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Critical Theology against US Militarism in Asia

Decolonization and Deimperialization

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Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016

Drawing on cultural studies scholar Kuan-Hsing Chen's threefold notion of decolonization, deimperialization, and de-cold-war, this book provides analyses of the interrelated issues concerning the relationship between Christianity and the United States' imperialist militarism in the Asia Pacific. Contributors...
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Barack Obama is Brazilian

(Re)Signifying Race Relations in Contemporary Brazil

by Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira-Monte
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017

This book examines US President Barack Obama’s characterizations in the Brazilian media, with a specific focus on political cartoons and internet memes. Brazilians celebrate their country as a racial democracy; thus the US works as its nemesis. The rise of a black president to the office of the...
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by Bryan R. Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016

This book analyzes the ways in which US policy toward Iraq was dictated by America's broader Cold War strategy between 1958 and 1975. While most historians have focused on “hot” Cold War conflicts such as Cuba, Vietnam, and Afghanistan, few have recognized Iraq's significance as a Cold War battleground....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012

Fifty years after Camus's untimely death, his work still has a tremendous impact on literature. From a twenty-first century vantage point, his work offer us coexisting ideas and principles by which we can read and understand the other and ourselves. Yet Camus seems to guide us without directing us...
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US National Security Concerns in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Concept of Ungoverned Spaces and Failed States

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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014

In this edited volume, scholars from Latin America and the United States will analyze how US foreign policy making circles have applied the concepts to the creation of new US security initiatives in the Latin American region during the post September 11, 2001 era.
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by Felix I. Lessambo
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016

This book covers a broad range of the most challenging topics in US international taxation laws before breaking into separate discussions of the issues related to both inbound and outbound taxes. Real examples and selected seminal cases are analysed at the end of each chapter to simplify even the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013

This book explores aspects of US foreign policy, including the development process as well as the policy itself in respect to various countries and regions and some significant issues around the globe today. Providing insight into non-US perspectives of American foreign policy, the book contextualizes the effects of policy on external nations.
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Negotiating Life

Secrets for Everyday Diplomacy and Deal Making

by J. Salacuse
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013

A complement to the successful The Global Negotiator: Making, Managing, and Mending Deals Around the World in the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave, 2003), Salacuse's new work is a comprehensive and easy-to-understand look at negotiation in everyday life. Drawing from his extensive experience around...
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NATO Expansion and US Strategy in Asia

Surmounting the Global Crisis

by H. Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013

Surmounting the Global Crisis critiques the impact of NATO enlargement and the US 'pivot to Asia' on both the Russia and China and examines how these dual US-backed policies may influence key countries in the Euro-Atlantic, wider Middle East, and Indo-Pacific regions in general.
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by Wayne Lavender
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014

Through US military history, Lavender directly confronts the dominant US viewpoint of redemptive violence, the concept that a nation can use its military to improve the human condition. Alternatives are presented in order to encourage the current recessive worldview that supports conflict resolution, cooperation, collaboration and peaceful efforts.
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Ethnic Interest Groups in US Foreign Policy-Making

A Cuban-American Story of Success and Failure

by H. Rytz
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013

This book comprises the first systematic study on the impact of ethnic interest groups on US foreign policy, using the case study of how the Cuban?American National Foundation (CANF) influenced the outcome of three different legislatives debates that directly affected US Cuba policy.
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by Thelathia Nikki Young
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016

 This book acknowledges and highlights the moral excellence embedded in black queer practices of family. Taking the lives, narratives, and creative explorations of black queer people seriously, Thelathia Nikki Young brings readers on a journey of new, queer ethical methods that include confrontation,...
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Transhumanism and the Body

The World Religions Speak

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Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014

This collection of original articles, a sequel of sorts to the 2009 Religion and the Implications of Radical Life Extension (Palgrave Macmillan), is the first sustained reflection, by scholars with expertise in the faith traditions, on how the transhumanist agenda might impact the body.
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by Mark Chung Hearn
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016

 This book explores the ways through which Korean American men demonstrate and navigate their manhood within a US context that has historically sorted them into several limiting, often emasculating, stereotypes. In the US, Korean men tend to be viewed as passive, non-athletic, and asexual (or hypersexual)....
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