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The United States has taken the lead in efforts to end international human trafficking-the movement of peoples from one country to another, usually involving fraud, for the purpose of exploiting their labor. Examples that have captured the headlines include the 300 Chinese immigrants that were smuggled to the United States on the ship Golden Venture and the young Mexican women smuggled by the Cadena family to Florida where they were forced into prostitution and confined in trailers. The public's understanding of human trafficking is comprised of terrible stories like these, which the media covers in dramatic, but usually short-lived bursts. The more complicated, long-term story of how policy on trafficking has evolved has been largely ignored. In The War on Human Trafficking, Anthony M. DeStefano covers a decade of reporting on the policy battles that have surrounded efforts to abolish such practices, helping readers to understand the forced labor of immigrants as a major global human rights story. DeStefano details the events leading up to the creation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, the federal law that first addressed the phenomenon of trafficking in persons. He assesses the effectiveness of the 2000 law and its progeny, showing the difficulties encountered by federal prosecutors in building criminal cases against traffickers. The book also describes the tensions created as the Bush Administration tried to use the trafficking laws to attack prostitution and shows how the American response to these criminal activities was impacted by the events of September 11th and the War in Iraq. Parsing politics from practice, this important book gets beyond sensational stories of sexual servitude to show that human trafficking has a much broader scope and is inextricable from the powerful economic conditions that impel immigrants to put themselves at risk.

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In July 2010, Terry Jones, the pastor of a small fundamentalist church in Florida, announced plans to burn two hundred Qur'ans on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Though he ended up canceling the stunt in the face of widespread public backlash, his threat sparked violent protests across the Muslim world that left at least twenty people dead. In Terrified, Christopher Bail demonstrates how the beliefs of fanatics like Jones are inspired by a rapidly expanding network of anti-Muslim organizations that exert profound influence on American understanding of Islam. Bail traces how the anti-Muslim narrative of the political fringe has captivated large segments of the American media, government, and general public, validating the views of extremists who argue that the United States is at war with Islam and marginalizing mainstream Muslim-Americans who are uniquely positioned to discredit such claims. Drawing on cultural sociology, social network theory, and social psychology, he shows how anti-Muslim organizations gained visibility in the public sphere, commandeered a sense of legitimacy, and redefined the contours of contemporary debate, shifting it ever outward toward the fringe. Bail illustrates his pioneering theoretical argument through a big-data analysis of more than one hundred organizations struggling to shape public discourse about Islam, tracing their impact on hundreds of thousands of newspaper articles, television transcripts, legislative debates, and social media messages produced since the September 11 attacks. The book also features in-depth interviews with the leaders of these organizations, providing a rare look at how anti-Muslim organizations entered the American mainstream.

Islam --- Islamophobia. --- Corporations --- Public opinion. --- Religious aspects. --- USA. --- American public. --- Bush administration. --- Islam. --- Islamic law. --- Middle East conflict. --- Muslim-Americans. --- Muslims. --- Qur'an. --- Republic Party. --- September 11. --- Terry Jones. --- anti-Muslim organization. --- anti-Muslim organizations. --- anti-Muslim. --- anti-mosque. --- civil society organizations. --- collective identity. --- counterterrorism agents. --- counterterrorism policy. --- cultural change. --- cultural environment. --- culture. --- fringe organizations. --- media influence. --- media strategy. --- public opinion. --- social networks. --- social psychology. --- structure. --- terrorism.

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Jonathan Kirshner here examines how states can and have used international currency relationships and arrangements as instruments of coercive power for the advancement of state security. Kirshner lays the groundwork for the study of what he calls monetary power by providing a taxonomy of the forms that such power can take and of the conditions under which it can have effect. He then establishes the actual existence of monetary power by showing how the taxonomy is supported by the historical record, including cases from nations from all over the globe and throughout the twentieth century. He uncovers how monetary power is affected by different monetary regimes, the sources of its success and failure, and the factors that lead states to turn to its use. Kirshner thus succeeds in developing a generalized framework for the analysis of an important yet neglected form of state power that is likely to be of increasing importance in the post-Cold War era. Although some distinguished scholars have touched on the issue of monetary power, there has been until now no standard text on the subject. Integrating security studies and international political economy, this book is a timely synthesis that will be important to the entire discipline of international relations.

Relaţii economice internaţionale. --- Bani. --- Agadir crisis. --- Austria-Hungary. --- Bandwagoning. --- Bretton Woods. --- Bush Administration. --- Czechoslovakia. --- Dawes plan. --- Federal Reserve (U.S.). --- German question. --- Great Britain. --- Hoffmann, Stanley. --- Hungary. --- Inflation. --- International Monetary Fund. --- Jordan. --- Keita, Modibo. --- Kunz, Diane. --- Latin Monetary Union. --- League of Nations. --- Monroe Doctrine. --- Mozambique. --- Nasser, Gamal Abdel. --- Organization of African Unity. --- Panama. --- Peloponnesian War. --- Portugal. --- Quesnay, Pierre. --- Rist, Charles. --- Schacht, Hjalmar. --- Signaling. --- Soviet Union. --- Suez crisis. --- appreciation. --- bimetallism. --- boatrocking. --- cold war. --- currency manipulation. --- devaluation. --- dollar system. --- enforcement. --- entrapment. --- expulsion. --- extraction. --- financial diplomacy. --- gold-exchange standard. --- key currency. --- locarno, treaty of. --- military currencies. --- purchasing power parity. --- reparations. --- ruble. --- speculation.

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On May 11, 1857, Hindu and Muslim sepoys massacred British residents and native Christians in Delhi, setting off both the whirlwind of similar violence that engulfed Bengal in the following months and an answering wave of rhetorical violence in Britain, where the uprising against British rule in India was often portrayed as a clash of civilization and barbarity demanding merciless retribution. Although by twentieth-century standards the number of victims was small, the Victorian public saw "the Indian Mutiny" of 1857-59 as an epochal event. In this provocative book, Christopher Herbert seeks to discover why. He offers a view of this episode--and of Victorian imperialist culture more generally--sharply at odds with the standard formulations of postcolonial scholarship. Drawing on a wealth of largely overlooked and often mesmerizing nineteenth-century texts, including memoirs, histories, letters, works of journalism, and novels, War of No Pity shows that the startling ferocity of the conflict in India provoked a crisis of national conscience and a series of searing if often painfully ambivalent condemnations of British actions in India both prior to and during the war. Bringing to light the dissident, disillusioned, antipatriotic strain of Victorian "mutiny writing," Herbert locates in it key forerunners of modern-day antiwar literature and the modern critique of racism.

Polemics in literature. --- Literature and history --- Politics and literature --- English literature --- History --- History --- History and criticism. --- India. --- Great Britain. --- India --- India --- India --- India --- In literature. --- History --- Public opinion. --- History --- Historiography. --- History --- Literature and the rebellion. --- Abbot, Major. --- Achaia. --- Amalekites. --- American Civil War. --- Balaclava. --- Barrackpore. --- Bentham, Jeremy. --- Board of Control for India. --- Bosch, Hieronymus. --- Bush administration. --- Calvinism. --- Carnell, Jennifer. --- Chartism. --- Chuckerwallah Kothie. --- Coopland, Reverend. --- Danton, Georges Jacques. --- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. --- Euphrates. --- Evangelicalism. --- Frazer's Magazine. --- Futtehgur. --- Great Exhibition. --- Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. --- Highlanders. --- Ironsides. --- Islam. --- Jews. --- Kipling, Rudyard. --- Lahore Chronicle. --- Manchester Guardian. --- Mephistopheles. --- ancien rgime. --- anti-Victorianism. --- atavism. --- caste system. --- concentration camps. --- determinism. --- diabolism. --- disillusionment. --- escape narratives. --- executions. --- fanaticism. --- femininity. --- feudalism. --- gallows. --- genocide. --- globalization. --- imperialism. --- instinct. --- jingoism. --- mutilation.