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LAW NON-INTERNAT ARMED CONFLICT OMIHCL C

LAW NON-INTERNAT ARMED CONFLICT OMIHCL C

Non-international armed conflicts now far outnumber international ones, but the protection afforded by international law to combatants and civilian is not always clear. This book will set out the legal rules and state practice applicable to internal... Zobraziť viac

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Political Psychology

Political Psychology

This text is designed to prepare the students to understand the ancient questions raised by our elders, from Ancient Greece through the Enlightenment and to today. And, to see how the newer approaches enable us to escape static disputes by using new... Zobraziť viac

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From Triumph to Crisis

From Triumph to Crisis

This book explains how and why post-Communist countries persisted in pursuing a course of difficult neoliberal reforms from 1989–2008, despite expectations that the political, social and cultural legacies of communism would impede change. This... Zobraziť viac

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Political Order and Political Decay

Political Order and Political Decay

Francis Fukuyama, Profile Books (2014)
From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalisation of Democracy

In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. Here, he picks up the thread again in the second instalment of his definitive account ... Zobraziť viac

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Social Democratic America

Social Democratic America

Eminent scholar Lane Kenworthy shows that, despite fierce political debates and pretensions to exceptionalism, the US is well along the path toward becoming a social democratic society. Zobraziť viac

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Active Measures

Active Measures

Thomas Rid, Profile Books (2020)
The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare

We live in an age of subterfuge. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the very foundation of liberal democracy: trust in facts... Zobraziť viac

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Language and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia

Language and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia

Nelya Koteyko, (2014)

Language and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia critically examines the uses of language in post-Soviet media and political texts between 1998 and 2007. It will be of interest to academics and researchers in the fields of media studies, discourse analysis... Zobraziť viac

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Justice

Justice

"Justice "is a concise and accessible introduction to the central theories of justice in contemporary political theory. The book aims to provide readers with a clear understanding of the theories and the main objections to them, as well as showing how... Zobraziť viac

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Flashpoints

Flashpoints

George Friedman, Doubleday (2015)
The Emerging Crisis in Europe

With remarkable accuracy, George Friedman has forecasted coming trends in global politics, technology, population, and culture. In Flashpoints, Friedman focuses on Europe the world’s cultural and power nexus for the past five hundred years ... Zobraziť viac

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Varieties of Democracy

Varieties of Democracy

The Varieties of Democracy project rates hundreds of features of democracy and institutions in nearly all countries. This volume answers questions about where the data comes from, how to interpret it, and how to use it responsibly. It is an essential... Zobraziť viac

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Too Big to Jail

Too Big to Jail

Chris Blackhurst, Pan Macmillan (2022)
Inside HSBC, the Mexican drug cartels and the greatest banking scandal of the century

Across the world, HSBC likes to sell itself as 'the world's local bank', the friendly face of corporate and personal finance... Zobraziť viac

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Teach Yourself Understand Politics

Teach Yourself Understand Politics

This book is a complete introduction to politics and the workings of government, Focusing on the institutions of government and the political systems operating in liberal democratic states, ... Zobraziť viac

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The New Odyssey

The New Odyssey

Patrick Kingsley, Liveright (2017)
The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis

On the day of his son’s fourteenth birthday, Hashem al-Souki lay somewhere in the Mediterranean, crammed in a wooden dinghy. His family was relatively safe at least for the time being in Egypt, where they had only just settled after ... Zobraziť viac

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The Firebird

The Firebird

Andrei Kozyrev, University of Pittsburgh Press (2021)
The Elusive Fate of Russian Democracy

Andrei Kozyrev was foreign minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin from August 1991 to January 1996. During the August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev, he was present when tanks moved in to seize the Russian White House, where... Zobraziť viac

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Money in One Lesson

Money in One Lesson

Gavin Jackson, MacMillan (2022)
How It Works and Why

Understanding cash, currencies and the financial system is vital for making sense of what is going on in our world, especially now. Since the 2008 financial crisis, money has rarely been out of the headlines... Zobraziť viac

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The Three Faces of Chinese Power

The Three Faces of Chinese Power

Investigates the military, economic, and intellectual dimensions of China's influence. This book provides a different perspective from which to assess China - how its strengths are changing, where vulnerabilities and uncertainties lie, and how the rest... Zobraziť viac

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Skin Deep

Skin Deep

Gavin Evans, Oneworld (2019)
Journeys in the Divisive Science of Race

Everything you need to know about race (but were afraid to ask). MYTH: Early Europeans were white. REALITY: The first Europeans had dark skin, black, curly hair and blue eyes. MYTH: Between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago, a `cognitive revolution' led... Zobraziť viac

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The Light that Failed

The Light that Failed

Ivan Krastev, Allen Lane (2019)
A Reckoning

A landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism, from two pre-eminent intellectuals. Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance? In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread... Zobraziť viac

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Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself

Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself

Florian Huber, Penguin Books (2019)
The Downfall of Ordinary Germans, 1945

The extraordinary German bestseller on the final days of the Third Reich... Zobraziť viac

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Who Rules the World?

Who Rules the World?

Noam Chomsky is the world's foremost intellectual activist. Over the last half century, no one has done more to question the great global powers who govern our lives, forensically scrutinizing policies and actions, calling our politicians, ... Zobraziť viac

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