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Author : Anthony Arnove
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0745320333
This updated study of the sanctions' impact on Iraq now includes Bush's latest plans for invasion.
Author : Lawrence Rothfield
Publisher : Altamira Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015073929799
As Saddam Hussein's government fell in April 2003, news accounts detailed the pillage of Iraq's National Museum. Less dramatic, though far more devastating, was the subsequent looting at thousands of archaeological sites around the country, which continues on a massive scale to this day. This book details the disasters that have befallen Iraq's cultural heritage, analyzes why all efforts to protect it have failed, and identifies new mechanisms and strategies to prevent the mistakes of Iraq from being replicated in other war-torn regions.
Author : Anthony Arnove
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Economic sanctions
ISBN : 8176494496
Author : Anthony Arnove
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Economic sanctions
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028516990
This updated study of the sanctions' impact on Iraq now includes Bush's latest plans for invasion.
Author : Habib Ahmadzadeh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988
ISBN : 6001750912
Author : Rashid Khalidi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231535953
Under Siege is Rashid Khalidi's firsthand account of the 1982 Lebanon War and the complex negotiations for the evacuation of the P.L.O. from Beirut. Utilizing unconventional sources and interviews with key officials and diplomats, Khalidi paints a detailed portrait of the siege and ensuing massacres, providing insight into the military pressure experienced by the P.L.O., the war's impact on Palestinian and Lebanese civilians, and diplomatic efforts by the United States. A new preface by Khalidi considers developments across the Middle East in the thirty years since the conflict. The preface also cites recently declassified Israeli documents to offer surprising new revelations about the roles and responsibilities of both Israeli leaders and American diplomats in the tragic coda to the war, the Sabra and Shatila massacres.
Author : Jeffrey L. Gould
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108419192
Depicts the rise and fall of the militant labor movement in modern El Salvador.
Author : Rory Stewart
Publisher : HMH
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780156033008
An adventurous diplomat’s “engrossing and often darkly humorous” memoir of working with Iraqis after the fall of Saddam Hussein(Publishers Weekly). In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat who had recently completed an epic walk from Turkey to Bangladesh, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then Nasiriyah, provinces in the remote, impoverished marsh regions of southern Iraq. He spent the next eleven months negotiating hostage releases, holding elections, and splicing together some semblance of an infrastructure for a population of millions teetering on the brink of civil war. The Prince of the Marshes tells the story of Stewart’s year. As a participant he takes us inside the occupation and beyond the Green Zone, introducing us to a colorful cast of Iraqis and revealing the complexity and fragility of a society we struggle to understand. By turns funny and harrowing, moving and incisive, it amounts to a unique portrait of heroism and the tragedy that intervention inevitably courts in the modern age.
Author : Stephen Coonts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 9780671742942
Captain Jake Grafton faces the duel threats of a determined assassin and a vicious drug lord, both intent on plunging the U.S. into chaos.
Author : James Cuno,Thomas G. Weiss
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781606066829
The fourth volume of the J. Paul Getty Trust Occasional Papers in Cultural Heritage Policy series is the result of a multi-day discussion on the issue of cultural heritage under siege. It features an edited collection of papers and discussions by nineteen scholars and practitioners of different specialties in the field of cultural heritage. This paper, along with the other Occasional Papers, is free and downloadable online.
Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745657271
Society is under siege – under attack on two fronts: from the global frontier-land where old structures and rules do not hold and new ones are slow to take shape, and from the fluid, undefined domain of life politics. The space between these two fronts, until recently ruled by the sovereign nation-state and identified by social scientists as ‘society' is ever more difficult to conceive of as a self-enclosed entity. And this confronts the established wisdom of the social sciences with a new challenge: sovereignty and power are becoming separated from the politics of the territorial nation-state but are not becoming institutionalized in a new space. What are the consequences of this profound transformation of social life? What kind of world will it create for the twenty-first century? This remarkable book – by one of the most original social thinkers writing today – attempts to trace this transformation and to assess its consequences for the life conditions of ordinary individuals. The first part of the book is devoted to the new global arena in which, thanks to the powerful forces of globalization, there is no 'outside', no secluded place to which one can retreat and hide away, and where the territorial wars of the past have given way to a new breed of 'reconnaissance wars'. The second part deals with settings in which life politics has taken hold and flourished. Bauman argues that the great challenge facing us today is whether we can find new ways to reforge the human diversity that is our fate into the vocation of human solidarity.
Author : Dan Mills
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312542429
A decorated member of the Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment recounts his 2004 tour of duty in Iraq, a six-month service of peaceful intentions that were violently altered by hostile attacks by the people of Al Amarah. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.
Author : Graf Hans-Christof Sponeck,H. C. von Sponeck
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781845452223
At a time when the international community is againthreatening some countries with sanctions, this bookcomes as a warning. It should be mandatory reading forall those politicians and their foreign-policy advisorswho continue to consider sanctions an effective form ofpolicy. The author not only offers us a critical, lucid,and ......
Author : Lee Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191066252
Today, international economic sanctions are imposed in response to virtually every serious international crisis, whether to promote regime change and democratisation, punish armed aggression, or check nuclear proliferation. But how exactly is the economic pain inflicted by sanctions supposed to translate into political gain? What are the mechanisms by which sanctions operate - or fail to operate? This is the first comparative study of this vital question. Drawing on Gramscian state theory, Societies Under Siege provides a novel analytical framework to study how sanctions are mediated through the domestic political economy and state-society relations of target states and filter through into political outcomes - whether those sought by the states imposing sanctions or, as frequently occurs, unintended and even highly perverse consequences. Detailed case studies of sanctions aimed at regime change in three pivotal cases - South Africa, Iraq and Myanmar - are used to explore how different types of sanctions function across time and space. These case studies draw on extensive fieldwork interviews, archival documents and leaked diplomatic cables to provide a unique insight into how undemocratic regimes targeted by sanctions survive or fall.
Author : Mike Thomson
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541767614
The remarkable story of a small, makeshift library in the town of Daraya, and the people who found hope and humanity in its books during a four-year siege. Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just southwest of the Syrian capital. Yet for four years it lived in another world. Besieged by government forces early in the Syrian Civil War, its people were deprived of food, bombarded by heavy artillery, and under the constant fire of snipers. But deep beneath this scene of frightening devastation lay a hidden library. While the streets above echoed with shelling and rifle fire, the secret world below was a haven of books. Long rows of well-thumbed volumes lined almost every wall: bloated editions with grand leather covers, pocket-sized guides to Syrian poetry, and no-nonsense reference books, all arranged in well-ordered lines. But this precious horde was not bought from publishers or loaned by other libraries--they were the books salvaged and scavenged at great personal risk from the doomed city above. The story of this extraordinary place and the people who found purpose and refuge in it is one of hope, human resilience, and above all, the timeless, universal love of literature and the compassion and wisdom it fosters.