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The author spent a little over nine months in Iraq. His job, was to help Iraq rebuild its once highly regarded education system. As he left Iraq, he was asked by the Pentagon to write a few paragraphs for the future about this formative and transitional time. This book is based on those paragraphs.

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The progress we have made in sorting out what happened to this country on 22 November 1963 has resulted from the application of scientific, technical, and scholarly expertise in a systematic effort to take rumor and speculation out and place the study of the assassination on an objective and scientific foundation.

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"The thrilling and true account of racketeering and union corruption in mid-century New York, when unions and the mob were locked in a power struggle that reverberates to this day"--

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Dr Luthfi Assyaunkanie considers the search for an ideal model of polity and focuses on the santri generation, which entered the public arena in the 1970s.

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The Middle East is a region where religion, culture and politics are intertwined. The region's political movements have become a salient feature of its modern history and continue to be the subject of debate and speculation. This collection of essays addresses these issues by providing an analysis of the region and country-by-country examples.

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This text draws on recent developments in social theory to discuss the different dimensions of nation and national identity in contemporary Wales.

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Davidson argues that a Marxist understanding of the meaning of contemporary nation-states must begin from the inseparable connections between them.

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How did Bosnia, once a polity of intersecting and overlapping identities, come to be understood as an intractable ethnic problem This text examines the meaning of ethnic violence and offers a critique of the discourse of identity politics that crippled the international response to the crisis.

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Former CIA analyst reveals why pumping more money into US military spending destabilizes both the economy and long-term national security

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This book uncovers the controversial policies surrounding the strategy of national missile defence and provides an alternative, and arguably more inclusive, mode of interpretation of a strategy that is deeply embedded in performances of US identity. -- .

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Nationalism is one of the most pressing of global problems. Drawing on examples from around the world, Craig Calhoun considers nationalism's diverse manifestations, its history, and its relationship to imperialism and colonialism. He also challenges attempts to "debunk" nationalism that fail to grasp why it still has such power and centrality in modern life.

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Events in the Middle East, Indonesia and the Balkans during the 1990s illustrate the many negative aspects of nationalism. This collection of essays investigates both the strengths and weaknesses of nationalism from a variety of cultural perspectives.

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These three essays each deal with a different aspect of nationalism and the role of cultural production as a force in understanding the aftermath of colonization. Focusing particularly on the contribution of Yeats, they offer an analysis of political and cultural issues in present-day Ireland.

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Modern warfare is almost always multilateral to one degree or another, requiring countries to cooperate as allies or coalition partners. This title explores how government structures and party politics in NATO countries shape how battles are waged in the field.

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Argues that thinking is a process involving two opposing aspects - generalisation and specialisation - and all thought is therefore a dialectical process.

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A timely, necessary, and incisive look by a diverse array of scholars into the dire situation facing academia in the Trump era.

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Despite many claims to the contrary, Qubec and Canada demonstrate the continued importance of state institutional authority, even under Neoliberalism

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Neoliberalism has dominated Chile for 35 consecutive years. In this collection prominent Chilean experts assess its impact and offer alternatives.