While the major trends in European integration have been well researched and constitute key elements of narratives about its value and purpose, the crises of integration and their effects have not yet attracted sufficient attention. This volume, with original contributions by leading German scholars, suggests that crises of integration should be seen as engines of progress throughout the history of European integration rather than as expressions ...
– Books on the United Nations abound but this is the first to distill its entire history into one accessible volume. – Includes the UN creation and early history; how it is structured and whether it is well constituted in its functions; relief, development and law – Particular focus on core questions: How much can it do if its members are unwilling to provide the necessary resources, mechanisms, and mandate? It spends considerable reso ...
Virtually any commodity can move around the world to satisfy demand, but human beings have far less freedom. Many would-be migrants are forced to risk life and limb traveling illegally. Yet most rich countries are short of workers, have shrinking populations, and need more immigrants. This is a timely guide to a major issue that is never far from the political headlines. Peter Stalker is a former co-editor of the New Internationalist who no ...
By leading American journalist, activist, and political commentator, Phyllis Bennis, who has written numerous books about the Middle East. Written in accessible Frequently Asked Questions format, suitable for the general reader and students. Very timely given UK involvement in strikes on Syria. It covers the Paris attacks. The rise of ISIS has been so fast and dramatic that there is a demand for robust and balanced commentary and analysis in ord ...
It has been said many times that the human future is clouded by multiple and mutually interacting problems. While in the 19th century we had the luxury of believing in almost automatic progress – an «onward and upward» assumption – that belief has been shattered by two world wars, more than 150 smaller ones, the invention of weapons of mass destruction, increasing degradation of the environment, both by pollution and resource exhaustion (i.e. ad ...
Edward C. Luck, President Emeritus, Senior Policy Advisor, United Nations Association of the United States of America This book is important reading for anyone interested in the future of the UN. It contains hundreds of reform ideas, most of them sound, all of them stimulating. The diversity of views and subjects reflects the breadth of the UN’s global agenda and the exemplary contributions Canadians have made to the world body. Many of Canad ...
В книге академика РАН А. А. Кокошина, 6-го секретаря Совета Безопасности Российской Федерации, занимавшего также посты первого заместителя министра обороны Российской Федерации, секретаря Совета обороны Российской Федерации, рассматриваются ряд политико-военных и военно-стратегических проблем национальной безопасности России. В их числе – концептуальные вопросы взаимоотношений между политикой и военной стратегией, долгосрочные проблемы обеспечен ...
