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Alternative governance in the Northern Triangle and implications for U.S. foreign policy : finding logic within chaos
\"While in much of the Northern Triangle of Central America, the state is either absent or a secondary power, it is clear that 'ungoverned spaces' are in fact governed by one or more of the proliferating non-state actors that control specific geographic space. Rather than a territorial space in anarchy, regions such as those examined in this study operate under unwritten rules governing the social, financial, economic, and political behavior of the inhabitants. As a result, there is a logic amidst the seeming chaos that is the fabric of these societies -- fragmented societies where unspoken laws and social norms are understood and obeyed and where justice, job creation, social services, and the power of life and death are in the hands of non-state actors. This study examines different forms of alternative governance in the absence of a strong state presence in the Northern Triangle of Central America -- along part of the Guatemala-Honduras border -- a region notorious for its soaring homicide rates, corruption, violence, and emigration to the United States. The purpose of the study is to shed light on the complex and interwoven issues that drive the current crisis of governance in the region and spill over with increasing frequency into strategic issues for the United States\"--Publisher's web site.
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Africa's new energy producers
Sub-Saharan Africa is on the verge of an energy boom. New discoveries off the East and West coasts have raised hopes of significant revenues that can accelerate poverty reduction and enhance Africa's status as a destination for industrial investment.
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Empires of Eurasia
How the collapse of empires helps explain the efforts of
China, Iran, Russia, and Turkey to challenge the international
order \"This is a must read to understand the
backstory of conflicts from Crimea to Xinjiang.\"-Fiona Hill, author
of There Is Nothing for You Here Eurasia's major
powers-China, Iran, Russia, and Turkey-increasingly intervene
across their borders while seeking to pull their smaller neighbors
more firmly into their respective orbits. While analysts have
focused on the role of leaders such as Vladimir Putin and Recep
Tayyip Erdoğan in explaining this drive to dominate neighbors and
pull away from the Western-dominated international system, they
have paid less attention to the role of imperial legacies. Jeffrey
Mankoff argues that what unites these contemporary Eurasian powers
is their status as heirs to vast terrestrial empires, whose
collapse left all four states deeply entangled with the lands and
peoples along their peripheries but outside their formal borders.
Today, they have all found new opportunities to project power
within and beyond their borders in patterns shaped by their
respective imperial pasts.
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State and market in contemporary China
The short essays in this volume, contributed by leading experts on Chinese economic policy, provide crisp and insightful analyses of the Chinese state's approach toward markets, the role of key actors and institutions, the evolving nature of industrial policy and the effectiveness of China's international commitments to constrain such practices, and a preview of the likely contents and significance of China's 13th Five-Year Plan.
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Russia after the global economic crisis
Russia After the Global Economic Crisis examines this important country after the financial crisis of 2007-09. The second book from The Russia Balance Sheet Project, a collaboration of two of the world's preeminent research institutions, the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), not only assesses Russia's international and domestic policy challenges but also provides an all-encompassing review of this important country's foreign and domestic issues. The authors consider foreign policy, Russia and its neighbors, climate change, Russia's role in the world, domestic politics, and corruption.
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Chinese military modernization and force development : a Western perspective
China's military development has become a key focus of US security policy as well as that of virtually all Asia-Pacific states. This report examines trends in Chinese strategy, military spending, and military forces based on Chinese defense white papers and other official Chinese sources; US reporting by the Department of Defense and other defense agencies; and other government sources, including Japanese and Korean defense white papers and the International Monetary Fund. The analysis also draws on the work of experts outside of government, various research centers, and nongovernmental organizations. The goal is to provide a comparison of different views and sources, contrasting Chinese and outside views and highlighting the trends where adequate data are available, as well as the problems, gaps, and contradictions in various sources. The report is not intended to provide a particular view of Chinese developments or policy recommendations, but rather to act as a reference that can be used in US and Chinese military dialogue and by other experts looking for a comparison of official sources and the trends in Chinese forces.
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Fascism
In Fascism: Past, Present, and Future, renowned historian Walter Laqueur illuminates the fascist phenomenon, from the emergence of Hitler and Mussolini, to Vladimir Zhirinovsky and his cohorts, to fascism's not so distant future. Laqueur describes how fascism's early achievements won many converts. But what successes early fascist parties can claim, Laqueur points out, are certainly overwhelmed by its disasters: Hitler may have built the Autobahnen, but he also launched the war that destroyed them. Laqueur tellingly uncovers contemporary adaptations of fascist tactics and strategies in the French ultra-nationalist Le Pen, the rise of skinheads and right-wing extremism, and Holocaust denial. He shows how single issues--such as immigrants and, more remarkably, the environment--have proven fruitful rallying points for neo-fascist protest movements. Fascism was always a movement of protest and discontent, and there is today a great reservoir of dissatisfaction with contemporary life throughout the world. Among the likely candidates for neo-fascist protest, Laqueur singles out certain parts of Eastern Europe and the Third World where old-fashioned class struggles still oppress millions. In carefully plotting fascism's past, present, and future, Walter Laqueur offers a riveting, if sometimes disturbing, account of one of the twentieth century's most baneful political ideas, in a book that is both a masterly survey of the roots, the ideas, and the practices of fascism and an assessment of its prospects in the contemporary world.
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