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This study explores the real record and legacy of the World Trade Organization. As the worlds highest authority on global trade, the WTO has extended its reach into the democratic processes of local communities, in determining what local laws interfere with international commerce.

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At the zoo the sign reads, "It's absolutely forbidden to throw anything into the crocodile-enclosure! Someone has to take it out. Do you want to be that someone!"

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Looks at why conflict, despotism and sectarianism continue to flourish in the Arab world whilst as they decline everywhere else.

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Since the mid-1980s there has been an explosion of regionalist projects of which the European Union (EU), while the most pervasive example, is but one of many. This major text by a leading authority in the field adopts a thematic approach to provide a reassessment of regionalism and the role of regions in global governance.

A comprehensive two-volume overview and analysis of all facets of espionage in the American historical experience, focusing on key individuals and technologies.

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Examining the political development of Central Asia, this book argues that Soviet practice had always been to build on local institutions and promote a local elite making it decentralized. It also contains an analysis of the Central Asian states - Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kirghizstan and Azerbaijan.

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From the economist who predicted the 2008 crash, Megathreats outlines the new risks in our uncharted future and how we deal with them.

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A captivating dual biography of the struggle between Japan's Emperor Hirohito and America's General MacArthur in the epic clash between the world's oldest culture and its newest.

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The extraordinary story of the German foreign ministry official who, at risk to his life, spied for the Allies in the Second World War.

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This paperback of the big New York Times bestseller is the film tie-in edition to the movie release of Charlie Wilson's War, one of the year's biggest films.

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Offers information on the many exciting transformations in Turkey's government and politics that have kept it in the headlines. This book also shows how developments in both American and European policies (and not only the war in Iraq) have affected this unique and perplexing nation.

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"Updated and with a new preface by the author"--Cover.

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A passionate argument that asks 'can the world feed itself' Comparable to Jared Diamond in its compelling and accessible narrative style.

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"... one of the most clear-eyed, powerful and human explanations of what has gone wrong in this region that you will ever read." (Jake Silverstein, Editor In Chief of the New York Times)

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Challenging the daily clamour of US sabre rattling, this title argues that America should renounce thirty years of failed strategy and engage with Iran - just as Nixon revolutionized US foreign policy by going to Beijing and realigning relations with China. It states that America must "go to Tehran" if it is to avert strategic catastrophe.

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A dramatic account of the Iranian hostage crisis that marked the birth of radical Islam, now in paperback: 'This is history as tragedy, written as a thriller by a master storyteller.' Angus Batey, The Times

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Discusses Chinese efforts to influence US elections and steal US nuclear secrets.

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How Kim Philby, master-spy and double agent, became the mentor of CIA boss James Angleton, then his mortal enemy, in the Second World War and Cold War

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How Kim Philby, master-spy and double agent, became the mentor of CIA boss James Angleton, then his mortal enemy, in the Second World War and Cold War

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This title argues that the interests of America and its European allies are diverging sharply. It makes clear how Europe's need to escape a bloody past has led to a new set of beliefs about conflict while at the same time the US has become the guarantor of the European order by dint of its might.

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Marrack Goulding joined the UN as the Under-Secretary-General in charge of peacekeeping operations in 1986, at a time of intense optimism. This account of seven years of peacekeeping gives the reader an insider's view of what went wrong and also of what the UN achieved during this critical period.

A compilation of actual events in World War II, this book demonstrates the important role of two undercover organizations in the Allied victory. It describes codebreaking, blockade running, guerilla action, bombing missions, sniper work and assassinations in the American OSS and the British SOE.