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Télécharger le livre :  On the Frontlines
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On the Frontlines


Naomi Cahn , Dina Francesca Haynes , Fionnuala Ní Aoláin


Gender oppression has been a feature of war and conflict throughout human history, yet until fairly recently, little attention was devoted to addressing the consequences of violence and discrimination experienced by women in post-conflict states. Thankfully, that is...

Parution : 2011-11-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Uniting States
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Uniting States


Joseph M. Parent


What causes a state to unify voluntarily with another state? If realists are right, voluntary union should never happen. In their view, states value their sovereignty above all else and would never give it up without a fight. Yet the United States and Switzerland are...

Parution : 2011-08-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Legality and Legitimacy in Global Affairs
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Télécharger le livre :  A High Price
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A High Price


Daniel Byman


The product of painstaking research and countless interviews, A High Price offers a nuanced, definitive historical account of Israel's bold but often failed efforts to fight terrorist groups. Beginning with the violent border disputes that emerged after Israel's...

Parution : 2011-06-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Globalization and the National Security State
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Globalization and the National Security State


T.V. Paul , Norrin M. Ripsman


In the past two decades, many have posited a correlation between the spread of globalization and the decline of the nation-state.In the realm of national security, advocates of the globalization thesis have argued that states' power has diminished relative to...

Parution : 2010-03-18
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Télécharger le livre :  After Khomeini
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After Khomeini


Said Amir Arjomand


For many Americans, Iran is our most dangerous enemy--part of George W. Bush's "axis of evil" even before the appearance of Ahmadinejad. But what is the reality? How did Ahmadinejad rise to power, and how much power does he really have? What are the chances of...

Parution : 2009-11-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Guardians of the Revolution
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Guardians of the Revolution


Ray Takeyh


For over a quarter century, Iran has been one of America's chief nemeses. Ever since Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah in 1979, the relationship between the two nations has been antagonistic: revolutionary guards chanting against the Great Satan, Bush fulminating...

Parution : 2009-05-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Living the Policy Process
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Living the Policy Process


Philip B. Heymann


Policymaking in large bureaucracies is hardly a simple process. Even the most respected policymakers have to contend with obstacles that seemingly have little to do with the issue at hand--office politics, work structure, and shifting political environments. Yet...

Parution : 2008-04-02
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Télécharger le livre :  A Legal Geography of Yugoslavia's Disintegration
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A Legal Geography of Yugoslavia's Disintegration


Ana S. Trbovich


A Legal Geography of Yugoslavia's Disintegration explains the violent break-up of the former Yugoslavia in early 1990s in the context of two legal principles- sovereignty and the self-determination of peoples. The author recounts Yugoslavia's history, with a focus on...

Parution : 2008-02-05
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Télécharger le livre :  The Shield and the Cloak
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The Shield and the Cloak


Gary Hart


Gary Hart has long been one of the nation's foremost experts on national security, combining a deep knowledge of national security policy with first-hand experience of the political realities that influence how America safeguards itself and its interests. In his new...

Parution : 2006-02-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Religion in Global Civil Society
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Religion in Global Civil Society


Mark Juergensmeyer


The extraordinary changes in world society at the beginning of the 21st century have involved religion to a degree that would have amazed earlier observers of modernity. Within the past decade religion has been associated with some of the world's most strident forms of...

Parution : 2005-11-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Limits of International Law
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The Limits of International Law


Jack L. Goldsmith , Eric A. Posner


International law is much debated and discussed, but poorly understood. Does international law matter, or do states regularly violate it with impunity? If international law is of no importance, then why do states devote so much energy to negotiating treaties and...

Parution : 2005-02-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Torture
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Torture


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...

Parution : 2004-10-28
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Télécharger le livre :  The Flawed Architect
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The Flawed Architect


Jussi M. Hanhimaki


Henry Kissinger dominated American foreign relations like no other figure in recent history. He negotiated an end to American involvement in the Vietnam War, opened relations with Communist China, and orchestrated détente with the Soviet Union. Yet he is also the man...

Parution : 2004-09-09
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Télécharger le livre :  The Fourth Power
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The Fourth Power


Gary Hart


Today, even as America asserts itself globally, it lacks a grand strategy to replace "containment of communism." In this short, sharp book, Gary Hart outlines a new grand strategy, one directing America's powers to the achievement of its large purposes. Central to...

Parution : 2004-07-15
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Télécharger le livre :  The Paradox of American Power
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The Paradox of American Power


Joseph S. Nye


Not since the Roman Empire has any nation had as much economic, cultural, and military power as the United States does today. Yet, as has become all too evident through the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the impending threat of the acquisition of nuclear...

Parution : 2003-05-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Legal Rules and International Society
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Legal Rules and International Society


Anthony Clark Arend


This book provides an interdisciplinary examination of international law by addressing four critical questions: How are international legal rules distinctive? How does an investigator determine the existence of a rule of international law? Does international law really...

Parution : 1999-09-09
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Télécharger le livre :  How Nations Grow Rich
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How Nations Grow Rich


Melvyn Krauss


There can be no doubt, writes economist Melvyn Krauss, that the prosperity of the industrial nations since the Second World War has been due largely to global specialization and interdependence. No one country does all tasks today -- products are designed in one...

Parution : 1997-05-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Beyond Charity
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Beyond Charity


Gil Loescher


With more than 18 million refugees worldwide, the refugee problem has fostered an intense debate regarding what political changes are necessary in the international system to provide effective solutions in the 1990s and beyond. In the past, refugees have been perceived...

Parution : 1996-08-08
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Télécharger le livre :  The United States and the State of Israel
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The United States and the State of Israel


David Schoenbaum


Schoenbaum's book is a history of one of the most remarkable liaisons in international experience, a portrait of the special relationship between the last remaining superpower and the tiny Jewish state between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, and a study of how that...

Parution : 1993-03-11
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