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  • Come from the Shadows

    The Long and Lonely Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan

    by Terry Glavin ...
    Come from the Shadows is not about the Afghanistan we may think we know. It is not about the country depicted in urgent dispatches from embedded reporters; it isn't about the country evoked by anti-war protestors or the one that figures in heated political controversies over the treatment of prisoners. Instead, this is a book about the Afghanistan that lies "outside the wire," far from the Taliban ... Read more

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    An elite SAS fighter on life in Australia's toughest and most secretive combat unit

    by Clint Palmer, Robert Macklin ...
    Series series Hachette Military Collection
    The true story of Australia's SAS and the soldier who was there from the start.Clint Palmer has spent much of his adult life in the SAS and has fought in this elite military unit as it developed from its fledgling beginnings into the highly trained, specialised fighting force it is today. He is an insider with the long view and this is his unique story of life in the SAS.As a bush kid in the ... Read more

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  • Directorate S

    The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

    by Steve Coll ...
    **Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • Nominated for the National Book Award for NonfictionFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap, the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11**Prior to 9/11, the United States had ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

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  • Conflict, Security and the Reshaping of Society

    The Civilization of War

    Edited by Alessandro Dal Lago, Salvatore Palidda ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Liberty and Security
    A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.This book is an examination of the effect of contemporary wars (such as the 'War on Terror') on civil life ... Read more

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  • Israeli Apartheid

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Ben White ...
    * Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2012*Since its release in 2009 Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide has become an essential primer for undergraduate students and activists getting to grips with the Palestine/Israel conflict for the first time. Ben White skilfully distills the work of academics and experts into a highly accessible introduction.This new updated and expanded edition ... Read more

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  • Bridges across an Impossible Divide

    The Inner Lives of Arab and Jewish Peacemakers

    by Marc Gopin ...
    Marc Gopin offers a groundbreaking exploration of Arab/Israeli peace partnerships: unlikely friendships created among people who have long been divided by bitter resentments, deep suspicions, and violent sorrows. In Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Gopin shows how the careful examination of their inner spiritual lives has enabled Jewish and Arab individuals to form peace partnerships, and that these ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Small Arms and Security

    New Emerging International Norms

    by Denise Garcia ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This book examines the emergence of new international norms to govern the spread of small arms, and the extent to which these norms have been established in the policies and practices of states, regions and international organizations. It also attempts to establish criteria for assessing norm emergence, and to assess the process of norm development by comparing what actually happens at the ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Mission Accomplished?

    The Crisis of International Intervention

    by Simon Jenkins ...
    Why do politicians send troops to foreign soil, to fight battles they rarely win? Is it old-fashioned imperialism tainted with a crusader complex? Or is the West a partisan for the helpless? The fall of the Soviet Union left the West aimless. With no conflicting dogma to reinforce its sense of justice the West assumed the role of global policeman - aid graduated from charitable to economic and, ... Read more

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  • Gendering Human Security in Afghanistan

    In a Time of Western Intervention

    by Ben Walter ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Security
    This book employs the concept of human security to show what the term means from the perspective of women in Afghanistan.It engages with a well-established debate in academic and policy-making contexts regarding the utility of human security as a framework for understanding and redressing conflict. The book argues that this concept allows the possibility of articulating the substantive experiences ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Gendering Counterinsurgency

    Performativity, Embodiment and Experience in the Afghan ‘Theatre of War’

    by Synne L. Dyvik ...
    Series series War, Politics and Experience
    This book analyses the various ways counterinsurgency in Afghanistan is gendered.The book examines the US led war in Afghanistan from 2001 onwards, including the invasion, the population-centric counterinsurgency operations and the efforts to train a new Afghan military charged with securing the country when the US and NATO withdrew their combat forces in 2014. Through an analysis of key ... Read more

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  • Kosovo: the Politics of Delusion

    Edited by Kyril Drezov, Bulent Gokay, Michael Waller ...
    This collection examines the escalation of the Kosovo conflict to a full-scale war. It looks at its origins, background and the implications of the conflict: the myths, history and perceptions of the post-1989 crisis and the situation after the start of NATOs 1999 bombing campaign. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Conflict Resolution and Human Needs

    Linking Theory and Practice

    Edited by Kevin Avruch, Christopher Mitchell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    This edited volume examines Basic Human Needs theory and interactive problem solving, looking at recent developments in thinking about both and how these might affect peacebuilding in contemporary conflicts of the twenty-first century.The era in the immediate aftermath of World War II was, paradoxically, a time of great optimism in parts of academia. There was, especially in the United States and ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD