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The fourth edition of Understanding the Contemporary Middle East has been fully revised and updated throughout to reflect the still-unfolding impact of the Arab Spring, the changing international environment, the impasse in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and much more. The book also includes an entirely new chapter on the role of women in the Middle East.

A collection of stories by novelist, journalist, teacher and Palestinian activist Ghassan Kanafani. Titles such as ""The Land of Sad Oranges"", ""If You Were a Horse..."" and ""Letter from Gaza"" offer a gritty look at the agonized world of the Middle East in general, particularly Palestine.

This work demonstrates that by the summer of 1944 the Red Army had mastered the German style of warfare and was capable of turning the tables on the Germans. Using declassified Soviet orders of battle, the author traces each of the Blitzkrieg offensives from breakthrough to stalemate.

Provides a framework for evaluating the bottlenecks to effective accountability in Brazil and analyse the successes and failures of anticorruption efforts from the early days of the democratic transition through the demise of the massive Lava Jato investigations.

A new edition that reflects the many changes that have occurred in the region since the previous edition was published. A new chapter on crime and security, along with new treatments of such subjects as geography, history, politics, economics, and international relations, make for an unparalleled introduction to the complexities of Latin America.

It has long been accepted wisdom that Germany's infantrymen possessed superior tactical ability than their Anglo-American adversaries in World War II. Drawing on newly available information, Stephen Lauer unpacks that assumption, exploring the conscription and training methods of the US, British, and German infantries from 1919 to 1945.

Since antiquity, information has been used in conflict - to deceive, to demoralize, to sow fear. Not until the twentieth century, though, did information operations become so central to war. In this book, the authors assess the evolving role and increasing relevance of information operations from World War I to the present digital age.

Mohammed bin Salman. A monarch-to-be without scruples? Or a visionary seeking a path to global power? A social reformer determined to bring his country into the twenty-first century? Or just another brutal dictator? A leader on the road to greatness, or one destined to follow in the footsteps of Icarus?

Terrorists need money ... to recruit and train people, to buy weapons, to maintain safe houses, to carry out attacks. Which raises the question: how do they procure and protect funds to finance their operations?

Exploring the contemporary arts movement in Saudi Arabia in the context of the kingdom's changing political realities, Sean Foley finds that artists are expressing thoughts and feelings that the Saudi public typically has not felt safe to articulate. These artists are promoting discussions about the need for peaceful and progressive social reform.

Traces the story of Muslims in Latin American and the Caribbean: their deep roots in the region, as well as the current connections among the multiple Islamic networks of people, ideas, technology, finance, politics, and religion that extend across the Americas and beyond.

Analyses the rise and decline of the global innovation system for new drug development and proposes a policy framework for fast-tracking the implementation of new discoveries and preparing for future pandemics.

Documenting the everyday, institutionalised ways that income and wealth are transferred upward in the United States, Mark Mattern shows how the bottom subsidises the top. His provocative analysis, describing in detail the processes and policy choices that systematically favour the rich, is a call for a more equitable, democratic political economy.

A former US Army officer at Hue during the Tet offensive recounts the longest continuous battle of the Vietnam War. Describing poor coordination between the seperate fights occuring, he suggests that the ferocity of the North Vietnamese forces during this battle led eventually to US withdrawal.

The fierce close combat in the remote areas of South Vietnam's northern provinces in 1967-1968 - the battles of Hiep Duc, March 11, Nhi Ha, and Hill 406 - has been a strangely underreported slice of the Vietnam War. Through the Valley brings those battles into sharp focus.

What is diversity? How does prejudice show itself? What are the societal consequences of discrimination? Has anything changed over the past 50 years? These are just some of the questions addressed in this volume, an introduction to the issues surrounding concepts of class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and disability.

The half-decade since the sixth edition of Introducing Global Issues appeared has seen enormous changes in the international arena, perhaps most notably a move away from multilateral approaches to solving global problems. Both the impact of those changes and possible paths to collaborative problem solving are at the centre of this new edition.

What will it take to overcome the many challenges that Latin America faces in developing quality, inclusive education for its diverse population? That is the question at the heart of Alejandro Toledo's book.

Even stronger than its outstanding predecessor, the third edition of Understanding Contemporary India provides context for and evaluates more than a decade of challenges and changes in India. This is an indispensable volume that describes and analyses the paradoxical nature of the world's largest and most diverse democracy.

Explores left and right anticorruption ideologies broadly, then turns to promises, policies, and outcomes in the Americas. Stephen Morris also reaches beyond differences rooted in left/right dichotomies to develop an alternative hypothesis, one reflecting an in-power vs. out-of-power dynamic.

This is unlike any political memoir you have ever read. It is a political history of Zambia from colonial times to the present. A revealing insider account of politics and government within a modern African state. A story about race in Africa. A chronicle of the rise and fall of two improbable political allies who wanted to change Zambian politics.

Examines a series of strategic triangles involving China, the US, and one or more key third actors (among them, Australia, India, Iran, Japan, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, South Korea, and Taiwan). The authors also critically highlight the challenges and opportunities facing Washington and Beijing in this increasingly complex security arena.

From Brazil to Bangladesh, Liberia to Switzerland, Malta to the Marshall Islands, more women are rising to the top level of political leadership. What can we learn from this? What kinds of conditions pave the way for a woman's ascendance to power? Are there common pathways? Evren Celik Wiltse and Lisa Hager answer these questions, and more.