Failed States

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...

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

Reducere. The only president to later serve as chief justice of the United States, William Howard Taft remarked in the 1920s that "I don't remember that I ev...

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

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

Reducere. When South Sudan's war began, the Beatles were playing their first hits and reaching the moon was an astronaut's dream. Half a century later, with ...

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...

Reducere. During the height of the Black Power movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, dozens of Pan African nationalist private schools, from preschools to po...

In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion p...

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

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

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

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

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

Reducere. The Houghton family brought the Industrial Revolution to Corning, New York, with a hot-glass factory and his friend's cut-glass industry. Although ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Faisal DevjiPakistan, founded less than a decade after a homeland for India s Muslims was proposed, is both the embodiment ...

Unmanning studies the conditions that create unmanned platforms in the United States through a genealogy of experimental, pilotless planes flown be...

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

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

Reducere. Oswald Spengler, in the aftermath of the Great War, gained international repute as a philosopher-historian whose apparently doom-laden forecast on ...

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

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

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...

Africa is playing a more important role in world affairs than ever before. Yet the most common images of Africa in the American mind are ones of po...

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

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

Reducere. Why have the major post-9/11 US military interventions turned into quagmires? Despite huge power imbalances in the United States's favor, significa...

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. Growing up in the spacious hills of West Virginia, Sebastian Storm's destiny was mapped out at a very early age. Tragically losing both of his pare...

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

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

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...

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

For decades, Democratic and Republican political leaders have disagreed about the fundamental goals of American health policy. The modern-day conse...

Reducere. DescriptionOswald Spengler, in the aftermath of the Great War, gained international repute as a philosopher-historian whose apparently doom-laden f...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reducere. (Book). The definitive history of the world's most famous 12-string electric guitar. When the Byrds recorded their hit version of Dylan's ``Mr. Tam...

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

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...

DescriptionThe dramatic insider account of why we invaded Iraq, the motivations that drove it, and the frustrations of those who tried and failed t...

A visual tour-de-force graphic novel from artist and writer Dave McKean (Black Dog, The Sandman). The Raptor, Sokol, flickers between two worlds: a...

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...

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...

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

Reducere. To the amazement of the public, pundits, and even the policymakers themselves, the ideological and political conflict that had endangered the world...

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 ...

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...

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

Reducere. The past fifty years have seen significant shifts in attitudes toward LGBTQ people and wider acceptance of them in the United States and the West. ...

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

Reducere. DescriptionImprobable, if not impossible. How could a people who'd been scattered for two millennia reestablish a homeland on their ancient soil?Ag...

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 ...

"Painfully good. The book could have been called, 'Outrageous.' The story Andy Slavitt tells is not just about Trump's monumental failures but also...

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

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

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. An elusive extremist hell-bent on destroying America. ​A woman of uncommon valor haunted by her tragic past. A dark web hacker confronting his cons...

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

Reducere. Reluctant Reformers explores the centrality of racism to American politics through the origins, internal dynamics, and leadership of the major demo...

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...

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

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...

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