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Politics of place volume 4
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Scribner
Pub. Date
[2021]
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304 pages 24 cm.
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"Marshall takes us into ten regions that are set to shape global politics and power. Find out why the Earth's atmosphere is the world's next battleground; why the fight for the Pacific is just beginning; and why Europe's next refugee crisis is closer than we think. In ten chapters covering Australia, The Sahel, Greece, Turkey, the UK, Iran, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Spain and Space, Marshall explains how a region's geography and physical characteristics...
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Haymarket Books
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2017.
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359 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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"In a completely original analysis, prize-winning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America's rise as a world power--from the 1890s through the Cold War--and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military alliances. McCoy then analyzes the marquee instruments of US hegemony--covert intervention, client elites, psychological torture, and worldwide surveillance....
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Navigating terrorist attacks, illegal arms trading and smear campaigns, Pauline Green, the country's first women president, is caught in a complex web of alliances with the most powerful countries that are being orchestrated by the enemy, and only those with the most elite skills can stop the inevitable.
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We've found ourselves pitted against one another like never before.
Why has the world suddenly, become so polarized?
Our beliefs about current events have us fighting against each other.
The anonymous intelligence insider known as "Q" says politicians and the media have created a false narrative about current events that conceal corruption from the public. Some choose to trust the media. Others choose not to. And, therein lies the root of our struggle.
In...
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Are we living under a two-tiered system of justice?
Why do the wealthy and powerful escape prosecution for their crimes?
Why is there so much pain and suffering in the world?
Is anything being done about it?
Using a combination of wit, wisdom, and gravity, an unknown intelligence insider-identified simply as "Q" has been, communicating with anonymous citizens (anons) through internet message forums since 2017. These online exchanges bear no resemblance...
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Harper, and imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2021.
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viii, 323 pages ; 24 cm
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For decades, private eyes from Allan Pinkerton, who formed the first detective agency in the U.S., to Jules Kroll, who transformed the investigations business by giving it a corporate veneer, private spies were content to stand in the shadows. Now, that is all changing. High-profile stories grabbing recent headlines - the Steele Dossier, Black Cube, the Theranos scandal, Harvey Weinstein's attacks on his accusers - all share a common thread, the...
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Diversion Books, a division of Diversion Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021].
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xxv, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"In an era of climate change, resource scrambles and digital revolution, when nations are rejecting open borders and turning inward, what will become of our borders? In Border Wars, Professor Klaus Dodds takes us on a journey into tomorrow's geopolitical conflicts. From no man's lands to the space race, we discover how the best-known border conflicts of our age are intensifying, and explore the dangerous and often unexpected sites of border conflict...
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The fall of the Berlin Wall, symbol of the bipolar order that emerged after World War II, seemed to inaugurate an age of ever fewer borders. The liberalization and integration of markets, the creation of vast free-trade zones, the birth of a new political and monetary union in Europe-all seemed to point in that direction. Only thirty years later, the tendency appears to be quite the opposite. Talk of a wall with Mexico is only one sign among many...
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El territorio como extensión que corresponde a un Estado, tiene identidad y características propias, y es en ese espacio donde los conflictos se presentan cuando dos o más naciones se enfrentan por la posesión o control.Los conflictos territoriales han estado presentes en la historia generados por muchas circunstancias, entre ellas se destaca el deseo de un país de apoderarse de los recursos naturales y riquezas materiales de otro justificando...
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Our national and global affairs are in perilous disarray, to the point where extremely sober observers are saying that we have brought imminent catastrophe upon ourselves and that it is just too late to escape. While candidly admitting the difficulty and the danger, Of Thee I Sing nonetheless insists that something enormously significant and wonderful is actually coming to pass on this planetthat like a chick (out of food and space) pecking its way...
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En 2018, le journaliste allemand Emran Feroz a mené une série d'entretiens avec Noam Chomsky à l'université d'Arizona, près de la frontière avec le Mexique. Ce grand analyste de notre époque y discute notamment de ce qu'on a appelle à tort la «crise des migrants» et de l'impérialisme, du réchauffement planétaire et de la menace nucléaire, de la présidence de Donald Trump, de la responsabilité des intellectuels, des religions et de...
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"Securing Iran's Future" delves into the unintended geopolitical consequences of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, with a particular focus on how the ensuing power vacuum and regional upheaval inadvertently bolstered Iran's strategic position in the Middle East. Through a nuanced examination of political, military, and diplomatic dynamics, the book provides readers with a fresh perspective on the interconnectedness of regional events and their profound...
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Le secteur minier apparaît depuis quelques années comme un élément central et fondamental dans le processus de développement de bien des pays, dont ceux de l'Asie du Sud-Est. En effet, il s'impose de plus en plus comme un atout stratégique pour les pays de la région. Sources de richesses et de rivalités, les ressources minières sont ainsi intégrées dans les politiques nationales de développement.
Cet ouvrage traite du développement du...
14) Pertinencia y convergencia de la integración latinoamericana en un contexto de cambios mundiales
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Salir del estancamiento y la disgregación en que se encuentra la integración de América Latina supone una voluntad política, real y efectiva, de los Gobiernos, fruto de una acción concertada entre estos, organismos internacionales, instituciones responsables del proceso de integración y los diferentes actores interesados en el proceso, dentro de los cuales se encuentran la sociedad civil y la academia, este último actor fundamental. Para ello,...
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Este libro plantea algunas concepciones alternativas presentes en los debates en torno a la integración latinoamericana, a partir de conceptos clásicos sobre el desarrollo, el liderazgo, la soberanía, el Estado y la diplomacia. Estos conceptos han replanteado y orientado las discusiones y reflexiones planteadas en el presente tomo a partir de enfoques alternativos como el ecologismo, la integración energética, la relación desarrollo-autonomía...
16) The Secret Ants Society and the Government Cover-Up: The Film Animation Story: Part 1 and Part 2
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The secret ants society and the government cover-up. The film animation story is about life and hardship in the UK and the struggles for people to pay there bills and feed their families, and being out of work claiming money from the state to pay bills and keep a roof over their heads. One man determination to stand up and fight for the good of the British people to write a book to expose the government leaders that is making life hard for the people...
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Cuando pase la pandemia y sobrevenga la pospandemia, habrá que enfrentar los profundos cambios en el sistema internacional que conducirán hacia un nuevo orden mundial. Dichos cambios cubren diversos frentes: el económico, el geopolítico, el social o el ambiental, y un instrumento como la integración se debe preparar para atender de manera cooperativa, solidaria y consensuada tales retos. En el ámbito económico se produce una revalorización...
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Why have there been so many violent conflicts in 2014? Aftermath offers an insider's view of how each conflict started, what it means, and the common thread driving increased warfare around the world. By giving voice to the experiences of a new generation of veterans Aftermath provides a novel framework for managing global affairs. Aftermath addresses the recent conflicts which have dominated the world stage: civil war in Ukraine, ISIS in Syria and...
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"The Arctic Boom" delves into one of the 21st century's most profound geopolitical shifts, as melting polar ice caps have transformed the once-impassable Arctic region into a realm rife with opportunity and competition. With a particular focus on the ambitious pursuits of Canada and Russia, this meticulously researched volume offers readers a panoramic view of the evolving Arctic landscape and its economic, political, and environmental implications.The...
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Son muy variados los cambios que la covid-19 traerá en la pospandemia, la cual será una dura etapa de recuperación de los profundos estragos que deja el coronavirus y se dependerá de las decisiones que tome la humanidad, si serán mayoritariamente favorables con la construcción de un entorno más cooperativo y solidario o si se agrandarán aún más las diferencias entre países desarrollados y en desarrollo y entre estratos sociales. Un ajuste...
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