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This book analyzes the effects of economic, social, and political disruptions that have come with integration into the global economy for countries in five different regions and the developing world as a whole. One consequence of such disruptions is increased levels...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
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Established in the wake of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-8 by the Australian army officer Major-General Walter Cawthorne, then Deputy Chief of Staff in the Pakistan Army, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for years remained an under-developed and obscure...
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Hurst
Parution :
2016-11-15
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As the world shifts away from the unquestioned American hegemony that followed in the wake of the Cold War, the United States is likely to face new kinds of threats and sharper resource constraints than it has in the past. However, the country's alliances, military...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-01
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No topic has captured the public imagination of late quite so dramatically as the specter of global jihadism. While much has been said about the way jihadists behave, their ideology remains poorly understood. As the Levant has imploded and millenarian radicals claim to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-01
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No topic has captured the public imagination of late quite so dramatically as the specter of global jihadism. While much has been said about the way jihadists behave, their ideology remains poorly understood. As the Levant has imploded and millenarian radicals claim to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-01
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Hybrid conflicts are characterized by multi-layered efforts to undermine the functioning of the State or polarize society.
This book presents results, recommendations and best practices from the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) ""Critical Infrastructure Protection...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2016-10-15
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Islamist militants based in Pakistan have played a major role in terrorism around the world and pose a significant threat to regional and international security. Although the Pakistan-militant connection has received widespread attention only in recent years, it is not...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-06
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Few countries can claim to have endured such a difficult and tortuous history as that of Iraq. Its varied peoples have had to contend with externally imposed state-building at the end of the First World War, through to the rise of authoritarian military regimes, to the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-09-22
Collection :
Hot Spots in Global Politics
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Ist der Islamische Staat (IS) ein Terrornetzwerk, eine Guerillaorganisation oder doch ein Staat? Dieses Buch beantwortet die Frage, indem es hinter die Fassade des Kalifats blickt: Es zeigt auf, wer die Entscheidungsträger des IS sind und nach welcher Ideologie und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-09-02
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'I cannot think of a better biography of a spy chief'Richard Davenport-Hines, The SpectatorSir Maurice Oldfield was one of the most important British spies of the Cold War era. _________A farmer’s son from a provincial grammar school who found himself accidentally...
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Transworld Digital
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2016-09-01
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Conformist, mute and malleable? Andrews tackles head-on this absurd caricature of Japanese society in his fascinating history of its militant sub-cultures, radical societies and well-established traditions of dissent
Following the March 2011 tsunami and Fukushima...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2016-08-15
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The Mumbai blasts of 1993, the attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001, Mumbai 26/11—cross-border terrorism has continued unabated. What can India do to motivate Pakistan to do more to prevent such attacks? In the nuclear times that we live in, where a military...
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OUP India
Parution :
2016-08-04
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A decade and a half of exhausting wars, punishing economic setbacks, and fast-rising rivals has called into question America's fundamental position and purpose in world politics. Will the US continue to be the only superpower in the international system? Should it...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-07-26
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Terrorism is one of the most significant security threats that we face in the twenty-first century. Not surprisingly, there is now a plethora of books on the subject, offering definitions of what terrorism is and proffering advice on what causes it and how states should...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-07-01
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'A magnificent story, brilliantly told. Read it!' Anthony HorowitzSix gentlemen, one goal - the destruction of Hitler's war machineIn the spring of 1939, a top secret organisation was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2016-06-30
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The Ukrainian conflict has come to be considered as the most serious geopolitical crisis in Central and Eastern Europe since the end of the Cold War. Its implications extend well beyond the borders of Ukraine, and its impact on the security of the wider Black Sea region...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2016-06-15
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The police in America belong to the people -- not the other way around. Yet millions of Americans experience their cops as racist, brutal, and trigger-happy: an overly aggressive, militarized enemy of the people. For their part, today's officers feel they are under...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2016-06-07
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We live in a human-rights world. The language of human-rights claims and numerous human-rights institutions shape almost all aspects of our political lives, yet we struggle to know how to judge this development. Scholars give us good reason to be both supportive and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-02
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Traditional analyses of global security cannot explain the degree to which there is "governance" of important security issues -- from combatting piracy to curtailing nuclear proliferation to reducing the contributions of extractive industries to violence and conflict....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-02
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In the United States and Europe, an increasing emphasis on equality has pitted rights claims against each other, raising profound philosophical, moral, legal, and political questions about the meaning and reach of religious liberty. Nowhere has this conflict been more...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-05-31
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