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41) Forging Europe's Leadership: Global Trends, Russian Aggression and the Risk of a Regressive World
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The world has been splintered by geopolitics and yet is still bound by interdependence. As competition between the world's great powers surges, multiple trends point towards the collapse of the international order. Russia's aggression against Ukraine marks a tipping point, potentially turning an already contested world into one of lasting regression on the political, security, economic, social and environmental fronts. While this scenario is not inevitable,...
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A new Volume in the Collection "Geopolitics", "Strait of Tensions", authored by the esteemed French Think Tank's GEW Reports & Analyses Team, delves into the complex geopolitical dynamics surrounding the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait.One of the key chokepoints in the Red Sea is the Bab el Mandeb strait, a narrow waterway situated between the coasts of Yemen and the African continent. This strait holds immense strategic and economic significance,...
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El presente Cuaderno de Estudios Regionales recoge los trabajos de la mesa: "La administración Obama hacia Medio Oriente: ¿Cambio o Continuidad?'" presentados en el XXM Congreso Nacional de la Asociación Mexicana de Estudios Internacionales, celebrado en Boca del Río, Veracruz, del 8 al 10 de octubre del 2009, coordinado por el Proyecto papime PE302109, titulado: "Relaciones Internacionales y Areas Regionales: Diversidad y Cambio", financiado...
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Secretísima Instrucción es un tratado sobre estrategia política y militar producido en 1620 al calor del conflicto de la Guerra de los Treinta Años. Estamos ante un texto que, bajo la forma de una carta con consejos de liderazgo para un príncipe, se constituye en manual político de estrategia en el conflicto, en la conquista y conservación del poder, en cruda guía de "razón de Estado", que puede ubicarse en la tradición de las obras de Maquiavelo...
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El presente trabajo aborda la relación triangular entre Líbano, Siria e Israel en la geopolítica regional del Medio Oriente, en particular desde el surgimiento de Líbano y Siria como Estados independientes (1943y 1946 respectivamente), y la creación del Estado de Israel en 1948. Dicha relación, se analiza a la luz de los cambios operados en el sistema internacional, regional y local.
46) Irrepressible China and India: Ancient Civilizations and Wisdom. Modern Statecraft and Resurgence
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Chinese and Indian civilizations are two of the oldest civilizations in the world. And although they have quite different heritage from their different history, they have similarly promising future ahead.The resurgence of China And India is a headline story of the modern world.Today, China and India are leading nations in the important economically focused BRICS bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, which is emerging as the counterweight...
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What if our civilization could avoid self-destruction and completely devastating the environment by decoding the secret messages carried by iconic monuments such as the Great Sphinx of Giza, Taj Mahal in India, or Statue of Liberty in New York?
This book takes a unique and fresh approach to our history, with a focus on leadership and climate change, and decodes it through some of the iconic monuments and statues of our world. After four decades...
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The American government spends trillions of dollars annually to import goods and services. Over eighty five thousand (85,000) companies have closed their manufacturing plants and moved their production to other parts of the world. About four million Americans who were employed in those companies are now jobless or unemployed and the effect is being seen in the national debt crisis plaguing the nation.
The era of American imperialism is gradually...
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"If we were to start all over again with "Nothingness," sooner or later God would have to appear, popping into existence Himself as His laughter creates His cosmos."
The Laughter of God is an extravagant collection of essays, covering everything from the origin of the cosmos ex nihilo, to the planets and metals of Astrology and Alchemy, to the Tree of Life and Tetragrammaton of the Hebrew Kabbalah, to the Tao and the I Ching from China, describing...
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When the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) became involved in security operations during the War in Afghanistan, it faced a range of complex challenges, including a highly motivated Afghan insurgency that changed over time and repeatedly defied assumptions.
Conflicts within NATO also posed challenges. The alliance brought together a quarter of the world's nations, each with its own goals and interests, in an effort to stabilize an agrarian...
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Though pillage, profit, and plunder have been a mainstay of war since pre-colonial times, there is little contemporary focus on the role of finance and economics in today's "Drug Wars"-despite the fact that they boost US banks and fill our prisons with poor people. They feed political campaigns, increase the arms trade, and function as long-term fixes to capitalism's woes, cracking open new territories to privatization and foreign direct investment....
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In 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled "The End of History." Fukuyama argued that the demise of confrontation between Communism and capitalism, and the expansion of Western liberal democracy, signalled the endpoint of humanity's sociocultural and political evolution, the waning of traditional power politics, and the path toward a more peaceful...
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It is the toiling masses and the rest of the people who fight for national liberation, democracy and socialism against imperialism and all reaction who let us hope for a bright future of world peace and common prosperity. They are now waging anti-imperialist and democratic mass struggle against the current global crisis that has been brought about by revisionist betrayal of socialism, neoliberalism and fascism. These are the prelude to the resurgence...
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Political risk now affects more markets and countries than ever before and that risk will continue to rise. But traditional methods of managing political risk are no longer legitimate or effective.
In “Tectonic Politics”, Nigel Gould-Davies explores the complex, shifting landscape of political risk and how to navigate it. He analyses trends in each form of political risk: the power to destroy, seize, regulate, and tax. He shows how each of these...
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As you read this book, you will understand the strategic policies and measures that the Chinese government has pursued to transform indigenous china into the most industrialized country of the world. The future of the nation is bright. This book will bring to your notice everything that you need to know about china concerning their future ambition.
You will also get deep insight about how the wealth of china is shaping the global financial system....
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Desde hace apenas un par de décadas, la prensa internacional comenzó a hablar del BRICS (inicialmente BRIC) para referirse a los países emergentes con mayor crecimiento económico en los últimos años: Brasil, Rusia, India, China y Sudáfrica; pero, ¿qué sabemos sobre el grupo? Por empezar, la iniciativa de reunir a estos países, así como la denominación, no surgió de ellos mismos, sino de una banca de inversión global y sobre la base de...
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What would you do to change the course of a nation when you observed that nation heading down a very dangerous path? Plea for a Nation is just that. It's a call to action for anyone who is willing to listen and aid in a much needed course correction.
Our beloved nation stands at a crossroads. Bitter partisanship has left many disillusioned, while the powerful wield self-interest against the common good. Yet I still believe in the spirit of America...
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Do you want to know the unknown to the outside world and the untold about South Sudan? I guess so, but all in one book.
South Sudan on the Brink is a bombshell that has landed on the political sphere in South Sudan. It's captivating, informative and highly analytical. Its impact would reverberate through the South Sudanese political circles and among the populace for God knows how long.
The book covers significant events throughout the South...
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It is high time that USA and China start negotiating for peace, and stop all their preparations for war and the ever worsening slide towards WW3!It is time to build peace and reject wars. It is time to stop all the skirmishes and vicious fights over trade, technology, economic policies, ideology and toxic superpower rivalry that have bedeviled their relationship in the last few decades.The first step to be taken by USA and China towards dialing down...
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La oleada de gobiernos de izquierda que caracterizó a América Latina y el Caribe desde finales del siglo XX conformó un mapa geopolítico adverso a los intereses del sector público-privado estadounidense en la región. Para cambiar la correlación de fuerzas ha entrado en escena el lawfare o guerra judicial, un mecanismo aparentemente democrático y ajustado a derecho, por elque socavar el poder, la imagen y las posibilidades de reelección de...
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