wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Korea: The Search for Sovereignty
ISBN: 9780333764428 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 313 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. A broad history of Korea, with a particular focus on key twentieth-century events. Particular attention is given to the dispute over North Korea's controversial nuclear development programme. This issue is profiled in the context of the post-Soviet world, and against such crucial modern events as the Japanese colonization of the Korean peninsula, the US partition, the resulting Korean War, and the subsequent development of North and South. The detailed information both supports a succinct history and encourages an interpretation that transcends Western propaganda.
A broad history of Korea, with a particular focus on key twentieth-century events. Particular attention is given to the dispute over North Korea's con...
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192,74 zł |
Cuba: From Conquistador to Castro
ISBN: 9781349244195 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book provides a detailed history of Cuba from before the arrival of Columbus to 1995. Topics covered include: the Spanish colonisation, the role of Christianity, slavery, the US interventions, the Mafia connection, the Castro revolution, and Cuba's struggle to survive in the so-called 'Special Period' following the collapse of the Socialist bloc. Particular attention is given to the prolonged US efforts to overthrow the Castro regime, involving the United States in violations of international law and crimes against humanity.
This book provides a detailed history of Cuba from before the arrival of Columbus to 1995. Topics covered include: the Spanish colonisation, the role ...
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192,74 zł |
Korea: The Search for Sovereignty
ISBN: 9781349239528 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 313 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. A broad history of Korea, with a particular focus on key twentieth-century events. Particular attention is given to the dispute over North Korea's controversial nuclear development programme. This issue is profiled in the context of the post-Soviet world, and against such crucial modern events as the Japanese colonization of the Korean peninsula, the US partition, the resulting Korean War, and the subsequent development of North and South. The detailed information both supports a succinct history and encourages an interpretation that transcends Western propaganda.
A broad history of Korea, with a particular focus on key twentieth-century events. Particular attention is given to the dispute over North Korea's con...
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192,74 zł |
Un Malaise: Power, Problems and Realpolitik
ISBN: 9781349242993 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. As the United Nations moves into its second half-century the international organization is beset by problems. It is increasingly suborned or ignored by the USA, pursuing its own global objectives. The UN is inadequately resourced and faces many other barriers erected by Washington and other powerful states. UN personnel are frequently accused of mismanagement, corruption and even the abuse of human rights. There is also the problem of how the UN should develop to best serve the real world community, not what the West usually means by the 'international community'. Finally, the 'other UN' (the...
As the United Nations moves into its second half-century the international organization is beset by problems. It is increasingly suborned or ignored b...
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192,74 zł |
The Scourging of Iraq: Sanctions, Law and Natural Justice
ISBN: 9781349249237 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The Scourging of Iraq describes the impact of the 1991 Gulf War and subsequent economic sanctions on the Iraqi people. Evidence is presented to show that food and medicine are being denied to the civilian population, and that this involves a gross violation of the 1977 Protocol 1 addition to the 1949 Geneva Convention, which includes the words: 'Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited'. Sanctions are considered in a historical, political and legal context, with particular attention to how the economic blockade may be seen as a criminal violation of UN resolutions and the...
The Scourging of Iraq describes the impact of the 1991 Gulf War and subsequent economic sanctions on the Iraqi people. Evidence is presented to show t...
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154,18 zł |
Indonesia: The Long Oppression
ISBN: 9780333764992 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Geoff Simons profiles the appalling human-rights record of modern Indonesia, against a history of the country. Brutal repression, the unjust legal system and corrupt nepotism are described, with attention to the independence struggles of the East Timorese and West Papuans. The historical survey includes the anti-colonialist campaign, the role of Sukarno as first president, the Suharto decades, the 1998 appointment of Habibie as third president and the social chaos caused by economic collapse. It also describes how the United States and Britain plotted anti-Sukarno coups, supported 1960s...
Geoff Simons profiles the appalling human-rights record of modern Indonesia, against a history of the country. Brutal repression, the unjust legal sys...
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385,52 zł |
Libya: The Struggle for Survival
ISBN: 9780312089979 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book charts in detail the West's response, particularly that of the US, to Libya's possible involvement in the bombing of the Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie in 1988.
This book charts in detail the West's response, particularly that of the US, to Libya's possible involvement in the bombing of the Pan Am airliner ove...
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192,74 zł |