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Speaking Private Authority argues that to better understand the global governance phenomenon known as private authority, investigators must interrogate the strategic social maneuverings of actorsparticularly how actors leverage discursive maneuverings to gain advantageous social positions to more effectively exercise private authority.

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Over the next three months, amid tense scenes of corporate and political finger-pointing, millions of barrels of crude oil dispersed across the Gulf of Mexico in what became one of the worst oil spills in history.

But there is more to BP's story than this.

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The book critically addresses the relationship between sport and diplomacy posing new questions of these two enduring features of global society. -- .

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The book critically addresses the relationship between sport and diplomacy posing new questions of these two enduring features of global society. -- .

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This interdisciplinary study analyzes the role of sport during the American occupation of the Philippines and how it related to race, religion, government, and more. It examines how sport was used by colonial authorities to achieve occupation aims and argues that similar strategies continue to be prominent factors in U.S. foreign policy.

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This book investigates the issue of sports diplomacy and refers to the place and role of sport within public diplomacy. Its subject includes the use of sport to shape relations with other states, to build the states international image and the diplomatic subjectivity of international sports organizations.

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This book investigates the issue of sports diplomacy and refers to the place and role of sport within public diplomacy. Its subject includes the use of sport to shape relations with other states, to build the states international image and the diplomatic subjectivity of international sports organizations.

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Provides an examination of the intelligence failures that preceded September 11. This work shows how and why the intelligence system itself left us vulnerable. It argues that after the Cold War ended, the CIA and FBI failed to adapt to the rise of terrorism.

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An exploration of the the FBI's five COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Programme) operations, which directed its efforts against social and political protest movements, from the Communist Party to the Ku Klux Klan, and increasingly employed questionable, even unlawful, methods.

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Recent years have seen the rise of EU State aid law as a crucial component of the European economic constitution. To date, however, the literature has neglected the contribution of this area of EU law to the internal market. This book seeks to fill this gap in our understanding of the economic constitution.

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Since September 11, the threat of terror gives the failed state problem an immediacy and an importance that transcends its previous humanitarian dimension. With the new implications of state failure for peace and security, preventing nation states from failing, and reviving those that do fail, has become a strategic, as well as moral, imperative.

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This volume studies the process of nation-state building, its role in modernization and developments in Afghanistan following World War II to the period of Soviet occupation of the country in December 1979, and the struggle of various social strata for social transformation in the country.

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This text argues that US interests in Europe have become so significant as to create an increasingly common Euro-Atlantic space from which disentanglement is no longer possible. It shows why staying the course is vital to European as well as American interests.

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This text argues that US interests in Europe have become so significant as to create an increasingly common Euro-Atlantic space from which disentanglement is no longer possible. It shows why staying the course is vital to European as well as American interests.

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Vogele provides a contemporary history of the nuclear arms control negotiations of the 1980s, tracing these negotiations from their initiation at the beginning of the decade through the agreements that were reached by the end.

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America's engagement with the Arab world stretches back far beyond the Iraq wars. According to Milton Viorst, the conflict is simply a round in a 1,400-year struggle between Christianity and Islam, in which the United States became a participant. This work talks about the struggle between the Arab World and the Christian West.

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Broader thematic reflections on strategic analysis are combined with innovative case studies of how organizations have worked to successfully produce relevant analysis. The first section of the book explores challenges to achieving relevance at the level of the analyst, while the remainder of the book analyses cases at the level of organizations.

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Broader thematic reflections on strategic analysis are combined with innovative case studies of how organizations have worked to successfully produce relevant analysis. The first section of the book explores challenges to achieving relevance at the level of the analyst, while the remainder of the book analyses cases at the level of organizations.

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The strategic-choice approach has a long pedigree in international relations. In an area often rent by competing methodologies, editors David A. Lake and Robert Powell take the best of accepted and contested knowledge among many theories.

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