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  • A Short Guide to the New Silk Road

    by Adam Nobis ...
    Series Book 2 - International Relations in Asia, Africa and the Americas
    Most social scientists are familiar with the concept of the Silk Road. In recent years, however, it is the New Silk Road that has been on the lips of many. This short guide is addressed to all those eager to learn more about this new road. The New Silk Road resembles the old road in that it represents an ensemble of relationships and connections among several distant places. The author depicts ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

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  • China Unbound

    A New World Disorder

    by Joanna Chiu ...
    While the United States stumbles, an award-winning foreign correspondent chronicles China’s dramatic moves to become a dominant power.As the world’s second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe with the complicity of democratic nations. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China’s propulsive rise, from the political aspects of the multi-billion-dollar “New Silk Road ... Read more

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  • Can Intervention Work?

    by Rory Stewart, Gerald Knaus ...
    Series series Norton Global Ethics Series
    Best-selling author Rory Stewart and political economist Gerald Knaus examine the impact of large-scale interventions, from Bosnia to Afghanistan.“A fresh and critically important perspective on foreign interventions” (Washington Post), Can Intervention Work? distills Rory Stewart’s (author of The Places In Between) and Gerald Knaus’s remarkable firsthand experiences of political and military ... Read more

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  • Voices from Srebrenica

    Survivor Narratives of the Bosnian Genocide

    by Ann Petrila, Hasan Hasanović ...
    In the hills of eastern Bosnia sits the small town of Srebrenica--once known for silver mines and health spas, now infamous for the genocide that occurred there during the Bosnian War. In July 1995, when the town fell to Serbian forces, 12,000 Muslim men and boys fled through the woods, seeking safe territory. Hunted for six days, more than 8000 were captured, killed at execution sites and later ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Great Games, Local Rules

    The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia

    by Alexander Cooley ...
    The struggle between Russia and Great Britain over Central Asia in the nineteenth century was the original "great game." But in the past quarter century, a new "great game" has emerged, pitting America against a newly aggressive Russia and a resource-hungry China, all struggling for influence over the same region, now one of the most volatile areas in the world: the long border region stretching ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • e-Pedia: List of Countries by GDP (Nominal)

    Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year

    by Wikipedia contributors ...
    Series series e-Pedia
    This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year. Countries are sorted by nominal GDP estimates from financial and statistical institutions, which are calculated at market or government official exchange rates. Nominal GDP does ... Read more

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  • Kazakhstan - Culture Smart!

    The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

    by Dina Zhansagimova, Culture Smart! ...
    Series series Culture Smart!
    Kazakhstan, one of the largest countries on earth, was long hidden from the rest of the world behind the Iron Curtain, and continued to remain unnoticed among the "stans" of Central Asia that gained independence from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Now, twenty years later, it has emerged as a modern state with far-reaching ambitions. It has developed rapidly over the last decade, raising a ... Read more

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  • Crack-Up Capitalism

    Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

    by Quinn Slobodian ...
    A Fortune best nonfiction book of 2023In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas shows how free marketeers are realizing their ultimate goal: an end to nation-states and the constraints of democracy.Look at a map of the world and you’ll see a colorful checkerboard of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. Over the last ... Read more

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  • Sinostan

    China's Inadvertent Empire

    by Raffaello Pantucci, Alexandros Petersen ...
    Based on more than a decade's writing, research, and travel, this book offers a rare glimpse into China's expanding economic, cultural, and political power in the Eurasian heartland. China's rise is changing the world. Much attention has been given to how China's geo-economic vision is playing out in the global economy, or how its technology is reshaping the planet, yet it is over its western ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • China's Asian Dream

    Empire Building along the New Silk Road

    by Tom Miller ...
    'China', Napoleon once remarked, 'is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world.' In 2014, President Xi Jinping triumphantly declared that the lion had awoken.From holding its ground in trade wars with the US, to presenting itself as a world leader in the fight against climate change, a newly confident China is flexing its economic muscles for strategic ends. With ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The New Silk Road: Challenge and Response

    by Richard T. Griffiths ...
    In 2013 China’s Belt and Road initiative reawakened public attention to the issue of trade and transport. At the same time it stoked fears about China’s true intentions. It was easy for critics to conjure images of a tide of Chinese steel and cement spilling over the Eurasian continent. But what if China were not alone in funding new infrastructure and in facilitating trade, nor the first? Richard ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Fire of the Dragon

    China's New Cold War

    by Ian Williams ...
    Shortlisted for the Orwell PrizeAs seen in The Times, Sunday Times, Spectator, and on Tonight with Andrew Marr (LBC)Under President Xi Jinping, China's global ambitions have taken a dangerous new turn. Bullying and intimidation have replaced diplomacy. Trade and investment, even big-spending tourists and students, have been weaponised. Beijing has strengthened its alliance with Vladimir Putin, ... Read more

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