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The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat by Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr Publisher Comments In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world. Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking The Shia Revival... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sudan, South Sudan, and Darfur (12 Edition) by Andrew S. Natsios Publisher Comments For thirty years Sudan has been a country in crisis, wracked by near-constant warfare between the north and the south. But on July 9, 2011, South Sudan became an independent nation. As Sudan once again finds itself the focus of international attention... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It by Paul Collier Publisher Comments 'Global poverty, Paul Collier points out, is actually falling quite rapidly for about eighty percent of the world. The real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing states, the bottom billion, whose problems defy traditional approaches to alleviating... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta by Gore Vidal Publisher Comments When Gore Vidal's recent New York Times bestseller Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace was published, the Los Angeles Times described Vidal as the last defender of the American republic. In Dreaming War, Vidal continues this defense by confronting the... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Human Rights, Power and Civic Action: Comparative Analyses of Struggles for Rights in Developing Societies (Routledge Research in Human Rights) by Bard A. (edt) Andreassen Synopsis Human Rights, Power and Non-Governmental Action examines the interrelationship between struggles for human rights and the dynamics of power. It focuses on how local and national struggles for rights have been constrained by power relations and structural... (read more) Your price: $125.00 New - Hardcover
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The Post-American World: Release 2.0 by Fareed Zakaria Publisher Comments This is not a book about thedecline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else. So beginsFareed Zakaria s blockbuster on the United States in the twenty-first century, and the trends he identifies have proceeded faster than anyone anticipated.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community by David C Korten Publisher Comments * Sweeping survey of world history offering a new understanding of the key challenge of our time* Offers a positive message of hope for a sustainable and just future and a practical strategy for getting thereIn The Great Turning, David Korten argues that... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Changing Rules of Delegation by Adrienne Heritier Publisher Comments With each legislative issue, legislators have to decide whether to delegate decision-making to the executive and/or to expert bodies in order to flesh out the details of this legislation, or, alternatively, to spell out all aspects of this decision in... (read more) Your price: $98.95 New - Hardcover
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The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman Publisher Comments A fascinating, eye-opening and often shocking look at what lies ahead for the U.S. and the world from one of our most incisive futurists. In his thought-provoking new book, George Friedman, founder of STRATFOR—the preeminent private... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War by Robert D Kaplan Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts and The Ends of the Earth comes a fascinating new book on the imminent global chaos that is as brilliant as it is necessary, as original as it is controversial. The end of the Cold War has not ushered in the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe by Gerard Prunier Publisher Comments The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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The Future of Power by Joseph S Jr Nye Publisher Comments Power evolves. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, unsurpassed in military strength and ownership of world resources, the United States was indisputably the most powerful nation in the world. But the global information age is rendering these... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Wars, Guns, and Votes : Democracy in Dangerous Places (09 Edition) by Paul Collier Publisher Comments “Collier has made a substantial contribution to current discussions. His evidence-based approach is a worthwhile corrective to the assumptions about democracy that too often tend to dominate when Western policy makers talk about the bottom billion.&... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Defending the Free Market (12 Edition) by Sirico Robert Publisher Comments Praise for Defending the Free Market Ive been eagerly anticipating such a book from Father Sirico for a long time. The man has delivered magnificently. Defending the Free Market does more than the title suggests. It celebrates the miracle of... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Nuclear Family Vacation by Nathan Hodge Publisher Comments In A Nuclear Family Vacation, husband-and-wife journalists Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger hit the road to explore the secretive world of nuclear weaponry. Weaving together first-class travel writing and crack investigative journalism, the pair... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins Publisher Comments In his controversial book, John Perkins tells the gripping tale of the years he spent working for an international consulting firm where his job was to convince underdeveloped countries to accept enormous loans, much bigger than they really needed, for... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Human Security in a Borderless World by Derek Reveron Publisher Comments To fully understand contemporary security studies, we must move beyond the traditional focus on major national powers and big wars. Modern threats to security include issues such as globalization, climate change, pandemic diseases, endemic poverty,... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price: $18.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Policy Governance in Multi-Level Systems: Economic Development and Policy Implementation in Canada by Charles Conteh Publisher Comments The past two decades have witnessed dramatic shifts in public policy, with increasing complexity not only in the relationships between the state, society, and the private sector, but also in the interactions among various orders of government in places... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Re-Shaping the World by Benjamin R Barber Publisher Comments Jihad vs. McWorld is a groundbreaking work, an elegant and illuminating analysis of the central conflict of our times: consumerist capitalism versus religious and tribal fundamentalism. These diametrically opposed but strangely intertwined forces are... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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