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The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat
The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat
by Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr
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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)

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Sudan, South Sudan, and Darfur (12 Edition)
Sudan, South Sudan, and Darfur (12 Edition)
by Andrew S. Natsios
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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)

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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It
by Paul Collier
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'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)

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Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta
Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta
by Gore Vidal
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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)

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Human Rights, Power and Civic Action: Comparative Analyses of Struggles for Rights in Developing Societies (Routledge Research in Human Rights)
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
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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)

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The Post-American World: Release 2.0
The Post-American World: Release 2.0
by Fareed Zakaria
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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)

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The Origins of Political Order
The Origins of Political Order
by Francis Fukuyama
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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)

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The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
by David C Korten
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* 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)

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Changing Rules of Delegation
Changing Rules of Delegation
by Adrienne Heritier
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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)

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The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
by George Friedman
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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)

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The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War
The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War
by Robert D Kaplan
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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)

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Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
by Gerard Prunier
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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)

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The Future of Power
The Future of Power
by Joseph S Jr Nye
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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)

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Wars, Guns, and Votes : Democracy in Dangerous Places (09 Edition)
Wars, Guns, and Votes : Democracy in Dangerous Places (09 Edition)
by Paul Collier
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“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)

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Defending the Free Market (12 Edition)
Defending the Free Market (12 Edition)
by Sirico Robert
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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)

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Nuclear Family Vacation
Nuclear Family Vacation
by Nathan Hodge
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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)

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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins
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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)

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Human Security in a Borderless World
Human Security in a Borderless World
by Derek Reveron
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 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)

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Policy Governance in Multi-Level Systems: Economic Development and Policy Implementation in Canada
Policy Governance in Multi-Level Systems: Economic Development and Policy Implementation in Canada
by Charles Conteh
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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)

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Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Re-Shaping the World
Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Re-Shaping the World
by Benjamin R Barber
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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)

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