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  • Researching the Military

    Edited by Helena Carreiras, Celso Castro, Sabina Frederic ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    Researching the Military focuses on the experiences of researchers who study the military around the world.It explores the historical, social, institutional and personal factors that frame research and scrutinize the way knowledge in this area impacts society and policy. More than merely analyzing research experiences (yet necessarily including them), it is also about the experiences of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Understanding the Impact of Social Research on the Military

    Reflections and Critiques

    Edited by Eyal Ben-Ari, Helena Carreiras, Celso Castro ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This book seeks to chart and evaluate the impact of social research on the military itself.By "impact", the authors in this volume simply mean that which has a marked effect or influence on changing military policy, practices, knowledge, skills, behaviour, or living conditions. The book comprises a series of reflective contributions from scholars who have conducted research on the military as ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Qualitative Methods in Military Studies

    Research Experiences and Challenges

    Edited by Helena Carreiras, Celso Castro ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This book examines the methodology of qualitative research in military studies.Since the end of the Cold War, the number of studies on military and society has grown substantially in substance, size and impact. However, only a tiny part of this bibliography deals in depth with the research methods used, especially in relation to qualitative methods. The data that form the basis of the researchers’ ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

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  • WikiLeaks

    Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy

    by David Leigh, Luke Harding ...
    A team of journalists with unparalleled inside access provides the first full, in-depth account of WikiLeaks, its founder Julian Assange, and the ethical, legal, and political controversies it has both uncovered and provoked. ... Read more

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  • Mr. Putin REV

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    by Fiona Hill, Clifford G. Gaddy ...
    Series series Geopolitics in the 21st Century
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  • Hold Everything Dear

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    by John Berger ...
    Series series The Essential John Berger
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  • Global Governance and the New Wars

    The Merging of Development and Security

    by Mark Duffield ...
    Series series Critique Influence Change
    In this hugely influential book, originally published in 2001 but just as - if not more - relevant today, Mark Duffield shows how war has become an integral component of development discourse. Aid agencies have become increasingly involved in humanitarian assistance, conflict resolution and the social reconstruction of war-torn societies. Duffield explores the consequences of this growing merger ... Read more

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  • There Are No Dead Here

    A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia

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