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“jonathan viera”

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  • The Future of Diplomacy After COVID-19

    Multilateralism and the Global Pandemic

    Edited by Hana Alhashimi, Andres Fiallo, Toni-Shae Freckleton, Mona Ali Khalil, Vahd Mulachela, Jonathan Viera ...
    This book considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international diplomacy, and the challenges and opportunities it presents for the future of multilateralism.Global cooperation and solidarity are central to responding to and mitigating the health and socio-economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, yet, to many, this was slow to mobilize and lacking in political leadership. This book ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

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  • Fixing Failed States

    A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World

    by Ashraf Ghani, Clare Lockhart ...
    Today between forty and sixty nations, home to more than one billion people, have either collapsed or are teetering on the brink of failure. The world's worst problems--terrorism, drugs and human trafficking, absolute poverty, ethnic conflict, disease, genocide--originate in such states, and the international community has devoted billions of dollars to solving the problem. Yet by and large the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Should Rich Nations Help the Poor?

    by David Hulme ...
    Series series Global Futures
    In the past decade, the developed world has spent almost US$ 2 trillion on foreign aid for poorer countries. Yet 1.2 billion people still live in extreme poverty and around 2.9 billion cannot meet their basic human needs.But should rich nations continue to help the poor? In this short book, leading global poverty analyst David Hulme explains why helping the world’s neediest communities is both the ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • About Canada: Immigration

    by Nupur Gogia, Bonnie Slade ...
    Series Book 5 - About Canada
    Many Canadians believe that immigrants steal jobs away from qualified Canadians, abuse the healthcare system and refuse to participate in Canadian culture. In About Canada: Immigration, Gogia and Slade challenge these myths with a thorough investigation of the realities of immigrating to Canada. Examining historical immigration policies, the authors note that these policies were always ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Divided Nations: Why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it

    Why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it

    by Ian Goldin ...
    With rapid globalization, the world is more deeply interconnected than ever before. While this has its advantages, it also brings with it systemic risks that are only just being identified and understood. Rapid urbanization, together with technological leaps, such as the Internet, mean that we are now physically and virtually closer than ever in humanity's history. We face a number of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Against Corruption: A book of essays

    by David Cameron ...
    Corruption is the cancer at the heart of many of the world’s problems. It destroys jobs and holds back growth. It fuels instability and terrorism. It traps the poorest in poverty. It even corrodes trust in the sports we love.In this collection of essays leading politicians, activists, journalists and academics begin a global debate about how we can fight back.Foreword by David Cameron, Prime ... Read more

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  • The Development Dance

    How Donors and Recipients Negotiate the Delivery of Foreign Aid

    by Haley J. Swedlund ...
    In a book full of directly applicable lessons for policymakers, Haley J. Swedlund explores why foreign aid is delivered in different ways at different times, and why various approaches prove to be politically unsustainable. She finds that no aid-delivery mechanism has yet resolved commitment problems in the donor-recipient relationship; bargaining compromises break down and have to be renegotiated ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Tracking the future

    Top trends that will shape South Africa and the world

    by Daniel Silke ...
    Respected analyst Daniel Silke provides a glimpse into global trends that will influence South African business and politics in the coming decade, such as the decline of the USA, the rise of emerging markets and the changing workplace. This book is for every South African person and business preparing for the changing world. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Only One Earth

    The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development

    by Felix Dodds, Michael Strauss, with Maurice F. Strong ...
    Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the goal of sustainable development continues via the Rio+20 conference in 2012. This book will enable a broad readership to understand what has been achieved in the past forty years and what hasn’t. It shows the continuing threat of our present way of living to the planet. It looks to the challenges that we ... Read more

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  • The Untold Story of the World's Leading Environmental Institution

    UNEP at Fifty

    by Maria Ivanova ...
    Series series One Planet
    The past, present, and possible future of the agency designed to act as "the world's environmental conscience."The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) was founded in 1972 as a nimble, fast, and flexible entity at the core of the UN system--a subsidiary body rather than a specialized agency. It was intended to be the world's environmental conscience, an anchor institution that established ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Labor Relations in a Globalizing World

    by Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, Alexander J. S. Colvin ...
    Compelled by the extent to which globalization has changed the nature of labor relations, Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, and Alexander J. S. Colvin give us the first textbook to focus on the workplace outcomes of the production of goods and services in emerging countries. In Labor Relations in a Globalizing World they draw lessons from the United States and other advanced industrial countries to ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Development Co-operation Report 2010

    by Collective ...
    The Development Co-operation Report, issued by the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), is the key annual reference for statistics and analysis on the latest trends in international aid.With only five years left to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), much remains to be done. The task has become even more challenging given the economic, food and climate change crises of recent ... Read more

    $54.99 USD