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  • Human Development Report 2025

    A Matter of Choice: People and Possibilities in the Age of AI

    by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) ...
    Series series Human Development Report
    Artificial intelligence (AI) has broken into a dizzying gallop. While AI feats grab headlines, they privilege technology in a make-believe vacuum, obscuring what really matters: people’s choices. The choices that people have and can realize, within ever expanding freedoms, are essential to human development, whose goal is for people to live lives they value and have reason to value. A world with ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • United Nations Development Programme and System (UNDP)

    by Stephen Browne ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    This volume provides a short and accessible introduction to the organization that serves as the primary coordinator of the work of the UN system throughout the developing world –the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The book:traces the origins and evolution of UNDP, outlining how a central UN funding mechanism and field network developed into a more comprehensive development ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • From Rio+20 to a New Development Agenda

    Building a Bridge to a Sustainable Future

    by Felix Dodds, Jorge Laguna-Celis, Liz Thompson ...
    Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "The Earth Summit", the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a new global development partnership, one in which sustainable development is the basis for eradicating poverty, upholding human development and transforming economies.Written by practitioners ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Beyond NATO

    A New Security Architecture for Eastern Europe

    by Michael E. O'Hanlon ...
    Series series The Marshall Papers
    In this new Brookings Marshall Paper, Michael O'Hanlon argues that now is the time for Western nations to negotiate a new security architecture for neutral countries in eastern Europe to stabilize the region and reduce the risks of war with Russia. He believes NATO expansion has gone far enough. The core concept of this new security architecture would be one of permanent neutrality. The countries ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • How We Stopped Loving the Bomb

    An insider's account of the world on the brink of banning nuclear arms

    by Douglas Roche ...
    Nobody loves nuclear weapons--except their powerfully placed defenders in government, their supporters in the military, and terrorists. When President Barack Obama brought his vision of a nuclear weapons-free world to the White House, he re-energized the peace movement. Today the historical momentum to rid the world of nuclear weapons is once again gathering speed.Former Canadian Ambassador for ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Transboundary Water Management and the Climate Change Debate

    by Anton Earle, Ana Elisa Cascao, Stina Hansson, Anders Jägerskog, Ashok Swain, Joakim Öjendal ...
    Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
    Climate change has an impact on the ability of transboundary water management institutions to deliver on their respective mandates. The starting point for this book is that actors within transboundary water management institutions develop responses to the climate change debate, as distinct from the physical phenomenon of climate change. Actors respond to this debate broadly in three distinct ways ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Social Networks and the Jewish Migration between Poland and Palestine, 1924–1928

    by Magdalena M. Wrobel Bloom ...
    Series Book 8 - Studies in Jewish History and Memory
    This book analyses the role of social networks in the process of migration. Based on stories of Polish Jews who migrated between Poland and Palestine in the 1920s, the author presents all stages of the journey and shows how networks of friends and families spread in different countries contributed to the migration experience. Presenting these stories through correspondence, she shows how migrants ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The US NATO Debate

    From Libya to Ukraine

    by Magnus Petersson ...
    Since the Libya War in 2011 it has been widely suggested that NATO's role in US security policy has diminished, because Washington gives Europe less and Asia more strategic priority (a tendency that is reinforced by budget restraints), and because the US is no longer interested in always leading NATO activities that mainly concern European conditions.Several experts have suggested that the US ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • How Statesmen Think

    The Psychology of International Politics

    by Robert Jervis ...
    Robert Jervis has been a pioneering leader in the study of the psychology of international politics for more than four decades. How Statesmen Think presents his most important ideas on the subject from across his career. This collection of revised and updated essays applies, elaborates, and modifies his pathbreaking work. The result is an indispensable book for students and scholars of ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The Forum on China- Africa Cooperation (FOCAC)

    by Ian Taylor ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    The increase in China’s economic and political involvement in Africa is arguably the most momentous development on the continent since the end of the Cold War. This book seeks to detail the origins, structure, workings and activities of The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) and its development over the last nine years.Mindful of the growing realisation that Africa is to play an ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Secret Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations in Oslo

    Their Success and Why the Process Ultimately Failed

    by Sven Behrendt ...
    Series series Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series
    The Oslo secret negotiations from 1992 to 1993 were some of the most astonishing and also successful negotiations in the Middle East, leading to the mutual recognition between the PLO and Israel.Through an in-depth examination of the Oslo negotiations, this book argues that at the core of the negotiations was a fascinating dilemma of recognition. Overcoming this dilemma was at the centre of the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Power Triangle

    Military, Security, and Politics in Regime Change

    by Hazem Kandil ...
    Revolution, reform, and resilience comprise the respective fortunes of modern Iran, Turkey, and Egypt. Although the countries all experienced coups with remarkably similar ambitions, each followed a very different trajectory. Iran became an absolutist monarchy that was overthrown from below, Turkey evolved into a limited democracy, and Egypt turned into a police state. In The Power Triangle, Hazem ... Read more

    $50.39 USD