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“emile walter”

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  • What Is Free Trade

    by Emile Walter ...
    Emile Walters reworked the French author Bastiat’s Sophismes Economique to make it more accessible for an American audience. Bastiat’s laid out his ideas clearly and they are certainly translated with Walter’s unique style to make it more palatable for an overseas audience. Written in 1866 it is a remarkable document of trade and wealth creation for the time. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • The Shackled Continent

    Power, Corruption, and African Lives

    by Robert Guest ...
    A former Africa editor for The Economist, Robert Guest addresses the troubled continent's thorniest problems: war, AIDS, and above all, poverty. Newly updated with a preface that considers political and economic developments of the past six years, The Shackled Continentis engrossing, highly readable, and as entertaining as it is tragic.Guest pulls the veil off the corruption and intrigue that ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • This Brave New World

    India, China, and the United States

    by Anja Manuel ...
    “By turns alarming and encouraging…Manuel delineates with clarity [why] the US must attend closely to…harmonious future relations with China and India” (Kirkus Reviews) and why our obsession with China (as once with Japan) is shortsighted.In the next decade and a half, China and India will become two of the world’s indispensable powers—whether they rise peacefully or not. During that time, Asia ... Read more

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  • We Never Knew Exactly Where: Dispatches From the Lost Country of Mali

    by Peter Chilson ...
    Series series FP Borderlands
    A masterful blend of reportage and history from one of the world's newest front lines in the war on terror -- the endangered African country of Mali.What happens when a country suddenly splits in two? In 2012, Mali, once a poster child for African democracy, all but collapsed in a succession of coups and countercoups as Islamist rebels claimed control of the country’s north, making it a new safe ... Read more

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  • The Reproach of Hunger

    Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty-First Century

    by David Rieff ...
    Hailed as “invaluable…a substantial work of political thought,” (New Statesman) in a groundbreaking report, based on years of reporting, David Rieff assesses whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is truly within our reach, as is increasingly promised.Can we provide enough food for nine billion people in 2050, especially the bottom poorest in the Global South? Some of the most ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Building Resilience

    Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery

    by Daniel P. Aldrich ...
    The factor that makes some communities rebound quickly from disasters while others fall apart: "A fascinating book on an important topic."—E.L. Hirsch, in ChoiceEach year, natural disasters threaten the strength and stability of communities worldwide. Yet responses to the challenges of recovery vary greatly and in ways that aren't explained by the magnitude of the catastrophe or the amount of aid ... Read more

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  • No Friends but the Mountains

    Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands

    by Judith Matloff ...
    A veteran war correspondent journeys to remote mountain communities across the globe-from Albania and Chechnya to Nepal and Colombia-to investigate why so many conflicts occur at great heightsMountainous regions are home to only ten percent of the world's population yet host a strikingly disproportionate share of the world's conflicts. Mountains provide a natural refuge for those who want to elude ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine

    An Uncertain Ethnicity

    by Zvi Gitelman ...
    Before the USSR collapsed, ethnic identities were imposed by the state. This book analyzes how and why Jews decided what being Jewish meant to them after the state dissolved and describes the historical evolution of Jewish identities. Surveys of more than 6,000 Jews in the early and late 1990s reveal that Russian and Ukrainian Jews have a deep sense of their Jewishness but are uncertain what it ... Read more

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  • Flawed Diplomacy: The United Nations & the War on Terrorism

    by Victor D. Comras ...
    There have been numerous attempts to engage the United Nations in a meaningful campaign against state-supported and other terrorist activities. But the inherently political nature of terrorism has made it exceedingly difficult to gain global consensus on who even qualifies as a terrorist, much less agreement on counterterrorism measures to pursue.The rise of al Qaeda, the events of 9/11, the ... Read more

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  • Indian foreign policy

    An overview

    by Harsh Pant ...
    As India has risen economically and militarily in recent years, its political influence on the global stage has also seen a commensurate increase. From the peripheries of international affairs, India is now at the centre of major power politics. It is viewed as a major balancer in the Asia-Pacific, a democracy that can be a key ally of the West in countering China, even as India continues to ... Read more

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  • All Tomorrow's Parties

    The Changing Face of European Party Politics

    by Florian Hartleb ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    Political parties are continually under pressure, due to changes in societies, technologies and politics as a whole. But at the moment, Europe is on the threshold of a new environment that is changing the face of political parties themselves. The picture has elements both optimistic (concerning the possibilities of ‘virtual’ activism) and pessimistic (concerning ‘real’ membership and stable voting ... Read more

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  • Losing Pravda

    Ethics and The Press in Post-Truth Russia

    by Natalia Roudakova ...
    What happens when journalism is made superfluous? Combining ethnography, media analysis, moral and political theory this book examines the unravelling of professional journalism in Russia over the past twenty-five years, and its effects on society. It argues that, contrary to widespread assumptions, late Soviet-era journalists shared a cultural contract with their audiences, which ensured that ... Read more

    $27.99 USD