Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1400
Book Description
The Economist
Author: A Teacher's Geography, Emphasizing the Problem Method
Author: Mendel Everett BranomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Transnational Threats
Author: Kimberley L. ThachukPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1573569887
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This collection of essays demonstrates how the security of Americans is potentially threatened by individuals and governments who are engaged in the illicit trade in arms, drugs, and human beings in distant parts of the globe. More than just a threat to Americans, the essays underscore that these activities are often detrimental to the United States interests around the world due to the destabilizing impact that each activity can have on a nation or region. More revealing is how terrorists benefit from this illegal trade, generating critical sources of funding used for everything from recruiting to procurement of weapons and explosives of all types to extend and expand the scope of their struggle. The scope of this work is truly global. Fourteen essays touch on prevailing problems from the Balkans to Southeast Asia and the Pacific; from Africa to the Caribbean, and more. In each essay, the authors explore a problem that not only has direct regional repercussions, but larger international ones as well. The essays present problems that result from these illegal activities as a global epidemic, not simply regionalized problems.
United States Jewry, 1776-1985
Author: Jacob Rader MarcusPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814321867
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord ...
Author: Joseph WhitakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
Railway Problems in China
Author: Mongton Chih HsuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Nostalgia for the Empire
Author: M. Hakan YavuzPublisher:
ISBN: 0197512283
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Nostalgia for the Empire examines the social and political origins of beleaguered and wistful expressions of nostalgia about the Ottoman Empire. Political memories of the Ottoman past have been transformed in Turkish society, along with reactions from the outside world. The Ottoman past, as remembered now, is grounded in contemporary conservative Islamic values. Thus, the connection between memories of the Ottoman past and these values defines Turkey's new identity. This new expression of national memory portrays Turkey as a victim of the major powers, justifying its position against its imagined internal and external enemies.
Smuggling in Southeast Europe
Author: Marko HajdinjakPublisher: CSD
ISBN: 9544770992
Category : Organized crime
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Analyzes and reviews the connection between the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and the growth of the trans-border crime in the region, and also looks at the related issue of corruption. The paper highlights the decisive impact the Yugoslav wars had on the development of the regional criminal networks, which were often set up and maintained not only with the knowledge, but even with active participation of the highest state officials. The research also represents a contribution to the study of conflicts in the Western Balkans. The majority of existing interpretations of causes, course and consequences of the Yugoslav wars try to provide the answers through ethno-political explanations. They unjustly ignore the importance that interweaving of interests of political elites, the organized crime groups, which appeared in this period, and the "mediating class" of corrupt state officials had in this process.
The Investor's Monthly Manual
Author: War in the Balkans, 1991-2002
Author: R. Craig NationPublisher:
ISBN: 9781312339750
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Armed conflict on the territory of the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 2001 claimed over 200,000 lives, gave rise to atrocities unseen in Europe since the Second World War, and left behind a terrible legacy of physical ruin and psychological devastation. Unfolding against the background of the end of cold war bipolarity, the new Balkan wars sounded a discordant counterpoint to efforts to construct a more harmonious European order, were a major embarrassment for the international institutions deemed responsible for conflict management, and became a preoccupation for the powers concerned with restoring regional stability. After more than a decade of intermittent hostilities the conflict has been contained, but only as a result of significant external interventions and the establishment of a series of de facto international protectorates, patrolled by UN, NATO, and EU sponsored peacekeepers with open-ended mandates.