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  • Sowing the West Texas Wind

    Misinformation Causes, Consequences, and Interventions

    de Robert Moses Peaslee, Erik P Bucy, Katharine Hayhoe, Kenton T Wilkinson, Lucinda Holt, Lyombe Eko, Ori Swed, Brie D Sherwin ...
    In an era defined by information overload and polarized discourse, Sowing the West Texas Wind brings together a diverse array of scholars, scientists, journalists, and legal experts to examine the rise of misinformation and its real-world impacts. The scope goes from the deeply local to the national and global to understand how trust is won and lost. With a focus on the last decade’s most defining ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Terrorism Inside America's Borders

    de Ashraf Esmail, Lisa A. Eargle, Tharinia Dukes Robinson, George Amedee, Jessica Burke, Connor Chapman, DeMond Shondell Miller, Ori Swed, Andrew P. Davis0, Brandon Hamann1, Nia Nicks3, Brendan Moore4, Syed Adeel Ahmed5, Shatiqua Mosby Wilson6, Shyamal Das7, Kathy Franklin8, Selina Kerr9, Mary Ann Markey0, Julius Trimble1, Komanduri S. Murty2, Compreca Martin3, Tara D. Miller4, Jessica M. Doucet5, Sandra Speer6, Anita D. Bledsoe-Gardner7, Nicola Davis Bivens8, Gregory J. Harris9, Perry Lyle0 ...
    Using the insights provided by criminology, sociology, psychology, and other disciplines, Terrorism Inside America’s Borders delivers a multi-faceted examination of the issues associated with domestic terrorism. Some of the issues explored include the similarities and differences between terrorism and other criminal activities, the roles that social institutions and social processes play in the ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • The Sociology of Privatized Security

    Edición de Ori Swed, Thomas Crosbie ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The first book dedicated to the sociology of privatized security, this collection studies the important global trend of shifting security from public to private hands and the associated rise of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) and their contractors. The volume first explores the trend itself, making important historical and theoretical revisions to the existing social science of ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

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  • State Building

    Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

    de Francis Fukuyama ...
    Weak or failed states - where no government is in control - are the source of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to terrorism. What can be done to help? The problem of weak states and the need for state-building has existed for many years, but it has been urgent since September 11 and Afghanistan and Iraq.The formation of proper public institutions, such as an ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Peaceland

    Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention

    de Séverine Autesserre ...
    Series series Problems of International Politics
    This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones around the world, it demonstrates that everyday elements - such as the expatriates' social habits and usual approaches to understanding their areas of operation - strongly influence peacebuilding effectiveness. ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Think Tanks in America

    de Thomas Medvetz ...
    A revealing look at the rise of these influential institutions, and the effect they've had on the United States.Think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policy makers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill, and convenient facts and figures to journalists and media specialists. But what are think tanks? Who funds them? What kind of research do they ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Women and Wars

    Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures

    Edición de Carol Cohn ...
    Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to be seen. With few exceptions, war stories are told as if men were the only ones who plan, fight, are injured by, and negotiate ends to wars. As the pages of this book tell, though, those accounts are far from complete. Women can be found at every turn in the ... Leer más

    $22.00 USD

  • The Deadly Life of Logistics

    Mapping Violence in Global Trade

    de Deborah Cowen ...
    In a world in which global trade is at risk, where warehouses and airports, shipping lanes and seaports try to guard against the likes of Al Qaeda and Somali pirates, and natural disaster can disrupt the flow of goods, even our “stuff” has a political life. The high stakes of logistics are not surprising, Deborah Cowen reveals, if we understand its genesis in war.In The Deadly Life of Logistics, ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Harper Factor

    Assessing a Prime Minister's Policy Legacy

    Edición de Jennifer Ditchburn, Graham Fox ...
    Political legacy is a concept that is often tossed around casually, hastily defined by commentators long before a prime minister leaves office. In the case of the polarizing Stephen Harper, clear-eyed analysis of his tenure is hard to come by. The Harper Factor offers a refreshingly balanced look at the Conservative decade under his leadership.What impact did Harper have on the nation’s finances, ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Policy Analysis in Canada

    Edición de Laurent Dobuzinskis, Michael Howlett, David Laycock ...
    Series series IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance
    The growth of what some academics refer to as 'the policy analysis movement' represents an effort to reform certain aspects of government behaviour. The policy analysis movement is the result of efforts made by actors inside and outside formal political decision-making processes to improve policy outcomes by applying systematic evaluative rationality to the development and implementation of policy ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • The Fifth Estate

    Think Tanks, Public Policy, and Governance

    de James G. McGann ...
    What role do think tanks play in shaping public policy and public discourse in the United States?In The Fifth Estate: Think Tanks, Public Policy, and Governance, James G. McGann illustrates how policymakers have come to value the independent analysis and advice provided by think tanks and why it has become one of the defining characteristics of the American political system. Drawing on case ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Humanitarian Business

    de Thomas G. Weiss ...
    With some 50 million people living under duress and threatened by wars and disasters in 2012, the demand for relief worldwide has reached unprecedented levels. Humanitarianism is now a multi-billion dollar enterprise, and aid agencies are obliged to respond to a range of economic forces in order to 'stay in business'.In his customarily hard-hitting analysis, Thomas G. Weiss offers penetrating ... Leer más

    $22.00 USD