Politics/Current Affairs

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The United States confronts its greatest economic crisis since the 1930s. President Obama has taken quick and decisive action to enact an economic stimulus package strong enough to address problems of historic proportions. What does this new package mean for American families, businesses, investors, ...

This non-fiction book is our astonishing lead publication. It contains details of one of the most disgraceful British government cover ups that's ever taken place. When the cover up took place the Prime Minister was Margaret Thatcher, it looks like she authorised or directed it. The book has been held ...

An examination of responses to terrorism around the globe, looking not only at 9/11 but also the London and Madrid bombings, as well as terrorist activity in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Palestine and elsewhere. It offers a clear-sighted way of understanding and dealing with global terrorism.

This report on the CARIFORUM and Pacific ACP Economic Partnership Agreements analyses the detailed implications for the economies of the countries involved of commitments signed or initialled, including an indication of the broad country and region-wide effects. The two agreements cover general provisions ...

Discusses the democratic unaccountability of the World Bank concerning the implementation of ruinous environmental policies

'One of the most important books in recent years. I cannot recommend it highly enough.' Robert W. McChesney

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Drawing from a wealth of foreign relations experts including scholars native to the region, this volume examines the unique challenges China faces as it adapts in its role as a world leader, and it analyzes how China's evolving international relationships are shaping the global landscape of the twenty-first century.

In the fast changing modern world where does Japan fit in, and how should it relate to the United States and China? Three foreign commentators make a provocative and persuasive argument that the time has come for Japan to help build a stronger Asian community, and to become an engage and conscientious ...

With every new presidential administration, thousands of highly accomplished individuals face one of the greatest challenges of their lives: learning to become an effective presidential appointee.

Britain is dominated by an oligarchy of professional egalitarians. Their aim is not to raise popular aspirations but to exploit mass taste, mass gullibility, or mass spending power for their own advantage. The author shows their populism is in fact 'a perversion of democracy, the sickness of the age'.

Who changes the world? The answer is we all do! This book, about sustainability in the broadest sense, exposes unconscious forces that drive leaders - the "beast within" us all - denial, ego and groupthink. It examines the failures of attempts to bring about change. It uncovers the part unconscious racism plays in foreign policy and globalisation.

"Protecting Your Identity: A Practical Guide to Preventing Identity Theft and Its Damaging Consequences".

Greens are driven by a concern with the fate of future generations and the natural world on which we all depend. Part of the 'What Do We Believe?' series, this work summarizes the historical roots of the Green movement and some of the main intellectual building blocks of Green thinking.

This latest study in the Brookings series on U.S. defense strategy and the defense budget reviews current American military capabilities and offers suggestions for the new administration and Congress.

This critique of Washington's current security policies, draws on the arguments made by an array of non-interventionist and conservative-nationalist scholars.