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Canada must prepare for an isolationist and unpredictable neighbour to the South should a MAGA leader gain the White House in 2025.
The American-led global order has been increasingly challenged by Chinese assertiveness and Russian revanchism. As we enter this new era of great-power competition, Canadians tend to assume that the United States will continue to provide global leadership for the West.
Canada Alone sketches the more dystopian future...
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición del certificado de profesionalidad "SEAD0112 - VIGILANCIA, SEGURIDAD PRIVADA Y PROTECCIÓN DE PERSONAS". Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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President Obama may have delivered on his campaign promise to kill Osama bin Laden, but as an Al-Qaeda strategist bin Laden has been dead for years. This book introduces and examines the new generation of Al-Qaeda leaders who have been behind the most recent attacks.
Investigative journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad dedicated his life to revealing the strategies and inner workings of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. He had access to top-level commanders...
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At the end of August 1956 a world event will take place in the Temple of Peace at Cardiff without precedent in the history of mankind. A People of a new order will come into being among the peoples of the world by formal proclamation and adoption of its Political Constitution: it will be known as the Commonwealth of World Citizens. The citizens will be drawn from men and women in every continent who have pledged their first loyalty to humanity, and...
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The rivalry between the U.S. and China makes daily headlines. Unfortunately, there is little truth to be found in those headlines.China vs USA offers an honest appraisal of both China and the United States, making plenty of comparisons - both practical and ethcial - between the two countries. The truth might surprise you. Of special interest are a number of predictions: When will China's economy overtake America's? Will China take back Taiwan, and...
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EU policy shapes all areas of our lives - from our money, to our food, to our welfare. Yet we know little about how EU decisions are made, and who benefits from them. This book is a critical guide to the policies of the EU.
Raj Chari and Sylvia Kritzinger argue that there is an agenda that underlies EU policy making. Some policies - those that aim to create a competitive economy - are prioritised, while others are effectively ignored.
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How states cooperate in the absence of a sovereign power is a perennial question in international relations. With Power in Concert, Jennifer Mitzen argues that global governance is more than just the cooperation of states under anarchy: it is the formation and maintenance of collective intentions, or joint commitments among states to address problems together. The key mechanism through which these intentions are sustained is face-to-face diplomacy,...
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Now in an updated edition, this groundbreaking study develops a new approach to understanding the formation of the postrevolutionary state in Mexico. In a shift away from dominant interpretations, Adam David Morton considers the construction of the revolution and the modern Mexican state through a fresh analysis of the Mexican Revolution, the era of import substitution industrialization, and neoliberalism. Throughout, the author makes interdisciplinary...
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The Middle East is a swirling cauldron of instability, insecurity and unrest. And right in the middle of this turmoil, the threats posed to smaller groups like Greeks of Cyprus and Azeri Armenians are growing by the day.In this book, author Aris Petasis asks the question – do hard-pressed small groups have a viable future in the Middle East?The Middle East in Turmoil is a thoughtful examination of how foreign interference and poor leadership have...
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In The Future of the Jews, Stuart E. Eizenstat, a senior diplomat of international reputation, surveys the major geopolitical, economic, and security challenges facing the world in general, and the Jewish world and the United States in particular. These forces include the shift of power and influence from the United States and Europe to the emerging powers in Asia and Latin America; globalization and the new information age; the battle for the direction...
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The book shows that from the last two decades of the twentieth century and the end of the Cold War in 1991, a shift occurred in inter-American geopolitics as the United States emerged as the dominant global structural power. The post-Cold War international relations and new geopolitics are predominantly driven by geoeconomic rationales and outclass the old Cold War geopolitics overwhelmingly dominated by state politics and security strategies. The...
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Osama Bin Laden is unquestionably the leader of the world's most deadly terrorist cult. He has perverted the teachings of Islam to create a fringe religious ideology, Bin Ladenism, where only al-Qaeda speaks for God. In his cult, suicide bombing is the highest form of worship and the mass murder of Muslims proves one's devotion.
Al-Qaeda's 9/11 attack on the United States was just a small part of Bin Laden's long-term strategy to win a civil war...
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Contemporary foreign policy refers to the strategies, principles and actions that a country's government uses to interact with other nations in the present day. It encompasses a wide range of diplomatic, economic, security and cultural initiatives aimed at advancing a nation's interests, maintaining peaceful relations and addressing global challenges. In today's interconnected world, contemporary foreign policy often focuses on issues such as international...
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A gun-toting preacher, a rebel army led by a madman, and entire villages slaughtered just because they were in the way.
In Another Man's War, follow Sam Childer's remarkable transformation from violent thug to a man of faith, and his ongoing battle to save children in one of the world's most lawless areas.
"Another Man's War is about true terrorism . . . against more than 200,000 children in northern Uganda and Southern Sudan. Sam Childers-a fighter...
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Die westliche Welt ist Veränderungen ausgesetzt ist, die zu ihrem Niedergang und dem Verlust der Zweitausendjährigen Herrschaft über den Rest der Welt führen wird. Diese Entwicklungen und die darauf basierende Analyse des Autors werden in dem mehrteiligen Buch über den tiefen Fall des Westens beschrieben.
Der Autor sieht, dass Dreiviertel der Welt nicht mehr bereit ist, die Hegemonie des weißen Mannes und des Westens weiter hinzunehmen. Der...
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Was there ever a window of opportunity for successful negotiations over North Korea's nuclear weapons program? Negotiation Dynamics to Denuclearize North Korea brings together country experts with negotiation specialists to apply negotiation theory to the North Korea denuclearization process. Country expert chapters provide a detailed assessment of the goals, motives, and strategies of the six parties-North Korea, South Korea, the United States, China,...
98) No More Vietnams
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In his bestselling No More Vietnams, Richard Nixon analyzes America's military involvement in Southeast Asia-including his own role as commander-in-chief from 1969 to 1974-and presciently calls for a new American approach to conflicts in the Third World.
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Hans J. Morgenthau es un autor fundamental para el estudio de las relaciones internacionales y es considerado uno de los máximos exponentes del realismo político. Este libro propone una reconstrucción de su pensamiento que permita interpretar la teoría de la política internacional de Morgenthau no solo como una herramienta al servicio del poder, sino también como una palanca a favor de la paz entre las naciones. El papel, prudente y sabio, de...
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición del certificado de profesionalidad "SEAD0212 - VIGILANCIA, SEGURIDAD PRIVADA Y PROTECCIÓN DE EXPLOSIVOS". Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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