كتب سياسية Politics

Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain: Partisanship and Political Culture
By Mark Knights

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Iran Oil: The New Middle East Challenge to America
By Roger Howard

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Killing Mr. Lebanon: The Assasination of Rafik Hariri and its Impact on the Middle East
By Nicholas Blanford

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Saving Our Environment from Washington: How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People (RN)
By David Schoenbrod

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Methodism: Empire of the Spirit
By David Hempton

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The American Culture of War: The History of U.S. Military Force from World War II to Operation Iraqi Freedom
By Adrian R. Lewis

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Terrorism Reference Library Edition 1.
By James L. Outman

Recent Advances in Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning [Architecture / Design]
By Leeuwen J.P., Timmermans H.J.P.(Editors)

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After Bali: The Threat of Terrorism in Southeast Asia
By Kumar Ramakrishna, See Seng Tan

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Right to Be Hostile: Schools, Prisons, and the Making of Public Enemies
By Erica R. Meiners

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America the Vulnerable : Our Military Problems and How to Fix Them
by John F. Lehman
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Publisher: Foreign Policy Research
Number Of Pages:
Publication Date: 2002
Sales Rank: 2169107
ISBN / ASIN: 0910191247
EAN: 9780910191241
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Foreign Policy Research
Studio: Foreign Policy Research
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Accountability Of The International Monetary Fund (Voices in Development Management)
by Barry Carin and Angela Wood

Publisher: IDRC (International Development Research Cent
Number Of Pages: 124
Publication Date: 2005-06-30
Sales Rank: 1214345
ISBN / ASIN: 0754645231
EAN: 9780754645238
Binding: Hardcover
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* Subjects > Business & Investing > Industries & Professions > Banks & Banking
* Subjects > Business & Investing > Popular Economics > General
* Subjects > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Human Geography
* Subjects > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Sociology > General
* Subjects > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Earth Sciences > Geography
* Subjects > Science > Earth Sciences > Geography > General
Banking
Sociology
Human Geography
Decision making
Social Science
Business / Economics / Finance
Management
International Monetary Fund
Banks & Banking
Earth Sciences - Geography
Developing countries
IMF.
International agencies
Verantwoordelijkheid.
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Accountability is a hot button issue in discussions of IMF reform. Unfortunately, it is a topic where analysis is all too often colored by value judgments. Discussions are never judgement free, but contributors to this collection lay their values squarely on the table for all to see. This makes the present volume the best single starting point I know for discussions of this important question.

Barry Eichengreen (George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Recent years have seen calls for increased accountability in the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF has recently taken some modest steps in the areas of evaluation and audit, but the organization is generally perceived to be lacking in its adaptation to the new policy and governance frameworks demanded by increasing globalization. In relations across the Executive Board, IMF staff, the governments it serves, and civil society, the Fund has avoided its proper share of responsibility for failed policy prescriptions and has little incentive to adapt or improve its operations.

This volume brings together leading experts from North America, Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia to further the debate on the various dimensions of accountability of the IMF to its various shareholders and stakeholders. Having fully explored how the notion of accountability can be pragmatically applied to the IMF, it then tests various alternative approaches and puts forward recommendations for more effective and accountable future practice.

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Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations
by Peter D. Feaver

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2005-03-15
Sales Rank: 151945
ISBN / ASIN: 0674017617
EAN: 9780674017610
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Studio: Harvard University Press
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How do civilians control the military? In the wake of September 11, the renewed presence of national security in everyday life has made this question all the more pressing. In this book, Peter Feaver proposes an ambitious new theory that treats civil-military relations as a principal-agent relationship, with the civilian executive monitoring the actions of military agents, the "armed servants" of the nation-state. Military obedience is not automatic but depends on strategic calculations of whether civilians will catch and punish misbehavior.

This model challenges Samuel Huntington's professionalism-based model of civil-military relations, and provides an innovative way of making sense of the U.S. Cold War and post-Cold War experience--especially the distinctively stormy civil-military relations of the Clinton era. In the decade after the Cold War ended, civilians and the military had a variety of run-ins over whether and how to use military force. These episodes, as interpreted by agency theory, contradict the conventional wisdom that civil-military relations matter only if there is risk of a coup. On the contrary, military professionalism does not by itself ensure unchallenged civilian authority. As Feaver argues, agency theory offers the best foundation for thinking about relations between military and civilian leaders, now and in the future.

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Jihad in Medieval and Modern Islam (Nisaba)
By Rudolph Peters

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Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Number Of Pages: 90
Publication Date: 1977-06
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 9004048545
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9789004048546
Binding: Paperback


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Ruling Palestine, A History Of The Legally Sanctioned Jewish-Israeli Seizure Of Land And Housing In Palestine
by Souad R Dajani / Centre On Housing Rights And Evictions (Cohre)

Author: Souad R Dajani
Year: 2005
ISBN-10: 92-95004-29-9 / 9295004299
ISBN-13/EAN: 9789295004290

Publishers: COHRE & BADIL,
May 2005;
Language: English,
242 pages.





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Ruling Palestine
A History Of The Legally Sanctioned Jewish-Israeli Seizure Of Land And Housing In Palestine
Centre On Housing Rights And Evictions (Cohre)
Badil Resource Center For Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights
May 2005

The main focus of this study is the methodical process underlying the Zionist conquest of Palestine and the dispossession and displacement of its indigenous Arab inhabitants, in particular legal instruments and policies relating to colonisation and land acqusition. This process is measured against the standards of relevant international law and UN resolutions.

The study is a resource and reference tool for researchers, journalists, legal experts, human rights advocates and policy makers.


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Executive summary
The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of Jewish-Zionist and, later, Israeli actions to acquire lands and property in Israel/Palestine. The study documents laws and policies governing colonisation and land acquisition in both Israel and the Occupied Territories, which Israeli armed forces captured in 1967. We begin by looking at the inception of the Zionist movement in the late 1800s, when the groundwork was laid for land acquisition and Jewish colonisation in Palestine. Then we examine the changes to Ottoman law that facilitated Jewish land acquisition during the period of the British Mandate in Palestine. Our next focus is the legal system created within the State of Israel since its establishment in 1948. After that, we move to the situation following Israel’s 1967 capture of the West Bank – including the eastern part of Jerusalem (‘East Jerusalem’) – and the Gaza Strip. In tracing more than a century of Jewish-Israeli land acquisitions, this study documents the methodical process underlying the Zionist conquest of Palestine and the dispossession and displacement of its indigenous Arab inhabitants. We examine this process with reference to relevant international treaties and agreements. We show that Israel’s discriminatory policies towards Palestinians constituted violations of key United Nations resolutions adopted by the international community in the General Assembly and the Security Council over the past several decades. It is neither simple nor straightforward to demonstrate that a system of law was devised to legalise the transfer of lands and property from one people to another. For some readers, it may be disturbing to realise that deliberate discrimination could be embedded in and masked by seemingly ‘neutral’ categories within a ‘legal’ system — which, by definition, ought to denote impartiality and equal protection. The events and laws under review here are complicated by the fact that a succession of different governments once wielded authority over the areas that later became Israel and the Occupied Territories. From Ottoman, through British and Jordanian (the latter only in the West Bank), to Israeli law — each ruling power installed its own legal framework in pursuit of its own particular interests.
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Fabricating Foucault: Rationalising the Management of Individuals (Marquette Studies in Philosophy, #38.)
by Roger Alan Deacon

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Publisher: Marquette University Press
Number Of Pages: 306
Publication Date: 2003-11
Sales Rank: 1758808
ISBN / ASIN: 0874626617
EAN: 9780874626612
Binding: Paperback
Average Rating: 5
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* Subjects > Nonfiction > Philosophy > General
* Subjects > Nonfiction > Philosophy > Modern
* Subjects > Religion & Spirituality > General
Western philosophy, from c 1900 -
Foucault, Michel
Philosophy
Religion
History & Surveys - Modern
Foucault, Michel,
1926-1984

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Antonio Gramsci: Beyond Marxism and Postmodernism (Critics of the Twentieth Century)
by Renate Holub

By Renate Holub

Publisher: Routledge
Number Of Pages: 260
Publication Date: 1992-05-21
Sales Rank: 5058253
ISBN / ASIN: 0415021081
EAN: 9780415021081
Binding: Library Binding
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* Subjects > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Criticism & Theory > General
* Subjects > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Criticism & Theory > Marxist
* Subjects > Nonfiction > Philosophy > General
* Subjects > Nonfiction > Politics > Ideologies > Communism & Socialism
* Subjects > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Political Science > Political Doctrines > Communism
* Subjects > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Political Science > Political Doctrines > General
* Subjects > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Political Science > Political Doctrines > Marxism
* Subjects > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Political Science > Political Doctrines > Socialism
Marxism & Communism
Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies
Politics / Current Events
Communism
Literary Criticism
General
Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism
Gramsci, Antonio
Philosophy / General
Philosophy-General
Political Science / Communism & Socialism
1891-1937
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Antonio Gramsci examines the influential work of the great Italian thinker. Renate Holub seeks to reclaim Gramsci from classical Marxism, and instead places him in the broad European critical context--alongside the Frankfurt School, phenomenology, and sociolinguistics. This book points to Gramsci's affinities with the cultural theories inscribed in the critical theory of the Frankfurt School (Horkheimer, Bloch, Brecht, Benjamin). It also establishes affinities between Gramsci's linguistic and phenomenological forms of knowledge.

Placing Gramsci in this broader context evokes the immense conceptual and methodological complexity of his work, a complexity Holub discusses in terms of "differential pragmatics." It is this very complexity which is, the author claims, relevant today when constructing our own critical theories. Faced with the transnationalization of capital, the centralization of monetary and economic power, and the decentralization of production processes, a critical theory today must investigate, in the context of information technology, the possibilities of alternative positions to such an order. Gramsci's methodological itineraries are more useful, this book argues, than other critical theories in developing ways of seeing and doing that are commensurate with the complexities of this era.

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Afghanistan Five Years After 9/11
by Henry J. Hyde (Chairman of the Committee on International Relations)

HEARING


BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

Serial No. 109–23


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AFGHANISTAN: FIVE YEARS AFTER 9/11
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2006
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS,
Washington, DC.


The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:47 a.m., in room
2172, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Henry J. Hyde (Chairman
of the Committee) presiding.



Chairman HYDE. The Committee will come to order
Five years ago, the United States experienced a terrible tragedy
that led our Nation to destroy the Taliban safe haven in Afghanistan
protecting Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda movement. Our
mission was to provide a safe, stable and secure Afghanistan, free
from the threat of international terrorism or as a base for global
terrorists.
Despite significant political achievements, nearly 5 years later,
the window of opportunity in Afghanistan is imperiled. A 60 percent
increase in illicit opium cultivation is producing over 90 percent
of the world’s supply of heroin. The revenues are financing
and strengthening the Taliban and anti-Coalition activity, increasing
crime and corruption, and eroding the authority of central government
institutions.
Afghanistan is on the brink of becoming a failed state, and the
retrained Taliban are showing their strength in new attacks that
appear to be influenced by a spiraling Iraqi insurgency. The recent
assassination of a governor committed to peace and a recent attack
near the American Embassy aimed at a U.S. convoy reaffirms the
serious challenges to establishing security throughout the country.
Reinforcing the democratic successes in Afghanistan is critical to
supporting its national reconciliation process and rebuilding a viable
and independent nation-state that is secure and free from terrorism.
The 9/11 Commission Report confirmed this viewpoint in
its recommendations. How effective have the United States and the
international community been in helping Afghanistan meet this
goal?
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Health: An Ecosystem Approach (In Focus)
by Jean Lebel

Publisher: IDRC Books
Number Of Pages: 100
Publication Date: 2003-12
Sales Rank: 1969026
ISBN / ASIN: 1552500128
EAN: 9781552500125
Binding: Paperback
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* Subjects > Medicine > Administration & Policy > Public Health
* Subjects > Medicine > General
* Subjects > Nonfiction > Current Events > Poverty > Social Services & Welfare
* Subjects > Professional & Technical > Medical > Administration & Medicine Economics > Public Health > General
* Subjects > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Earth Sciences > Environmental Science
* Subjects > Science > Earth Sciences > Environmental Science
Health systems & services
Public Health
Medical / Nursing
Medical
Environmental Science
Medical / Public Health



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Can people remain healthy in a world that is sick? Many ecological
disasters can be directly traced to careless exploitation of the
environment, with human beings as first perpetrator and then victim. Our health closely mirrors the health of our surroundings: this is the basis of the Ecohealth approach. It recognizes the inextricable links between humans and their biophysical, social, and economic environments, and that these links are reflected in the population’s state of health.

Reconciling an ecosystem’s health with the health of its human inhabitants is a new area of research, requiring input from scientists, community and interest groups, and decision-makers. This book describes this new approach, providing lessons and recommendations from various IDRC-supported research activities. It demonstrates how decision-makers, in particular, can use the Ecohealth approach to formulate policies and solutions that are both immediately visible and sustainable over the long term.

This book presents only a small portion of the information that is
available on the ecosystem approach to human health. At IDRC’s Ecohealth
Web site -- www.idrc.ca/ecohealth -- you will find the full text of this
publication as well as related case studies, research reports, short
articles, and various other resources that complement this publication.

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Comanagement of Natural Resources: Local Learning for Poverty Reduction (In Focus)
by Stephen R. Tyler

Publisher: IDRC Books
Number Of Pages: 106
Publication Date: 2006-12
Sales Rank: 2669494
ISBN / ASIN: 1552503283
EAN: 9781552503287
Binding: Paperback
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* Subjects > Business & Investing > Economics > Economic Policy & Development
* Subjects > Nonfiction > Politics > Globalization
* Subjects > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > General
* Subjects > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Political Science > Public Policy
* Subjects > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Sociology > General
* Subjects > Outdoors & Nature > Ecology > Living on the Land
* Subjects > Science > Nature & Ecology > Natural Resources > General
Development studies
Management of land & natural resources
Social Science
Sociology
Developing Countries
Natural Resources
Public Policy - Environmental Policy
Social Science / Third World Development



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Book Description:

The developing world's poorest people live in marginal, often harsh rural environments—environments which tend to be fragile and highly vulnerable to overexploitation. These rural people depend directly on their local ecosystems for access to the food, forage, fuel, fiber, water, medicines and building materials. What types of natural resource management (NRM) can improve the livelihoods of these poor people while protecting or enhancing the natural resource base they depend on? New approaches to NRM are needed: ones that move beyond the earlier narrow focus on productivity (such as crop yields), to include social, institutional and policy considerations.

One such approach--comanagement--is presented in this book. It can be defined as collaborative arrangements in which the community of local resource users, local and senior governments, and other stakeholders share responsibility and authority for managing a specified natural resource or resources. This book draws on more than a decade of research across the developing world and presents case studies from Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Ecuador, Lebanon, and Viet Nam.

A key message to resource managers, policymakers, researchers, and development practitioners is that proposed solutions to NRM problems will be effective and lasting only if driven by the knowledge, action, and learning of local users. This book presents only a small sample of the research on community based NRM supported by IDRC over the years. For more analysis, discussion, and case material visit the companion website, www.idrc.ca/in_focus_comanagement, which is included with this book, on a CD-ROM.

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Elusive Peace in the Middle East
By Malcolm H. Kerr

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Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
Number Of Pages: 347
Publication Date: 1975-06-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0873953061
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780873953061
Binding: Paperback

Abraham Lincoln and American Political Religion
By Glen E. Thurow

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Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
Number Of Pages: 133
Publication Date: 1976-11
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0873953347
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780873953344
Binding: Hardcover

The Counterror Coalitions: Cooperation with Pakistan and India
by C. Christine Fair

The Counterterror Coalitions
C. Christine Fair
Prepared For The United States Air Force
Approved For Public Release, Distribution Unlimited
Cooperation With Pakistan And India

Publisher: RAND Corporation
Number Of Pages: 178
Publication Date: 2005-01-25
Sales Rank: 1960300
ISBN / ASIN: 0833035592
EAN: 9780833035592
Binding: Paperback

Book Description:

Examines U.S. strategic relations with India and Pakistan both historically and in the current context of the global war on terrorism and operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

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