The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. By 1914 it had been much reduced, but still remained after Russia the largest European state. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a religious one, with the Sultan ruling over the Holy Sites and, as Caliph, the successor to Mohammed.Yet the Empire's fateful decision to support Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1914, despite its successfully de...
China's Race to Global Technology Leadership (Ispi Publications)
by Alessia Amighini
ISPI. L?ISPI è un think tank indipendente dedicato allo studio delle dinamiche politiche ed economiche internazionali fondato nel 1934. È l?unico istituto italiano ? e tra i pochissimi in Europa ? ad affiancare all?attività di ricerca un significativo impegno nella formazione, nella convegnistica e nell?analisi dei rischi e delle opportunità a livello mondiale per le imprese e le istituzioni. L?ISPI privilegia un approccio interdisciplinare e ?policy-oriented? reso possibile da un team di rice...
Gareth Jones (1905-1934), the young Welsh investigative journalist, is revered in Ukraine as a national hero and is now rightly recognised as the first reporter to reveal the horror of the Holodomor, the Soviet Government-induced famine of the early 1930s, which killed millions of Ukrainians. Gareth Jones - Eyewitness to the Holodomor is a meticulous study of the efforts made by the the Aberystwyth and Cambridge-educated journalist, a fluent Russian-speaker, to investigate the Soviet Government...
The Gathering Threat of Russia, China, and Their Allies Against America
by Frank De Varona
Latham's World: The New Politics of the Outsiders: Quarterly Essay 15
by Margaret Simons
How Realism Explains the Aspirations of Turkey in the Middle East and Beyond
by Ibtissam Klait
Flight Mh17, Ukraine and the New Cold War (Geopolitical Economy)
by Kees van der Pijl
On 17 July 2014 Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down amid conflict in Ukraine, a crisis that led to a NATO-Russia standoff and the onset of a new period of East-West confrontation. This is the first scholarly work on the Ukrainian unrest and the tragic downing of MH17. It offers an analysis that challenges the Western consensus surrounding these events, emphasising the geopolitical and economic context of the West's standoff with Russia, the BRICS bloc, and the struggles over the EU's e...
The Index to Proceedings of the General Assembly is a bibliographic guide to the proceedings and documentation of the General Assembly. This issue covers the sixty-ninth session of the Assembly including its Main and ad hoc committees. The Index is prepared by the Dag Hammarskjeld Library, Department of Public Information, as one of the products of the United Nations Bibliographic Information System (UNBIS). It offers sessional information; a check-list of meetings; information on principal orga...
In most countries, it is the norm for state courts to operate alongside powerful non-state justice systems, whose roots lie in custom, religion, or tradition. Indeed, non-state justice is frequently the dominant form of legal order. In the developing world, an estimated 80 to 90 percent of disputes are handled outside the state justice system, and nearly all post-conflict states feature extensive legal pluralism because of the weak institutions and contested authority endemic to conflict and pos...
Fatah Al-Islam: Al-Nasha'a wa Al-Masir (Silsila min Dhakil Al-Harrikat Al-Jihadia, #1)
by Medyan Dairieh
Globalization and Sovereignty (Globalization)
by Professor of Geography John Agnew
CLARITY IN GEOPOLITICAL ANALYSIS: in a context of extreme global confusion, when there exists a substantial leftist commentariat (not just at globalresearch.ca and Russia Today but also Counterpunch, Z, the Center for Economic and Political Research and the like) promoting BRICS in desperation as an alternative to imperialism, this book clears up the confusion about the accumulation processes and class/social struggles in these countries SOLIDARITY: because there are well-honed aspects of social...
'Punchy, pithy and short' - Polly Toynbee, Guardian columnist Former BBC journalist Gavin Esler is your guide to the most momentous change in the UK for decades. In seven succinct chapters, the writer and broadcaster sets out how Britain's departure from the European Union affects your: Food and dietHealth and NHSJobs and industrySchools and collegesTravel to Europe From the food markets of Kent to NHS operating theatres to blue chip boardrooms, Brexit throws up many surprises. Brexit: Wha...
The USI of India Strategic Year Book 2020 continues upon the Year Books we have published since 2016 and which have been widely appreciated. The book provides comprehensive researched articles on contemporary security studies by knowledgeable Indian strategic thinkers and scholars both from the military and civil field. The articles deal with security issues covering international and domestic affairs presented in five thematic sections titled 'National Security Overview', 'Internal Security Env...