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Author : Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Andizhon (Andizhon viloi︠a︡ti, Uzbekistan)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Sarah Chayes
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780393246537
Winner of the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest. "I can’t imagine a more important book for our time." —Sebastian Junger The world is blowing up. Every day a new blaze seems to ignite: the bloody implosion of Iraq and Syria; the East-West standoff in Ukraine; abducted schoolgirls in Nigeria. Is there some thread tying these frightening international security crises together? In a riveting account that weaves history with fast-moving reportage and insider accounts from the Afghanistan war, Sarah Chayes identifies the unexpected link: corruption. Since the late 1990s, corruption has reached such an extent that some governments resemble glorified criminal gangs, bent solely on their own enrichment. These kleptocrats drive indignant populations to extremes—ranging from revolution to militant puritanical religion. Chayes plunges readers into some of the most venal environments on earth and examines what emerges: Afghans returning to the Taliban, Egyptians overthrowing the Mubarak government (but also redesigning Al-Qaeda), and Nigerians embracing both radical evangelical Christianity and the Islamist terror group Boko Haram. In many such places, rigid moral codes are put forth as an antidote to the collapse of public integrity. The pattern, moreover, pervades history. Through deep archival research, Chayes reveals that canonical political thinkers such as John Locke and Machiavelli, as well as the great medieval Islamic statesman Nizam al-Mulk, all named corruption as a threat to the realm. In a thrilling argument connecting the Protestant Reformation to the Arab Spring, Thieves of State presents a powerful new way to understand global extremism. And it makes a compelling case that we must confront corruption, for it is a cause—not a result—of global instability.
Author : Adeeb Khalid
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780691161396
Adeeb Khalid provides a comprehensive history of Central Asia from the mid-18th century to today, shedding light on the historical forces that have shaped the region under imperial and Communist rule
Author : William Pembroke Fetridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Paris (France)
ISBN : UOM:39015056785143
Author : Matt Lynn
Publisher : Headline
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755371716
The third thrilling action adventure novel in the Death Force series, SHADOW FORCE plunges the team of hardened mercenaries into a battle to defeat Somali pirates.Somalia, 2010: Somali-based pirates are attacking ships off the coast of Africa, demanding tens of millions of dollars in ransoms, and pushing up the cost of shipping along one of the world's most valuable trade routes. The elite fighting men from Death Inc are thrown into action in their most dangerous mission yet. They are the British government's Shadow Force: a top-secret unit, sent into Somalia to destroy the pirates. But it soon becomes clear they have been thrown into a deadly conspiracy, in which only they are expendable...
Author : Katherine Graney
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190055080
" Nearly three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, early hopes for the integration of the post-Soviet states into a "Europe whole and free" seem to have been decisively dashed. Europe itself is in the midst of a multifaceted crisis that threatens the considerable gains of the post-war liberal European experiment. In Russia, the Former Soviet Republics, and Europe Since 1989, Katherine Graney provides a panoramic and historically-rooted overview of the process of "Europeanization" in Russia and all fourteen of the former Soviet republics since 1989. Graney argues that deeply rooted ideas about Europe's cultural-civilizational primacy and concerns about both ideological and institutional alignment with Europe continue to influence both internal politics in contemporary Europe and the processes of Europeanization in the post-Soviet world. By comparing the effect of the phenomenon across Russia and the ex-republics, Graney provides a theoretically grounded and empirically rich window into how we should study politics in the former USSR. "--
Author : Kyle J. Wolfley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538150658
Winner of the Andrew F. Krepinevich Writing Award A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Selected for the Irregular Warfare Initiative’s Inaugural Reading List (2022) In today’s complex international environment, how do the United States, China, and Russia manage the return of great power competition as well as the persistent threat of violent non-state actors? This book explores "shaping": the use of military power to construct a more favorable environment by influencing the characteristics of other militaries, altering the relationships between them, or managing the behavior of allies. As opposed to traditional strategies of warfighting or coercion, shaping relies less on threats, demonstrations, and uses of violence and more on attraction, persuasion, and legitimacy. Because shaping relies more on soft power than on hard power, this approach contradicts the conventional wisdom of the purpose militaries serve. Kyle J. Wolfley explores the emergence of shaping in classical strategy and its increased frequency following the end of the Cold War when threats and allies became more ambiguous. He illustrates the four logics of shaping—attraction, socialization, delegation, and assurance—through five case studies of recent major military exercise programs led by the United States, China, India, the United Kingdom, and Russia. Moreover, the author reveals through sentiment analysis and statistics of over one thousand multinational exercises from 1980 to 2016 how major powers reacted to a complex international environment by expanding the number and scope of shaping exercises. Illuminating an understudied but surprisingly common tool of military statecraft, this book offers a fresh understanding of military power in today's competitive international system.
Author : Manfred Nowak,Moritz Birk,Giuliana Monina
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1361 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198846178
"Published with the support of Austrian Science Fund (FWF): PUB 644-G."
Author : John Dowson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382814939
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Henry M. Elliot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : India
ISBN : ONB:+Z252621406
Author : Sandra Reyes,John DuVal
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998-07-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781557285126
Editor Sandra Reyes has gathered a panoramic sampling of the work of twenty-three poets and eighteen fiction writers. Focusing predominantly on living practicing writers this anthology defines the current literary voice of Bolivia and gives us a distillation of the contemporary Bolivian consciousness.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNN:BN000614750
Author : Sebastian Schmidt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190097752
"In the years around the Second World War, policymakers in the United States and Western Europe faced unique security challenges occasioned by the development of new technologies and the emergence of transnational ideological conflict. In coming to terms with these challenges, they developed the historically novel practice in which a state might maintain a long-term, peacetime military presence on the territory of another sovereign state without the subjugation of the latter. Such basing arrangements between substantive equals were previously unthinkable: under the inherited understanding of sovereignty, in which there was a tight linkage between military presence and territorial authority, such military presences could only be understood in terms of occupation or annexation. These "sovereign basing" practices, as I call them, are now central to many aspects of contemporary security politics. This book applies concepts derived from pragmatist thought to a historical study of the relations between the United States and its wartime allies to explain the origin of this phenomenon. A pragmatist lens draws attention to how the actors involved creatively recombined inherited practices in response to changes in the material and social context of action and thereby transformed the practice of sovereignty. The tools offered by pragmatism provide needed analytical leverage over the emergence of novelty and offer valuable insight into the dynamics of stability and change. The practice of sovereign basing, bound up as it is now with the constitution of interests and understanding of how states exercise power, is likely a durable feature of international politics."--
Author : Bagila Bukharbayeva
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253040848
As a young reporter in Uzbekistan, Bagila Bukharbayeva was a witness to her countrys search for an identity after the collapse of the Soviet Union. While self-proclaimed religious leaders argued about what was the true Islam, Bukharbayeva shows how some of the neighborhood boys became religious, then devout, and then a threat to the country's authoritarian government. The Vanishing Generation provides an unparalleled look into what life is like in a religious sect, the experience of people who live for months and even years in hiding, and the fabricated evidence, torture, and kidnappings that characterize an authoritarian government. In doing so, she provides a rare and unforgettable story of what life is like today inside the secretive and tightly controlled country of Uzbekistan. Balancing intimate memories of playmates and neighborhood crushes with harrowing stories of extremism and authoritarianism, Bukharbayeva gives a voice to victims whose stories would never otherwise be heard.
Author : Alejandro de Quesada
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849085694
On March 9, 1916, troops under the command of Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico and its local detachment of the US 13th Cavalry Regiment, killing 18 people and burning the town. Six days later, on orders from President Woodrow Wilson, General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing led an expeditionary force of 4,800 men into Mexico to capture Villa. What followed was a series of skirmishes, battles, and chases through the wild and uncharted Mexican countryside. While the Americans failed in their ultimate purpose of catching Villa, they did kill two of his top lieutenants. This book charts the progress of the entire enterprise, covering the dusty marches and the bitter gunfights in the streets of small border towns, analyzing the successes and failures of this unique military expedition.
