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This book, sharing its title with a curious and entertaining travel book written by the first Australian-born writer John Lang, is a collection of essays about diverse encounters between Australians and Indians in both South Asia and the Antipodes. The chapter's creative, reflective and academic meet the objectives of a volume that provide snapshot

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Why do some democracies reflect their citizens' foreign policy preferences better than others What roles do the media, political parties, and the electoral system play in a democracy's decision to join or avoid a war War and Democratic Constraint shows that the key to how a government determines foreign policy rests on the transmission and availa

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Why do some democracies reflect their citizens' foreign policy preferences better than others What roles do the media, political parties, and the electoral system play in a democracy's decision to join or avoid a war War and Democratic Constraint shows that the key to how a government determines foreign policy rests on the transmission and availa

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This translation of a landmark study is the first monograph in English to focus on Catalonia during the Civil War.

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Elephants have been deployed as weapons for centuries, particularly in South and South-East Asia, where war elephants constituted the bulk of most armies in the region from antiquity right up to the 19th century. This book offers an insight into the incredible history of these 'living tanks'.

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While focusing on social thought, this book draws on many disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, and political science. It demonstrates the profound difficulties social thinkers - including liberals, socialists, and those intellectuals who could be regarded as the sociologists - had in coming to terms with the phenomenon of war.

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This book covers the many topics of `the war on terror' from legal, philosophical, economic and historical perspectives. The dialogue form of the book (essay-response) allows a broad representation of views, covering the situation in the Middle East, national security, politics of intervention, human rights, torture and the motives of the Iraq War.

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World War One divided the socialist movement internationally: collaboration or resistance Here is the resisters' story.

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Armed interventions in Libya, Haiti, Iraq, Vietnam, and Korea challenged the US president and Congress with a core question of constitutional interpretation: does the president, or Congress, have constitutional authority to take the country to war War Powers argues that the Constitution doesn't offer a single legal answer to that question. But its

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How does the American public formulate its opinions about US foreign policy and military engagement abroad This title takes an in-depth look at media coverage, elite rhetoric, and public opinion during the Iraq war and other US conflicts abroad. It also reveals precisely what this means for the future of American foreign policy.

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Are we in a new Cold War with Russia How does a new Cold War affect the safety and security of the United States Does Vladimir Putin really want to destabilize the West

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Is the war in Iraq the beginning of a war without end Bruno Tertrais, one of Europe's most eloquent and incisive thinkers, takes us on a deeper and subtler investigation of American global strategy and its long-term consequences.

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With same-sex marriage now a national right, this timely volume insists on the continuation of the struggle for LGBT rights.

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This concise history of the Warror MCV armoured personnel carrier, which has recently seen service in Iraq and the former Yugoslavia, describes its development and design, and includes photographs and detailed colour plates and cut-aways.

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Covering a vast sweep, this well-illustrated book provides a concise exploration of pre-Classical naval warfare in the Mediterranean. Adrian Wood examines the vessels, naval techniques and strategy, and prominent engagements fought by the Egyptians, Minoans, Hittites, Phoenicians and Greeks.

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"Warships of the Anglo-Dutch Wars 1652-74".

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An essential responsibility of the U.S. Congress is holding the president accountable for the conduct of foreign policy. In this in-depth look at formal oversight hearings by the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, Linda Fowler evaluates how the legislature's most visible and important watchdogs performed from the mid-twentieth

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This ground-breaking book, which traces the changing role of school and college inspectors in Wales over time, offers insights into debates about the impact of inspectors on the quality of education and questions the future pattern of inspection in schools.

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Fought on 18th June 1815, Waterloo is one of the best known of all battles in history ending 25 years of Napoleonic Wars. Waterloo pitted two of the greatest commanders of the period against each other - Napoleon, who had marched in triumph, Wellington, the victor of the Peninsula and Blucher.