Peter Andreas: 79 books
Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America
How Illicit Trade Made America
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
America is a smuggler nation. Our long history of illicit imports has ranged from West Indies molasses and Dutch gunpowder in the 18th century, to British industrial technologies and African slaves in the 19th century, to French condoms and Canadian booze in the early 20th century, to Mexican workers...
Rebel Mother
My Childhood Chasing the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
“Those who enjoyed Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle will find much to admire” (Booklist, starred review) in this “thoroughly engrossing” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir about a boy on the run with his mother, as she abducts him to Latin America in search of the revolution.
Carol...
Blue Helmets and Black Markets
The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The 1992–1995 battle for Sarajevo was the longest siege in modern history. It was also the most internationalized, attracting a vast contingent of aid workers, UN soldiers, journalists, smugglers, and embargo-busters. The city took center stage under an intense global media spotlight, becoming the...
Policing the Globe
Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
In this illuminating history that spans past campaigns against piracy and slavery to contemporary campaigns against drug trafficking and transnational terrorism, Peter Andreas and Ethan Nadelmann explain how and why prohibitions and policing practices increasingly extend across borders. The internationalization...
Border Games
Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The U.S.-Mexico border is the busiest in the world, the longest and most dramatic meeting point of a rich and poor country, and the site of intense confrontation between law enforcement and law evasion. Border control has changed in recent years from a low-maintenance and politically marginal activity...
by Jennifer Clapp, H Richard Friman, Eric Helleiner
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 1999
Illicit cross-border flows, such as the smuggling of drugs, migrants, weapons, toxic waste, and dirty money, are proliferating on a global scale. This underexplored, clandestine side of globalization has emerged as an increasingly important source of conflict and cooperation among nation-states, state...
Freiheit. Bewusstheit. Verantwortlichkeit.
Festschrift für Volker Zotz zum 60. Geburtstag
Language: German
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Der Band Freiheit. Bewusstheit. Verantwortlichkeit erscheint zum 60. Geburtstag des Philosophen und Religionswissenschaftlers Volker Zotz, der mit Büchern wie "Geschichte der buddhistischen Philosophie" (1996), "Auf den glückseligen Inseln" (2000), "Der Konfuzianismus"...
Griechische Einladung in die Ägäis
Erzählungen, Geheimnisse und Rezepte
Language: German
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Was wäre Griechenland ohne die Ägäis? Das Herz des Mittelmeers versorgt nicht nur die zahllosen Insel der Kykladen, Sporaden oder der Dodekanes mit Leben und Leidenschaft, sondern weit darüber hinaus das Festland und von dort aus weiter nach Europa. Hier, wo das Licht der Sonne die Farbe Blau...
Sexy.Hölle.Hellweg
Mord am Hellweg VII
Language: German
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Einzigartig unartig - 21 Autor(inn)en entdecken die verruchte Seite des Hellwegs. Zum siebten Mal beweisen 21 renommierte Krimiautor(inn)en, dass die Region entlang des westfälischen Hellwegs alles ist - außer brav. Was in diesem Jahr aus Bordellen, Ehebetten, Lasterhöhlen und vom Straßenstrich...
by Sigrid Hodel-Hoenes, Robert Rollinger, Manfred Oeming
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Das »Wörterbuch alttestamentlicher Motive« erleichtert das Verständnis der alttestamentlichen Texte und erschließt die Bedeutung ihrer Themen und Motive. Rund 120 Artikel beschreiben die altorientalischen Wurzeln zu jedem Motiv und erwähnen die Wirkungsgeschichte, die zumeist über das Neue...
by James Bohman, Jacques Derrida, Nancy Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2005
Across a spectrum of academic disciplines, the topic of globalization is at the forefront of contemporary efforts to understand a dynamically changing world society. How might critical social theory respond creatively to the challenge of thinking and theorizing globalization in its full complexity?...
by Peter Hohmann, Thorsten Küper, Andreas Winterer
Language: German
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Ob Dampf, ob Öl oder Elektoimpulse - seit jeher träumt der Mensch von der Verbesserung seiner selbst. Nun haben sich zehn Tüftler an die Aufgabe gewagt, das fleischliche Selbst zu modifizieren und auf eine neue Stufe zu bringen. Ob mechanische Gliedmaßen, dampfende Herzen oder roboterartige...
Politics, Metaphysics, and Death
Essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sace
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2005
The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is having an increasingly significant impact on Anglo-American political theory. His most prominent intervention to date is the powerful reassessment of sovereignty and the politics of life and death laid out in his multivolume Homo Sacer project. Agamben argues...
Szenen der Lust
Mit allen Sinnen genießen
Language: German
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Szenen der Lust, genießen mit allen Sinnen Erotik hat mehr mit Anziehung als mit Ausziehung zu tun. (Lebensweisheit) Unerwartete Begegnungen, geplante Verführung, Ausblicke und Einblicke … Erotische Geschichten müssen nicht schmuddelig sein, nein, sie entführen uns in eine sinnliche Welt, in...