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A Convergence of Civilizations
The Transformation of Muslim Societies Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
We are told that Western/Christian and Muslim/Arab civilizations are heading towards inevitable conflict. The demographics of the West remain sluggish, while the population of the Muslim world explodes, widening the cultural gap and all but guaranteeing the outbreak of war. Leaving aside the media's...
The Arab Uprisings Explained
New Contentious Politics in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Why did Tunisian protests following the self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi lead to a massive wave of uprisings across the entire Arab world? Who participated in those protests, and what did they hope to achieve? Why did some leaders fall in the face of popular mobilization while others found ways...
From Resilience to Revolution
How Foreign Interventions Destabilize the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Based on comparative historical analyses of Iran, Jordan, and Kuwait, Sean L. Yom examines the foreign interventions, coalitional choices, and state outcomes that made the political regimes of the modern Middle East. A key text for foreign policy scholars, From Resilience to Revolution shows how outside...
Mobilizing Islam
Religion, Activism, and Political Change in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2002
Mobilizing Islam explores how and why Islamic groups succeeded in galvanizing educated youth into politics under the shadow of Egypt's authoritarian state, offering important and surprising answers to a series of pressing questions. Under what conditions does mobilization by opposition groups become...
Confronting the Climate Challenge
U.S. Policy Options
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Without significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, climate change will cause substantial damage to the environment and the economy. The scope of the threat demands a close look at the policies capable of reducing the harm. Confronting the Climate Challenge presents a unique framework for...
Globalization
Education Research, Change and Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2005
From the streets of Seattle to corporate boardrooms to new factories in third-world nations, globalization is subject to very different and often explosively divergent interpretations. Where some see globalization as driving poor countries into further poverty, others see it as the path to economic...
The Right to Know
Transparency for an Open World
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
The Right to Know is a timely and compelling consideration of a vital question: What information should governments and other powerful organizations disclose? Excessive secrecy corrodes democracy, facilitates corruption, and undermines good public policymaking, but keeping a lid on military strategies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Leading governments undertook extraordinary measures to offset the 2008 economic crisis, shoring up financial institutions, stimulating demand to reverse recession, and rebalancing budgets to alleviate sovereign debt. While productive in and of themselves, these solutions were effective because they...
Frontier Investor
How to Prosper in the Next Emerging Markets
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Where are the next decade's greatest investment opportunities? Veteran investor Marko Dimitrijevic argues that they can be found in frontier markets, which account for seventy-one of the world's seventy-five fastest-growing economies and 19 percent of the world's GDP. Yet many investors ignore them....
by Wyatt Wells
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2001
Today antitrust law shapes the policy of almost every large company, no matter where headquartered. But this wasn't always the case. Before World War II, the laws of most industrial countries tolerated and even encouraged cartels, whereas American statutes banned them. In the wake of World War II,...
State of Nature, Stages of Society
Enlightenment Conjectural History and Modern Social Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Frank Palmeri sees the conjectural histories of Rousseau, Hume, Herder, and other Enlightenment philosophers as a template for the development of the social sciences in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Without documents or memorials, these thinkers, he argues, employed conjecture to formulate...
Green Capital
A New Perspective on Growth
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Many believe economic growth is incompatible with ecological preservation. Green Capital challenges this argument by shifting our focus away from the scarcity of raw materials and toward the deterioration of the great natural regulatory functions (such as the climate system, the water cycle, and biodiversity).
Although...
Coping with the Climate Crisis
Mitigation Policies and Global Coordination
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Reducing carbon emissions is the most complex political and economic problem humanity has ever confronted. Coping with the Climate Crisis brings together leading experts from academia and policy circles to explore issues related to the implementation of the COP21 Paris Agreement and the challenges...
by Steven Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The first edition of this pragmatic course text emphasized the policy value of a "big picture" approach to the ethical, political, technological, scientific, economic, and management aspects of environmental issues. The text then applied this approach to real-world case examples involving...