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  • Why Don't the Poor Rise Up?

    Organizing the Twenty-First Century Resistance

    Edited by Ajamu Nangwaya, Michael Truscello ...
    From Trump to Black Lives Matter, from blockaded highways to police shootings, "rising up" is a clear fact of life that people want to understand.Poverty is on the rise, especially since the 2008 economic meltdown.Riots and urban insurrection are also on the rise, and getting increasingly more confrontational and intense.This book discusses the question of why the former hasn't lead to more of the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Infrastructural Brutalism

    Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure

    by Michael Truscello ...
    Series series Infrastructures
    How "drowned town" literature, road movies, energy landscape photography, and "death train" narratives represent the brutality of industrial infrastructures.In this book, Michael Truscello looks at the industrial infrastructure not as an invisible system of connectivity and mobility that keeps capitalism humming in the background but as a manufactured miasma of despair, toxicity, and death. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    No country in Asia in recent years has undergone so massive a political shift in so short a time as Myanmar. Until recently, the former British colony had one of the most secretive, corrupt, and repressive regimes on the planet, a country where Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was held in continual house arrest and human rights were denied to nearly all. Yet events in Myanmar since the ... Read more

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  • Brasil e as Nações Unidas - 70 anos, O

    by Paulo Roberto Campos Tarrisse da Fontoura (Org.), Maria Luisa Escorel de Moraes (Org.), Eduardo Uziel (Org.) ...
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  • State Building In Africa: A Comparative Study of South Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

    by Michael Brulotte ...
    With the impetus of industrialization and the eruption of global economies, the growing disparity between poor and wealthy nations has impelled political scientists to ask why some nations are caused to prosper and others doomed to fail. That is, to investigate what inherent or developed factors determine the political, economic, and social realities of the world. This paper will address the ... Read more

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  • Jerusalem: Correcting the International Discourse - How the West Gets Jerusalem Wrong

    by Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs ...
    There is no true division of Jerusalem into East and West. The division imposed by the Jordanian occupation for a brief period of 19 years is no longer possible in a city which has dramatically grown and changed over the last 44 years.270,000 Arabs and 200,000 Jews live in the mosaic of neighborhoods called "East Jerusalem." Arab and Jewish neighborhoods are often intermingled and the spillover of ... Read more

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  • Integrating Human Rights into Development, Second Edition

    Donor Approaches, Experiences, and Challenges

    by OECD, World Bank ...
    The past two decades have witnessed a convergence between human rights and development, particularly at the level of international political statements and policy commitments. This phenomenon is captured in milestones such as the 2007 OECD DAC Action Oriented Policy Paper on Human Rights and Development (“AOPP”), the 2010 UN World Summit Outcome Document, the commitments of the 2005 and 2011 High ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Understanding Russian Politics

    by Stephen White ...
    A fresh and compelling interpretation of Russian politics by a leading authority, this textbook focuses on political developments in the world's largest country under Putin and Medvedev. Using a wealth of primary sources, it covers economic, social and foreign policy, and the 'system' of politics that has developed in recent years. Opposing arguments are presented and students are encouraged to ... Read more

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  • Refugee Nation - A Radical Solution to the Global Refugee Crisis

    by Jason Buzi ...
    Only 5% of the 60 million refugees and displaced people around the world find a permanent home each year. Once someone is forced to leave their home, they are 50 times more likely to be trafficked, sexually assaulted, or die than settle in a safe and sustainable place. Despite the ever increasing humanitarian efforts to address their needs, the status quo is no longer acceptable. We propose a bold ... Read more

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  • International Cultural Relations

    by J. M. Mitchell ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: International Relations
    This book, originally published in 1986, analyses and describes the significance of cultural relations in international affairs. It traces the beginnings of cultural relations in the 19th century and their evolution. Consideration is given to the nature and organization of global ‘cultural diplomacy’, with a particular focus on France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the USA. This book will be of ... Read more

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  • China's Security State

    Philosophy, Evolution, and Politics

    by Xuezhi Guo ...
    China's Security State describes the creation, evolution, and development of Chinese security and intelligence agencies as well as their role in influencing Chinese Communist Party politics throughout the party's history. Xuezhi Guo investigates patterns of leadership politics from the vantage point of security and intelligence organization and operation by providing new evidence and offering ... Read more

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  • The No-Nonsense Guide to World Health

    by Shereen Usdin ...
    Series series No-Nonsense Guides
    A clear yet wide-ranging introduction to the state of health worldwide, exploring the ways in which health provision is often determined by ethnicity, class, and gender. Starting with a brief history of medical progress, this guide delves into current politics of health in the contexts of big business and private health provision, media, gender, and the environment.Shereen Usdin is a medical ... Read more

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