ilość książek w kategorii: 31167
Peace in the Making: The Menachem Begin-Anwar Sadat Personal Correspondence
ISBN: 9789652294562 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the first time, the intimate correspondence between Israel s Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egypt s President Anwar Sadat is revealed Begin and Sadat were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their accomplishment. The letters, together with other material including transcripts of speeches, press conferences, interviews, and official documents, reveal the personal relationship the two leaders constructed, which was eventually reflected in the treaty they signed. The personalities, the principled issues, the maneuverings, the clashes, the compromises and agreements that were, at the time,...
For the first time, the intimate correspondence between Israel s Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egypt s President Anwar Sadat is revealed Begin an...
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85,39 zł |
In Search of Democracy
ISBN: 9780415781282 / Angielski / Miękka / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book evaluates the global status and prospects of democracy, with an emphasis on the quality of democratic institutions and the effectiveness of governance as key conditions for stable democracy. Bringing together a wide range of the author's work over the past three decades, it advances a framework for assessing the quality of democracy and it analyzes alternative measures of democracy. Drawing on the most recent data from Freedom House, it assesses the global state of democracy and freedom, as of the beginning of 2015, and it explains why the world has been experiencing a mild but... This book evaluates the global status and prospects of democracy, with an emphasis on the quality of democratic institutions and the effectiveness ... |
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223,35 zł |
In Search of Democracy
ISBN: 9780415781275 / Angielski / Twarda / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book evaluates the global status and prospects of democracy, with an emphasis on the quality of democratic institutions and the effectiveness of governance as key conditions for stable democracy. Bringing together a wide range of the author's work over the past three decades, it advances a framework for assessing the quality of democracy and it analyzes alternative measures of democracy. Drawing on the most recent data from Freedom House, it assesses the global state of democracy and freedom, as of the beginning of 2015, and it explains why the world has been experiencing a mild but... This book evaluates the global status and prospects of democracy, with an emphasis on the quality of democratic institutions and the effectiveness ... |
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761,60 zł |
Strengthening Peace in Post-Civil War States: Transforming Spoilers Into Stakeholders
ISBN: 9780226351254 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Among the more frequent and most devastating of conflicts, civil wars from Yugoslavia to Congo frequently reignite and even spill over into the international sphere. Given the inherent fragility of civil war peace agreements, innovative approaches must be taken to ensure the successful resolution of these conflicts. "Strengthening Peace in Post Civil War States" provides both analytical frameworks and a series of critical case studies demonstrating the effectiveness of a range of strategies for keeping the peace. Among the more frequent and most devastating of conflicts, civil wars from Yugoslavia to Congo frequently reignite and even spill over into the int... |
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165,68 zł |
International Law, Power, Security and Justice: Essays on International Law and Relations
ISBN: 9781841139821 / Angielski / Miękka / 517 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These collected essays deal with the evolutions and immutabilities of international society and international law during the last 25 years, a period during which these fields of study have undergone many changes. The starting point is that, far from operating at different levels or being in conflict, international law and politics are closely intertwined. The book addresses the many different aspects of international law: the role and concept of the State, and the position of States in the international system * the bases, principles, and evolution of public international law * questions of...
These collected essays deal with the evolutions and immutabilities of international society and international law during the last 25 years, a period d...
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609,27 zł |
Cuba and the United States: Intervention and Militarism, 1868-1933
ISBN: 9780292723757 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Cuba threw off the yoke of Spanish rule at the end of the nineteenth century, it did so with the help of another foreign power, the United States. Thereafter, the United States became involved in Cuban affairs, intervening twice militarily (1898-1902 and 1906-1909). What was the effect of U.S. intervention? Conventional wisdom indicates that U.S. intervention hindered the rise of militarism in Cuba in the early years of statehood. This pathfinding study, however, takes just the opposite view. Jose M. Hernandez argues that while U.S. influence may have checked the worst excesses... When Cuba threw off the yoke of Spanish rule at the end of the nineteenth century, it did so with the help of another foreign power, the United Sta... |
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121,80 zł |
Conversations with Terrorists: Middle East Leaders on Politics, Violence, and Empire
ISBN: 9780982417133 / Angielski / Miękka / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on original research and firsthand interviews, Conversations with Terrorists offers critical portraits of six Middle Eastern leaders often labeled as terrorists: Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad, Hamas top leader Khaled Meshal, Israeli politician Geula Cohen, Iranian Revolutionary Guard founder Mohsen Sazargara, Hezbollah spiritual advisor Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Fadlallah, and former Afghan Radio and Television Ministry head Malamo Nazamy.
Veteran journalist Reese Erlich offers them a chance to explain key issues and to respond to charges leveled by the United States.... Drawing on original research and firsthand interviews, Conversations with Terrorists offers critical portraits of six Middle Eastern leaders of...
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182,73 zł |
Prisms of British Appeasement: Revisionist Reputations of John Simon, Samuel Hoare, Anthony Eden, Lord Halifax and Alfred Duff Cooper
ISBN: 9781845194222 / Angielski / Twarda / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Of these five major political figures from the National Governments of the 1930s, three were condemned in a famous 1940 pamphlet as major Guilty Men appeasers responsible for Britain s failure to contain Hitler and Mussolini. Anthony Eden and Duff Cooper were excused since they had resigned from office in 1938. All of them wrote memoirs to give their version of the events of the 1930s, and each has attracted at least one biographer. Their actions and evolving reputations centred around their different international perspectives and governmental experience with respect to the collective...
Of these five major political figures from the National Governments of the 1930s, three were condemned in a famous 1940 pamphlet as major Guilty Men a...
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534,45 zł |
Breaching the Colonial Contract: Anti-Colonialism in the Us and Canada
ISBN: 9789048138883 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Almost a decade in, Empire remains the 21st Century's dominant mode of cultural production, and North America remains at the apex of the colonial imperative. The contributors to this volume argue that, far from being a post-colonial world, the struggle for independence of polity and culture is still alive and relevant. The book brings together relevant examples of anti-colonial discourse and struggle from across the US and Canada, providing unique perspectives on resistance, activism, scholarship and pedagogy. Anti-colonialism is an evolving framework to which this book hopes to... Almost a decade in, Empire remains the 21st Century's dominant mode of cultural production, and North America remains at the apex of the colonial i... |
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389,09 zł |
Waking to Danger: Americans and Nazi Germany, 1933-1941
ISBN: 9780313385025 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1930s were years when Americans struggled to define their country's role in a dangerous world. Opinions were deeply divided and passionately held. "Waking to Danger: Americans and Nazi Germany, 1933-1941" traces the evolution of American public opinion about Germany as it spiraled from ignorance and isolationism to a sense of danger and interventionism. This brief, but broad survey fills a gap in the historical literature by bringing together, for the first time, the reactions toward Nazi Germany of a variety of groups--peace advocates, Jews, fascists, communists, churches, the... The 1930s were years when Americans struggled to define their country's role in a dangerous world. Opinions were deeply divided and passionately he... |
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336,98 zł |
America's Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy
ISBN: 9780674057470 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During World War II, Japan was vilified by America as our hated enemy in the East. Though we distinguished "good Germans" from the Nazis, we condemned all Japanese indiscriminately as fanatics and savages. As the Cold War heated up, however, the U.S. government decided to make Japan its bulwark against communism in Asia. But how was the American public made to accept an alliance with Japan so soon after the "Japs" had been demonized as subhuman, bucktoothed apes with Coke-bottle glasses? In this revelatory work, Naoko Shibusawa charts the remarkable reversal from hated enemy to... During World War II, Japan was vilified by America as our hated enemy in the East. Though we distinguished "good Germans" from the Nazis, we condem... |
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198,69 zł |
A Critical History of the Economy: On the Birth of the National and International Economies
ISBN: 9780415588904 / Angielski / Twarda / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on recent debates in critical International Political Economy, this book mobilizes the idea that the economy does not exist separately from society and politics to develop a detailed intellectual history of how the economy came to be seen as an independent domain. In contrast to typical approaches to writing the history of economic thought, which assume the reality of the economy, the author describes the forms of intellectual argument that made it possible to conceive of the national and international economies as objects of intellectual... Drawing on recent debates in critical International Political Economy, this book mobilizes the idea that the economy does not exist separate... |
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482,29 zł |
The Legacies of Caribbean Radical Politics
ISBN: 9780415586894 / Angielski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The year 2009 marked the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and the thirtieth anniversary of the Grenadian and Nicaraguan Revolutions. This volume considers what we might learn from such revolutionary projects and their afterlives, from their successes and their errors.
The year 2009 marked the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and the thirtieth anniversary of the Grenadian and Nicaraguan Revolutions. This volu...
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431,52 zł |
The Unknown Nation: Australia After Empire
ISBN: 9780522856453 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title offers an original and compelling insight into why Australians have come to exhibit their nationhood in curious new ways - such as spontaneously bellowing the national anthem at sporting events. It argues that the critical period for understanding this phenomenon is the twilight of the British Empire in the 60s and 70s.
This title offers an original and compelling insight into why Australians have come to exhibit their nationhood in curious new ways - such as spontane...
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134,63 zł |
Africa and the New World Era: From Humanitarianism to a Strategic View
ISBN: 9780230102866 / Angielski / Twarda / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the last decade, there has been a shift toward a strategic view of Africa. China and the US import much of their oil from Africa which is clearly emerging on the world stage as a strategic player. Africa and the New World Era probes the importance and significance of this shift and its implications for Africa's international relations.
Over the last decade, there has been a shift toward a strategic view of Africa. China and the US import much of their oil from Africa which is clearly...
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194,52 zł |
Globalization and Military Power in the Andes
ISBN: 9780230103870 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through a series of comparative case studies, the author demonstrates that the conflicts and struggles over capitalist globalization in the Andes are intricately connected to the political power of the military in the region.
Through a series of comparative case studies, the author demonstrates that the conflicts and struggles over capitalist globalization in the Andes are ...
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194,52 zł |
The New Voter in Western Europe: France and Beyond
ISBN: 9780230107021 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents the main results of an electoral panel survey, one not only unique and innovative in French electoral research but also among the most detailed panel studies in Europe. The survey was conducted among a sample of 1,846 French voters interviewed in four waves during the 2007 presidential and legislative elections in the context of Nicolas Sarkozy's victory. The analysis provides an understanding of how decisions on voting are made, the process of electoral decision-making, and the mechanisms used by voters to make choices, and attempts to identify the social, political, and...
This book presents the main results of an electoral panel survey, one not only unique and innovative in French electoral research but also among the m...
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194,52 zł |
Assessing George W. Bush's Legacy: The Right Man?
ISBN: 9780230108585 / Angielski / Twarda / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the legacy of the Bush presidency in term of presidential leadership, politics, and public policy. It focuses on Bush's expansion of presidential power in pursuit of the 'war on terror, ' the ideological and pragmatic foundations of presidential politics, and the complexity of Bush's domestic and foreign policy legacies
This book examines the legacy of the Bush presidency in term of presidential leadership, politics, and public policy. It focuses on Bush's expansion o...
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194,52 zł |
The Roots of Balkanization: Eastern Europe C.E. 500-1500
ISBN: 9780761851349 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes the historical changes that took place in the Balkan Peninsula after the collapse of the Roman Empire and their impact in Eastern lands. It develops conclusions reached in the author's previous book, Dacia: Land of Transylvania, Cornerstone of Ancient Eastern Europe, covering 500 B.C.-A.D. 500.
This book describes the historical changes that took place in the Balkan Peninsula after the collapse of the Roman Empire and their impact in Eastern ...
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318,87 zł |
Inside China's Grand Strategy: The Perspective from the People's Republic
ISBN: 9780813126456 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China's enormous size, vast population, abundant natural resources, robust economy, and modern military suggest that it will emerge as a great world power. Inside China's Grand Strategy: The Perspective from the People's Republic offers unique insights from a prominent Chinese scholar about the country's geopolitical ambitions and strategic thinking. Ye Zicheng, professor of political science in the School of International Studies at Peking University, examines China's interactions with current world powers as well as its policies toward neighboring countries. Despite claims that repressive...
China's enormous size, vast population, abundant natural resources, robust economy, and modern military suggest that it will emerge as a great world p...
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182,78 zł |