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“douglas roche”

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  • Values | Chaos

    Discovering Mark Carney and Canada's Role in a Ruptured World

    by Douglas Roche ...
    Mark Carney was sworn in as the 24th Prime Minister of Canada on March 14, 2025 with credentials that outshone virtually all his predecessors. A few monthslater, in a riveting speech to world financial leaders at Davos, Switzerland, he urged middle powers to band together to repair the “rupture” in the world order. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential persons in the world.Carney ... Read more

    $9.45 USD

  • The United Nations in the 21st Century

    Grappling with the world's most challenging issues: militarism, the environment, human rights, inequality

    by Douglas Roche ...
    After more than seven decades, the United Nations embodies humanity's hopes for peace, security, social justice, human rights, equality for women, and a voice for all. At the same time, it's where the conflicts and tensions amongst the governments and peoples of the world are often expressed.Douglas Roche -- who has spent his lifetime in the cause of peace as a Canadian member of parliament, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Recovery

    Peace Prospects in the Biden Era

    by Douglas Roche ...
    Humanity faces a triple emergency: the global problems of climate change, nuclear weapons, and the coronavirus are monumental. Cooperation between governments and peoples has never been so necessary for common survival. The election of Joe Biden as U.S. president opens a new path for world cooperation for peace. In this up-to-the-minute book, former Senator Douglas Roche, a leading Canadian ... Read more

    $7.27 USD

  • Peacemakers

    How people around the world are building a world free of war

    by Douglas Roche ...
    A world without war: this is the vision that Douglas Roche has pursued for decades. A long-time Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament, Canadian ambassador for disarmament, and later a senator, Roche has been in the thick of international affairs for more than forty years.Though few of us realize it, today the world is more peaceful than in past centuries. Death and destruction due to war ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • How We Stopped Loving the Bomb

    An insider's account of the world on the brink of banning nuclear arms

    by Douglas Roche ...
    Nobody loves nuclear weapons--except their powerfully placed defenders in government, their supporters in the military, and terrorists. When President Barack Obama brought his vision of a nuclear weapons-free world to the White House, he re-energized the peace movement. Today the historical momentum to rid the world of nuclear weapons is once again gathering speed.Former Canadian Ambassador for ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Keep Hope Alive

    Essays for a War-free World

    by Douglas Roche ...
    Finding the way to peace in a world in turmoil.The Ukraine war is a scarring tragedy, with hundreds of thousands killed and wounded, famines worsened, nuclear warfare threatened, and diplomacy unraveled. How do we get to a place of hope from here? This collection of essays shines a light on the reasons for my hope that humanity can achieve a peaceful and just coexistence through the U.N.'s New ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Remi De Roo, Pilgrim and Prophet

    Wisdom for Today’s Church in the World

    by Remi De Roo ...
    Remi De Roo (1924–2022) was one of the youngest bishops at the Second Vatican Council – only 38 years old when it began in 1962. The Council would shape him and his ministry in untold ways, including his understanding of the laity, the role of women, religious life and ministerial priesthood, marriage, poverty, peace, Indigenous Peoples, human rights and ecology. He continued to live out, share ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    Release 2.0

    by Fareed Zakaria ...
    “A relentlessly intelligent book.” —Joseph Joffe, New York Times Book Review“This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.” So begins Fareed Zakaria’s blockbuster on the United States in the twenty-first century, and the trends he identifies have proceeded faster than anyone anticipated. How might the nation continue to thrive in a truly global era? ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Growing Pains

    the future of democracy (and work)

    by Gwynne Dyer ...
    We are now living in a world where Brexit and Trump are daily realities. But how did this come about? And what does it mean for the future?Populism and ultra-nationalism brought about the rise of Hitler and Mussolini in the 1930s. Now, as Trump sits in the White House, Britain negotiates its way out of the EU, and countries across Europe see substantial gains in support for the extreme Right, ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • How Democracy Ends

    by David Runciman ...
    How will democracy end? And what will replace it? A preeminent political scientist examines the past, present, and future of an endangered political philosophySince the end of World War II, democracy's sweep across the globe seemed inexorable. Yet today, it seems radically imperiled, even in some of the world's most stable democracies. How bad could things get?In How Democracy Ends, David Runciman ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • World Politics since 1989

    by Jonathan Holslag ...
    1989 ushered in a new age of freedom and prosperity. Thirty years later, the golden era is over. What went wrong? How did the age of globalization – of growing connectivity, affluence, and growth – give way?Jonathan Holslag navigates through the calm seas and rip tides of global politics from the Cold War to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He tells a story of faltering momentum and squandered ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • The End of the American Era

    U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century

    by Charles Kupchan ...
    Refuting the conventional wisdom that the end of the Cold War cleared the way for an era of peace and prosperity led solely by the United States, Charles A. Kupchan contends that the next challenge to America’s might is fast emerging. It comes not from the Islamic world or an ascendant China, but from an integrating Europe that is rising as a counterweight to the United States. Decades of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD