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Décryptage des réactions que Vladimir Poutine suscite en Europe.
Entre peur et admiration, Vladimir Poutine, président de la Russie, ne laisse personne indifférent. Allié ou ennemi, ou les deux à la fois, l'homme qui, en secret, rêve d'être un nouveau tsar, fascine. Au fil des années, la méfiance et la peur ont remplacé les espoirs mutuels de dialogue ; chacun a renoué avec les vieux réflexes de la Guerre froide. Mais, orphelines de...
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Not Fake News! The basis for the 2018 film The Post by Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg, The Pentagon Papers are a series of articles, documents, and studies examining the Johnson Administration's lies to the public about the extent of US involvement in the Vietnam War, bringing to light shocking conclusions about America's true role in the conflict. Published by The New York Times in 1971, The Pentagon Papers riveted an already deeply...
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Comment expliquer la survie des États de facto, ces régions séparatistes qui échappent au contrle des capitales et qui proclament leur indépendance sans pour autant obtenir la reconnaissance internationale? Bien qu'ils possèdent les attributs étatiques, ils sont considérés comme des « trous noirs » et restent de ce fait invisibles et isolés aux yeux du monde entier.
Alors que la plupart des écrits se concentrent sur l'impasse diplomatique...
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L'Occident a été coupable de tromperie à plusieurs niveaux, utilisant ses médias influents pour dominer le monde par la désinformation, la manipulation de masse et le mensonge. Cela a abouti à l'oubli de l'histoire royale des Africains et de la beauté incomparable de leurs origines. Depuis le début de l'opération spéciale en Ukraine, le président russe, Vladimir Poutine, transmet un puissant message de justice qui réfute les mensonges...
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"One of Foreign Affairs Best of Books 2017 – Political and Legal / Globalization" Seva Gunitsky is assistant professor of political science at the University of Toronto.
Over the past century, democracy spread around the world in turbulent bursts of change, sweeping across national borders in dramatic cascades of revolution and reform. Aftershocks offers a new global-oriented explanation for this wavelike spread and retreat-not only of democracy...
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Most American books about China are written by Americans who have visited, lived, or worked in China. The authors believe that their experiences are a slice of what Chinese culture truly is.
Lost In Interpretation: China Stories Told by a China Insider is not that type of book. Author Barbara Hong Li was born and raised in China but has lived and worked in the US for over twenty years, giving her a unique perspective on the similarities and differences...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013" Peter Temin is the Elisha Gray II Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books include Prometheus Shackled, The Roman Market Economy (Princeton), and The World Economy between the World Wars. David Vines is Professor of Economics and a Fellow of Balliol College, University of Oxford. His books include The IMF and Its Critics and The Asian Financial Crisis....
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Melvyn P. Leffler is the Edward Stettinius Professor of American History at the University of Virginia and faculty fellow at UVA's Miller Center. His many books include For the Soul of Mankind and A Preponderance of Power.
Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism gathers together decades of writing by Melvyn Leffler, one of the most respected historians of American foreign policy, to address important questions about U.S. national security policy from...
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The must-read summary of James McGregor's book: "One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China".
This complete summary of the ideas from James McGregor's book "One Billion Customers" shows that it is difficult to emphasise just how important the Chinese economy will end up becoming to the global economy in the future. China has already surpassed Britain as the world's fourth-largest economy and is now well on its...
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Conflicts over currency valuations are a recurrent feature of the modern global economy. To strengthen their international competitiveness, many countries resort to buying foreign currencies to make their exports cheaper and their imports more expensive. In the first decade of the 21st century, for example, China's currency manipulation practices were so flagrant that they produced a backlash in the United States and other trading partners, prompting...
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In Containing Russia's Nuclear Firebirds, Glenn E. Schweitzer explores the life and legacy of the International Science and Technology Center in Moscow. He makes the case that the center's unique programs can serve as models for promoting responsible science in many countries of the world.
Never before have scientists encountered technology with the potential for such huge impacts on the global community, both positive and negative. For nearly two...
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This report is a key resource for understanding the dynamic trade and production linkages of economies in Southeast Asia and the Pacific to support data-driven policy making and implementation. It updates a 2018 publication and explores a wider range of statistical and analytical indicators on Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Fiji, Indonesia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam. The tables...
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This report, consisting of three parts, is the result of Phase 2 studies of the ASEAN+3 Bond Market Forum Sub-Forum 2 and enhances the findings of Phase 1. Part 1 provides an overview of ASEAN+3 bond markets and their infrastructure. Part 2 reports on the bond market-related issues of economies in the region. Part 3 contains diagrams of ASEAN+3 bond market infrastructures, domestic bond transaction flows, and cross-border bond transaction flows.
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The Story of How Russia Becomes a Democracy after Losing to Ukraine.
To understand the significance of this book, Does Putin Have to Die?, you must first understand the significance of the author:
• Ilya Ponomarev was a member of the Russian Parliament, or State Duma, from 2007—2016.
• In 2014, he was the only member of the Russian Parliament to vote against the annexation of Crimea.
• However, this was not the first time he survived after...
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"Winner of the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" Mark Atwood Lawrence teaches history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam and The Vietnam War: A Concise International History.
A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.S. liberal ambitions in the developing world and at home in the...
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Essays that reflect the changing climate of the United States and the world from "perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet" (The New York Times Book Review).
In this collection of essays from 1969 to 2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky examines the nature of state power, from the ideologies driving the Cold War to the War on Terror, and reintroduces the moral and legal questions that all too often go...
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"Winner of the 2014 Douglas Dillon Award, American Academy of Diplomacy" "Listed on the 2017 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List" "One of Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books of 2015, chosen by Daniel Fuss" "One of Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books of 2014, chosen by Dan Fuss" Angela E. Stent is professor of government and foreign service and director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies at Georgetown University. She has...
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The must-read summary of Rachel Maddow's book: "Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power".
This complete summary of "Drift" by Rachel Maddow, a renowned American political commentator, presents her serious yet funny analysis of how America has broken faith with the lessons it learned from the past by continuing to fight wars in other countries. She takes us from the Vietnam War, through Reagan's presidency to the Afghan War still raging today,...
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To explain the British attack on the French fleet at anchor in the harbor at Mers-el-Kébir [3. July.1940], Sir Winston Churchill said, "What matters are events, not words." His uncharacteristic humility vastly understates the enormous power his words held in those dark days during the summer of 1940. Through the prism of the selected documents and speeches, placed in the context of surrounding events, as Churchill succinctly noted, we see the evolution...
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This new, updated edition of the influential Development Against Democracy is a critical guide to postwar studies of modernisation and development. In the mid-twentieth century, models of development studies were products of postwar American policy. They focused on newly independent states in the Global South, aiming to assure their pro-Western orientation by promoting economic growth, political reform and liberal democracy. However, this prevented...
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