Jordan, where refugees share their plight and narrative of the Nakbeh (Catastrophe) of 1948. They also share their pain, conflicting identities, and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Last Mile in Ending Extreme Poverty

    Edited by Laurence Chandy, Hiroshi Kato, Homi Kharas ...
    Viewed from a global scale, steady progress has been made in reducing extreme poverty-defined by the $1.25-a-day poverty line-over the past three decades. This success has sparked renewed enthusiasm about the possibility of eradicating extreme poverty within a generation. However, progress is expected to become more difficult, and slower, over time. This book will examine three central changes ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Rebuilding War-Torn States

    The Challenge of Post-Conflict Economic Reconstruction

    by Graciana del Castillo ...
    Post-conflict economic reconstruction is a critical part of the political economy of peacetime and one of the most important challenges in any peace-building or state-building strategy. After wars end, countries must negotiate a multi-pronged transition to peace: Violence must give way to public security; lawlessness, political exclusion, and violation of human rights must give way to the rule of ... Read more

    $60.29 USD

  • Selling a 'Just' War

    Framing, Legitimacy, and US Military Intervention

    by M. Butler ...
    Butler sheds light on how American political leaders sell the decision to intervene with military force to the public and how a just war frame is employed in US foreign policy. He provides three post-Cold War examples of foreign policy crises: the Persian Gulf War (1990-91), Kosovo (1999), and Afghanistan (2001). ... Read more

    $49.99 USD