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ThirdWorlds eBook Series

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  • After the Third World?

    Edited by Mark T. Berger ...
    Series series ThirdWorlds
    The emergence of the 'Third World' is generally traced to onset of the Cold War and decolonization in the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1960s and 1970s the "three worlds of development" were central to the wider dynamics of the changing international order. By the 1980s, Third Worldism had peaked entering a period of dramatic decline that paralleled the end of the Cold War. Into the 21st century, the ... Read more

    PHP2,505.98

  • The Long War - Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and Collapsing States

    Edited by Mark T. Berger, Douglas A. Borer ...
    Series series ThirdWorlds
    The rise and fall of the Cold War coincided with the universalization and consolidation of the modern nation-state as the key unit of the wider international system. A key characteristic of the post-Cold War era, in which the US has emerged as the sole superpower, is the growing number of collapsing or collapsed states. A growing number of states are, or have become, mired in conflict or civil war ... Read more

    PHP2,914.03

  • From Nation-Building to State-Building

    Edited by Mark T. Berger ...
    Series series ThirdWorlds
    This book examines the history of nation-building during the era of decolonization and the Cold War, and on the more recent post-Cold War and post-9/11 pursuit of nation-building in what have become known as ‘collapsed’ or ‘failed’ states.In the post-Cold War and post-9/11 era nation-building, or what is increasingly termed state-building, has taken on renewed salience, making it more important ... Read more

    PHP3,846.70

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    by Khalid Koser ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
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  • Nimo's War, Emma's War

    Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War

    by Cynthia Enloe ...
    Nimo, Maha, Safah, Shatha, Emma, Danielle, Kim, Charlene. In a book that once again blends her distinctive flair for capturing the texture of everyday life with shrewd political insights, Cynthia Enloe looks closely at the lives of eight ordinary women, four Iraqis and four Americans, during the Iraq War. Among others, Enloe profiles a Baghdad beauty parlor owner, a teenage girl who survived a ... Read more

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  • Master of Persuasion

    Brian Mulroney's Global Legacy

    by Fen Osler Hampson ...
    Based on unprecedented access--interviews with key players, diaries, memos, etc.--the first book to document Brian Mulroney's impressive foreign policy record, from NAFTA to the collapse of the Soviet Union, climate change to the release of Nelson Mandela.Prime Minister Brian Mulroney led and lifted Canada's voice and influence in world affairs to unprecedented heights. He understood better than ... Read more

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  • International Migration

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Khalid Koser ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In recent years, global migration has transformed in terms of its numbers and reach, its political significance, and its impact. The rising rates of international migration have been matched by growing public and media interest around the world. Today, the political and media attention on migration and greater public interest and concern feed into an international debate that is all too often ... Read more

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  • Season of Rains

    Africa in the World

    by Stephen Ellis ...
    Africa is playing a more important role in world affairs than ever before. Yet the most common images of Africa in the American mind are ones of poverty, starvation, and violent conflict. But while these problems are real, that does not mean that Africa is a lost cause. Instead, as Stephen Ellis explains in Season of Rains, we need to rethink Africa’s place in time if we are to understand it in ... Read more

    PHP1,132.79

  • Restraint

    A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy

    by Barry R. Posen ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    The United States, Barry R. Posen argues in Restraint**, has grown incapable of moderating its ambitions in international politics.** Since the collapse of Soviet power, it has pursued a grand strategy that he calls "liberal hegemony," one that Posen sees as unnecessary, counterproductive, costly, and wasteful. Written for policymakers and observers alike, Restraint explains precisely why this ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy

    Edited by Andrew F. Cooper, Jorge Heine, Ramesh Thakur ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    At a time when diplomatic practices and the demands imposed on diplomats are changing quite radically, and many foreign ministries feel they are being left behind, there is a need to understand the various forces that are affecting the profession. Diplomacy remains a salient activity in today's world in which the basic authoritative actor is still the state. At the same time, in some respects the ... Read more

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  • Solferino 21

    Warfare, Civilians and Humanitarians in the Twenty-First Century

    by Hugo Slim ...
    War is at a tipping point: we're passing from the age of industrial warfare to a new era of computerised warfare, and a renewed risk of great-power conflict. Humanitarian response is also evolving fast--'big aid' demands more and more money, while aid workers try to digitalise, preparing to meet ever-broader needs in the long, big wars and climate crisis of the future.This book draws on the ... Read more

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  • Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century

    by Mark Leonard ...
    Those who believe Europe to be weak and ineffectual are wrong. Turning conventional wisdom on its head Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century sets out a vision for a century in which Europe will dominate, not America. This is the book that will make your mind up about Europe.Those who believe Europe is weak and ineffectual are wrong. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, Mark Leonard, one of the ... Read more

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