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Spying has changed. In this era of email intercepts and drone strikes, spooks are expected to uncover plots buried in mountains of data. Yet this makes the need for trained field operatives who can verify facts and uncover secrets more acute than ever. The human factor endures. This book gives an account of how modern espionage works.

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This book describes and analyzes the source and nature of the phenomena that characterize new world disorder. These include domestic political crises with international consequences, disruptive regions, terrorism, climate change, deglobalization, and exponentially growing refugee movements.

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This work addresses the central question of sovereignty after the end of the Cold War - which internal actions of states will justify intervention by the international community The theme of the essays is the conflict between cultural relativism and human rights in the postmodern world.

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The Next Cold War sounds a warning: the United States may be contributing to another cold war through its competitive unilateral and regional economic policies. Whereas wars of the past usually resulted from political conflict, Hanson warns that a new cold war may result from economic conflict.

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Presents evidence of a global political order on the verge of a historic power shift from West to East. This book contends that since the turn of the 21st century, the global 'War on Terror' has distracted the United States from the development of China and Russia drawing closer together in an alliance that may well displace American primacy.

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Argues that financial globalization is essential for poor nations to become rich. This book argues that an effectively managed financial globalization promises benefits on the scale of the hugely successful trade and information globalizations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Wagar pulls together all aspects of futures studies in this unique volume--comprising a vital introduction to, and defense of, the impressive array of futurist inquiry.

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'Spies should be glamorous - James Bond in a Savile Row suit rather than Harry Palmer in a grubby mac .

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The book uses materials from U.S. and Norwegian archives, summarizes the findings of Nordic secondary literature on security, and utilizes concepts borrowed from international relations theory in order to describe Nordic regional security cooperation and to provide a useful model of peaceful security.

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The Normalization of War in Israeli Discourse, 1967-2008, by Dalia Gavriely-Nuri, provides intensive research on various manifestations of the Israeli "war-normalizing discourse," a set of linguistic, discursive, and cultural devices aimed at blurring the anomalous character of war by transforming it into an event perceived as a "normal" part of life.

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Presents a salutory warning to the international community against the fashionable but superficial view that there is an "Irish model" which can be exported to cauterise ethnic troubles around the globe. -- .

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A historical account and comprehensive assessment of the factors surrounding the referendum on an elected assembly in the North-East region of England, in November 2004. -- .

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The Obama administration inherits a daunting set of domestic and international policy challenges. It would be tempting to put Latin America and the Caribbean on the back burner, for their nations pose no imminent security threat nor do they seem at first blush critical to the most pressing problems of U.

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This book analyzes Obamas foreign policy in the Americas, focusing on major security-related issues such as drug trafficking, organized crime, and terrorism. This book is meant not only for academics and students but also for policy analysts.

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This book analyzes Obamas foreign policy in the Americas, focusing on major security-related issues such as drug trafficking, organized crime, and terrorism. This book is meant not only for academics and students but also for policy analysts.

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The president of the Council on Foreign Relations asserts that, despite the visible dangers of our time, we are living in a moment of unique opportunity for the U.S. to shape the future.

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Bruce Kuniholm takes a regional perspective to focus on postwar diplomacy in Iran, Turkey, and Greece and efforts in these countries to maintain their independence from the Great Powers. Drawing on a wide variety of secondary sources, government documents, private papers, unpublished memoirs, and extensive interviews with key figures, he shows how

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This book examines the impact of genetically modified seeds on traditional societies and the corporate monopolization of the worlds food supply. The time-honored practice of reclaiming and replanting the seed has become a crime, thereby fostering a feudalistic relationship of perpetual dependence on the corporation.

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This book examines the impact of genetically modified seeds on traditional societies and the corporate monopolization of the worlds food supply. The time-honored practice of reclaiming and replanting the seed has become a crime, thereby fostering a feudalistic relationship of perpetual dependence on the corporation.

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This book examines the role of the Peace Corps in U.S. foreign policy in Latin America from the 1960s to the present. The Peace Corps is an important tool of U.S. foreign policy that contributes on multiple levels in not only Latin America, but also everywhere the Peace Corps serves.

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This book examines the role of the Peace Corps in U.S. foreign policy in Latin America from the 1960s to the present. The Peace Corps is an important tool of U.S. foreign policy that contributes on multiple levels in not only Latin America, but also everywhere the Peace Corps serves.

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