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Al-jazeera Description: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-229) and index.... Read More about the "Al-jazeera" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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Allies At Odds? Description: Allies at Odds is an extremely impressive and timely inquiry into the recent strains in the Transatlantic alliance. The book investigates the troubling reality that Europe and America, despite their professed similarity in goals, have increasingly drifted apart in their preferences on multilateral issues since the end of the Cold War. To explain this puzzle, Mowle deduces hypotheses from the realist, liberal institutional, and epistemic theoretical approaches and applies them to four multilateral issue areas: arms control, the global environment, human rights, and military cooperation. He finds that realism best explains the behavior of the United States and, surprisingly, of Europe as well. All serious students or international relations and practitioners of foreign policy will want to read and come to terms with the analysis presented in this concisely written and well-argued book. Randall Schweller, The Ohio State University Major Mowle`s well-researched and challenging study deals with an urgent and widely discussed problem in international relations: why, despite their professed similarity of goals, do the policy preferences of the European Union and United States diverge on so many multilateral issues? It is a model of political science analysis, involving the testing of hypotheses deriving from a range of theoretical approaches. One strength of the volume is the diverse range of case studies examined - from arms control and military cooperation to international treaties, from legal and human rights issues to scientific and environmental policy. The application to these different issues of the same methodological controls constitutes something of a tour de force. This is a volume which will appeal both to students and to the wider public. Jolyon Howorth, Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics, University of Bath, Visiting Professor of Political Science, Yale UniversityEven before the Iraq War, the trans-Atlantic relationship was adrift on stormy seas.... Read More about the "Allies At Odds?" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Encounter Books
Anti-americanism Description: Revel probes the origins of the notion that America is the source of all evil: imperialistic, greedy, ruthlessly competitivea hyperpower whose riches are acquired at the expense of the Third World.... Read More about the "Anti-americanism" on the The Nile Book Store Website

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Changing Politics Of Foreign Policy Description: This is a major new introduction to, and interpretation and reassessment of, the nature of foreign policy in the light of changing political conditions, international and domestic. It argues that despite the forces of globalization, foreign policy is an essential part of the life of any state and a focal point for both political agency and democratic accountability.... Read More about the "Changing Politics Of Foreign Policy" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Encounter Books
Code Name Kindred Spirit Description: Code Name KINDRED SPIRIT takes us directly into the murky world of nuclear espionage. But it is also a daunting story about the fate of the man who brought the bad news. After the scandal broke, Trulock found himself the targeted by the Clintonites who resented him for speaking out. He was smeared as a bigot and a mentally unstable alarmist. When he attempted to tell his side of the story, the FBI tried to silence him by claiming he had revealed classified data. He was demoted and driven out of government, his career and his personal reputation ruined. Code Name KINDRED SPIRIT tells the inside story of one of the major spy scandals of recent years. It reads like a Le Carre story told by Franz Kafka.... Read More about the "Code Name Kindred Spirit" on the The Nile Book Store Website

SEVEN STORIES PRESS
Colombia And The United States Description: Every year the United States spends millions of dollars to help the war-ravaged country of Colombia. But help it with what? In Colombia and the U.S. Mario Murillo explores the misdirected and devastating impact that U.S. military aid continues to have on the war torn-people of Colombia. Beginning with a brief history of Colombia, Murillo analyzes the complex forces driving Colombia`s current decades-old guerilla war, U.S. involvement, media perceptions, and possible paths to peace. Whether it has been the U.S.-led war against drug trafficking, the newly constituted war against terrorism, or, as we have seen over the last two years, a convenient marriage of the two, the main effect has been to allow the U.S. to further expand its role in Colombia. The foundations of Colombia`s history of institutionalized corruption, state neglect, far-reaching poverty, and political violence and how they precede by decades the introduction and expansion of the drug trade. Colombia and the U.S. argues that the conflict in Columbia is not about drugs, nor guerrillas, nor terrorism, but rather about the unwillingness of the country`s elite to open up spaces for truly democratic participation in areas of economic and social development and political representation.... Read More about the "Colombia And The United States" on the The Nile Book Store Website

UNIV OF WASHINGTON PRESS PB
Common Sense On Weapons Of Mass Destruction Description: Ambassador Graham gets past the political buzzwords to define what he believes to be the real issues of WMDs. These include the lack of basic information about what WMDs are and can do and how US policies influence their creation, stockpiling and use. He asserts that the US needs to re-assume leadership of efforts to reduce or eliminate WMD stockpiles and opportunities for use. He also believes recent US policies undermine international treaties that have, so far, kept down distribution of WMDs. He notes in particular the lack of support of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) by the US, and how failure of the NPT will turn the lack of control of Russian nuclear material into a major disaster. Graham also believes not enough is being done to reduce the risks of WMD use or sale by volatile states such as Syria, Egypt, Iran, Israel, India, Pakistan and Libya, and that North Korea`s nuclear weapons and programs are particularly dangerous. He contrasts the actions of these so-called rogue states with the assertions of the US, Britain, France, and Russia that they have the right to use nuclear weapons regardless of their signing the NPT. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknewsCom)... Read More about the "Common Sense On Weapons Of Mass Destruction" on the The Nile Book Store Website

VERSO
Conspiracy To Murder Description: April 2004 sees the tenth anniversary of the Rwanda genocide, an event generally acknowledged to be one of the most appalling of the twentieth century and potentially avoidable. Linda Melvern`s new book, the result of a decade of investigative work, is a damning indictment of almost all the key figures and the institutions involved. It reveals how the French military trained the killers, how the US is still withholding wiretap and satellite evidence that the genocide was about to begin, how the John Major government ignored vital warnings that the genocide was planned, how much Boutros Boutros-Ghali and the French government knew prior to the genocide and how the Security Council`s shameful decision to evacuate the peacekeepers came about. In addition to these official sources, the author draws on dozens of witness statements yet to be heard at the International Criminal Tribunal, at which she will be an expert witness, and a sixty-hour confession from the prime minister in the government that presided over the genocide never before made publicly available and currently locked in the safe of the chief prosecutors at the ICT court.... Read More about the "Conspiracy To Murder" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Palgrave, formerly Macmillan Press
Contending Images Of World Politics Description: The commissioned chapters in this textbook on international relations are informed by influential 20th-century perspectives on the changing world order from Samuel P. Huntington`s Clash of civilizations between the West and the rest, to Francis Fukuyama`s End of history thesis).... Read More about the "Contending Images Of World Politics" on the The Nile Book Store Website

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Development Theory And Practice Description: This text provides a critical assessment of dominant features of development theory and practice in such areas as globalization, governance, social development, participation, feminism and postcolonialism, civil society, environment, and development management. Each chapter addresses a particular approach within development by setting out the orthodoxy, and critically evaluates this before engaging more constructively with the challenges presented by contemporary development. This approach will give students a clearer understanding of the debates within development today.... Read More about the "Development Theory And Practice" on the The Nile Book Store Website

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Dictionary Of Diplomacy Description: Like all professions, diplomacy has spawned its own specialized terminology, and it is this lexicon which provides A Dictionary of Diplomacy`s thematic spine. However, the dictionary also includes entries on legal terms, political events, international organizations and major figures who have occupied the diplomatic scene or have written influentially about it over the last half millennium. All students of diplomacy and related subjects and especially junior members of the many diplomatic services of the world will find this book indispensable.... Read More about the "Dictionary Of Diplomacy" on the The Nile Book Store Website

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
European Union And The Third World Description: This text provides a broad-ranging analysis of the EU`s relations with the developing world today set in the context of the policy, debates and changes of the 1990s and the EU`s historical ties to the Third World. Covering the whole range of the EU`s relations with developing states including the Cotonou Agreement and the `Everything but Arms` Regulation, the book assesses the likely evolution of trading regimes and the scope and limits of opportunities for fostering economic progress and good governance.... Read More about the "European Union And The Third World" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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