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  • Coalition Challenges in Afghanistan

    The Politics of Alliance

    Edited by Gale A. Mattox, Stephen M. Grenier ...
    This book examines the experiences of a range of countries in the conflict in Afghanistan, with particular focus on the demands of operating within a diverse coalition of states. After laying out the challenges of the Afghan conflict in terms of objectives, strategy, and mission, case studies of 15 coalition members—each written by a country expert—discuss each country's motivation for joining the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Precarity and Ageing

    Understanding Insecurity and Risk in Later Life

    by Baozhen Luo, Larry Polivka, Michael D Fine, Elena Portacolone, Mushira Mohsin Khan, Karen Kobayashi, Sarah Vickerstaff, Wendy Loretto, Laura Airey, David Lain, Amanda Grenier0, Stephen Katz2 ...
    Series series Ageing in a Global Context
    What risks and insecurities do older people face in a time of both increased longevity and widening inequality?This edited collection develops an exciting new approach to understanding the changing cultural, economic and social circumstances facing different groups of older people. Exploring a range of topics, the chapters provide a critical review of the concept of precarity, highlighting the ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

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  • No Easy Task

    Fighting in Afghanistan

    Edited by Colonel Bernd Horn, Dr. Emily Spencer ...
    Afghanistan has long been considered the graveyard of empires. Throughout their history, Afghans have endured the ravages of foreign invaders, from marauding hordes and imperial armies to global superpowers, while demonstrating a fierce independence and strong resistance to outside occupiers. Those who have ventured into Afghanistan with notions of controlling its people have soon discovered that ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • South Sudan

    The Untold Story from Independence to Civil War

    by Hilde F. Johnson ...
    In July 2011, South Sudan was granted independence and became the world's newest country. Yet just two-and-a-half years after this momentous decision, the country was in the grips of renewed civil war and political strife. Hilde F. Johnson served as Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan from July 2011 until July 2014 ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Slouching Towards Sirte

    NATO's War on Libya and Africa

    by Maximilian Forte ...
    NATO’s war in Libya was proclaimed as a humanitarian intervention—bombing in the name of “saving lives.” Attempts at diplomacy were stifled. Peace talks were subverted. Libya was barred from representing itself at the UN, where shadowy NGOs and “human rights” groups held full sway in propagating exaggerations, outright falsehoods, and racial fear mongering that served to sanction atrocities and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canada in Afghanistan

    The War So Far

    by Peter Pigott ...
    It has been said that Canada is a country with too much geography and too little history. Afghanistan has too much of both. As the war escalates in Afghanistan, more Canadians are asking what we are doing there. For a country that has specialized in peacekeeping, this war is a shock one that we have not yet comprehended. As the casualties mount, Canadians will want to know why we are there.Canada ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Root Causes of the United Nations’ Failure in Somalia

    The Role of Neighboring Countries in the Somali Crisis

    by Othman O. Mahmood ...
    When the Somali crisis broke out in the 1990s and the Somali central government collapsed, the United Nations made several attempts to mediate the conflicting parties. The crisis reached its highest climax, leading to the successful US-led Operation Restore Hope. Unfortunately, when the leadership of the operation was transferred to the United Nations, the UN-led intervention failed miserably ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath

    Edited by Peter Cole, Brian McQuinn ...
    This book offers a novel, incisive and wide-ranging account of Libya's '17 February Revolution' by tracing how critical towns, communities and political groups helped to shape its course. Each community, whether geographical (e.g. Misrata, Zintan), tribal/communal (e.g. Beni Walid) or political (e.g. the Muslim Brotherhood) took its own path into the uprisings and subsequent conflict of 2011, ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Illegal War on Libya

    by Cynthia McKinney ...
    In 2011, former Congresswoman and 2008 Green Party candidate for President, Cynthia McKinney, took a delegation of observers to Libya to monitor NATO�s purported humanitarian intervention. Prefaced by Ramsey Clark, this collection of essays includes scholarly and legal analysis, as well as personal accounts by witnesses to the NATO assault on a helpless civilian population it had a UN mandate to ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Ledger

    Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan

    by David Kilcullen, Greg Mills ...
    'These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world,' said Charlie Wilson, of America's role backing the anti-Soviet mujahideen. 'And then we fucked up the endgame.' With no support for Afghanistan after that war, the vacuum was filled by the Taliban and bin Laden. The Ledger assesses the West's similarly failed approach to Afghanistan after 9/11-in military, diplomatic, ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Restraint

    A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy

    by Barry R. Posen ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    The United States, Barry R. Posen argues in Restraint**, has grown incapable of moderating its ambitions in international politics.** Since the collapse of Soviet power, it has pursued a grand strategy that he calls "liberal hegemony," one that Posen sees as unnecessary, counterproductive, costly, and wasteful. Written for policymakers and observers alike, Restraint explains precisely why this ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • NATO in Afghanistan

    Fighting Together, Fighting Alone

    by David P. Auerswald, Stephen M. Saideman ...
    Modern warfare is almost always multilateral to one degree or another, requiring countries to cooperate as allies or coalition partners. Yet as the war in Afghanistan has made abundantly clear, multilateral cooperation is neither straightforward nor guaranteed. Countries differ significantly in what they are willing to do and how and where they are willing to do it. Some refuse to participate in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus