Tag: Nations

December 20, 2024

United Nations Peacekeeping in the 21st Century

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Free Download Efram R. Isely, "United Nations Peacekeeping in the 21st Century "
English | ISBN: 1607415623 | 2010 | 174 pages | PDF | 12 MB
A major issue facing the United Nations, the United States, and the 110th Congress is the extent to which the United Nations has the capacity to restore or keep the peace in the changing world environment. Associated with this issue is the expressed need for a reliable source of funding and other resources for peacekeeping and improved efficiencies of operation. Since 1998, UN peacekeeping operations have taken on increasingly ambitious mandates, taken place in more challenging environments, and grown in size and scope. UN operations are also taking place in volatile, less developed countries. Most of the UN operations are located in some of the most politically unstable countries, as measured by the World Bank. The operations have become larger, more complex, and more resource intensive. This book delves into the increasing threats posed to the United Nations and the increases in both resources and personnel needed to keep the peace between nations. This book consists of public documents which have been located, gathered, combined, reformatted, and enhanced with a subject index, selectively edited and bound to provide easy access.

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November 24, 2024

Gender, Race and National Identity Nations of Flesh and Blood

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Free Download Jackie Hogan, "Gender, Race and National Identity: Nations of Flesh and Blood"
English | 2008 | pages: 271 | ISBN: 0415384761 | PDF | 1,7 mb
All nations construct stories of national belonging, stories of the nation’s character, its accomplishments, its defining traits, its historical trajectory. These stories, or discourses of national identity, carry powerful messages about gender and race, messages that reflect, reproduce and occasionally challenge social hierarchies.

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September 29, 2024

Banthology Stories from Unwanted Nations

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Free Download Banthology: Stories from Unwanted Nations by Various, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Fayez Bakhsh
English | June 13, 2019 | ISBN: B07ST4PKLK | 2 hours and 15 minutes | M4B 128 Kbps | 123 Mb
In January 2017, President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting all refugee admissions for 120 days and temporarily barring entry from seven Muslim-majority countries. Mass protests followed, and the order has since been blocked, revised and challenged by judges, politicians, activists and artists alike. But the battle is not yet over, and in the wake of recent terrorist attacks in the UK, Trump has renewed calls for the ban.
Banthology: Seven Stories from Seven Countries brings together specially commissioned stories from the so-called ‘banned nations’: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. Covering a range of approaches – from satire, to allegory, to literary realism – it explores the emotional and personal impact of all restrictions on movement and is testament to the importance of creative resistance in turbulent times.
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September 17, 2024

Why Nations Fail The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

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Free Download Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, Dan Woren
English | March 20, 2012 | ISBN: B007MIXOEC | 17 hours and 55 minutes | MP3 64 kbps | 483 Mb
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?
Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence?

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