Télécharger le livre :  Wars of Revelation
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Wars of Revelation


Rebecca Lissner


Rich in historical detail and theoretical insight, Wars of Revelation explains why the United States' military interventions have repeatedly transformed its global role - and what that means for the future of American grand strategy. More than seventy-five years since...

Parution : 2021-10-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The Building and Breaking of Peace
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The Building and Breaking of Peace


Molly M. Melin


Private corporations are rarely discussed as playing a role in efforts to curb civil violence, even though they often have strong interests in maintaining stability. Violence often damages the infrastructure necessary to deliver goods to market or may directly target...

Parution : 2021-08-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Promoting Justice Across Borders
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Promoting Justice Across Borders


Lucia M. Rafanelli


Global political actors, from states and NGOs to activist groups and individuals, exert influence in societies beyond their own in myriad ways--including via public criticism, consumer boycotts, divestment campaigns, sanctions, and forceful intervention. Often, they do...

Parution : 2021-07-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Four Internets
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Four Internets


Wendy Hall , Kieron O'hara


The Internet has become a staple of modern civilized life, now as vital a utility as electricity. But despite its growing influence, the Internet isn't as stable as it might seem; rather, it can be best thought of as a network of networks reliant on developing technical...

Parution : 2021-06-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Feminist Global Health Security
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Feminist Global Health Security


Clare Wenham


When Zika made headlines in 2016, images of women cradling babies affected with microcephaly spread across the media and pulled on heartstrings. But, as this book argues, whilst this outbreak was about women and babies, this outbreak also highlighted the lack of...

Parution : 2021-04-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Abundance
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Abundance


Pablo J. Boczkowski


Information overload is something that humans have dealt with for millennia. During different historical eras, massive increases in what was available to know has motivated the creation of systems for sorting, indexing, and compiling information as well as concerns that...

Parution : 2021-04-16
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Télécharger le livre :  The Middle Way
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The Middle Way


Derek Chollet


A portrait of the effectiveness of moderation in US foreign policy, as illustrated by three of America's most consequential and widely-admired postwar presidents: Dwight Eisenhower, George H.W. Bush, and Barack Obama. When thinking about Americaâs role in the world,...

Parution : 2020-12-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Beyond Reason
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Beyond Reason


Sanjay Seth


The knowledge disseminated by universities and mobilized by states to govern populations has been globally dominant for more than a century. It first emerged in the early modern period in Europe and subsequently became globalized through colonialism. Despite the...

Parution : 2020-12-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Birth of the State
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Birth of the State


Charlotte Epstein


This book uses the body to peel back the layers of time and taken-for-granted ideas about the two defining political forms of modernity, the state and the subject of rights. It traces, under the lens of the body, how the state and the subject mutually constituted each...

Parution : 2020-12-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Lethal Autonomous Weapons
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Lethal Autonomous Weapons


Jai Galliott , Duncan Macintosh , Jens David Ohlin


The question of whether new rules or regulations are required to govern, restrict, or even prohibit the use of autonomous weapon systems has been the subject of debate for the better part of a decade. Despite the claims of advocacy groups, the way ahead remains unclear...

Parution : 2020-11-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Bearing Witness While Black
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Bearing Witness While Black


Allissa V. Richardson


Bearing Witness While Black tells the story of this century's most powerful Black social movement through the eyes of 15 activists who documented it. At the height of the Black Lives Matter uprisings, African Americans filmed and tweeted evidence of fatal police...

Parution : 2020-05-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Gun Debate
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The Gun Debate


Philip J. Cook , Kristin A. Goss


No topic is more polarizing than guns and gun control. From a gun culture that took root early in American history to the mass shootings that repeatedly bring the public discussion of gun control to a fever pitch, the topic has preoccupied citizens, public officials,...

Parution : 2020-04-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Orders of Exclusion
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Orders of Exclusion


Kyle M. Lascurettes


When and why do powerful countries seek to enact major changes to international order, the broad set of rules that guide behavior in world politics? This question is particularly important today given the Trump administration's clear disregard for the reigning liberal...

Parution : 2020-03-31
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Télécharger le livre :  The Return of Great Power Rivalry
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The Return of Great Power Rivalry


Matthew Kroenig


The United States of America has been the most powerful country in the world for over seventy years, but recently the U.S. National Security Strategy declared that the return of great power competition with Russia and China is the greatest threat to U.S. national...

Parution : 2020-02-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Imperialism and the Developing World
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Imperialism and the Developing World


Atul Kohli


How did Western imperialism shape the developing world? Atul Kohli tackles that question by analyzing British and American influence on Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America from the age of the British East India Company to the most recent U.S. war in...

Parution : 2019-12-31
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Télécharger le livre :  The Humble Cosmopolitan
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The Humble Cosmopolitan


Luis Cabrera


Is a strong cosmopolitan stance irretrievably arrogant? Cosmopolitanism, which affirms universal moral principles and grants no fundamental moral significance to the state, has become increasingly central to normative political theory. Yet, it has faced persistent...

Parution : 2019-12-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Terrorists as Monsters
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Terrorists as Monsters


Marco Pinfari


From the chilling threats of the "ISIS vampire" to the view of al-Qaeda as the "Frankenstein the CIA created," terrorism seems to be inextricably bound with monstrosity. But why do the media and government officials often portray terrorists as monsters? And perhaps more...

Parution : 2019-11-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Can Big Bird Fight Terrorism?
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Can Big Bird Fight Terrorism?


Naomi A. Moland


Sesame Street has taught generations of Americans their letters and numbers, and also how to better understand and get along with people of different races, faiths, ethnicities, and temperaments. But the show has a global reach as well, with more than thirty...

Parution : 2019-10-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Sharing the Burden
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Sharing the Burden


Charlie Laderman


The destruction of the Armenian community in the Ottoman Empire was an unprecedented tragedy. Even amidst the horrors of the First World War, Theodore Roosevelt insisted that it was the greatest crime of the conflict.The wartime mass killing of approximately one million...

Parution : 2019-09-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Durable Ethnicity
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Durable Ethnicity


Christina A. Sue , Edward Telles


Mexican Americans are unique in the panoply of American ethno-racial groups in that they are the descendants of the largest and longest lasting immigration stream in US history. Today, there are approximately 24 million Americans ofMexican descent living in the United...

Parution : 2019-07-25
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