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  • Statebuilding

    de Timothy Sisk ...
    Series series War and Conflict in the Modern World
    After civil wars end, what can sustain peace in the long-term? In particular, how can outsiders facilitate durable conflict-managing institutions through statebuilding - a process that historically has been the outcome of bloody struggles to establish the state's authority over warlords, traditional authorities, and lawless territories?In this book, Timothy Sisk explores international efforts to ... Leer más

    $22.00 USD

  • Civil Action and the Dynamics of Violence

    Edición de Deborah Avant, Marie Berry, Erica Chenoweth, Rachel Epstein, Cullen Hendrix, Oliver Kaplan, Timothy Sisk ...
    Many view civil wars as violent contests between armed combatants. But history shows that community groups, businesses, NGOs, local governments, and even armed groups can respond to war by engaging in civil action. Characterized by a reluctance to resort to violence and a willingness to show enough respect to engage with others, civil action can slow, delay, or prevent violent escalations. This ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

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  • Reefer Madness

    Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market

    de Eric Schlosser ...
    New York Times Bestseller: The shadowy world of "off the books" businesses—from marijuana to migrant workers—brought to life by the author of Fast Food Nation.America's black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kids' nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness, the award-winning investigative journalist Eric ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • White Working Class

    Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America

    de Joan C. Williams ...
    "I recommend a book by Professor Williams, it is really worth a read, it's called White Working Class." -- Vice President Joe Biden on Pod Save AmericaAn Amazon Best Business and Leadership book of 2017Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, members of the professional elite—journalists, managers, and establishment politicians--are on the ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • Rogue Economics

    de Loretta Napoleoni ...
    What do Eastern Europe's booming sex trade, America's subprime mortgage lending scandal, China’s fake goods industry, and celebrity philanthropy in Africa have in common? With biopirates trolling the blood industry, fish-farming bandits ravaging the high seas, pornography developing virtually in Second Life, and games like World of Warcraft spawning online sweatshops, how are rogue industries ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • A Precariat Charter

    From Denizens to Citizens

    de Prof. Guy Standing ...
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Guy Standing's immensely influential 2011 book introduced the Precariat as an emerging mass class, characterized by inequality and insecurity. Standing outlined the increasingly global nature of the Precariat as a social phenomenon, especially in the light of the ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Territory, Authority, Rights

    From Medieval to Global Assemblages

    de Saskia Sassen ...
    Where does the nation-state end and globalization begin? In Territory, Authority, Rights, one of the world's leading authorities on globalization shows how the national state made today's global era possible. Saskia Sassen argues that even while globalization is best understood as "denationalization," it continues to be shaped, channeled, and enabled by institutions and networks originally ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • The Chicken Trail

    Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations across the Americas

    de Kathleen C. Schwartzman ...
    In The Chicken Trail, Kathleen C. Schwartzman examines the impact of globalization—and of NAFTA in particular—on the North American poultry industry, focusing on the displacement of African American workers in the southeast United States and workers in Mexico. Schwartzman documents how the transformation of U.S. poultry production in the 1980s increased its export capacity and changed the nature ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • States and the Reemergence of Global Finance

    From Bretton Woods to the 1990s

    de Eric Helleiner ...
    Most accounts explain the postwar globalization of financial markets as a product of unstoppable technological and market forces. Drawing on extensive historical research, Eric Helleiner provides the first comprehensive political history of the phenomenon, one that details and explains the central role played by states in permitting and encouraging financial globalization.Helleiner begins by ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • 10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF & World Bank

    de Kevin Danaher ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    A veritable "Globalization for Dummies," 10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF & World Banklays bare the most common myths of globalization in a clear and understandable way. Looking with hope to grassroots movement-building on a global scale, Danaher presents ten arguments for abolishing the IMF and World Bank and replacing them with democratic institutions that would make the global economy more ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Corporate Sovereignty

    Law and Government under Capitalism

    de Joshua Barkan ...
    Refinery explosions. Accounting scandals. Bank meltdowns. All of these catastrophes—and many more—might rightfully be blamed on corporations. In response, advocates have suggested reforms ranging from increased government regulation to corporate codes of conduct to stop corporate abuses. Joshua Barkan writes that these reactions, which view law as a limit on corporations, misunderstand the role of ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Bounded Rationality and Policy Diffusion

    Social Sector Reform in Latin America

    de Kurt Weyland ...
    Why do very different countries often emulate the same policy model? Two years after Ronald Reagan's income-tax simplification of 1986, Brazil adopted a similar reform even though it threatened to exacerbate income disparity and jeopardize state revenues. And Chile's pension privatization of the early 1980s has spread throughout Latin America and beyond even though many poor countries that have ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD