Failed States

Reducere. Addresses the proliferation of failed states across the world and our inability to stabilise them. 'Everything this book advocates makes sense' Max...

This book aims at the unquestioned colloquial use of the term 'failed states' and its idea that they are now the primary threat to international pe...

Reducere. Despite winning control of twenty-four new state governments since 1992, Republicans have failed to enact policies that substantially advance conse...

Reducere. The daughter of a murdered physician vows to protect the magical Oddity he left behind in an alternate nineteenth century where a failed Louisiana ...

How the case to abolish conflict failed and heralded the era of 'forever wars'.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Samuel MoynNumber of pages: 416Publ...

Reducere. Failed Crusade is a deeply informed and passionate call for a fundamentally different American-Russian relationship in the post-Yeltsin era. Author...

Reducere. What went wrong in Vietnam? Michael Lind casts new light on one of the most contentious episodes in American history in this controversial bestsell...

Reducere. Year 501 definitively shows how the United States developed into the world's most implacable and powerful empire. Analyzing Haiti, Latin America, C...

This book compares the dimensions of state strength characterised by community, society, and nation. By exploring factors related to social cohesio...

Reducere. From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state fail...

Reducere. Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the inte...

Reducere. Francis Fukuyama famously predicted "the end of history" with the ascendancy of liberal democracy and global capitalism. The topic of his latest bo...

Franck Gaudichaud, Massimo Modonesi, and Jeffery R. Webber explore the Latin American Pink Tide as a political, economic, and cultural phenomenon, ...

Examining the aftermath of the Arab Spring, this book explores the Spring not as a series of failed revolutions but as successful counter-revolutio...

Reducere. For centuries, dictators ruled Russia. Tsars and Communist Party chiefs were in charge for so long some analysts claimed Russians had a cultural pr...

Publisher: 1517 MediaAuthor(s): Cyril OrjiNumber of pages: 259Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 237 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farme...

The Haitian Revolution, the product of the first successful slave revolt, was truly world-historic in its impact. When Haiti declared independence ...

A Christian Science Monitor best book of 2020 Relentlessly accessible. . . . This is that rare history that tells what influential thinkers failed ...

In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable...

DescriptionFrom World War I until today, the United States has failed to provide adequate transition support to millions of veterans leaving milita...

Reducere. Every single branch of the United States government, regardless of the party in control, has failed us and has failed its duty to uphold the Consti...

The chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix's Ugly Delicious gets uncomfortably real in his debut memoir. In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in a...

Reducere. From the flight deck of a Boeing 767, airline captain Philip Marshall pulls back the veil of deception surrounding the 911 attacks. In gripping, au...

Reducere. DescriptionWhile exceptionalism is not unique to America, the intensity of this conviction and its global ramifications are. This has led the US to...

In Man and Nature, first published in 1864, polymath scholar and diplomat George Perkins Marsh challenged the general belief that human impact on n...

Reducere. New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro's new novel asks how close are we to our country's collapse--and will we be able to stop it once it b...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Don OberdorferAuthor: Robert CarlinAn acclaimed history of the Korean Peninsula from World War II to the present day North ...

Reducere. A brilliant, shattering, and convincing account of United States-backed suppression of political and human rights in Latin America, Asia, and Afric...

DescriptionOver fifty years ago sociologist T. H. Marshall first opened the modern debate about the evolution of full citizenship in modern nation-...

Reducere. The United States' approach to China since the Communist regime in Beijing began the period of reform and opening in the 1980s was based on a promi...

Reducere. This volume offers the most complete English translation to date of the prose and poetry of José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803; d. Mexico, 1839), fo...

Warfare in the twenty-first century goes well beyond conventional armies and nation-states. In a world of diffuse conflicts taking place across spr...

Reducere. Lithuanian born anarchist Emma Goldman emigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. She first became attracted to anarchism following the ...

Reducere. The Iron Heel (1907) is a novel by American writer Jack London. A groundbreaking work of dystopian science fiction, The Iron Heel was inspired by L...

Reducere. A perceptive and provocative history of Henry Kissinger's diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East that illuminates the unique challenges and bar...

Reducere. Will there be peace? Will there be war? Find out with Mundane Astrology. Here, in one volume, are three classic books on the astrology of nations a...

DescriptionJapan 1944-45 examines the only time in history that a major war was ended by the use of air power. It shows how the United States used ...

In 2015, two convicted murderers escaped from maximum security Clinton Prison in Dannemora, New York. After three weeks on the run, one inmate was ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot--and illegal--forays into Mexico, C...

Reducere. In the midst of this once-in-a-century public health crisis, the United States was almost toppled from within by one of the two national political ...

Reducere. What does the Bible say about Sex?It is not an exaggeration to say that there is no single subject that influences people as profoundly as sex.It t...

Reducere. It's 1984 and all Bud Fisher wants to do is find a place to live in Madison Louisiana. With his dog Badger, they come across a beautiful old mansio...

Can I Be Forgiven? In an out-of-the-way cemetery an unmarked tombstone bears the single word, Forgiven. A person can't help wondering, who was forg...

DescriptionThe blueprint for an inspiring regenerative economy that avoids collapse and works for people and the planet.Humanity is in a race with ...

Reducere. A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD NOTABLE BOOK After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. Yet it grew to become the greate...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the nature of democracy to our place in the natural world, from intellectual politics to the politics of language, Powers and Prosp...

Reducere. A vivid portrait of a man whose pre- and post-presidential careers overshadowed his presidency.Chosen president by the House of Representatives aft...

What are the origins of the Syrian crisis, and why did no one do anything to stop it? Since the upsurge of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Syrian civi...

DescriptionPartition represents the most fundamental revolution in modern Irish history. By 1925 the country had been divided into two states embod...

DescriptionChina expert Robert Spalding reveals the shocking success China has had infiltrating American institutions and compromising our national...

DescriptionEve of Destruction The Coming Age of Preventive War Thomas M. Nichols "Thomas Nichols transcends sterile debates about Iraq and the Bush...

A provocative case that "failed states" along the periphery of today's international system are the intended result of nineteenth-century colonial ...

Reducere. DescriptionHistory is the key to understanding men-whether as nations, families, or individuals. For Catholics, history has an even higher purpose ...

Suicide haunts our literature and our culture, claiming the lives of ordinary people and celebrities alike. It is now the third leading cause of de...

From writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes a journey through the history of the United States, from the nation's founding to the tw...

Reducere. A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US. In 1958 in ...

Reducere. DescriptionLiberty's Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary sy...

Reducere. ``Remarkable.... The first comprehensive history of the war written from the perspective of the Central Powers.`` --Los Angeles Review of BooksFor ...

Reducere. "Being a girl was something that never really happened for me." Rae SpoonIvan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon are accomplished, award-winning writers, musi...

DescriptionAmericans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Prot...

Women performers played a vital role in the development of American and transatlantic entertainment, celebrity culture, and gender ideology. Sara E...

DescriptionIsrael's victory over Arab states in the Six Day War of 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Ever since, Europe has struggled to esta...

DescriptionAn Air That Still Kills is the alarming and still-unfolding story of the deadliest environmental disaster in the United States. The cata...

Reducere. Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the cruelest, most successful military campaigns in North A...

A searing critique of our contemporary policy agenda, and a call to implement radical change. Although it is well known that the United States has ...

Since the 1990s, mainstream political parties have failed to address the problem of growing inequality, resulting in political backlash and the tra...

Major works from the Walker Art Center's collection, seen in the context of two watershed moments in American historyThis diverse survey of America...

Reducere. Andres Cao Mendiguren (Havana, Cuba, 1931-) graduated from the University ofHavana's School of Medicine. He worked at Calixto Garcia Hospital until...

With every presidential election, Americans puzzle over the peculiar mechanism of the Electoral College. The author of the Pulitzer finalist The Ri...

Reducere. Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict's most vexing challenges hav...