Bøger i War and Peace Library serien
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- Big Money, Big Oil, and the Struggle for U.S. Democracy
433,95 kr. Now in a new edition updated through the unprecedented 2016 election, this timely book makes a compelling case for a hidden deep state of intelligence agencies, private companies, and billionaires that influence and often oppose U.S. policies.
- Bog
- 433,95 kr.
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- East Timor, Indonesia, and the World Community
864,95 kr. East Timor is at last, and at terrible human cost, firmly on the road to independence. Exploring the significance of its passage to freedom-for its people, for Asia, and for the world-this multi-voiced volume offers a comprehensive overview of this newest nation's travails and triumphs in an international context.
- Bog
- 864,95 kr.
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757,95 kr. Peacekeeping has become a major international undertaking throughout the world, from Africa to the Americas, from Europe to Southeast Asia. Yet until now, there has been no systematic analysis of the key role of gender in post-cold war conflicts and of post-conflict peacekeeping efforts. This groundbreaking volume explores how gender has become a central factor in shaping current thinking about the causes and consequences of armed conflict, complex emergencies, and reconstruction. Drawing on expertise ranging from the highest levels of international policymaking down to the daily struggle to implement peacekeeping operations, this work represents the full span of knowledge and experience about international intervention in local crises. Presenting a rich array of examples from Angola, Bosnia Herzegovina, East Timor, El Salvador, the former Yugoslavia, Guatemala, Haiti, Kosovo, Liberia, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, and Serbia, the authors offer important insights for future peacekeeping and humanitarian missions.
- Bog
- 757,95 kr.
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- The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina
351,95 kr. This text illuminates the forces that drive US global policy, from Vietnam and Colombia to Afghanistan and Iraq. It brings to light the intertwined patterns of drugs, oil politics, and intelligence networks that have been central to the larger workings of US intervention in Third World countries.
- Bog
- 351,95 kr.
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- The United States, Japan, and the Asia-Pacific in the Long Twentieth Century
627,95 kr. Tracing the course of conflicts throughout Asia, this work explores systematically the nexus of war and state terrorism. Challenging states' definitions of terrorism, it focuses especially on the nature of Japanese and American wars and crimes of war.
- Bog
- 627,95 kr.
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1.757,95 kr. Peacekeeping has become a major international undertaking throughout the world, from Africa to the Americas, from Europe to Southeast Asia. Yet until now, there has been no systematic analysis of the key role of gender in post-cold war conflicts and of post-conflict peacekeeping efforts.
- Bog
- 1.757,95 kr.
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- Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan
534,95 kr. - Bog
- 534,95 kr.
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- War, Resistance, and Law
550,95 - 1.461,95 kr. A guide on how to use international law, constitutional law, and the laws of war to defend peaceful non-violent protestors against governmental policies that are illegal and criminal. It focuses especially on the aftermath of 9/11 and the implications of the war on Afghanistan, the war on terrorism, and the war on Iraq.
- Bog
- 550,95 kr.
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- Bog
- 684,95 kr.
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- Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy
243,95 kr. Dark Quadrant traces the systematic corruption of businesspeople and politicians from 1945 to 1974 and draws links to our current political crisis. Documenting the collaboration of Presidents Truman, Johnson, and Nixon with powerful mobsters. President Trump represents, in many ways, a twisted culmination of the forces described in this book.
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- 243,95 kr.
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600,95 kr. Presenting a history of the contradictory, often militaristic, role of Zen Buddhism, this book documents the unknown support of a supposedly peaceful religion for Japanese militarism throughout World War II. It draws on the writings and speeches of leading Zen masters and scholars.
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- 600,95 kr.