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  • The Political Economy of Rural-Urban Conflict

    Predation, Production, and Peripheries

    by Topher L. McDougal ...
    In some cases of insurgency, the combat frontier is contested and erratic, as rebels target cities as their economic prey. In other cases, it is tidy and stable, seemingly representing an equilibrium in which cities are effectively protected from violent non-state actors. What factors account for these differences in the interface between urban-based states and rural-based challengers? To explore ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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    Gaia Wakes

    Earth's Emergent Consciousness in an Age of Environmental Devastation

    by Topher McDougal ...
    Narrated by Topher McDougal ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 27 min

    Gaia Wakes presents a compelling new framework for understanding the past, present, and future of our planet. Starting from a strong foundation in economics and drawing on a vast range of multidisciplinary scholarship, Topher McDougal explores the possibility of a fifth transition towards an upgraded Earth: the development of a technologically enabled planetary brain capable of coordinating ... Read more

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  • The Hawks of Peace: Notes of the Russian Ambassador

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  • Last Days of the Civil War

    The Enormous Silence

    by Bruce Catton ...
    Series series A Vintage Short
    From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning history A Stillness at Appomattox, an electrifying account of the end of the Civil War—Grant and Lee’s final maneuvers as four years of internecine conflict inched to a close.“The end of the war was like the beginning, with the army marching down the open road under the spring sky.” Here is the triumphant close of Bruce Catton’s history of ... Read more

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  • Indefensible

    Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade

    by Paul Holden ...
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  • Small Arms, Crime and Conflict

    Global Governance and the Threat of Armed Violence

    Edited by Owen Greene, Nic Marsh ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    This book focuses on the use of small arms in violence and attempts by the state to govern the use and acquisition of these weapons.It is likely that hundreds of thousands of people are killed every year as a result of armed violence – in contexts ranging from war zones to domestic violence. This edited volume examines why these deaths occur, the role of guns and other weapons, and how governance ... Read more

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  • Protecting Human Rights in the 21st Century

    Edited by Aidan Hehir, Robert W. Murray ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding
    This book contributes to current debates on the protection of human rights in the 21st century.With the global economic collapse, the rise of the BRICS, the post-intervention chaos in Libya, the migration crisis in Europe, and the regional conflagration sparked by the conflict in Syria, the need to protect human rights has arguably never been greater. In light of the precipitous decline in global ... Read more

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  • National Security Cultures

    Patterns of Global Governance

    Edited by Emil J. Kirchner, James Sperling ...
    This edited collection examines changes in national security culture in the wake of international events that have threatened regional or global order, and analyses the effects of these divergent responses on international security.Tracing the links between national security cultures and preferred forms of security governance the work provides a systematic account of perceived security threats and ... Read more

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  • Peacekeeping in Africa

    The evolving security architecture

    Edited by Marco Wyss, Thierry Tardy ...
    Series series CSS Studies in Security and International Relations
    This book provides a comprehensive analysis of peacekeeping in Africa.Recent events in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Mali remind us that violence remains endemic and continues to hamper the institutional, social and economic development of the African continent. Over the years, an increasing number of actors have become involved in the effort to bring peace to Africa. The United ... Read more

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  • When the State Fails

    Studies on Intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War

    Edited by Tunde Zack-Williams ...
    Compared with Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo, the recent western intervention in Sierra Leone has been largely forgotten. When the State Fails rectifies this, providing a comprehensive and critical analysis of the intervention.The civil war in Sierra Leone began in 1991 and was declared officially over in 2002 after UK, UN and regional African military intervention. Some claimed it as a case of ... Read more

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  • Peace First

    A New Model to End War

    by Uri Savir ...
    Uri Savir has an ambitious, indispensable goal: to bring peacemaking into the 21st century. 'ÄúLittle in today'Äôs world,'Äù writes Savir, 'Äúis more progressive than modern warfare. Yet little is more archaic than peacemaking.'Äù We remain trapped in a centuries-old mindset, with leaders bargaining warily for concessions and signing treaties that collapse because no one on the ground has any real ... Read more

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