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  • The Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies

    Edited by Martin Thomas, Gareth Curless ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The lethality of conflicts between insurgent groups and counter-insurgent security forces has risen markedly since the Second World War just as those of conventional, or inter-state wars have declined. For several decades, conflicts within states rather than between them have been the prevalent form of organised political violence worldwide. Recent conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria have ... Read more

    $149.39 USD

  • Decolonization and Conflict

    Colonial Comparisons and Legacies

    Edited by Martin Thomas, Gareth Curless ...
    Insurgency-based irregular warfare typifies armed conflict in the post-Cold War age. For some years now, western and other governments have struggled to contend with ideologically driven guerrilla movements, religiously inspired militias, and systematic targeting of civilian populations. Numerous conflicts of this type are rooted in experiences of empire breakdown. Yet few multi-empire studies of ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

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  • While Canada Slept

    How We Lost Our Place in the World

    by Andrew Cohen ...
    For how much longer can Canada expect to get a free ride?With 9/11 and the international “war on terrorism,” the time has come to ask some hard questions. Should we continue to starve our military, reduce our humanitarian assistance, dilute our diplomacy, and absent ourselves from global intelligence-gathering? Can we expect to sit at the global table by virtue of our economic power without ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 21 Speeches That Shaped Our World

    The people and ideas that changed the way we think

    by Chris Abbott ...
    In this fascinating book, Chris Abbott, a leading political analyst, takes a close look at 21 key speeches which have shaped the world today. He examines the power of the arguments embedded in these speeches to inspire people to achieve great things, or do great harm.Abbott draws upon his political expertise to explain how our current understanding of the world is rooted in pivotal moments of ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • Decolonization

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Dane Kennedy ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Millions of Africans, Asians, and other peoples were the subjects of colonial rule by overseas empires through the mid-twentieth century. By the end of the century, however, nearly all of these peoples had become citizens of independent nation-states. The United Nations grew from 51 member states at its founding in 1945 to 193 today. Its nearly four-fold increase is one measure of the historic ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Logic of Violence in Civil War

    by Stathis N. Kalyvas ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that such violence is an instance of impenetrable madness, the book demonstrates that there is logic to it and that it has much less to do with collective emotions, ideologies, and cultures than currently believed. Kalyvas specifies a novel theory of ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Canada In The World

    Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination

    by Tyler A. Shipley ...
    An accessible and empirically rich introduction to Canada’s engagements in the world since confederation, this book charts a unique path by locating Canada’s colonial foundations at the heart of the analysis. Canada in the World begins by arguing that the colonial relations with Indigenous peoples represent the first example of foreign policy, and demonstrates how these relations became a ... Read more

    Was $44.99 USD Now $29.99 USD

  • Counterinsurgency

    Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War

    by Douglas Porch ...
    Counterinsurgency has staked its claim in the new century as the new American way of war. Yet, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have revived a historical debate about the costs - monetary, political and moral - of operations designed to eliminate insurgents and build nations. Today's counterinsurgency proponents point to 'small wars' past to support their view that the enemy is 'biddable' if the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Great Deception

    Anglo-American Power and World Order

    by Mark Curtis ...
    An original and radically revised view of British and US foreign policy, exposing the extent to which Anglo-American interests have shaped and damaged the current world order. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Europe after Empire

    Decolonization, Society, and Culture

    by Elizabeth Buettner ...
    Series Book 51 - New Approaches to European History
    Europe after Empire is a pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present. Elizabeth Buettner charts the long-term development of post-war decolonization processes as well as the histories of inward and return migration from former empires which followed. She shows that not only were former colonies remade as a result ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Politics of Canadian Foreign Policy, Fourth Edition

    by Stéphane Roussel, Stéphane Paquin, Kim Nossal ...
    Series Book 188 - Queen's Policy Studies Series
    This book analyses the deeply political context of how foreign policy is made in Canada. Taking a broad historical perspective, it provides the key foundations for the analysis of Canadian foreign policy. It argues that foreign policy is forged in the nexus of politics at three levels-the global, the domestic, and the governmental-and that to understand how and why Canadian foreign policy looks as ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • State Crime

    Governments, Violence and Corruption

    by Penny Green, Tony Ward ...
    What is state crime? This book sets out the parameters of state crime and highlights the complex issues involved. The authors provide a clear chapter-by-chapter assessment of state violence, corruption, state involvement in organised and corporate crime, avoidable 'natural' disasters, torture, criminal policing, war crimes and genocide.Penny Green and Tony Ward put forward a powerful argument ... Read more

    $33.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus