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  • History on the Run

    Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies

    by Ma Vang ...
    During its secret war in Laos (1961–1975), the United States recruited proxy soldiers among the Hmong people. Following the war, many of these Hmong soldiers migrated to the United States with refugee status. In History on the Run Ma Vang examines the experiences of Hmong refugees in the United States to theorize refugee histories and secrecy, in particular those of the Hmong. Vang conceptualizes ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Departures

    An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies

    by Yen Le Espiritu, Lan Duong, Ma Vang, Victor Bascara, Khatharya Um ...
    Series Book 3 - Critical Refugee Studies
    Departures supports, contextualizes, and advances the field of critical refugee studies by providing a capacious account of its genealogy, methods, and key concepts as well as its premises, priorities, and possibilities. The book outlines the field's main tenets, questions, and concerns and offers new approaches that integrate theoretical rigor and policy considerations with refugees' rich and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Claiming Place

    On the Agency of Hmong Women

    Edited by Chia Youyee Vang, Faith Nibbs, Ma Vang ...
    Countering the idea of Hmong women as victims, the contributors to this pathbreaking volume demonstrate how the prevailing scholarly emphasis on Hmong culture and men as the primary culprits of women’s subjugation perpetuates the perception of a Hmong premodern status and renders unintelligible women’s nuanced responses to patriarchal strategies of domination both in the United States and in ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    A Provocation

    by Kishore Mahbubani ...
    The West's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns. How will the West react to its new status of superpower in decline?In Kishore Mahbubani's timely polemic, he argues passionately that the West can no longer presume to impose its ideology on the world, and crucially, that it must stop seeking to intervene, ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

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  • International Security

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher S. Browning ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The subject of international security is never out of the headlines. The subjects of war and peace, military strategy, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and revisionist states remain central to the discussion, but burgeoning concerns such as climate change, migration, poverty, health, and international terrorism have complicated the field. So what really matters? The traditional prioritization ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The SAGE Handbook of Globalization

    Edited by Paul Battersby, Manfred B. Steger, Joseph M Siracusa ...
    Global studies is a fresh and dynamic discipline area that promises to reinvigorate undergraduate and postgraduate education in the social sciences and humanities. In the Australian context, the interdisciplinary pedagogy that defines global studies is gaining wider acceptance as a coherent and necessary approach to the study of global change. Through the Global Studies Consortium (GSC), this new ... Read more

    $280.79 USD

  • The Decline of American Power

    by Immanuel Wallerstein ...
    The internationally renowned theorist contends that the sun is setting on the American empire in this "lucid, informed, and insightful" account ( The New York Times).The United States currently finds itself [a] superpower that lacks true power, a world leader nobody follows and few respect, and a nation drifting dangerously amidst a global chaos it cannot control.The United States in decline? Its ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • International Security

    The Contemporary Agenda

    by Roland Dannreuther ...
    International Security is a cutting-edge analysis of the key security challenges and developments in the post-Cold War world. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary examples, from the Iraq war to the rise of China, it is an essential guide for students and policy makers seeking to understand the theoretical and empirical debates over the fast-changing nature of international security today.The ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors

    Against the Double Blackmail

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Popular philosopher and leftist rabble-rouser Slavoj Zizek looks at one of the most desperate situations of our time: the current refugee crisis overwhelming EuropeIn this short yet stirring book, Slavoj Zizek—called “the Elvis of cultural history” by The New York Times—argues that accepting all comers or blocking all entry are both untenable solutions . . . But there is a third option.Today, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Courage of Hopelessness

    A Year of Acting Dangerously

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Maverick philosopher Slavoj Zizek returns to explore today's ideological, political and economic battles—and asks whether radical change is possibleIn these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, argues Slavoj Zizek, it is only when we have admitted ... Read more

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  • Global Issues

    A Cross-Cultural Perspective

    by Shirley A. Fedorak ...
    Global Issues is a pedagogically rich text that offers a unique way of looking at contemporary issues, such as food security and global conflict, from a cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspective. By exploring each issue in depth, students gain an applied understanding of more abstract concepts like conflict, globalization, culture, imperialism, human rights, and gender, while the cross ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Gender and the Violence(s) of War and Armed Conflict

    More Dangerous to be a Woman?

    by Stacy Banwell ...
    Series series Emerald Studies in Criminology, Feminism and Social Change
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Drawing on historical and contemporary case studies, Gender and the Violence(s) of War and Armed Conflict delves into visual as well as text-based materials to unpack gender-based violence(s) perpetrated and experienced by both genders within and beyond the conflict zone ... Read more

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