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In this book, Robert Leeson and Charles Palm have assembled an amazing collection of Milton Friedman's best works on freedom. Even more amazing is that the selection represents only 1 percent of the 1,500 works by Friedman that Leeson and Palm have put online in a user-friendly format-and an even smaller percentage if you include their archive of Friedman's audio and television recordings, correspondence, and other writings. This book and the larger...
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This book analyses the underlying reasons behind the formation of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), its development, where this current in Irish republicanism is at present and its prospects for the future.
Tommy McKearney, a former IRA member who was part of the 1980 hunger strike, challenges the misconception that the Provisional IRA was only, or even wholly, about ending partition and uniting Ireland. He argues that while these...
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This book is about freedom and the right to have an opinion. A concept that has been fought over for centuries. Whilst we think of Australia as being a free society, You Can't Say That! challenges this notion, arguing that the freedoms all Australians once enjoyed have been systematically eroded over last few decades, and how, as a nation, we must fight to get them back.
Let this book guide you to a place where you ask:
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The late twentieth century witnessed massive human rights violations. What can to done to stop them? How can the root causes be addressed? The issue of human rights has become the secular religion of our time. Yet violations continue to occur in a gross and flagrant manner. Author David Matas examines examples of human rights violations and suggests what individuals, private organizations, governments, and the UN can do about this worldwide problem....
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A bold call for a Canadian foreign policy that advances the basic freedoms that enable peace, stability, development, and security. What ends should a democratic country's foreign policy serve? Avoiding diplomatic disputes? Keeping allies happy? Promoting national and global security? While a qualified yes is the logical answer to all of these secondary questions, Two Freedoms argues for something more, something that reflects Canada's commitment,...
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Five decades after Nasser and the Free Officers overthrew the British-backed monarchy in a dramatic coup d'état, the future of Egypt grows more uncertain by the day. John Bradley examines the junctions of Egyptian politics and society as they slowly disintegrate under the twin pressures of a ruthless military dictatorship at home and a flawed Middle East policy in Washington. Inside Egypt is a tour-de-force of the most brutal Arab state where torture...
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Never again! the world has vowed time and again since the Holocaust. Yet genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other mass atrocity crimes continue to shock our consciences-from the killing fields of Cambodia to the machetes of Rwanda to the agony of Darfur.
Gareth Evans has grappled with these issues firsthand. As Australian foreign minister, he was a key broker of the United Nations peace plan for Cambodia. As president of the International Crisis Group,...
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"Winner of the 2008 Best Book Award, Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association" Tanisha M. Fazal is assistant professor of political science at Columbia University.
If you were to examine an 1816 map of the world, you would discover that half the countries represented there no longer exist. Yet since 1945, the disappearance of individual states from the world stage has become rare. State Death is the first book to...
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Today the deadliest conflicts are not between states but rather within them, pitting tyrants against the populations they oppress. Over a century of data shows that civil resistance campaigns-employing strikes, boycotts, mass protests, and many other nonviolent tactics-are the most powerful means for societies to confront authoritarians. The Checklist to End Tyranny is dedicated to enabling dissidents to become more strategic in their thinking and...
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Ni Merah, ni Nemmouche, ni Coulibaly ne sont nés par génération spontanée. Ils se sont construits sur un échafaudage de haines, de confusions, de préjugés et de généralisations qui leur ont donné bonne conscience. Même au moment de tuer d'une balle dans la tête une petite fille de 7 ans, comme à Toulouse. Car, aussi provoquante que soit cette réalité, il faut le dire : ce qui est inquiétant n'est pas seulement que l'on tue des Juifs,...
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This original collection of essays offers hope to those who believe that the cause of world peace requires a new American foreign policy and repairing our depleted military. The twelve contributors to this book show why America must take another look at our possible adversaries and real strategic partners. Present Dangers offers practical strategies for policymakers eager to disarm adversaries like North Korea and Iraq and head off the terrorist threat....
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Steve Biko, the founder of the Black Consciousness philosophy, was killed in prison on 12 September 1977. Biko was only thirty years old, but his ideas and political activities changed the course of South African history and helped hasten the end of apartheid. The year 2007 saw the thirtieth anniversary of Biko's death. To mark the occasion, the then Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Mosibudi Mangena, commissioned Chris van Wyk to compile an...
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La souveraineté nationale des États n'a jamais été autant d'actualité. La Grèce se débat pour exercer sa souveraineté pourtant reconnue depuis bientt 200 ans. L'Écosse s'en approche, la Catalogne veut exercer son droit de décider librement de son avenir. Et le Québec, aujourd'hui, comme hier et encore davantage demain, fait partie de cette grande mouvance. Toutefois, il doit tirer des leçons de son passé récent et ajuster sa stratégie...
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Sobre la libertad es uno de los textos esenciales de la filosofía política contemporánea y uno de los más influyentes de Mill, el que mayor número de debates ha suscitado y en el que se defiende la libertad plena de pensamiento, expresión y acción del individuo con respecto al Estado.
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For a year and a half, not only has the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine continued, but also the repression by the Putin regime against opponents of the war inside the country. People are sent to prison for posts on social networks, fined for conversations overheard by informers in cafes and stores, and persecuted even for the word "war". The author of this book, a writer, winner of literary prizes (staying in Russia, he does not reveal his...
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Alaa Abd el-Fattah is arguably the most high-profile political prisoner in Egypt, if not the Arab world, rising to international prominence during the revolution of 2011. A fiercely independent thinker who fuses politics and technology in powerful prose, an activist whose ideas represent a global generation which has only known struggle against a failing system, a public intellectual with the rare courage to offer personal, painful honesty, Alaa's...
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Opponents attack the president of the United States for not being a real Christian. Bitter arguments erupt over whether the United States is or should be a Christian nation. Sound familiar? These contentious issues are not just recent developments but were also the topics of fierce debate in the late eighteenth century. Like President Obama today, President Thomas Jefferson had to contend with accusations that his religious convictions were questionable....
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Nations are birthed from the concept that Self Determination is the apex of the human rights pyramid and, at its heart, the survival of posterity is paramount. This book aims to, in simple terms, highlight and address some of the most misunderstood concepts of International Law, and underscore the heart of a community's innate desire to live out meaningful lives and flourish.
Born in Ajalli, Eastern Nigeria, scriptwriter and novelist Onyi Anatune...
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The 2019 Sudanese revolution constitutes one of the world's greatest stories of the power of nonviolent resistance. A country, which had suffered greatly from decades of horrific state sanctioned violence, misogynistic laws, and longstanding religious, ethnic, and regional divisions, an unstoppable movement emerged out of a population systematically disempowered through decades of dictatorship. Millions of Sudanese took to the streets during waves...
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Desde 1766, y con tan solo cinco años, Richard Beasley, como testigo, nos narra las rebeliones de los arrendatarios en el estado de Nueva York, las cuales son seguidas por la revolución americana y como las vidas de su padre Henry Beasley y su tío Richard Cartwright son puestas bajo riesgo por las fuerzas lealistas en Albany, Nueva York a lo largo de los horrores de la guerra civil.
Richard Beasley, como economato del Fuerte Niagara, observa la...
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