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Criminal Insurgencies in Mexico and the Americas

Author : Robert Bunker J
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135715599
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Criminal Insurgencies in Mexico and the Americas written by Robert Bunker J and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the south-western border of the United States has come under increasing pressure from the activities of Mexican narco-insurgents. These insurgents have developed rapidly from beginnings as nebulous gangs into networked cartels that have exposed the porosity of the border. These cartels declare no allegiance to any nation and are engaging in asymmetrical warfare against sovereign states throughout Mexico and in Central America. Within such states, de facto political control is shifting to the cartels in the ‘areas of impunity’ that have emerged. This book addresses these concerns and focuses on the criminal insurgencies being waged by the gangs and cartels. It is divided into sections on theory, Mexico, and the Americas and contains a number of introductory essays pertaining to this premier security threat to the United States and her allies in the region. Topics covered include criminal and spiritual insurgency, cartel weapons, corruption, feral cities, Los Zetas, politicized gangs, and threat analysis in Central America. This book will be a valuable resource to scholars in the fields of regional security, criminal justice and American Studies. It will be of great benefit to military and civil policymakers and practitioners in the areas of law enforcement and counternarcotics. This book was published as a special issue of Small Wars and Insurgencies.

The Complexity of Modern Asymmetric Warfare

Author : Max G. Manwaring
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806188073
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Complexity of Modern Asymmetric Warfare written by Max G. Manwaring and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today more than one hundred small, asymmetric, and revolutionary wars are being waged around the world. This book provides invaluable tools for fighting such wars by taking enemy perspectives into consideration. The third volume of a trilogy by Max G. Manwaring, it continues the arguments the author presented in Insurgency, Terrorism, and Crime and Gangs, Pseudo-Militaries, and Other Modern Mercenaries. Using case studies, Manwaring outlines vital survival lessons for leaders and organizations concerned with national security in our contemporary world. The insurgencies Manwaring describes span the globe. Beginning with conflicts in Algeria in the 1950s and 1960s and El Salvador in the 1980s, he goes on to cover the Shining Path and its resurgence in Peru, Al Qaeda in Spain, popular militias in Cuba, Haiti, and Brazil, the Russian youth group Nashi, and drugs and politics in Guatemala, as well as cyber warfare. Large, wealthy, well-armed nations such as the United States have learned from experience that these small wars and insurgencies do not resemble traditional wars fought between geographically distinct nation-state adversaries by easily identified military forces. Twenty-first-century irregular conflicts blur traditional distinctions among crime, terrorism, subversion, insurgency, militia, mercenary and gang activity, and warfare. Manwaring’s multidimensional paradigm offers military and civilian leaders a much needed blueprint for achieving strategic victories and ensuring global security now and in the future. It combines military and police efforts with politics, diplomacy, economics, psychology, and ethics. The challenge he presents to civilian and military leaders is to take probable enemy perspectives into consideration, and turn resultant conceptions into strategic victories.

Gangs, Pseudo-Militaries, and Other Modern Mercenaries

Author : Max G. Manwaring
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806185945
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Gangs, Pseudo-Militaries, and Other Modern Mercenaries written by Max G. Manwaring and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first decade of the twenty-first century has made brutally clear, the very definitions of war and the enemy have changed almost beyond recognition. Threats to security are now as likely to come from armed propagandists, popular militias, or mercenary organizations as they are from conventional armies backed by nation-states. In this timely book, national security expert Max G. Manwaring explores a little-understood actor on the stage of irregular warfare—the gang. Since the end of the Cold War, some one hundred insurgencies or irregular wars have erupted throughout the world. Gangs have figured prominently in more than half of those conflicts, yet these and other nonstate actors have received little focused attention from scholars or analysts. This book fills that void. Employing a case study approach, and believing that shadows from the past often portend the future, Manwaring begins with a careful consideration of the writings of V. I. Lenin. He then scrutinizes the Piqueteros in Argentina, gangs in Colombia, private armies in Mexico, Hugo Chavez’s use of popular militias in Venezuela, and the looming threat of Al Qaeda in Western Europe. As conventional warfare is increasingly eclipsed by these irregular and “uncomfortable” wars, Manwaring boldly diagnoses the problem and recommends solutions that policymakers should heed.

The New Democracy Wars

Author : Neil A. Burron
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317022939
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The New Democracy Wars written by Neil A. Burron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burron provides a critical analysis of Canadian and US democracy promotion in the Americas. He concentrates on Haiti, Peru, and Bolivia in particular but situates them within a larger analysis of Canadian and US foreign policy - bilateral and regional - in the areas of trade, investment, diplomacy, security and, for the United States, the war on drugs. His main argument is that democracy promotion is typically formulated to advance commercial, geopolitical and security objectives that conflict with a genuine commitment to democratic development. Given this broad scope, the book is well positioned to contribute to a number of debates in comparative Latin American politics and international political economy (IPE) with a focus on North-South relations in the hemisphere.

Breaking the China-Taiwan Impasse

Author : Donald S. Zagoria
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313057559
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Breaking the China-Taiwan Impasse written by Donald S. Zagoria and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tensions between China and Taiwan are not likely to abate in the foreseeable future. The question of Taiwan's sovereignty is the major point of friction, and the continuing impasse between China and Taiwan is worrisome. Zagoria presents perspectives from Washington, Beijing, and Taipei on cross-strait tensions, exploring ways to break the current standoff. Tensions between China and Taiwan are not likely to abate in the foreseeable future. The question of Taiwan's sovereignty is the major point of friction, and the continuing impasse between China and Taiwan is worrisome. Should critical political negotiations falter, relations are likely to take on stronger military overtones, and the PRC may well develop a sense of urgency about Taiwan drifting towards independence. These, at least, are the broad conclusions drawn from the ongoing dialogues among top U.S., Chinese, and Taiwanese figures, sponsored by the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. This Track II project provides a forum for top policy analysts from each country to discuss trilateral relations in a frank and constructive manner, and is an effort to explore means of peacefully resolving the current impasse. Among the more significant findings is that the more serious risks of conflict will probably occur in the distant future, hinging on whether economic integration can gradually lead to a reduction of political tensions, and that the United States should continue to oppose any declaration of independence by Taiwan and any use of force by China.

Which Way Latin America?

Author : Andrew Fenton Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Which Way Latin America? written by Andrew Fenton Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the ways in which the region has re-engaged globalization.

Foreign Policy

Author : Steve|Dunne Smith (Tim|Hadfield, Amelia|Kitchen, Nicholas|Smith, Steve)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192677705
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Policy written by Steve|Dunne Smith (Tim|Hadfield, Amelia|Kitchen, Nicholas|Smith, Steve) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Confronting Colonial Objects

Author : Carsten Stahn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019269412X
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Confronting Colonial Objects written by Carsten Stahn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The treatment of cultural colonial objects is one of the most debated questions of our time. Calls for a new international cultural order go back to decolonization. However, for decades, the issue has been treated as a matter of comity or been reduced to a Shakespearean dilemma: to return or not to return. Confronting Colonial Objects seeks to go beyond these classic dichotomies and argues that contemporary practices are at a tipping point. The book shows that cultural takings were material to the colonial project throughout different periods and went far beyond looting. It presents micro histories and object biographies to trace recurring justifications and contestations of takings and returns while outlining the complicity of anthropology, racial science, and professional networks that enabled colonial collecting. The book demonstrates the dual role of law and cultural heritage regulation in facilitating colonial injustices and mobilizing resistance thereto. Drawing on the interplay between justice, ethics, and human rights, Stahn develops principles of relational cultural justice. He challenges the argument that takings were acceptable according to the standards of the time and outlines how future engagement requires a re-invention of knowledge systems and relations towards objects, including new forms of consent, provenance research, and partnership, and a re-thinking of the role of museums themselves. Following the life story and transformation of cultural objects, this book provides a fresh perspective on international law and colonial history that appeals to audiences across a variety of disciplines. This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Bridging the Leadership Divide

Author : Ron A. Carucci
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470523107
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Bridging the Leadership Divide written by Ron A. Carucci and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: enable incumbent and emerging leaders to thrive together Today, generational differences are impacting the workplace to an unprecedented degree. The ability to build bridges between leaders of generational differences has never been more essential. The Bridging the Leadership Divide Facilitator's Guide provides a well informed, engaging, and safe program in which leaders can explore both the difficult and the inspiring questions of how to work effectively with multi-generational leadership relationships in the organization. This workshop will help facilitators: Connect leaders of different generations by helping them understand patterns of relationship that help or hinder connection Explore patterns within the participants' own organization that may enable or prevent cross-generational relationships from thriving Increase leaders' awareness of their own biases, limitations, and orientation to connecting with others of different generations This comprehensive package includes the Facilitator's Guide, with several case studies, interactive lecturettes, and group exercises. The package also includes an Incumbent Leader's Self-Assessment, an Emerging Leader's Self-Assessment, a sample Participant Workbook, a complete set of PowerPoint slides, and a flash drive containing an electronic copy of the workshop materials. "Full of insightful and practical tools and ideas that will empower the HR community to reconnect generations in their own organizations."—Charlene Binder, Senior Vice President, Chief People Officer, The Hershey Company "A powerful, timely toolkit [that] provides the clear path toward achieving the otherwise impossible."—Chris Deaver, Co-Founder of GenNext, Employee Resource Group. Dell, Inc. and Co-Founder, International Mentoring Network Organization includes flash drive With Slide Deck and Electronic Facilitator's Guide

Foreign Policy

Author : Steve Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198708904
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Policy written by Steve Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only introduction to foreign policy to combine theories, actors and cases in one volume.

The Broken Olive Branch: Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and the Quest for Peace in Cyprus

Author : Harry Anastasiou
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815650655
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book The Broken Olive Branch: Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and the Quest for Peace in Cyprus written by Harry Anastasiou and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-05 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first of two volumes, Anastasiou offers a detailed portrait of Cyprus’s dual nationalisms, identifying the ways in which nationalist ideologies have undermined the relations between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. In the context of regional and global conflicts, he demonstrates how the ethnic rivalry was largely engineered by the leaders of each community and consolidated by the nationalist configuration of political culture. Taking a multilevel approach, he maps out the impasse and changes in ethnonationalism over time.

How Do We Know?

Author : Dirk Evers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567371042
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (673 download)

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Download or read book How Do We Know? written by Dirk Evers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study on the relationship between science and theology with respect to epistemological differences between religious belief and scientific knowledge.

Living in Tension, 2 Volume Set

Author : Douglas D. Webster
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621894223
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Living in Tension, 2 Volume Set written by Douglas D. Webster and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-08-13 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have picked up this book, chances are you are a committed follower of Christ. Like many searching Christians you are tired of religious busywork and showy piety. You long for authentic worship and meaningful service. You came to Christ with deep expectations of transformation and service, but those passions have been starved by shallow theology and superficial relationships. You are looking for something more. You are ready to sink your mind into what the Bible says about the call of God, the priesthood of all believers, and what it means to live for Christ and his kingdom. The two-volume Living in Tension offers in-depth spiritual direction on the crucial issues shaping a theology of ministry. This is not a book for pastors only. Webster intentionally blurs the distinction between pastor and congregation. This book is for all believers who take God's call to salvation, service, sacrifice, and simplicity seriously. Living in Tension provides need-to-know insights for every congregation. Pastors will find that this passionate and practical theology translates well into their own lives and into the life of the church.

Broken

Author : Ira Shapiro
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538105837
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Broken written by Ira Shapiro and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the hyper-partisanship in Washington that has stunned the world has been building for decades, Ira Shapiro argues that the U.S. Senate has suffered most acutely from the loss of its political center. In Broken, Ira Shapiro, a former senior Senate staffer and author of the critically-acclaimed book The Last Great Senate, offers an expert’s account of some of the most prominent battles of the past decade and lays out what must be done to restore the Senate’s lost luster. Shapiro places the Senate at “ground zero for America’s political dysfunction”--the institution that has failed the longest and the worst. Because the Senate, at its best, represented the special place where the Democrats and Republicans worked together to transcend ideological and regional differences and find common ground, its decline has intensified the nation’s polarization, by institutionalizing it at the highest level. Shapiro documents this decline and evaluates the prospects of restoration that could provide a way out of the polarized morass that has engulfed Congress. With a narrative that runs right through the first year of the Trump presidency, Broken will be essential reading for all concerned about the state of American politics and the future of our country.

Where Do Broken Hearts Go?

Author : W. Ross Hastings
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498278477
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Where Do Broken Hearts Go? written by W. Ross Hastings and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded in the narrative of the loss of his own wife, Ross Hastings seeks to provide insight into the universal human condition of loss and grief . . . and speaks comfort. All kinds of losses produce grief--loss of jobs, homes, friendships, health, losses through divorce, and loss through death of parents, children, and spouses--and we are often unprepared for it. Applicable to all who go through loss, this book will also offer skills for pastors, pastors-in-training, and friends seeking to offer comfort to grieving people. It will weave together first-order theological, as well as integrated psychological insights that relate to loss and grieving, interspersed with personal stories. The ultimately redemptive nature of grief is highlighted, with sensitivity to the grieving process. It offers comfort for the grieving found in fresh awareness of the orientation and action of the triune God who is for us, who invites us to participate in his life and love, and gathers up our grief, and in Christ, suffers with us. It beckons us towards spiritual attentiveness, permission for emotional honesty, normalization of the grief process, practices that enable coping and redemptive transformation in the present, and hope grounded in future resurrection reality.

Success as a Mediator For Dummies

Author : Victoria Pynchon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118078624
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Success as a Mediator For Dummies written by Victoria Pynchon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to enter the exciting field of legal mediation To be an effective mediator, it's essential to possess the ability to take control of animated situations, offer advice, and facilitate discussion—all the while remaining neutral without formulating biased judgment. Success as a Mediator For Dummies helps you acquire these attributes and much more. Aspiring mediators will learn the importance of upholding an honorable reputation, the skills, personality traits, and characteristics of a good mediator, and how to effectively market a successful mediation career. Plus, you'll get practical advice about finding work in the field, realistic salary information, and tips on as tips on identifying whether you have the skills and tools to become a good mediator. The steps necessary to become a mediator (education, training, licensing, states-specific requirements, etc.) How your education and professional background can enhance your mediation work Sample rules and standards of conduct All the steps necessary to build and market a successful private practice in mediation, or flourish as a mediator in a law firm, corporation, school, or non-profit organization Whether you have a background in law or an interest in legal careers, Success as a Mediator For Dummies gives you everything you need to enter the exciting field of legal mediation.

Breaking the Abortion Deadlock

Author : Eileen McDonagh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019535799X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Breaking the Abortion Deadlock written by Eileen McDonagh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-24 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over twenty years the abortion debate has raged, with each side entrenched in unyielding positions. This book breaks the impasse by using pro-life premises to reach pro-choice conclusions. While it is commonly assumed that state protection of the fetus as a form of human life undermines women's reproductive rights, McDonagh instead illuminates how it is exactly such state protection of the fetus that strengthens, rather than weakens, not only women's right to an abortion, but even more significantly, women's ability to call on the state for abortion funding. McDonagh's approach, by bridging the divide between pro-life and pro-choice advocates, revolutionizes the abortion debate in a way that opens up a whole new avenue for resolving the abortion conflict and advancing women's rights. McDonagh reframes the abortion debate by locating the missing piece of the puzzle: the fetus as the cause of pregnancy. After exposing the myths on this subject, her exacting analysis presents the scientific and legal evidence that the ultimate source of pregnancy is the fetus. The central issue then becomes what the fetus, as an active agent, does to a woman's body during pregnancy, whether that pregnancy is wanted or not. McDonagh graphically describes the massive changes produced by the fetus when it takes over a woman's body. As such, pregnancy is best depicted not as a condition that women have a right to choose but rather as a condition to which they must have a right to consent. Abortion, therefore, does not rest on the intensely debated principle, stated in Roe, that women have a right to be free from state interference when choosing privately what to do with their own bodies. Instead, as McDonagh's book explains, abortion rights flow inevitably from women's more established right to consent to what another agent does to their body. Specifically, women have a right to resist an unwanted intrusion by a fetus as well as to receive help from the state to stop such an intrusion. Moving abortion rights from choice to consent has broad legal and cultural ramifications tapping into the very cornerstone of the American political system: consent. McDonagh unravels the consequences of extending to pregnant women the same guarantees of bodily integrity and liberty possessed by others in our society. Specifically, she shows why a woman who does not consent to be made pregnant by a fetus, not only has a right to terminate pregnancy, but why the state violates constitutional due process and equal protection guarantees when it fails to provide her with the same protections against nonconsensual intrusions by a fetus as it provides against nonconsensual intrusions by other parties. This book pivotally strengthens, therefore, not only women's right to abortion but also abortion funding. By providing new grounds both for the public funding of abortion and for the removal of government restrictions on abortions, it lays the foundation for enhancing women's rights through major policy changes in legislatures and courts.