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Engels320 blz.20179780190652913
1e druk
2-11-2017
It is widely acknowledged that a central aim of science is to achieve understanding of the world around us, and that possessing such understanding is highly important in our present-day society. Meer
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Nederlands208 blz.20189780190653989
4-1-2018
Since Muhammad Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia on December 17, 2010, galvanizing the Arab uprisings that continue today, the entire Middle East landscape has changed in ways that were unimaginable years before. Meer
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Engels392 blz.20189780190657345
27-12-2018
In Why People Radicalize, Kees van den Bos argues that if we want to truly understand radicalization and prevent, attenuate, and fight violent extremism and terrorism, we must pay attention to what is driving the radicalization process. Meer
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Engels230 blz.20189780190659073
3e druk
14-6-2018
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Updated to include perspectives on Hong Kong's shifting political status, as well as expanding on President Xi Jinping's time in office, China in the 21st Century provides a concise and insightful introduction to this significant global power. Meer
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Engels784 blz.20179780190662677
7e druk
28-12-2017
Praise for Previous Editions:
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Engels336 blz.20209780190677442
28-1-2020
On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen U.S. aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Meer
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Engels240 blz.20189780190683566
10-5-2018
It is said that the famous ninth century Chinese Buddhist monk Linji Yixuan told his disciples, "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." The deliberately confounding statement is meant to shock people out of complacent ways of thinking. Meer
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Engels232 blz.20219780190684099
1e druk
14-1-2021
The scope of criminal justice surveillance, from the police to the prisons, has expanded rapidly in recent decades. Meer
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Engels368 blz.20199780190685942
6-12-2019
How do otherwise ordinary people become perpetrators of genocide? Why are groups targeted for mass killing? How do groups justify these terrible acts? Meer
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Engels304 blz.20219780190694944
1e druk
30-9-2021
Beleaguered countries struggling against aggression or powerful nations defending others from brutal regimes mobilize medicine to wage just war. Meer
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Engels488 blz.20219780190695668
1e druk
3-6-2021
A wide-ranging rethinking of the many factors that comprise the making of American Grand Strategy. Meer
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Engels268 blz.20189780190699512
29-3-2018
Civil wars are among the most difficult problems in world politics. While mediation, intervention, and peacekeeping have produced some positive results in helping to end civil wars, they fall short in preventing them in the first place. Meer
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Engels280 blz.20189780190849184
22-3-2018
For decades, the reigning scholarly wisdom about nuclear weapons policy has been that the United States only needs the ability to absorb an enemy nuclear attack and still be able to respond with a devastating counterattack. Meer
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Engels325 blz.20199780190849535
18-1-2019
Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature is, quite simply, one of the most influential social science books of the past decade. In it, Pinker argued that violence in all its forms—but especially war—has been steadily declining throughout the modern era, and that the world is more peaceful now than ever before. Meer
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Engels240 blz.20199780190851125
13-5-2019
What fuels radicalization? Is deradicalization a possibility? The Three Pillars of Radicalization: Needs, Narratives, and Networks addresses these crucial questions by identifying the three major determinants of radicalization that progresses into violent extremism. Meer
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Engels336 blz.20209780190860455
6-8-2020
In a sweeping account, Atlantic Wars explores how warfare shaped the experiences of the peoples living in the watershed of the Atlantic Ocean between the late Middle Ages and the Age of Revolution. Meer
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Engels336 blz.20199780190864248
1e druk
28-3-2019
Mindfulness and yoga are widely said to improve mental and physical health, and booming industries have emerged to teach them as secular techniques. Meer
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Engels280 blz.20199780190868123
25-10-2019
Scholars attribute the collapse of the Soviet Union in part to the militarization of its economy. But during the Cold War, economic studies of the USSR largely neglected the military sector of the Soviet economy-its dominant and most successful part. Meer
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Engels632 blz.20199780190870713
3e druk
6-6-2019
On October 1, 2009, the People's Republic of China (PRC) celebrated the 60th anniversary of its founding. And what an eventful and tumultuous six decades it had been. Meer
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Engels336 blz.20189780190872816
1-2-2018
When the Senate released its so-called "Torture Report" in December 2014 the world would learn that, for years, the CIA had used unimaginably brutal methods to interrogate its prisoners—often without yielding any useful or truthful information. Meer