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“scott melzer”

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  • Gun Crusaders

    The NRA’s Culture War

    by Scott Melzer ...
    Gun Crusaders is a fascinating inside look at how the four-million member National Rifle Association and its committed members come to see each and every gun control threat as a step down the path towards gun confiscation, and eventually socialism. Enlivened by a rich analysis of NRA materials, meetings, leader speeches, and unique in-depth interviews with NRA members, Gun Crusaders focuses on how ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Manhood Impossible

    Men's Struggles to Control and Transform Their Bodies and Work

    by Scott Melzer ...
    In Manhood Impossible, Scott Melzer argues that boys’ and men’s bodies and breadwinner status are the two primary sites for their expression of control. Controlling selves and others, and resisting being dominated and controlled is most connected to men’s bodies and work. However, no man can live up to these culturally ascendant ideals of manhood. The strategies men use to manage unmet ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

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    How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the "Mexican Drug War"

    by Carmen Boullosa, Mike Wallace ...
    The term Mexican Drug War” misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair.But this diverts attention from the U.S. role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It’s not just that Americans buy drugs from, and sell weapons to, Mexico’s murderous cartels. It’s that ever since the U.S. prohibited the use and sale of drugs ... Read more

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  • Cartel

    The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars

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    Having followed Mexico's cartels for years, border security expert Sylvia Longmire takes us deep into the heart of their world to witness a dangerous underground that will do whatever it takes to deliver drugs to a willing audience of American consumers. The cartels have grown increasingly bold in recent years, building submarines to move up the coast of Central America and digging elaborate ... Read more

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  • The Modern Mercenary

    Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order

    by Sean McFate ...
    It was 2004, and Sean McFate had a mission in Burundi: to keep the president alive and prevent the country from spiraling into genocide, without anyone knowing that the United States was involved. The United States was, of course, involved, but only through McFate's employer, the military contractor DynCorp International. Throughout the world, similar scenarios are playing out daily. The United ... Read more

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  • A Dangerous Delusion

    Why the West is Wrong About Nuclear Iran

    by Peter Oborne, David Morrison ...
    The definitive case against military action in Iran, passionately argued and meticulously researchedIn 2013 it is possible that Israel, backed by the United States, will launch an attack on Iran. This would be a catastrophic event, risking war, bloodshed, and global economic collapse. In this passionate but rationally argued essay, the authors attempt to avert a potential global catastrophe by ... Read more

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  • Almighty

    Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age

    by Dan Zak ...
    ****A Washington Post "Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016"**ON A TRANQUIL SUMMER NIGHT** in July 2012, a trio of peace activists infiltrated the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Nicknamed the “Fort Knox of Uranium,” Y-12 was supposedly one of the most secure sites in the world, a bastion of warhead parts and hundreds of tons of highly enriched uranium—enough to power thousands ... Read more

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  • Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction

    by Joseph M. Siracusa ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bomb is still the biggest threat that faces us in the 21st century. As Bill Clinton's first secretary of defence, Les Aspin, aptly put it: 'The Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is no more. But the post-Cold War world is decidedly not post-nuclear'. For all the effort to reduce nuclear stockpiles to zero, it seems that the ... Read more

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  • Nuclear Multilateralism and Iran

    Inside EU Negotiations

    by Tarja Cronberg ...
    Drawing on the author’s personal experience, this book presents an insider’s chronology and policy analysis of the EU’s role in the nuclear negotiations with Iran.The European Union strives to be a global player, a “soft power” leader that can influence international politics and state behavior. Yet critics argue that the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) remains largely ineffective ... Read more

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  • Accidental Nuclear War

    Proceedings of the Eighteenth Pugwash Workshop on Nuclear Forces

    Edited by Derek Paul, Michael D. Intriligator, Paul Smoker ...
    This book constitutes the Proceedings of a meeting held in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, 18-20 July 1989, which was the eighteenth in a series of Workshops on Nuclear Forces held in the framework of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. This particular series of Workshops was initiated in January 1980, that is, immediately after the NATO double-track decision of December 1979 that in the ... Read more

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  • Hacking the Bomb

    Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons

    by Andrew Futter ...
    Are nuclear arsenals safe from cyber-attack? Could terrorists launch a nuclear weapon through hacking? Are we standing at the edge of a major technological challenge to global nuclear order? These are among the many pressing security questions addressed in Andrew Futter’s ground-breaking study of the cyber threat to nuclear weapons.Hacking the Bomb provides the first ever comprehensive assessment ... Read more

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  • North Korea, International Law and the Dual Crises

    Narrative and Constructive Engagement

    by Morse Tan ...
    The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has a reputation as one of the worst human rights situations in the world. This book utilizes a unique international law perspective to examine the actions and inactions of North Korea with regard to international security and human rights.Adopting political, military, historical and legal perspectives, the book explores how the two issues of ... Read more

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