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  • Home: A Life in Pursuit of the Human Right to Adequate Housing for Everyone, Everywhere

    by Scott Leckie ...
    This deeply honest and optimistic memoir is told through stories chronicling the personal transformation and frenetic journey of a blond-haired California beach boy into his emergence as an unorthodox international human rights renegade. It charts the unlikely evolution of a rather clueless American kid into a fighter for the rights of poor and vulnerable who worked for justice in more than 80 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Killionaire

    The Pacifica Series, #1

    by Scott Leckie ...
    Series Book 1 - The Pacifica Series
    Five Billionaires. One Planet. No Mercy.Five billionaires built their fortunes on social media manipulation, toxic mining, deadly weapons, tainted drinks, and the destruction of the world's last forests. Together, they became "Los Cincos" — the most dangerous men alive, symbols of a global elite willing to sacrifice the planet for profit.And then they vanished.As the world hunts for answers, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shrewd Little Sleuth

    by Scott Leckie ...
    "Leckie is one of our most outstanding agents. It is men like he that have made the organization what it is today".--J. Edgar Hoover (1939)" ... mince no words with Leckie. Let him have it."--J. Edgar Hoover (1940)Something went terribly wrong. In just one year, Hoover's praise turned to condemnation. What triggered the FBI director's sudden shift, from close ally to alleged adversary? Despite his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Before a Democracy Died

    Housing, Land and Property Rights in Myanmar

    by Scott Leckie, José María Arraiza ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume is a collection of chapters based on work within Myanmar by the authors between 2009 and 2021 while working to improve housing, land and property rights for the population. Despite the extensive application and political uptake of their work throughout the country during the brief democratic reform period of 2011-2021, and measurable progress being made, their work and that of the ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Housing, Land and Property Rights

    Residential Justice, Conflict Zones and Climate Change

    by Scott Leckie ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
    This book explores various contemporary aspects of the growing field of housing, land and property (HLP) rights. HLP rights have undergone a major transformation in recent decades, but much remains to be done to bring their promise to the billions of people who have yet to access them. This work presents several innovative ways by which the entire field of HLP rights can be strengthened in support ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Repairing Domestic Climate Displacement

    The Peninsula Principles

    Edited by Scott Leckie, Chris Huggins ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development, Displacement and Resettlement
    Climate change, sometimes thought of as a problem for the future, is already impacting people’s lives around the world: families are losing their homes, lands and livelihoods as a result of sea level rise, increased frequency and intensity of storms, drought and other phenomena. Following several years of preparatory work across the globe, legal scholars, judges, UN officials and climate change ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Land Solutions for Climate Displacement

    Edited by Scott Leckie ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development, Displacement and Resettlement
    The threat of climate displacement looms large over a growing number of countries. Based on the more than six years of work by Displacement Solutions in ten climate-affected countries, academic work on displacement and climate adaptation, and the country-level efforts of civil society groups in several frontline countries, this report explores the key contention that land will be at the core of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Conflict and Housing, Land and Property Rights

    A Handbook on Issues, Frameworks and Solutions

    by Chris Huggins, Scott Leckie ...
    Housing, land and property (HLP) rights, as rights, are widely recognized throughout international human rights and humanitarian law and provide a clear and consistent legal normative framework for developing better approaches to the HLP challenges faced by the UN and others seeking to build long-term peace. This book analyses the ubiquitous HLP challenges present in all conflict and post-conflict ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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    Challenges, Opportunities and Critical Interventions

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    Series series Africa Now
    In recent years, China and India have become the most important economic partners of Africa and their footprints are growing by leaps and bounds, transforming Africa's international relations in a dramatic way. Although the overall impact of China and India's engagement in Africa has been positive in the short-term, partly as a result of higher returns from commodity exports fuelled by excessive ... Read more

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  • State Capitalism

    How the Return of Statism is Transforming the World

    by Joshua Kurlantzick ...
    The end of the Cold War ushered in an age of American triumphalism best characterized by the "Washington Consensus:" the idea that free markets, democratic institutions, limitations on government involvement in the economy, and the rule of law were the foundations of prosperity and stability. The last fifteen years, starting with the Asian financial crisis, have seen the gradual erosion of that ... Read more

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  • The New Economic Diplomacy

    Decision-Making and Negotiation in International Economic Relations

    Edited by Nicholas Bayne, Stephen Woolcock ...
    Series series Global Governance
    The New Economic Diplomacy explains how states conduct their external economic relations in the 21st century: how they make decisions domestically, how they negotiate internationally and how these processes interact. Although the previous edition, published in 2011, was able to reflect the impact of the financial crisis and the immediate reaction to it, a lot has happened since then, and the ... Read more

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  • Industrialization and Development in the Third World

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