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Money and markets : essays in honour of Martin Daunton
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ISBN: 178744547X 178327445X Year: 2019 Publisher: Woodbridge : The Boydell Press,

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This book explores the changing boundaries and relationships between market and state from the seventeeth to the twentieth century.


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Strengthening peace in post civil war states
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ISBN: 0226351262 128277574X 9786612775741 9780226351261 9780226351247 0226351246 9780226351254 0226351254 0226351246 9780226351247 Year: 2010 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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Among the more frequent and most devastating of conflicts, civil wars-from Yugoslavia to Congo-frequently reignite and even spill over into the international sphere. Given the inherent fragility of civil war peace agreements, innovative approaches must be taken to ensure the successful resolution of these conflicts. Strengthening Peace in Post­-Civil War States provides both analytical frameworks and a series of critical case studies demonstrating the effectiveness of a range of strategies for keeping the peace. Coeditors Matthew Hoddie and Caroline A. Hartzell here contend that lasting peace relies on aligning the self-interest of individuals and communities with the society-wide goal of ending war; if citizens and groups have a stake in peace, they will seek to maintain and defend it. The rest of the contributors explore two complementary approaches toward achieving this goal: restructuring domestic institutions and soft intervention. Some essays examine the first tactic, which involves reforming governments that failed to prevent war, while others discuss the second, an umbrella term for a number of non-military strategies for outside actors to assist in keeping the peace.


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Death, dominance, and state-building : the US in Iraq and the future of American military intervention
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ISBN: 0197760775 0197760759 0197760767 Year: 2024 Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press,

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In 'Death, Dominance, and State-Building', Roger D. Petersen offers a definitive work on the course, conduct, and aftermath of the Iraq war. He uniquely combines an accessible analytical framework with detailed case studies that unpack the dynamics between the US military and various Shia and Sunni insurgents. The book covers the entire 2003-2023 period in Iraq, incorporating the insights and voices of US military personnel, Iraqi citizens, and even Iraqi insurgents. While it comprehensively covers the past in Iraq, it also draws lessons for the future of American military intervention.

Violence workers
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ISBN: 9786612356865 1282356860 0520928911 1597349798 9780520928916 9781597349796 9780520234475 0520234472 0520234464 9780520234468 6612356863 9781282356863 Year: 2002 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Of the twenty-three Brazilian policemen interviewed in depth for this landmark study, fourteen were direct perpetrators of torture and murder during the three decades that included the 1964-1985 military regime. These "violence workers" and the other group of "atrocity facilitators" who had not, or claimed they had not, participated directly in the violence, help answer questions that haunt today's world: Why and how are ordinary men transformed into state torturers and murderers? How do atrocity perpetrators explain and justify their violence? What is the impact of their murderous deeds-on them, on their victims, and on society? What memories of their atrocities do they admit and which become public history?

The internationalization of palace wars
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ISBN: 9786612537554 0226144275 1282537555 9780226144276 9780226144252 0226144259 9780226144269 0226144259 0226144267 9780226144267 Year: 2002 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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How does globalization work? Focusing on Latin America, Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth show that exports of expertise and ideals from the United States to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico have played a crucial role in transforming their state forms and economies since World War II. Based on more than 300 extensive interviews with major players in governments, foundations, law firms, universities, and think tanks, Dezalay and Garth examine both the production of northern exports such as neoliberal economics and international human rights law and the ways they are received south of the United States. They find that the content of what is exported and how it fares are profoundly shaped by domestic struggles for power and influence-"palace wars"-in the nations involved. For instance, challenges to the eastern intellectual establishment influenced the Reagan-era export of University of Chicago-style neoliberal economics to Chile, where it enjoyed a warm reception from Pinochet and his allies because they could use it to discredit the previous regime. Innovative and sophisticated, The Internationalization of Palace Wars offers much needed concrete information about the transnational processes that shape our world.

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