Power and Policy in Syria : Intelligence Services, Foreign Relations and Democracy in the Modern Middle East
ISBN: 9781780762906 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As Bashar al-Asad rescinds emergency rule in the face of demonstrations and protests, Syria finds itself in a key position in a Middle East beset by regional tensions, the repercussions of the global ""war on terror"" and popular uprisings. The bloodless coup by General Hafez al-Assad, in 1970, put in place a powerful autocratic machinery at the core of the state which continues today under the control of his son Bashar. Here, Radwan Ziadeh presents a fresh and penetrating analysis of Syria's political structure - a ""despotic"" state monopoly, a bureaucratic climate marked by fear, and the...
As Bashar al-Asad rescinds emergency rule in the face of demonstrations and protests, Syria finds itself in a key position in a Middle East beset by r...
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97,56 zł |
Peaceful Resistance: Advancing Human Rights and Democratic Freedoms
ISBN: 9780754647133 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An innovative study that examines how peaceful, domestic tactics by individual human rights activists and organizational activists, with public support, can force an authoritarian regime to make key concessions. Robert Press explores the creation and impact of a culture of resistance. He examines how domestic pressure can be more important than foreign pressure for political reform, especially in underdeveloped, authoritarian states. This study of contemporary Kenya fills a gap in traditional social movement theory to show how a resistance movement actually starts. Contrary to long-dominant...
An innovative study that examines how peaceful, domestic tactics by individual human rights activists and organizational activists, with public suppor...
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472,56 zł |
The Decline and Fall of the United States Information Agency: American Public Diplomacy, 1989-2001
ISBN: 9780230340725 / Angielski / Twarda / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using newly declassified archives and interviews with practitioners, Nicholas J. Cull has pieced together the story of the final decade in the life of the United States Information Agency, revealing the decisions and actions that brought the United States' apparatus for public diplomacy into disarray.
Using newly declassified archives and interviews with practitioners, Nicholas J. Cull has pieced together the story of the final decade in the life of...
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500,03 zł |
Islam, Security and Television News
ISBN: 9780230241459 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on British, French and Russian television news coverage of Islam as a security threat, this book provides the first comparative account of how television broadcasting in different geo- and socio-political environments integrates discourses on Islam into nationally oriented, representational systems.
Focusing on British, French and Russian television news coverage of Islam as a security threat, this book provides the first comparative account of ho...
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192,30 zł |
Deaths of Others: The Fate of Civilians in America's Wars
ISBN: 9780199934010 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Americans are greatly concerned about the number of our troops killed in battle--33,000 in the Korean War; 58,000 in Vietnam; 4,500 in Iraq--and rightly so. But why are we so indifferent, often oblivious, to the far greater number of casualties suffered by those we fight and those we fight for? This is the compelling, largely unasked question John Tirman answers in The Deaths of Others. Between six and seven million people died in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq alone, the majority of them civilians. And yet Americans devote little attention to these deaths. Other countries, however,...
Americans are greatly concerned about the number of our troops killed in battle--33,000 in the Korean War; 58,000 in Vietnam; 4,500 in Iraq--and right...
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171,72 zł |
The Mediterranean Dimension of the European Union's Internal Security
ISBN: 9780230299931 / Angielski / Twarda / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. EU internal security concerns such as migration, police and judicial cooperation are today part of EU foreign policy. This book shows how those concerns have taken over the EU agenda towards Mediterranean countries. Adopting a rational-choice institutionalist approach, it explores EU policy in the region since the turn of this century. Findings provide clues on how to re-design EU policies towards the region following the 2011 Arab revolts. Investigating the cases of border management, counter-terrorism and rule of law promotion through the lens of a rational-choice-historical...
EU internal security concerns such as migration, police and judicial cooperation are today part of EU foreign policy. This book shows how those concer...
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192,30 zł |
Global Matters for Non-Governmental Public Action
ISBN: 9780230290358 / Angielski / Twarda / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jude Howell brings together eight in-depth studies of the politics of global non-governmental public action. Covering detailed empirical research around the themes of environmentalism, security, children's rights and more, the contributors explore the complex politics amongst non-governmental public actors acting transnationally.
Jude Howell brings together eight in-depth studies of the politics of global non-governmental public action. Covering detailed empirical research arou...
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192,30 zł |
Lessons and Legacies of the War on Terror: From Moral Panic to Permanent War
ISBN: 9780415638418 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A decade after 9/11, it is increasingly difficult to deny that terror has prevailed - not as a specific enemy, but as a way of life. This book examines the social, cultural, and political drivers of the war on terror through the framework of a 'political moral panic'.
A decade after 9/11, it is increasingly difficult to deny that terror has prevailed - not as a specific enemy, but as a way of life. This book examine...
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744,88 zł |
Comparative Regionalism: Economics and Security
ISBN: 9780415622783 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Comparative regionalism is now an established field of inquiry, with a large community of researchers around the world. This book seeks to provide a window onto the intellectual evolution of this area of inquiry, with a special emphasis on non-European regions.
Comparative regionalism is now an established field of inquiry, with a large community of researchers around the world. This book seeks to provide a w...
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770,57 zł |
Suicide Warfare: Culture, the Military, and the Individual as a Weapon
ISBN: 9780313398643 / Angielski / Twarda / 337 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Suicide warfare has expanded over the years and become a global phenomenon. In some parts of the world, it has become rooted in the fabric of society. Westerners often find it difficult to grasp why someone would be willing to sacrifice their life in order to take the lives of others. "Suicide Warfare: Culture, the Military, and the Individual as a Weapon" provides a thorough examination of the topic that enables readers to understand the justification for suicide warfare and better appreciate how the ideology of the individuals and organizations that resort to suicide warfare greatly... Suicide warfare has expanded over the years and become a global phenomenon. In some parts of the world, it has become rooted in the fabric of socie... |
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319,04 zł |
Contesting Security: Strategies and Logics
ISBN: 9780415643863 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contesting Security investigates to what extent the 'logic of security', which underpins securitization, can be contained, rolled back or dismantled. Featuring legitimacy as a cement of security practices, this volume presents a detailed account of the "logic" which sustains security in order to develop a novel approach to the relation between security and the policies in which it is engraved. Understanding security as a normative practice, the contributors suggest a nuanced, and richer take on the conditions under which it is possible, advisable or fair to accept or roll... Contesting Security investigates to what extent the 'logic of security', which underpins securitization, can be contained, rolled back or ... |
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Critics and Crusaders: Political Economy and the American Quest for Freedom
ISBN: 9781412847704 / Angielski / Miękka / 534 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The quest for freedom has always been a defining characteristic of the American people. That neither constitutionalism nor capitalism has secured complete freedom for every person is demonstrated by media announcements of slavery, oppression, exploitation, and a variety of shortcomings in the economic system. That said, and as this volume seeks to demonstrate through a history of radical commentaries, there have always been bold spirits who fight for such ambitious heights. With changing times, freedom meant different things to those who worked for it. This book in its broadest sense is a...
The quest for freedom has always been a defining characteristic of the American people. That neither constitutionalism nor capitalism has secured comp...
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225,98 zł |
The New Social Control: The Institutional Web, Normativity and the Social Bond
ISBN: 9781926958170 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Freedom and control are usually understood as opposites but what if they merged? Consumption, management and administration are everywhere. We are no longer supposed to depend on one other. Instead, institutions and organizations form a dense web that radically transform our past relations into ready-made, fragmented norms.
Thus, we are increasingly controlled not by coercion but by competition and efficiency, aspiration and fear, to the point where a new era in human sociality is starting. Moving beyond existing critiques, Lianos argues that capitalism does not show itself as a... Freedom and control are usually understood as opposites but what if they merged? Consumption, management and administration are everywhere. We are no ...
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190,24 zł |
One If by Land: What Every American Needs to Know about Our Border
ISBN: 9781604948202 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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90,32 zł |
Reimagining War in the 21st Century: From Clausewitz to Network-Centric Warfare
ISBN: 9780415642040 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book interrogates the philosophical backdrop of Clausewitzian notions of war, and asks whether modern, network-centric militaries can still be said to serve the 'political'.
This book interrogates the philosophical backdrop of Clausewitzian notions of war, and asks whether modern, network-centric militaries can still be sa...
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277,36 zł |
Routledge Handbook of Global Health Security
ISBN: 9780415645478 / Angielski / Twarda / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new Handbook presents an overview of cutting-edge research in the growing field of global health security. Over the past decade, the study of global health and its interconnection with security has become a prominent and rapidly growing field of research. Ongoing debates question whether health and security should be linked; which (if any) health issues should be treated as security threats; what should be done to address health security threats; and the positive and negative consequences of 'securitizing' health. In academic and policy terms, the health security field is a timely and...
This new Handbook presents an overview of cutting-edge research in the growing field of global health security. Over the past decade, the study of glo...
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New Agendas in Statebuilding: Hybridity, Contingency and History
ISBN: 9780415660716 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume connects the study of statebuilding to broader aspects of social theory and the historical study of the state, bringing forth new questions and starting-points, both academically and practically, for the field. Building states has become a highly prioritized issue in international politics. Since the 1990s, mainly Western countries and international institutions have invested large sums of money, vast amounts of manpower, and considerable political capital in ventures of this kind all across the globe. Most of the focus in current literature is on the acute cases, such as... This volume connects the study of statebuilding to broader aspects of social theory and the historical study of the state, bringing forth new quest... |
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770,57 zł |
Strategic Studies: A Reader
ISBN: 9780415661119 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second edition of Strategic Studies: A Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field. This revised volume contains several new essays and updated introductions to each section. The volume comprises hard-to-find classics in the field as well as the latest scholarship. The aim is to provide students with a wide-ranging survey of the key issues in strategic studies, and to provide an introduction to the main ideas and themes in the field. The book contains six extensive sections, each of which is prefaced by a short introductory... The second edition of Strategic Studies: A Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field. ... |
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924,68 zł |
Tactical Nuclear Weapons and Euro-Atlantic Security: The Future of NATO
ISBN: 9780415635349 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a comprehensive examination of the important security issue of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. Nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament have returned to the top of the international political agenda. The issue assumes particular importance in regard to NATO, given that some 150 200 US tactical nuclear weapons (TNWs) are still present in five countries belonging to the Alliance (Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey). The past few years have seen animated debate in the United States and Europe on the role of such weapons in the current scenario of... This book offers a comprehensive examination of the important security issue of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. Nuclear nonproliferation and... |
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770,57 zł |
Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives
ISBN: 9781451663488 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New York Times bestselling memoir about the creation and implementation of the controversial Enhanced Interrogation Techniques by the former Chief Operations Officer for the CIA's Counterterrorism Center. AS SEEN ON 60 MINUTES The explosive New York Times bestseller by the pioneer of the CIA's highly controversial "enhanced interrogation techniques" Former Chief of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr., reveals how, in the wake of 9/11, government-approved hard measures used on captured high-level al Qa'ida operatives derailed...
The New York Times bestselling memoir about the creation and implementation of the controversial Enhanced Interrogation Techniques by the fo...
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72,72 zł |