Impossible Peace

Author : Mark Levine
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848137035

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Impossible Peace by Mark Levine Pdf

In 1993 luminaries from around the world signed the 'Oslo Accords' - a pledge to achieve lasting peace in the Holy Land - on the lawn of the White House. Yet things didn't turn out quite as planned. With over 1, 000 Israelis and close to four times that number of Palestinians killed since 2000, the Oslo process is now considered 'history'. Impossible Peace provides one of the first comprehensive analyses of that history. Mark LeVine argues that Oslo was never going to bring peace or justice to Palestinians or Israelis. He claims that the accords collapsed not because of a failure to live up to the agreements; but precisely because of the terms of and ideologies underlying the agreements. Today more than ever before, it's crucial to understand why these failures happened and how they will impact on future negotiations towards the 'final status agreement'. This fresh and honest account of the peace process in the Middle East shows how by learning from history it may be possible to avoid the errors that have long doomed peace in the region.

Author : Anne Deighton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0198278985

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The Impossible Peace by Anne Deighton Pdf

A new interpretation of the British government's policy towards Germany in the years immediately after 1945, and a reassessment of the part this policy played in the development of the Cold War.

Author : Josian Frampton
Publisher : First Edition Design Pub.
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781622874798

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Pray and Watch the Impossible Happen by Josian Frampton Pdf

This journey on prayer is meant to expose the supernatural capabilities of God. It unleashes insight into the unlimited power of God when we pray. Found within its pages, is empowerment to defeat intimidation caused by uncertainties and impossibilities. This book will encourage unwavering faith capable of bringing phenomenal results through prayers. Pray and Watch the Impossible Happen drives belief and compels one to fall on their knees. Its exploration of prayer is unique in that, it provides a fascinating spiritual depth on the subject. It is empowering, inspirational and convicting. This book is certain to change the way you pray and reach God. This book identifies prayer as the key component to spiritual maturity. When consciously exercised, prayer yields answers in the face of child - like faith. Consequently, it is one’s belief which makes the difference in the responses received from God. There are many people who believe in God, but they do not believe what God says. The book encourages people to believe in the realness of God. His capability to answer every prayer and meet every need, is based on the promise of His word. During Christ’s ministry on earth, he always asked people about their belief when he was about to heal or perform a miracle. After each healing he’d also remind them that it was their faith that made them well. Author Bio: Josian Frampton is a graduate from Andrews University Theological Seminary. She is a licensed minister, public speaker and currently serves as an evangelist. keywords: Captivating, Inspirational, Motivating, Eye - Opening, Fascinating, Intriguing, Powerful, Life - Altering, Informing, Spiritually Charging

Author : Cengiz Çandar
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498587518

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Turkey’s Mission Impossible by Cengiz Çandar Pdf

This is a work of excavation of the modern history of Turkey, with the Kurdish question at its center, unearthed and exposed in Çandar’s captivating narrative. The founding of a Turkish nation-state in Asia Minor brought with it the denial of the distinct Kurdish identity in its midst, giving birth to an intractable problem that led to intermittent Kurdish revolts and culminated in the enduring insurgency of the PKK. The Kurdish question is perceived as a mortal threat for the survival of Turkey. The author weaves a fascinating account of the encounter between Turkey and the Kurds in historical perspective with special emphasis on failed peace processes. Providing a unique historical record of the authoritarian, centralist and ultra-nationalist—rather than Islamist—nature of the Turkish state rooted in the last decades of the Ottoman period and finally manifested in Erdoğan’s “New Turkey,” Çandar challenges stereotyped and conventional views on the Turkey of today and tomorrow. Turkey’s Mission Impossible: War and Peace with the Kurds combines scholarly research with the memoirs of a participant observer, richly revealing the author’s first-hand knowledge of developments acquired over a lifetime devoted to the resolution of perhaps the most complex problem of the Middle East.

Author : Claude-François baron de Méneval
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : France
ISBN : HARVARD:HWKHAT

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Memoirs Illustrating the History of Napoleon I from 1802 to 1815 by Claude-François baron de Méneval Pdf

"Claude François Meneval ( 2 April 1778 - Paris ? 18 June 1850 - Paris , buried in the cemetery of Montmartre ), private secretary of Napoleon I and his closest collaborator of 1802 to 1813 , was a diarist of the nineteenth century."--Wikipedia.

Author : Wilhelm Ihne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Rome
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6D8Z

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Early Rome by Wilhelm Ihne Pdf

Author : Ruedi Baur,Vera Baur Kockot
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Design
ISBN : 3037782439

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Signs for Peace by Ruedi Baur,Vera Baur Kockot Pdf

Can one visualize peace? Are there signs, symbols, and images that present a positive image of peace as opposed to receiving their meanings in opposition to war? Over several years of research, the Design2context Institute has intensively examined the representation and representability of peace and has compiled a comprehensive collection of images. In order to include a number of historical, cultural, and political perspectives, the archival aspect is supplemented by workshops in crisis regions. The encyclopedia--which, as new sociopolitical situations continue to arise and call for new pictures, must inevitably remain incomplete--provides a broad overview of the iconography of peace, and is also intended to assist in gaining an understanding of the concept. This book represents a significant contribution to future discussions on the need and desire for peace in political and social life.

Author : Dr. Jacques-Raphaël Georges
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781524512996

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The Betrayal by Dr. Jacques-Raphaël Georges Pdf

There is a thought that has been attributed to the Haitian Molire, or Alcibiade: All countries are developing while Haiti is enveloping. When one reads the following 1903 letter written by the nationalist physician Dr. Rosalvo Bobo, it could be easy to swear it was just written a minute ago. It is hard to believe since its independence was officially declared on January 1, 1804, that not much has changed in Haiti. Indeed, not much has changed. The following letter is a vibrant testimony to our societal stagnation and to our national degradation, both of which are symptomatic of the sum of our individual failures as citizens. Nations do not fail. Their citizens fail them. Personal successes are irrelevant to concerned citizens. Haiti has sadly become a country without elites. Most, alas, have become pitiful racketeers.

Author : Clarence Lathbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : God
ISBN : UVA:X002220303

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God Winning Us by Clarence Lathbury Pdf

Author : Garth Lean,Russell Staiff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317006589

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Travel and Transformation by Garth Lean,Russell Staiff Pdf

Travel and tourism have a long association with the notion of transformation, both in terms of self and social collectives. What is surprising, however, is that this association has, on the whole, remained relatively underexplored and unchallenged, with little in the way of a corpus of academic literature surrounding these themes. Instead, much of the literature to date has focused upon describing and categorising tourism and travel experiences from a supply-side perspective, with travellers themselves defined in terms of their motivations and interests. While the tourism field can lay claim to several significant milestone contributions, there have been few recent attempts at a rigorous re-theorization of the issues arising from the travel/transformation nexus. The opportunity to explore the socio-cultural dimensions of transformation through travel has thus far been missed. Bringing together geographers, sociologists, cultural researchers, philosophers, anthropologists, visual researchers, literary scholars and heritage researchers, this volume explores what it means to transform through travel in a modern, mobile world. In doing so, it draws upon a wide variety of traveller perspectives - including tourists, backpackers, lifestyle travellers, migrants, refugees, nomads, walkers, writers, poets, virtual travellers and cosmetic surgery patients - to unpack a cultural phenomenon that has captured the imagination since the very first works of Western literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015076638496

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The United Service by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jonathan Walker
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750951609

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Churchill's Third World War by Jonathan Walker Pdf

As the war in Europe entered its final months, the world teetered on the edge of a Third World War. While Soviet forces hammered their way into Berlin, Churchill ordered British military planners to prepare the top secret Operation Unthinkable - the plan for an Allied attack on the Soviet Union - on 1 July 1945. Using US, British and Polish forces, the invasion would reclaim Eastern Europe. The controversial plan called for the use of Nazi troops, and there was the spectre of the atomic bomb. Would yet another army make the fatal mistake of heading East? In Churchill's Third World War Jonathan Walker presents a haunting study of the war that so nearly was. He outlines the motivations behind Churchill's plan, the logistics of launching a vast assault against an enemy who had bested Hitler, potential sabotage by Polish communists, and he speculates whether the Allies would have succeeded had the operation gone forward. Well supported by a wide range of primary sources from the Churchill Archives Centre, Sikorski Institute, National Archives and Imperial War Museum, this is a fascinating insight into the upheaval as the Second World War drew to a close and former alliances were shattered. Operation Unthinkable became the blueprint for the Cold War.

Author : Camilo Erlichman,Christopher Knowles
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350049246

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Transforming Occupation in the Western Zones of Germany by Camilo Erlichman,Christopher Knowles Pdf

Transforming Occupation in the Western Zones of Germany provides an in-depth transnational study of power politics, daily life, and social interactions in the Western Zones of occupied Germany during the aftermath of the Second World War. Combining a history from below with a top-down perspective, the volume explores the origins, impacts, and legacies of the occupations of the western zones of Germany by the United States, Britain and France, examining complex yet topical issues that often arise as a consequence of war including regime change, transitional justice, everyday life under occupation, the role of intermediaries, and the multifaceted relationship between occupiers and occupied. Adopting a novel set of approaches that puts questions of power, social relations, gender, race, and the environment centre stage, it moves beyond existing narratives to place the occupation within a broader framework of continuity and change in post-war western Europe. Incorporating essays from 16 international scholars, this volume provides a substantial contribution to the emerging fields of occupation studies and the comparative history of post-war Europe.

Author : Elizabeth Prentiss,George Lewis Prentiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UOM:39015070581411

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The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss ... by Elizabeth Prentiss,George Lewis Prentiss Pdf

Author : Lewis L. Gould
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002622848

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The Presidency of William McKinley by Lewis L. Gould Pdf

In this interpretation of the McKinley presidency Lewis L. Gould contends that William McKinley was the first modern president. Making use of extensive original research in manuscript collections in the United States, Great Britain, and France, Gould argues that during McKinley's four and a half years in the White House the executive office began to resemble the institution as the twentieth century would know it. He rejects the erroneous stereotypes that have long obscured McKinley's historical significance: McKinley as the compliant agent of Mark Hanna or as an irresolute executive in the Cuban crisis that led to war with Spain. He contends that McKinley is an important figure in the history of the United States because of the large contributions he made to the strengthening and broadening of the power of the chief executive. While this volume touches on many aspects of McKinley's leadership, the core of it relates to the coming of the Spanish-American War, the president's conduct of the war itself, and the emergence of an American empire from 1898 to 1900. According to Gould, the Spanish-American War was not the result presidential weakness or of cowardice before public hysteria. McKinley sought to persuade Spain to relinquish Cuba peacefully, turning to war only when it became apparent that Madrid would never acquiesce. During the war, McKinley effectively directed the American military effort and the diplomacy that brought territorial acquisitions and peace. The process of making peace with Spain—involving, as it did, American annexation of the Philippines—and of securing the ratification of the resulting treaty in the Senate underscored McKinley's expansive view of presidential power. He functioned as chief diplomat, from the sending of senators on the peace commission to the personal supervision of the terms of the negotiation. At home he made tours of the West and South in 1898 to lead popular opinion to his position as no president had done before him. For the Senate he evidenced a readiness to dispense patronage, woo votes with personal persuasion, and marshal the resources of the political system behind his treaty. Later episodes in McKinley's administration support Gould's thesis. In administering Puerto Rico and Cuba and in suppressing an insurrection in the Philippines, McKinley relied further on the war power and continued to shape affairs from the White House. He sent troops to china during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 without congressional authorization, governed the new possessions through presidential commissions, and allowed Capitol Hill only a subsidiary role in the process. By 1901 the nation had an empire and a president whose manner and bearing anticipated the imperial executives of six decades later. Gould does not argue that McKinley was a great president. He maintains, instead, that what McKinley contributed to the office, the examples he offered and the precedents he set make him an important figure in the emergence of the modern presidency in this century.