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  • The Good Drone

    Series series Emerging Technologies, Ethics and International Affairs
    While the military use of drones has been the subject of much scrutiny, the use of drones for humanitarian purposes has so far received little attention. As the starting point for this study, it is argued that the prospect of using drones for humanitarian and other life-saving activities has produced an alternative discourse on drones, dedicated to developing and publicizing the endless ... Leer más

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  • Hard Measures

    How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives

    As seen on 60 MinutesA New York Times bestselling, explosive memoir about the creation and implementation of the controversial enhanced interrogation techniques by the former Chief Operations Officer for the CIA’s Center for Counterterrorism.Former Chief of the CIA’s Center for Counterterrorism, Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr., reveals how, in the wake of 9/11, government-approved hard measures used on ... Leer más

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  • The New Cold War

    Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West

    de Edward Lucas ...
    The first edition of The New Cold War was published to great critical acclaim and Edward Lucas has established himself as a top expert in the field, appearing on numerous programs, including Lou Dobbs, MSNBC, NBC Nightly News, CNN, and NPR.In this new revised and updated edition for 2009, Lucas reveals:-The truth about the corrupt elections that made Dmitri Medvedev President of Russia-How, as ... Leer más

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  • The Politics of the Veil

    Series series The Public Square
    In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds France's values of secular liberalism and regard the headscarf as symbolic of Islam's resistance to modernity. The Politics of the Veil is an ... Leer más

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  • The People vs. Democracy

    Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It

    de Yascha Mounk ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice“Everyone worried about the state of contemporary politics should read this book.”—Anne-Marie Slaughter“A trenchant survey from 1989, with its democratic euphoria, to the current map of autocratic striving.”—David Remnick, New YorkerThe world is in turmoil. From Russia and Turkey across Europe to the United States, authoritarian populists ha... ... Leer más

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  • Nuclear Nightmares

    Securing the World Before It Is Too Late

    There is a high risk that someone will use, by accident or design, one or more of the 17,000 nuclear weapons in the world today. Many thought such threats ended with the Cold War or that current policies can prevent or contain nuclear disaster. They are dead wrong—these weapons, possessed by states large and small, stable and unstable, remain an ongoing nightmare.Joseph Cirincione surveys the best ... Leer más

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  • Off the Record

    The Press, the Government, and the War over Anonymous Sources

    When Norman Pearlstine—as editor in chief of Time Inc.—agreed to give prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald a reporter's notes of a conversation with a "confidential source," he was vilified for betraying the freedom of the press. But in this hard-hitting inside story, Pearlstine shows that "Plamegate" was not the clear case it seemed to be—and that confidentiality has become a weapon in the White House's ... Leer más

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  • Torture

    A Collection

    Edición de Sanford Levinson ...
    Torture is perhaps the most unequivocally banned practice in the world today. Yet within six weeks after September 11, articles began appearing suggesting that torture might be "required" in order to interrogate suspected terrorists about future possibilities of violence. The United States and some of its allies are using methods of questioning relating to the war on terrorism that could be ... Leer más

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  • The Politics of Evangelical Identity

    Local Churches and Partisan Divides in the United States and Canada

    de Lydia Bean ...
    A comparative look at evangelical churches across the U.S.-Canada border that reveals deep political differencesIt is now a common refrain among liberals that Christian Right pastors and television pundits have hijacked evangelical Christianity for partisan gain. The Politics of Evangelical Identity challenges this notion, arguing that the hijacking metaphor paints a fundamentally distorted ... Leer más

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  • Naija Marxisms

    Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria

    de Adam Mayer ...
    Since the 1940s, Marxist thought has blossomed in Nigeria. The history of 'Naija Marxism' is also that of the country's labour movement, its feminist movement, its social thought and political economy. It has been the mainstay of party politics in the case of illegal Marxist party formations and legal anti-feudalist forces and in the NGO sector. Long gone are the days when Marxism meant imported ... Leer más

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  • Peace and Conflict in Africa

    Edición de David Francis ...
    Nowhere in the world is the demand for peace more prominent and challenging than in Africa. From state collapse and anarchy in Somalia to protracted wars and rampant corruption in the Congo; from bloody civil wars and extreme poverty in Sierra Leone to humanitarian crisis and authoritarianism in Sudan, the continent is the focus of growing political and media attention.This book presents the first ... Leer más

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  • Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution

    Debating Peace in Northern Ireland

    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    This book offers new insights into the close relationship between political discourses and conflict resolution through critical analysis of the role of discursive change in a peace process.Just as a peace process has many dimensions and stakeholders, so the discourses considered here come from a wide range of sources and actors. The book contains in-depth analyses of official discourses used to ... Leer más

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