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To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change
ISBN: 9781642599213 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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86,51 zł |
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War on Drugs: Studies in the Failure of U.S. Narcotics Policy
ISBN: 9780367217280 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Since George Bush declared his war on drugs in 1989, cocaine addiction in America has increased 15%, and narcotics have emerged as major commodities from the Third World. Focusing on US narcotics policy, Latin America's cocaine traffic and Asia's heroin trade, the essays in this book offer evidence indicating that the war is not working.
Since George Bush declared his war on drugs in 1989, cocaine addiction in America has increased 15%, and narcotics have emerged as major commodities f...
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207,43 zł |
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Closer Than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy
ISBN: 9780300195507 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this innovative book, Alfred W. McCoy takes a new approach to the military and political history of the Philippines. Comparing two generations of graduates from the Philippine Military Academy (PMA)--the classes of 1940 and 1971--McCoy uncovers fundamental differences in their academic socialization and subsequent ascent to power. Viewed through this comparative lens, the story of these two classes becomes the history of the entire Philippine army, offering important insights into the complexities of Filipino involvement in war and peace from the 1930s to the 1990s.
Drawing on... In this innovative book, Alfred W. McCoy takes a new approach to the military and political history of the Philippines. Comparing two generations of g...
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366,23 zł |
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An Anarchy of Families: State and Family in the Philippines
ISBN: 9780299229849 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Winner of the Philippine National Book Award, this pioneering volume reveals how the power of the country s family-based oligarchy both derives from and contributes to a weak Philippine state. From provincial warlords to modern managers, prominent Filipino leaders have fused family, politics, and business to compromise public institutions and amass private wealth a historic pattern that persists to the present day.
Edited by Alfred W. McCoy, An Anarchy of Families explores the pervasive influence of the modern dynasties that have led the Philippines during the past century.... Winner of the Philippine National Book Award, this pioneering volume reveals how the power of the country s family-based oligarchy both derives from a...
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163,53 zł |
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Endless Empire: Spain's Retreat, Europe's Eclipse, America's Decline
ISBN: 9780299290245 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Throughout four millennia of recorded history there has been no end to empire, but instead an endless succession of empires. After five centuries of sustained expansion, the half-dozen European powers that ruled half of humanity collapsed with stunning speed after World War II, creating a hundred emerging nations in Asia and Africa. Amid this imperial transition, the United States became the new global hegemon, dominating this world order with an array of power that closely resembled that of its European predecessors.Brazil, Russia, India, China, and the European Union now rise in global...
Throughout four millennia of recorded history there has been no end to empire, but instead an endless succession of empires. After five centuries of s...
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163,53 zł |
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Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation
ISBN: 9780299288549 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Many Americans have condemned the "enhanced interrogation" techniques used in the War on Terror as a transgression of human rights. But the United States has done almost nothing to prosecute past abuses or prevent future violations. Tracing this knotty contradiction from the 1950s to the present, historian Alfred W. McCoy probes the political and cultural dynamics that have made impunity for torture a bipartisan policy of the U.S. government.
During the Cold War, McCoy argues, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency covertly funded psychological experiments designed to weaken a subject's... Many Americans have condemned the "enhanced interrogation" techniques used in the War on Terror as a transgression of human rights. But the United Sta...
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146,17 zł |
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A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror
ISBN: 9780805082487 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "An indispensable and riveting account" of the CIA's development and use of torture, from the cold war to Abu Ghraib and beyond (Naomi Klein, The Nation) In this revelatory account of the CIA's fifty-year effort to develop new forms of torture, historian Alfred W. McCoy locates the deep roots of recent scandals at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo in a long-standing, covert program of interrogation. A Question of Torture investigates the CIA's practice of "sensory deprivation" and "self-inflicted pain," in which techniques including isolation, hooding, hours of standing,... "An indispensable and riveting account" of the CIA's development and use of torture, from the cold war to Abu Ghraib and beyond (Naomi Klein, |
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87,15 zł |
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In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power
ISBN: 9781786074911 / Miękka / 2019 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The essential guide to how American foreign policy shaped the world and where it's left us
The essential guide to how American foreign policy shaped the world and where it's left us
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67,21 zł |
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Policing Americaas Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State
ISBN: 9780299234140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. At the dawn of the twentieth century, the U.S. Army swiftly occupied Manila and then plunged into a decade-long pacification campaign with striking parallels to today s war in Iraq. Armed with cutting-edge technology from America s first information revolution, the U.S. colonial regime created the most modern police and intelligence units anywhere under the American flag. In Policing America s Empire Alfred W. McCoy shows how this imperial panopticon slowly crushed the Filipino revolutionary movement with a lethal mix of firepower, surveillance, and incriminating information. Even...
At the dawn of the twentieth century, the U.S. Army swiftly occupied Manila and then plunged into a decade-long pacification campaign with striking pa...
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218,13 zł |
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War on Drugs: Studies in the Failure of U.S. Narcotics Policy
ISBN: 9780367214470 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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674,31 zł |
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Die CIA und das Heroin: Weltpolitik durch Drogenhandel
ISBN: 9783864891342 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2019 / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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108,61 zł |
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